Choosing Career Path Pillows

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

'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.'

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

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

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

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

'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.'

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

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

'Cat job interviews.'

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

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

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

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

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

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

'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.'

Medical student overdrafts...careers in the law.

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

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

'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.'

'Nothing serious. I just hate my job.'

'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?'

"Remember, son, you can be anything you want to be...except for maybe an aroma therapist."

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

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

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

Cycle of Professional Development

"The aspirin there is your medical benefit and here is your vision benefit."