Thursday, 4 March 2010

#63: Let Me Tell Your Future...

When I was in secondary school, it was a time before Facebook questionnaires, before Blogthings quizzes, before Spark.com's Purity Test, hell, before >>>>>>>>>>>'s in Fwd:fw:fw:FWD:fwd:fwd:s became a nuisance.

In an effort to find out just what their lil darlings might be good for in life, some parents paid £20 for their kids to give up a free period and take an aptitude test. Four to six weeks later(!) they would receive in the post(!!) a big yellow envelope containing a printout(!!!) of ten potential career paths their blessed ones would be ideally suited for.

It's uncanny, really, I always manage to remember my list quite distinctly...

  • Computer Engineer

  • Civil Engineer

  • Aeronautical Engineer

  • Electrical Engineer

  • Mechanical Engineer

  • Chemical Engineer

  • Structural Engineer

  • Materials Engineer

  • Agricultural Engineer

  • Systems Analyst


Can't quite put my finger on it, but sensing a definite theme running in there. Hmm...

Good thing "System's Analyst" was in there, or this English Teacher might've felt a bit limited in scope!

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