Hi and welcome back.

Well it’s just past Halloween and I thought a little business card horror story would fit the bill nicely.

Here is my favorite (of those submitted so far) from Fuel Your Blogging where they encouraged their visitors to come up with some disastrous situations when you don’t happen to have a business card handy. Enjoy…

5. “Five years of pain and suffering have finally paid off,” I thought. My dissertation was complete and I was on my way to hand-deliver it to the chair of my committee. Dreams of teaching at an Ivy League school drifted through my mind as I confidently knocked on my adviser’s door.

To my surprise, as I enter the office, scholars from Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Columbia are sipping wine and talking casually among one another. After brief introductions and a quick description of my research, everyone would like the chance to speak with me again.

But I don’t have any business cards. I never ordered any.

I rip a page from the back of my dissertation and begin to scribble my name and email when the scholar from Harvard sighs and says, “Son, the absent minded are always welcome among our ranks, but the unprepared are better suited for community college.”

Eight years later, as I write this message from my office the size of a closet in the basement of an under-funded community college, I weep on my pile of cheap business cards.

The moral of the story is …

Don’t be caught without business cards.

Hope this helps and have a great day!
Mark

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