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?'

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."

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

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

Tonight's Lecture: Globalization. I've never worried about my job going overseas --- None of my jobs ever went anywhere.

'And the recruiter from IBM - did you also tell him that at college you mostly sat on a rock by the sea, trying to find yourself?'

'Nothing serious. I just hate my job.'

Glenn Hoddle

'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."

'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!'

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

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

Bowther, Wilkin, Lynch & Fisk

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

"Where do you see yourself in five years?"

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

'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.'

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

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

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

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

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

Actually, with bachelors degrees in philosophy, we were lucky to get this job.

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