Adventurous Career Starter Gifts

'Ma! My degree in communications is finally paying off!'

'I have this fear of the real world...'

I should be a writer when I grow up...

"I caution everyone to avoid taking the first field reporter job that comes along."

'There they go - off on their own - and a finer bunch of fledgelings one couldn't ask.'

Kardiff.

'Think of this as a window of opportunity.'

'What do you mean, you're tired of the rat race?'

'Bloody streakers - they have a lot to learn.'

"Excuse me, I think you'll find I've reserved that luggage rack space ..."

Shoot For The Moon

"What's your occupation?"

'The best grants lie that-a-ways, Ma'am.'

Safari.

"Would you like something you're under qualified for, or something you're overqualified for?"

"I guess I'll see you around Frank."

"Welcome to the French Quarter!"

Hirer to employee handing him lighted hat: 'You'll be starting at the bottom.'

'You're hired. Go figure.'

"...and before that, I was an embryo."

"Fight or flight?"

We don't have a budget to redo the last guy's business cards, door placard, and so on, so would you mind assuming his identity in the meantime?

"On your application it says you've been a circus clown, an orthopaedic surgeon and a molecular biologist."

Advertising space on jockeys' bottoms

Job hoppers.

'Running away from the circus to join the world of accountancy isn't working out as I expected. . .'

"The lunch, grab the lunch!"

'Sometimes I think about getting away from all this and get a job as a cab driver in New York city...'

'Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public. Ethical advertising uses the truth to deceive the public.'

Dollywood...Nirvana... 'I'm lost.'

'Pity you never have learned to sail...'

'After graduation, I plan on working in warrantless surveillance for the CIA. How about you?'

'You're checking in for our flight--you don't have to play max coins.'

'Guess what, I got a job tallying bananas.'