Corporate Contemplator Pillows

'We were just sitting around reminiscing about all the fleeting things in business...pensions, benefits, labor unions...'

"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?’"

'I had considered a career as an offshore commodities broker specialising in securitised asset transfers but the pension wasn't as good.'

Not much money, glory, or praise

'Being a nobody isn't so bad...You don't have to worry about becoming a has-been.'

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.

US Dollar weakens.

'Thoreau had his Walden Pond, C.J. has his water cooler.'

"We're studying the legal principles of 'crossing a heart and hoping to die'."

'What I especially like about being a philosopher-scientist is that I don't have to get my hands dirty.'

'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 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.'

Bowther, Wilkin, Lynch & Fisk

'Do you ever wonder about this whole 'money' thing?'

'To become ONE with the Universe, you must first become COMPLIANT with the Universe!'

Man reading magazine: 'International Procrastinator.'

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

A long way towards retirement...

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

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

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

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

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

"Do wine writers suffer and all that?"

Alcohol 'Nector of the Gods' 'Devils Brew!'

Wealth without fulfilment/Fulfilment without wealth.

'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.'

'My dad says at this rate he'll never be able to retire from his job.'