Career Contemplators Gifts

Actually, with bachelors degrees in philosophy, we were lucky to get this job.

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

'My dad says at this rate he'll never be able to retire from his job.'

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."

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

Not much money, glory, or praise

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

"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?'

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'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.'

'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.'

'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?'

'Nothing serious. I just hate my job.'

"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.'

'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!'

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

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

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

Bowther, Wilkin, Lynch & Fisk

"I've lost my mojo."

"Where do you see yourself in five years?"

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

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