Career Path Ponderers Pillows

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'I don't like heights...maybe that's why I've had so many low points in my life.'

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

'So, what do you want to be when you grow up: rebel scum or loyal servant of the supreme android republic?'

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

'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.'

"I'm going to make you a stay-at-home mom."

"Exscuse me, but I think I'm in the wrong shaped hole."

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

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

"I just don't know what to do with myself in that long stretch after college but before social security."

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

'You've spent the last 20 years in college. What made you stop hiding from the real world?'

"Where do you see yourself in five years?"

'When will it be o.k. to feel irrationally exuberant again?'

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

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

"In five years I see myself sitting on the shoulder of a successful pirate captain."

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

'And what do you do for a living Gary?' 'I'm a Puppeteer.'

"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?'