Career Ponderers Gifts

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

'I'm an under achiever, what do you do?'

"My career's in shreds, but on the bright side, so are my files."

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

Not much money, glory, or praise

'Where do you see yourself in five minutes?'

Guys looks in the mirror and sees himself as a prisoner.

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

If I could sell my experience for half of what it cost me I could retire.

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

'Nothing serious. I just hate my job.'

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

"Well, once you get your PhD on 'The Return of the Repressed in Early Jacobean Drama', then we;ll discuss how disappointed you are."

"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?'

'I am not my job... my job is not me... I do not need my job to give my life a purpose...' 'Hey, did you hear the news? We're all laid off!' 'Stupid affirmations!'

"I feel I blend in well with the holes in my career ladder."

'I'm not saying this is a deadend job, but you can forget a trophy wife.'

"Where do you see yourself in five years?"

Bowther, Wilkin, Lynch & Fisk

'Congratulations. It's an eight pound court reporter.'

'I knew him when he was just the tea boy.'

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

School of Baristas

'Since the healthcare legislation became law, our Little MBA kit outsells our Little Doctor Kit by a hundred to one.'

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

'Well, if you can't stand confrontation, why on earth did you become a bullfighter?'

'I quit my job today. It just wasn't fun anymore.'

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

I don't see a future for me in my present job. They don't reward mediocrity.

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

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

"If you never date a prediction it can't be proved wrong."