Job Contemplation Gifts

"Two roads diverged in a wood and I... I... I..."

"I just don't feel focussed or grounded thses days"

At the end of each day, Gary had approximately 7 minutes of free time – which left him feeling very vulnerable.

"Ooh, ooh, I know this koan! I got it! Pick me! Pick me!"

'Hey! Contemplate your own navel!'

Zenemies.

"I could catch a bicyclist, well maybe not a bicyclist, but I could catch a jogger, definitely."

"Geez, from way up here it almost looks like there’s hope for humanity."

"Wait... what was it I came up here for?"

"The overthinker"

Maximilian could see far away places,but he never told anyone.

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

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

'Are you not thinking what I'm not thinking?'

Not much money, glory, or praise

"Lately, I've been trying to spend less time staring at the glowing orb."

"If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore, and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! … Emerson" "Good boy!"

"After searching for the sun all night, it finally dawned on me..."

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

Thought bubble mirrors the cloud in the sky.

"How come I can't remember what I forget, but I always remember that I forgot something!"

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.

"These brisk fall afternoons remind me of Chekhov, which reminds me of Putin, then Trump, the alt-right, facism, nuclear weapons ... let's go home."

'It's normal -- Enlightenment freaks a lot of people out.'

'Sometimes I think about getting away from all this and get a job as a cab driver in New York city...'

"Is it just me, or do these sculptural forms of light and shadow make you think about the ephemeral nature of life, the spirituality of the moment eclipsing our futile quest for cheese?"

'At least hanging around street corners reminds us we're at a crossroads in our lives.'

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

"Exactly what is this 'nothing' I've been hearing so much about?"

Soren Kierkegaard

'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!'

"No, wait. What if the cop character is the murderer, and the mobster guy is completely innocent?"

'Have you ever imagined a world without stupid hypothetical questions?'

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