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Does IT add value?

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

When I was 20 years old I received a devastating prediction. I would be boring, miserable and never have a meaningful relationship with a woman. If this prediction had been delivered by a wild black haired woman in a tent on a fairground I could have laughed it off. But no, this came with the full force of late 1970′s science and technology, printed on some green and white computer paper. It was the results from an aptitude test and the algorithm had determined that I should either be an accountant or work in computers. Friends had been given bits of paper with journalist, barrister, advertising executive and for one, who was a punk rocker, complete with bondage gear, very improbably, a vicar. All seemed worthwhile and interesting jobs. I saw myself as someone destined to change the world, not reconciling expenses and playing Dungeon and Dragons in the evening.

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