Career Pondering Pillows

"If I've accomplished little, it's because I have giants standing on my shoulders."

37 years in the same position.

'I can't believe I didn't get that promotion. So many people have passed me by I feel like a road sign on the highway to success.'

"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.'

Maybe it's now time to review our customer care strategy!"

Not much money, glory, or praise

'Well Mimi, what's it going to be...medicine or the cello?'

"While you're at it Houdini, try and find the last ten years of my life in there."

'Where do you see yourself in five minutes?'

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

'I'm glad to see you finally pulled in sales. Nevertheless, you're fired. Here, we're dealing with socks and shoes, not with suits and shirts.'

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

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

"How do you know if you're under the radar or washed up?"

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

'After being here for more than forty years - as undergraduate, graduate student instructor, professor - what saddens me most is that this was not the college of my choice.'

"Have a career, and then if you want to try acting, you'll have my blessing."

'Nothing serious. I just hate my job.'

"Tell me again how many young minds I will have shaped by the end of my teaching career."

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

'You'll have to decide - do you want to be top management in a small pond, or bottom management in a big pond?'

'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?'

Taylor, I've decided to sack you. I hope this doesn't affect our marriage in any way.

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

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

There, but for the grace of God, go I.

Bowther, Wilkin, Lynch & Fisk

"I've lost my mojo."