Commute Contemplator Gifts

"I miss complaining about the subway."

"Damn – it's a local stop."

Thoughts in Traffic

"My career's in shreds, but on the bright side, so are my files."

"What I’ve learned is you have to look deep inside your heart and ask yourself, ‘What is it that she really wants to hear?’"

"When the slowest car in the fast lane don't go any slower than the fastest car in the slow lane."

Not much money, glory, or praise

Guys looks in the mirror and sees himself as a prisoner.

If I could sell my experience for half of what it cost me I could retire.

'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!'

Caterpillar Paranoia

Bowther, Wilkin, Lynch & Fisk

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

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

'We may think 2012 is over, but history books are full of things we thought were over.'

'At last you can put your feet up and concentrate on worrying about your pension.'

Road Guilt

The bus home.

"That's alright, I'll keep you company: I'm not in a hurry to get to school..."

I don't see a future for me in my present job. They don't reward mediocrity.

Being home based the highlights of Colin's day was ringing his office based colleagues to check on how their commute had been that morning.

A long way towards retirement...

Road signs point to various things to buy including "women's wear", "office supplies" and "household appliances".

"I'm at that sweet spot in my career...right between 'young and underpaid' and 'old and too expensive.'"

'I think I just blew my diet. Do you know what the glycemic index is for a communion host?'

'One day I'll stop to reflect on my career and marvel that I have time to reflect.'

Lifelong friends

"At what point in your public relations career did you realize you don' relate to the public?"

"Do wine writers suffer and all that?"

"You said you wanted something really rewarding for your last wish so I made you a teacher."

Wealth without fulfilment/Fulfilment without wealth.

Prayers For Agnostics

'You're wasting your time. I like my job, but I'll never love it.'

Forty years in the City and never once was I headhunted.

'...I just feel like I'm working at a dead end job.'