Career Milestone Mugs

'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.'

Welcome Association of Stage Builders.

"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.

"Good start, Maxwell. Now concentrate a bit more on aesthetics."

The Working Woman's Magazine

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

"It's my intelligence, talent and hard work that have got me to the top."

'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.'

'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!'

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

'Wow! I never thought it would actually WORK!'

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

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

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

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

'Now all I need is an office.'

'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.'

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

Evolution.

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

'Any chance of doubling my salary?'

He was destined for greatness. Whatever that meant.

'Very good and to the point.'

Many certificates of achievement on the wall.

Business of Fingerpointing Line Art

After 31 years of teaching high school Spanish, Bob Vermer was beginning to show signs of burnout.

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

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

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