January 24th, 2007



MEMO FROM THE PREZ:
Sure this company has had a long and distinguished
history, but can’t we just get past it, puh-leeze?


The Top 8 Ways to Leverage
Your Ph.D. in History


8> Your advisor may have questioned using Sun Tzu’s “Art of War” to analyze fantasy football, but look who’s in first place in the office league …

7> “Ever since Joe started working here, the plumbers have unclogged six dozen toilets and replaced seven urinals.”

6> Document budget requests with references to Artaxerxes and the Delian League.

5> Explain the origin of hash browns to customers when they place their order.

4> Learn from your mistakes and have your kids get a real degree, from trade school.

3> “This was the first office on the block to embrace asbestos as the bestest!”

2> Government grant to re-write the history of the Iraq war.

and the Number 1 Way to Leverage Your Ph.D. in History…

1> Use your knowledge of the difference between a trebuchet and a catapult to become King of the Water Cooler.




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Credits:

Selected from 13 submissions from 5 contributors.
This week’s list authors are:

Richard W. Lipp, Lenexa, KS — 1, 6, 8 (Hat trick!/Employee of the
Mark Sweatt, Marietta, GA — 2, 4, 5 (Hat trick!)
John Shurniak, Limerick, SK — 3, 7
William Wickart, Hillsboro, OR — Topic
K.W. Wyckham, Youngstown, OH — Banner Tag
Wade Kwon, Birmingham, AL — President & CEO