Skill Seeker Gifts

Businessman with multiple diplomas - "Do you think you can buy me some competencies too, Dad?"

"Once you learn, though, you'll never forget."

"A good employee never stops learning new skills."

Keeping all the balls in the air - skills

'I don't know anything about anything, but I'm great at looking stuff up!'

People enter and leave a training school.

'Boy Scouts aren't ANY kind of terrorists!'

'I'd do better if I knew all the words you know!'

OWZAT...The beer-mat-flipping champion sets a new world record!

"I'm good at ticking boxes."

Job search

"Oh, yes, and there's plenty of opportunity for advancement."

'This job is for a 30 hour week. . .but to achieve that you need to work 60 hours a week.'

Fear/Knowledge

"Would you like me to annotate that for you?"

'Never mind inspiration. I need background material on atomic physics.'

'Your resume is a little thin, but I like your willingness to be manipulated by upper management.'

Eternal Student.

"There's something weird about Emily. She actually likes school!"

"According to mom the answers are all in this book!" "Too bad there's no pictures at which to look!"

The Bookworm

'Very impressive educational background...now let's discuss WHO you know.!

"Teach yourself what you don't know you don't know."

"I had all the right answers, but I had them in the wrong order."

Historical memory is on life support.

"Pssst! Do you have anything on American history?"

Muscles

Interdisciplinary studies.

Do your research!

On a hot day in 1941, scientists uncovered the only known remains of the elusive nerdosaurus rex,

"Miss Rogers told me I have a personal 'cloud' to store knowledge in."

'Great news, Dear! I've been traded to a think tank in California for a PhD Specializing in the Baltics!'

"There are no big jobs, only small machines."

PERSONNEL, 'Why did you leave your previous employment?', 'They asked too many questions!'

'Your decade of experience is, unfortunately, from the wrong decade.'