Career Contemplators Gifts

'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?'

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

'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.'

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

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

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"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.'

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

'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.'

'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.'

'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!'

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

"I've lost my mojo."

"Where do you see yourself in five years?"

School of Baristas

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

'At last you can put your feet up and concentrate on worrying about your pension.'

"My jacket blurbs used to have such conviction, he thought to himself wistfully."

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