Career Pondering Prints

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

37 years in the same position.

I figured out how we can pay for the kids' college tuitions. Do tell. I'm going to leave for a year of self-discovery, which I will chronicle in a best-selling memoir. Oh, but

'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!"

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

Not much money, glory, or praise

"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?'

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?"

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.

'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.'

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'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."

'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?'

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

'Nothing serious. I just hate my job.'

'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.'

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

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

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

Glenn Hoddle

'No seriously. His final words actually were, 'If I only had spent more time at the office.''

'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?'

Bowther, Wilkin, Lynch & Fisk

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

'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."