Navigating Career Challenges Gifts

Take the time to do something nice for yourself. Your kids will thank you. That is, if you ever decide to have them.

I figured out how we can pay for the kids' college tuitions. Do tell. I'm going to leave for a year of self-discovery, which I will chronicle in a best-selling memoir. Oh, but

Man suffering from rope burn due to climbing the corporate ladder

"Mum, I got the job!"

Caged Businessman

"I thought it would be appropriate to have a band playing as we went down."

"Hey, just wanted to say bye again, guys, I'm off to join the circus."

"Let me put it this way: I'm hitting 'Unlike' and 'Unhire.'"

"You haven't been laid off because you're the designated scapegoat."

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

Talent, pluck, or plain dumb luck?

Career Analyst "Well I've looked at your file and yes, your job is rubbish"

'I feel like I'm in a rut, too!'

Business Sisyphus

'How long's he been out there?'

What Sisyphus Learned: "When life gets rough, you sure find out who your friends are!"

Been there. Done that. (Man stands between two doors.)

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"Our sales have slumped so much, we now have a couch for them."

'You can't cash your paychecks until your 6 month probation is satisfactorily over.'

'Bernice . . . could you come in here please? Bring a can of hairspray and a cigarette lighter!'

"Night of the living adjunct professor" "What's a sabbatical?" "Tenure is boring!" "I have four desks in four schools!" "I have more prestige than a grad student."

'This is where the company started handing out sick bags!'

Still Here

"You look perfectly suited for managing on the pigeons have a salary that goes with the job!"

Don't jump! Just think what it will do to your wife and kids not to mention your career as a motivational speaker!

PEP TALKS!

"Sorry, Dad."

"Unfortunately, Whitcomb, I am suffering from compassion fatigue."

'Let's not look at it as failure. lets look at it as a chance to do better.'

"I refuse to go down with the ship."

'So do I get the job or not?'

"The only time I let my staff show fear is when they're trying to save their jobs."

"Well, I wouldn't exactly say we're pursuing bankruptcy. It's more like bankruptcy is pursuing us."

"What say we make this one of those 'some days you get the bear' days?"