Career Transition In Finance Prints

Vulture sitting over a plummeting graph.

Others will fight for you

'Our parents were replaced by machines - We'll be replaced with new software.'

'The lads at the office still talk about the day you told the boss what to do with his job...'

'I'm Jeremy's father. I'm a computer consultant and I'm unemployed.'

"I figure if I was still employed, I wouldn’t get to spend all this time with you!"

Work/Life Balance

Entering the Business Community: Assets/Liabilities

'Very impressive educational background...now let's discuss WHO you know.!

'The Board has chosen you to handle the restructuring because you have no heart.'

'I clawed my way to the top and then I clawed my way back to the middle.'

Investments - remember, you are what you invest in!

'Poor Kleinzweck -- his working hypothesis got laid off.'

"An actor, you say? Guess you caught the acting-like-a-waiter bug."

Recruiting litigation lawyers is ALWAYS tricky..my last one took me to court for the emotional and professional damage I caused him by NOT considering him for a position I wasn't asked to fill.

'There they go - off on their own - and a finer bunch of fledgelings one couldn't ask.'

"Lost my job. But I'm pretty sure it's around here somewhere."

"Of course you can resign Ferguson. How would you like to buy back your freedom? Cash, credit card or easy payments?"

'A computer is only as good as the people who are employed to replace the people who were made redundant by the computer.'

'Yes, can I help you?'

Fred wonders if he should go see what's happening in accounting.

"The little engine that could... after taking advantage of family connections, a trust fund, working two years for free as an intern, and finally getting hired as an independent contractor."

PERSONNEL, 'Why did you leave your previous employment?', 'They asked too many questions!'

"It's time to retire the word 'profit'."

'Your decade of experience is, unfortunately, from the wrong decade.'

'So it's with a heavy heart that I leave you good people of St. Paul's and accept the calling to be minister at the Sunnydell Nudist Colony...'

Day trading.

'Your main goal in this job is getting out alive.'

One man's obstacle is another man's stepping stone.

'One final question: Have you ever been disciplined, investigated or suspended for integrity on the job?'

Businessman sees door sign 'Department of Mismanagement and Overbudget'.

'Think of this as a window of opportunity.'