Career Contemplative Gifts

'Is this really where we wanted to be at this stage of our lives?'

There, but for the grace of God, go I.

37 years in the same position.

'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!"

Not much money, glory, or praise

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

'Being a nobody isn't so bad...You don't have to worry about becoming a has-been.'

'Where do you see yourself in five minutes?'

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

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

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

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."

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

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'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.'

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

'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?'

'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.'

"Have a career, and then if you want to try acting, you'll have my blessing."

"Tell me again how many young minds I will have shaped by the end of my teaching career."

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

'Thoreau had his Walden Pond, C.J. has his water cooler.'

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

'No seriously. His final words actually were, 'If I only had spent more time at the office.''

'I am not my job... my job is not me... I do not need my job to give my life a purpose...' 'Hey, did you hear the news? We're all laid off!' 'Stupid affirmations!'

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"I've lost my mojo."

"I feel I blend in well with the holes in my career ladder."

"Where do you see yourself in five years?"

'I'm not saying this is a deadend job, but you can forget a trophy wife.'

'Of course being on short term contract, I don't enjoy the same benefits as the rest of you.'