Career Journey Warrior Gifts

'I can't offer you the job, but I would hire someone LIKE you.'

'I have this fear of the real world...'

"I caution everyone to avoid taking the first field reporter job that comes along."

"I figure if I was still employed, I wouldn’t get to spend all this time with you!"

"Actually, I'm hoping what I'm going to be when I grow up hasn't been invented yet."

"I'm sorry, Ms. Cole is busy balancing family and career. Can I take a message and have her call you back?"

Working Late

'Think of this as a window of opportunity.'

'What do you mean, you're tired of the rat race?'

Caged Businessman

'Budget cuts have forced us to drop our day-care program. I've contacted your mother to come and pick you up.'

"I intend to stay in this job, come Hell or high water."

"What's your occupation?"

"We don't have an exercise room here. You'll stay in shape by climbing the ladder, jumping through hoops, toeing the line..."

"I'm long term unemployed because jerks like you won't hire me!"

"Would you like something you're under qualified for, or something you're overqualified for?"

"We were unwinding, and Frances come unwound completely."

'Little has changed since you called saying you had to work overtime. Except John Wayne died. Oh, and there's a new thing called the 'Internet'.'

Work/Personal Life Balance Beam

'Anybody who has a life, gets more work.'

"I guess I'll see you around Frank."

The other digital divide.

"Can you keep a secret, Fred? The truth is, I've never had a clue what curve it is I'm supposed to stay ahead of!"

'You're hired. Go figure.'

'My work-lifestyle balance is shot, I'm either working or I'm dead!'

We don't have a budget to redo the last guy's business cards, door placard, and so on, so would you mind assuming his identity in the meantime?

'I'm afraid of being left behind.'

'Of course you're overworked and underpaid! Didn't you read the fine print in your employee's contract?'

'I do the work of three men...how about giving one of us a decent salary?'

"On your application it says you've been a circus clown, an orthopaedic surgeon and a molecular biologist."

"...and before that, I was an embryo."

"I can't stop conducting random security checks."

'Running away from the circus to join the world of accountancy isn't working out as I expected. . .'