Career Choice Contemplation Mugs

'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 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.'

Not much money, glory, or praise

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

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

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

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

'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.'

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

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

'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.'

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

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

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

'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.'

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

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

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

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

'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.'

'After being here for more than forty years - as undergraduate, graduate student instructor, professor - what saddens me most is that this was not the college of my choice.'