Skills Seeker Gifts

Do you have any other skills?

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

Businesswoman Empowerment

'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.

Or as I prefer to call it, the 'feel-good' factor.

Nothing Succeeds Like Confidence.

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

The Bookworm

"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.

"Great! We're still going up! Chop a hole in the ceiling!"

'Is that the sweet smell of success or some imitation air freshener?'

"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?"

Interdisciplinary studies.

Do your research!

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

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

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

Go! Means NOW!

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

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

Back to school.

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

Teamwork!

'Going...Going...Gone! Sold to the lady with more money than sense.'