Choosing Career Path Gifts

'Any backup plan in case your dream of becoming a YouTube sensation doesn't pan out?'

'You're never going to follow me in my trade, Son - you may as well go to university.'

Career center: 'I'm planning to replace Katie Couric when she retires!'

'When I grow up, I want to be a hydraulic engineer...'

"So...what are you doing after you graduate?"

Caged Businessman

'He's going to be an estate agent, just like his Dad.'

"He wants to be a plastic surgeon when he grows up."

'I really wanted to only take accounting courses, but my parents made me take this cartooning class so I would have something to fall back on.'

'Howard's doing things he's always wanted to with his redundancy money.'

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

"The suit - it's rejecting your body."

"I love being your agent, Nick, but the guys making the really big bucks now are the managers. Let me be your manager."

"My daughter tells me you want to become a doctor."

'I chose my field on what would put the most impressive initials after my name.'

'Cat job interviews.'

'I have serious doubts about the efficiency of that new 'apples and bucket' hiring test.'

'He spoke his first words today Serge - 'ello. . . ello. . . ello'!'

"I used to be a medium, but now I'm a large."

'He's majoring in cave hydrology with, obviously, the ultimate aim of being a caveman like his Dad.'

"Football is too dangerous, Junior. Why not follow my footsteps in a safe sport - chasing investment yield?"

'But Father, I don't want to study space time temporal theories in relation to collapsing pulsars, I want to do my own thing!'

Medical student overdrafts...careers in the law.

'Mom, Dad. I've made up my mind. I'm going to skip college, hire an agent, and pin all my hopes on a professional bass fishing careers.'

"I like the idea of becoming a prosecutor: charging people appeals to me..."

"Baldo, I don't care what you are...as long as you're good at it."

"Let's honor this young future farmer - he's ready to endure hard labor, long hours and outrageously low farm prices..."

'I don't believe in pressuring my children. When the time is right, they'll arrive at the default choice and go to law school.'

"Use your head, follow your heart and go with your gut."

'Nothing serious. I just hate my job.'

"I dreamed last night that I had a job within walking distance."

'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?'

'Son I want you to Follow in My Footsteps.'

'To be honest I only became a vicar to get my children into the C of E school.'