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!'

I'm doomed! What's Twig's problem today? She forgot that the pre-SATs are this weekend. She hasn't practiced. So what? They don't test for life's important skills. Right. Like planning ahead. Whoops! I forgot the cream.

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

'The 'insourcing' will go ahead and some jobs will be off to Leeds or Manchester, but I think I'll be safe...'

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

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

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.

The Bookworm

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

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

'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.

"He might not have got the job with Google, but they weren't going to stop Brian skateboarding to the office."

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

Muscles

Interdisciplinary studies.

Do your research!

"Eat not of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge. Its sources have yet to be verified."

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

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