Career Disappointment Gifts

'Why...Why not me? What did I do wrong, I work hard...why don't they like me?'

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.'

"Mum, I got the job!"

Caged Businessman

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

Stress Busters - Doodle Maze - Leopards

"Let me put it this way: I'm hitting 'Unlike' and 'Unhire.'"

"I thought it would be appropriate to have a band playing as we went down."

"You haven't been laid off because you're the designated scapegoat."

'Let me guess - you lost a fight against a young challenger who has now replaced you as the company's alpha male!'

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

"Events seem to be headed in the right direction. Unfortunately, it's not taking me with it."

Talent, pluck, or plain dumb luck?

Man watches sales chart drop through the floor.

'How long's he been out there?'

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

"My ship had finally come in. . . then it sank!"

"I want to quit, spend more time with my family, finish grade 3....."

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Ed is upset because he didn't get the promotion he had promised himself.

'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.'

'I used to be an accountant but I found it too depressing.'

"Mr. Joyner, while you were out, your carefully constructed financial empire collapsed like a house of cards."

'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.'

"I'm not going to shoot the messenger, but I'm also not going to renew his grant."

"I'm gonna ride it out!"

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

I can read this audit, but HOW should I read it...What is my MOTIVATION, how do I bring these figures to life,make them sing!... Colin often wondered whether accountancy had been the right career choice for him

"Night of the living adjunct professor" "What's a sabbatical?" "Tenure is boring!" "I have four desks in four schools!" "I have more prestige than a grad student."

"I hate my job and I'm terrified of losing it."

Been there. Done that. (Man stands between two doors.)

"At least we no longer have the pressure of handling so much money."

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

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