When I came down from University - oh all right, university - in the mid 1960s - I was assailed with increasingly urgent exhortations to DO something, as in "get a job", so I spent quite a lot of time perusing the personal columns of the Daily Telegraph in search of career guidance. A regular advertiser was, I think, Career Analysts in Gloucester Place, London, and to my astonishment the firm is still going strong, nowadays offering advice out of Career House, Gloucester Place.
What sort of careers are available today for those wishing to better themselves and get on in life, or at least with it? One opening might be in the field of composing background music for television soap operas like The Bold and The Beautiful (known here in France as Amour, Gloire et Beauté). Another possibility would be to devise jokes, riddles or aphorisms to go into Christmas crackers or the like. I came across one such aphorism the other day, though not in a Christmas cracker: "Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans", variously attributed to Albert Camus and John Lennon.
Quite seriously, this is a very true observation, for it is when one is no longer "busy making plans" that one loses that élan vital that stops us from slipping into depression.
What sort of careers are available today for those wishing to better themselves and get on in life, or at least with it? One opening might be in the field of composing background music for television soap operas like The Bold and The Beautiful (known here in France as Amour, Gloire et Beauté). Another possibility would be to devise jokes, riddles or aphorisms to go into Christmas crackers or the like. I came across one such aphorism the other day, though not in a Christmas cracker: "Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans", variously attributed to Albert Camus and John Lennon.
Quite seriously, this is a very true observation, for it is when one is no longer "busy making plans" that one loses that élan vital that stops us from slipping into depression.
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