Career Contemplator Gifts

Wealth without fulfilment/Fulfilment without wealth.

'You're wasting your time. I like my job, but I'll never love it.'

Forty years in the City and never once was I headhunted.

File this, fax that...I'm afraid of being typecast

'One day I'll stop to reflect on my career and marvel that I have time to reflect.'

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

'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!'

'I should never have graduated'

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

Shattered Dreams

'My long range goal is to hunt, gather, then relax and consume.'

"You said you wanted something really rewarding for your last wish so I made you a teacher."

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

'Those who can't hunt, gather -- those who can't hunt OR gather, teach.'

"If I wanted to reboot my career, I wouldn't have retired in the first place."

"I'm at that sweet spot in my career...right between 'young and underpaid' and 'old and too expensive.'"

Not much money, glory, or praise

'I'm not asking for a raise or a promotion. I just want my life to have more meaning than anyone else in my department.'

I don't see a future for me in my present job. They don't reward mediocrity.

A long way towards retirement...

"Do wine writers suffer and all that?"

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

'...I just feel like I'm working at a dead end job.'

"I could have been a truck driver, but noooo..."

The moment Frank realized his MBA really wasn't worth it.

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

Unemployment Office. I was married to my job, but I should have read the prenuptial agreement.

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

"At what point in your public relations career did you realize you don' relate to the public?"

Bowther, Wilkin, Lynch & Fisk

"I was great in high school."

Zero Dark Thirtysomething

"What I’ve learned is you have to look deep inside your heart and ask yourself, ‘What is it that she really wants to hear?’"

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

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