An oft asked but never conclusively answered question is, “What is the secret to a successful business career?” Is it hard work? Is it perseverance? Is it in-depth research and a top-notch ability to get information first? Is it ass-kissing? Is it wearing a dress and growing breasts? Is it a matter of simply being lucky or surrounding your office with good luck charms? No one’s been able to say. Today, however, a heretofore unmentioned method of making it has been raised, and whether you’re a first year analyst or a thirty-year veteran looking for new places to recruit talent, I’d suggest taking notes.

According to newly elected Republican state Rep. Julia Hurley, it’s spending time working at Hooters. Hurley laid out her argument earlier this month in Hooters Magazine, a kind of alumni publication for former employees that amazingly exists.

Hurley, who works as a consultant and entrepreneur, writes that her experience at Hooters helped prepare her for a run for public office — even when opponents tried to make a campaign issue last summer about her past employment and photos from her modeling career. “I have taken quite a bit of flack from the public at large during my run for State House in Tennessee for being a Hooters Girl,” she said. “But I know that without that time in my life I would not be as strong-willed and eager to become successful.”

The link also became a direct benefit to her electoral bid when former regular customers made campaign contribution “without question or hesitation,” she said. The article appears in the magazine’s “Orange Pride Spotlight,” which features “the success stories of Hooters Girls both past and present.”

Mike McNeil, vice president of marketing for Hooters of America LLC, said in a statement that many of the company’s 300,000 former employees alumni are “are destined to do great things.”

“There is nothing we like more than to hear from these alumni who talk about how working as a Hooters Girl provided them with the life skills and financial resources necessary to succeed,” he said.

GOP lawmaker, Julia Hurley of Lenoir City, credits Hooters for success [Knox News]

Comments (28)

  1. Posted by Anonymous | February 9, 2011 at 8:11 PM

    Yeah…bodacious tatas to brighten up my afternoon. Thx Bess. xoxo

  2. Posted by Chuddy | February 9, 2011 at 8:18 PM

    I heard they have good wings, but I still prefer the breasts.

    ~ 100% man

  3. Posted by Guest | February 9, 2011 at 8:34 PM

    False advertising. The lawmaker does not look anything like the wait staff in that pic above. Actually she looks like a young Elizabeth Warren…

  4. Posted by Guest | February 9, 2011 at 8:34 PM

    False advertising. The lawmaker does not look anything like the wait staff in that pic above. Actually she looks like a young Elizabeth Warren…

  5. Posted by AIG Quant | February 9, 2011 at 8:37 PM

    I’d suggest you get the combination platter then. It comes with five wings, a breast, and a side of fries.

  6. Posted by AIG Quant | February 9, 2011 at 8:37 PM

    I’d suggest you get the combination platter then. It comes with five wings, a breast, and a side of fries.

  7. Posted by Guest | February 9, 2011 at 8:38 PM

    I feel bad for whoever’s email address is guest@guest.com

  8. Posted by Guest | February 9, 2011 at 8:38 PM

    I feel bad for whoever’s email address is guest@guest.com

  9. Posted by Guest | February 9, 2011 at 8:38 PM

    I feel bad for whoever’s email address is guest@guest.com

  10. Posted by Guest | February 9, 2011 at 8:38 PM

    I feel bad for whoever’s email address is guest@guest.com

  11. Posted by Guest | February 9, 2011 at 8:38 PM

    I feel bad for whoever’s email address is guest@guest.com

  12. Posted by Guest | February 9, 2011 at 8:38 PM

    I feel bad for whoever’s email address is guest@guest.com

  13. Posted by Guest | February 9, 2011 at 8:44 PM

    I am 100% too, but I will never go to Hooters.

    - Ping

  14. Posted by Guest | February 9, 2011 at 8:44 PM

    I am 100% too, but I will never go to Hooters.

    - Ping

  15. Posted by Mr. Market | February 9, 2011 at 8:47 PM

    I feel bad for the men duped into going on blind dates with Julia Hurley based only on the fact that she “was a Hooters girl” sometime in the very distant past. That, or the Hooters in Tennessee has worse standards or judgment than last call at Minettas.

  16. Posted by Mr. Market | February 9, 2011 at 8:47 PM

    I feel bad for the men duped into going on blind dates with Julia Hurley based only on the fact that she “was a Hooters girl” sometime in the very distant past. That, or the Hooters in Tennessee has worse standards or judgment than last call at Minettas.

  17. Posted by Shorty Shorts Gasparino | February 9, 2011 at 8:47 PM

    I am living proof that wearing orange shorts and a white tank leads to success.

  18. Posted by Shorty Shorts Gasparino | February 9, 2011 at 8:47 PM

    I am living proof that wearing orange shorts and a white tank leads to success.

  19. Posted by Brian | February 9, 2011 at 8:50 PM

    Hired help can say anything they want and people will believe them.

  20. Posted by Brian | February 9, 2011 at 8:50 PM

    Hired help can say anything they want and people will believe them.

  21. Posted by RBS Capital Markets | February 9, 2011 at 9:57 PM

    Based on evidence collected by our team of analysts over Q1 we have concluded you are actually a man pretending to be a woman.

  22. Posted by Anonymous | February 9, 2011 at 10:52 PM

    Perhaps you guys can all go and work for UBS with that fine example of analysis?

    Gal who IS a woman…overly male-identified (as a shrink once told me)…but 100% chicky-babe who sees nothing wrong with being a gal who can appreciate a nice rack.

  23. Posted by R - BS Capital Markets | February 9, 2011 at 11:16 PM

    Our equity analysts have now concluded that where there should be a trough in your spread their is actually a spike.

    For unknown reasons we have been instructed to forward this report to the SEC where their analysts can further study this 1/2 male 1/2 female report.

  24. Posted by R - BS Capital Markets | February 9, 2011 at 11:16 PM

    Our equity analysts have now concluded that where there should be a trough in your spread their is actually a spike.

    For unknown reasons we have been instructed to forward this report to the SEC where their analysts can further study this 1/2 male 1/2 female report.

  25. Posted by Who | February 10, 2011 at 12:09 AM

    Using the tip jar to fund your election campaign has got to be the NKI.

  26. Posted by Who | February 10, 2011 at 12:14 AM

    Got to be an improvement over what they were used to seeing on public access, though no?

  27. Posted by Who | February 10, 2011 at 12:14 AM

    Got to be an improvement over what they were used to seeing on public access, though no?

  28. Posted by MsGogetter | February 10, 2011 at 2:08 AM

    An eager willingness to take it in the face never hurts-
    -Gal whose jib you’d like the cut of

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