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"You know what I'd like to try someday? Landlubbing."

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.'

"When I was a child, I drank like a child, but when I became a man I put away childish drinks."

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

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?'

Do you mind if my mother joins our little business dinner ? You know what it's like, I don't want people from the office to think I'm sleeping my way to the top.

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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.

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

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

'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."

'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'd like your honest, unbiased and possibly career-ending opinion on something."

Bowther, Wilkin, Lynch & Fisk

"I've lost my mojo."

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

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

"Where do you see yourself in five years?"

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

"The years 1966 through 1995 are blank because I was on tour with the Grateful Dead."

HR worker wading through CV's.

'Of course being on short term contract, I don't enjoy the same benefits as the rest of you.'

"My jacket blurbs used to have such conviction, he thought to himself wistfully."