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.

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

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

"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?'

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

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.

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

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

Continental Drift.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Help Wanted...

'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!'

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Job title reads; 'Captain of his Soul'.

"I didn't want the family business but ten years ago on take-your-child-to-work day my father wouldn't let me go home again."