Career Exploration Mugs

'We can't make any plans. By the time we grow up, there will be professions no one has ever dreamed of.'

School children looking at different careers from magazine covers, each involving celebrity status.

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

"You'll have to look harder than that to find a job, Son."

"I need to find out if I'm working to live or just living to work. Pull together the numbers that make sense out of it all."

'A clown? What makes you think you could be a clown?'

Caveman at job centre.

Today's lecture by Tom P. Malone, author of 'Finding Your True Calling In Life,' has been cancelled due to the author's realization that he'd rather be a fireman.

"The nice thing about being a stem cell is that we can be anything we want when we grow up."

Bubble; 'This castle manager job better be for real.'

Continental Drift.

"We do have an opening for a whistleblower, but it's only a temporary position."

'I always wanted to be a ballet dancer - but here at the call-centre I've discovered my true vocation!'

'It could have been worse...she might have chosen banking.'

"It's been my lifelong ambition! For the last two weeks."

'I want to be the first mountain goat to sail the seven seas...'

' thought I was pre-med - turned out I was really pre- real estate.'

'What do I do for a living?? Isn't it obvious?'

'I want to train to be the Grim Reaper.'

'Here's where you'll work! I know it's confusing, however we will have paid training for you.'

'Worker or Soldier: Is that all you can suggest? Not much of a choice is there!...'

"I'm sorry my Boy, but you're just not built for a career in Law"

'Not everyone is cut out for this business but it's a living.'

'I thought I was pre-med. Turned out I was really pre-real estate.'

'You're at that awkward age where the others have figured out that you're a drone and you don't do anything.'

'It quickly became apparent that Optometry was not the right career choice for Errol'. 'Is that the right one? I can't tell!'

'I'm not really a failure, I just started at the bottom and liked it there.'

Job title reads; 'Captain of his Soul'.

"The drag queen option is one seriously to consider, Kevin"

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

'Does it occur to you that seeking career and personal fulfillment at university is the plot of some mad scientist?'

'At least hanging around street corners reminds us we're at a crossroads in our lives.'

'Easy. In space there's no gravity, so her wrinkles are gone. Plus her mother-in-law can't phone her and he kids won't nag her!'

Help Wanted...

'I think I've finally found my own niche.'