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!"

'Do you remember when our time away from the office was our time...'

"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

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

'Think of this as a window of opportunity.'

Caged Businessman

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

"What's your occupation?"

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

Corporate Ladder and Corporate Elevator

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

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

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

"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

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

The other digital divide.

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

Now hiring.

"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!'

Job hoppers.

'Sometimes I think about getting away from all this and get a job as a cab driver in New York city...'

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?

"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."

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

The Need for Delegation