Career Milestone Gifts

'I'm sorry Mrs. Jackson, but when you've become as excellent of a teacher as you are, you've forfeited your right to retire.'

"Some guys from the state board of medicine are here to see you."

Desk bins contain fires to be put out.

'Shifting the paradigm didn't work. Time for Plan B...shifting the blame.'

Doris K. Elston: Brain Surgeon, Professional Model, Artist, Lawyer....Plus Mother of Four.

Suddenly the three men realized they had achieved their childhood dreams.

A sudden draft. The moment he first felt comfortable calling himself a plumber.

The Working Woman's Magazine

'Put a tick under 'very toxic'.' (New Orleans Toxic Clean-Up Team).

'I'm on the verge of a major breakthrough, but I'm also at that point where chemistry leaves off and physics begins, so I'll have to drop the whole thing.'

"My making two million a year, …. It doesn't make me seem 'Mannish', does it?"

'Do you think, perhaps, that we could start shooting for a few longer-term goals around here?'

'So you became an architect! And I can remember when you couldn't draw a straight line!'

"Do you promise to love, honour and contribute to the gross national product?"

'These represent all of the career milesones I passed on my way to the top. Each trophy was created to my exacting specifications. Each picture, with world leaders, was carefully crafted using advanced phot-editing software.'

'At least! I get to find out what's above the glass ceiling!'

Architects and engineers arms clasping same pencil to write the 'master plan'

'Now all I need is an office.'

'I always thought the expression 'the road to success is paved with failure' was just a random saying and not the literal truth...'

'It must be a risky proposal... legal is running it by their lawyers.'

Evolution.

'You've won a business award.' ('for gobbledegook')

"I need something that says, 'Let's party,' but in a fiscally responsible manner."

'If I'd had someone to help me when I started, I might have made CEO...actually, I did make CEO, but you know what I mean.'

'Congratulations on breaking through the glass ceiling of the company downstairs. However, I will be sending you a repair bill.'

"...And I'd like to thank all the little people whom I stepped on in order to get to where I am..."

'I got the promotion. I'll never have to say please again.'

'Any chance of doubling my salary?'

"Remember that optimistic, slightly crazy, throw a dart at the wall forecast? We beat it."

He was destined for greatness. Whatever that meant.

Many certificates of achievement on the wall.

Business of Fingerpointing Line Art

'Very good and to the point.'

Lula da Silva

"What riles me is that he got a genius grant and I didn't."