Career Path Ponderer Gifts

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

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

"The typical arc - child prodigy, boy wonder, flash in the pan."

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

"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."

'He spoke his first words today Serge - 'ello. . . ello. . . ello'!'

'I like the part of your resume where you didn't ask for a raise for 10 years.'

'I feel like I'm in a rut, too!'

'Where do you see yourself in five minutes?'

'I've been thinking about quitting, but it's the only thing that gets me out of the house.'

"She said that she's against combing marriage with a career....so I quit my job."

'This is the age of specialisation - you can't be a hunter AND a gatherer.'

'Nothing serious. I just hate my job.'

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

"I think we might already have lost the next set of graduates, they don't see us offering a career path..."

'I'm a hunter with gatherer tendencies...'

"Where do you see yourself in five years?"

School of Baristas

'Then after 'A' Levels I did an NVQ in Cleansing and Hygiene.'

'You're never going to follow me in my trade, Son - you may as well go to university.'

"I wasn't smart enough for college. So instead of a diploma and a quarter million of debt all I've got is a growing plumbing business and a steady income."

'You were a boring accountant in ten previous lives.'

'The meaning of life?.. You want the next mountain along.'

'If you knew that economics was the 'dismal science,' why did you become an economist?'

"I don't know, Baldo. I like being an assistant manager and all...but I'm not sure this job is for me."

"I'm thinking of getting out of medicine completely… or volunteering in a third world country to do my liposuction."

"Do I want the job? Huh, I never thought about it like that."

"Why don't you become a boxer? Haha, just kidding!"

Your Best Years/Your Uncertain Future

"The tea leaves say you should go into insurance, but I say forget the tea leaves and go into whatever makes you happy."

"I haven't always been a cowboy, you know."

'Look, I don't expect you to understand this, but the thing is, I'm deathly afraid of water. . . always have been.'

'I'm applying for a job training program to become a dairy cow instead of a beef one.'

"Those are good, but the fire department doesn’t really need a sketch artist."