Career Choice Ponderer Mugs

'Nothing serious. I just hate my job.'

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

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

"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.'

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

'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.'

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

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

'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.'

'Son I want you to Follow in My Footsteps.'

'You'll have to decide - do you want to be top management in a small pond, or bottom management in a big pond?'

'To be honest I only became a vicar to get my children into the C of E school.'

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

"Remember, son, you can be anything you want to be...except for maybe an aroma therapist."

'What do I do for a living?? Isn't it obvious?'

"I want to be a statistician, but only 50% of the time."

"Where do you see yourself in five years?"

"Some days I really wish I had finished med school. Not that I ever started med school."

"I think I'm ready to go forth and multiply."

Boy who has been to the dentist

School of Baristas

'How do you know he wants to go to college? Maybe he wants to be a sportscaster.'

'That does it. . . Little Freddie is not going to law school! He's going to become an oncologist, Mary a gerontologist and Stevie a pharmacist! We'll be covered!'

'I've decided to become a veterinarian, I love animals!'

'You're at that awkward age where the others have figured out that you're a drone and you don't do anything.'

'You were a boring accountant in ten previous lives.'

"My teacher wouldn't let me clown around in class, so I was forced to run away and join the circus."

'I quit my job today. It just wasn't fun anymore.'

'I want to be a philosopher Mum: Lots of thinking and no physical work...'