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

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

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

Man watches sales chart drop through the floor.

"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?

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

'How long's he been out there?'

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

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

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

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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.'

'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 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

"I'm gonna ride it out!"

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

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

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

"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."

'This is where the company started handing out sick bags!'

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