From jmyers@goucher.edu Sun Feb 24 05:55:01 2002 Received: from mailscan4.cac.washington.edu (mailscan4.cac.washington.edu [140.142.33.15]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.01) with SMTP id g1ODsxnJ114368 for ; Sun, 24 Feb 2002 05:54:59 -0800 Received: FROM mxu3.u.washington.edu BY mailscan4.cac.washington.edu ; Sun Feb 24 05:54:59 2002 -0800 Received: from post.goucher.edu (post.goucher.edu [4.17.88.66]) by mxu3.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.01) with ESMTP id g1ODsvek022514 for ; Sun, 24 Feb 2002 05:54:58 -0800 content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.5762.3 Subject: RE: classics majors and skills: a tale (was: persistence data) Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 08:54:57 -0500 Message-ID: <0345590FEC321047917FA0BC6D292EB202AD54B1@post.goucher.edu> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: "Myers, Jeffrey" To: > -----Original Message----- > From: Janice Siegel [mailto:jfsiege@ilstu.edu] > I went through my=20 > whole education, > BA in Comp Lit in French and Latin from Wash U, MA in Comp=20 > Lit in Latin and > Greek also from Wash U, how far I had gotten toward my PhD at=20 > Rutgers....how > many languages I knew (I told her about the graduate work in=20 > Provencal too, > what the hell). I finished and there was silence. No reaction=20 > at all. Then I > heard her take a deep breath, and she said, "I'm very sorry,=20 > we only hire > people with skills." !!!!!!! Having gone through a similar litany at an employment agency in Chicago, = I was told, "You have nothing to offer the business community." I burst = out laughing, got up and left. Two years later, a week before I'm about = to leave Chicago for Philadelphia (wife in Vet school there), the same = agency called me with a job prospect and complained that I didn't keep = in touch enough. Jeff Myers .