A coworker is testing for her black belt in taekwondo this weekend, and I'm looking for ideas of how we can celebrate her achievement at the office. [more inside]
posted by Balonious Assault on Jun 26, 2009 - 9 answers

How do you deal with/accept that you are merely mediocre? [more inside]
posted by arniec on Jun 14, 2009 - 47 answers

What are some of the most stirring and melodramatic sports compilation videos on Youtube? [more inside]
posted by fire&wings on May 3, 2009 - 18 answers

Who are the oldest working professional people? After reading about Manoel de Oliveira, who appears to be the oldest working filmmaker, I wondered about the oldest working people in other fields, for instance, the oldest professor still writing papers, or the oldest lawyer still trying cases in court... all other professions or occupations welcome. [more inside]
posted by StrikeTheViol on Mar 16, 2008 - 25 answers

What's a good way of dealing with long-term goals? [more inside]
posted by gregb1007 on Mar 18, 2007 - 8 answers

I'm almost 31 and though I have had some achievements in life they're not spectacular. Most of the time when I see a biog in the paper the 'achiever' was already doing well from a very early age. To give me hope that achieving at this stage in life is possible I would like to hear of people who went on to make great achievements relatively late in their life (ie 30+) with not much happening before then. These can be anybody, famous or people you know, in any field, both creative and career wise. I haven't defined great achievement but I mean something rather outstanding (unusual I suppose) rather than 'passed my driving test' or 'got married'.
posted by razzman on Jun 19, 2006 - 73 answers