MSN in particular poses some really incisive questions. Last month it wondered Is Your Job Making You Fat? Yes, it concluded on balance. Although I suspect lack of exercise and too much wine may also play a contributory part in some way.
Today, in similar vein, it asks Is Your Job Making You Ugly? I like the fact it is based on the core premise that I am ugly, and merely wonders why rather than whether. Thanks for that.
I already know my job makes me ugly in lots of ways, but this article has defined it much more specifically. Working at a screen for long periods can give you Computer Face (frown lines, a wrinkled turkey neck from foreshortened muscles, stressed dry skin). Check.
Working indoors all the time can give you rickets, or at least a vitamin D deficiency from lack of sunshine. However if you sit near the window, the UV can still get you through the glass, and unless you wear sunscreen indoors you will be subject to premature ageing of the skin. Check.
Sitting down for long periods can give you a bad back, and as working at a computer only burns 70-90 calories, apparently (per hour? Per day? Per year?) you can get fat. Check.
I was feeling quite despondent about this. And then I realised that if I gave up my job and devoted myself to writing full time (oh joy!) I would still be subject to all these challenges to my natural radiant beauty.
One good thing about my job is that it enables me to buy luxy skincare and make-up products. I trowelled on stuff from a few pots and I’m already feeling better.
This is good, because I have to do a talk in an hour or so entitled (wait for it) My Brilliant Career. The man upstairs does indeed have a finely-tuned sense of irony.
It'll be a short talk. "My career was brilliant".
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