Career Choice Contemplation Gifts

'At least hanging around street corners reminds us we're at a crossroads in our lives.'

'When I grow up, I want to be a hydraulic engineer...'

37 years in the same position.

"So...what are you doing after you graduate?"

I figured out how we can pay for the kids' college tuitions. Do tell. I'm going to leave for a year of self-discovery, which I will chronicle in a best-selling memoir. Oh, but

'I can't believe I didn't get that promotion. So many people have passed me by I feel like a road sign on the highway to success.'

"My career's in shreds, but on the bright side, so are my files."

'I had considered a career as an offshore commodities broker specialising in securitised asset transfers but the pension wasn't as good.'

Maybe it's now time to review our customer care strategy!"

'He's going to be an estate agent, just like his Dad.'

'Well Mimi, what's it going to be...medicine or the cello?'

"My daughter tells me you want to become a doctor."

'I chose my field on what would put the most impressive initials after my name.'

"He wants to be a plastic surgeon when he grows up."

'I really wanted to only take accounting courses, but my parents made me take this cartooning class so I would have something to fall back on.'

Not much money, glory, or praise

"While you're at it Houdini, try and find the last ten years of my life in there."

'He's majoring in cave hydrology with, obviously, the ultimate aim of being a caveman like his Dad.'

'Where do you see yourself in five minutes?'

'Mom, Dad. I've made up my mind. I'm going to skip college, hire an agent, and pin all my hopes on a professional bass fishing careers.'

If I could sell my experience for half of what it cost me I could retire.

Guys looks in the mirror and sees himself as a prisoner.

"I like the idea of becoming a prosecutor: charging people appeals to me..."

"How do you know if you're under the radar or washed up?"

Tonight's Lecture: Globalization. I've never worried about my job going overseas --- None of my jobs ever went anywhere.

'I'm glad to see you finally pulled in sales. Nevertheless, you're fired. Here, we're dealing with socks and shoes, not with suits and shirts.'

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"Baldo, I don't care what you are...as long as you're good at it."

"Two roads diverged in a wood and I... I... I..."

"She said that she's against combing marriage with a career....so I quit my job."

"Let's honor this young future farmer - he's ready to endure hard labor, long hours and outrageously low farm prices..."

'I've been thinking about quitting, but it's the only thing that gets me out of the house.'

'I don't believe in pressuring my children. When the time is right, they'll arrive at the default choice and go to law school.'

"Use your head, follow your heart and go with your gut."

'And the recruiter from IBM - did you also tell him that at college you mostly sat on a rock by the sea, trying to find yourself?'