Help Me Become A Corporate Whore!

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So, um, yeah. I sorta may have decided to swallow my pride and apply for some yukky realworld stuff, though I still want to :: teach primary school/ make videogames/ fight ninjas/ be wanky abt Tennyson for a living :: all after-like.

Which means it's application time! This week, advertising forms. I am working on answers for:

1) What Date Would You Set Your Time Machine For?

2) Distil the 20th Century into 20 words...

Can y'all help? I would appreciate it totally hugely. Like feel free to come up with total advertising-ho answers too ("seventeenth century switzerland - I'd like to find what makes thing TICK! Do you see etc etc")...

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Monday, 1 November 2004 03:48 (twenty years ago)

1) On a job application, I think I'd say something like "20 years in the future, so I see where our business is headed". Although my true answer would be in the past, such as Russia 1900 or Germany 1935 or England 1660.

2) "A rapid turnover of empires from the result of major wars. Whose fault was all this? Damned if I know".

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Monday, 1 November 2004 03:56 (twenty years ago)

Also, should I include this image in my application?

http://saturn5.com/~moebius/citypix/city_landscapes/010304feltlike.jpg

It seems like everything they oughta know.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Monday, 1 November 2004 04:02 (twenty years ago)

Thanks B! I think I'm kinda free to be a bit gnarlier on the first one, they have like 3500 applications.

(England 1660 would be my real answer too! Etheridge, Wilmot, LETS GET US SOME POX)

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Monday, 1 November 2004 04:08 (twenty years ago)

Maybe not, their website is kinda awful and proudly brutalist.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Monday, 1 November 2004 04:09 (twenty years ago)

barrys answer to the 20th cetnury question is flawless. i cant believe theyre asking that kind of stuff though.

― :| (....), Monday, 1 November 2004 04:13 (twenty years ago)

yeah, it's really lame. there are some other decent questions though.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Monday, 1 November 2004 04:17 (twenty years ago)

Geez, I wouldn't have guessed you'd be asked questions like that. Then again, there's a lot I don't know about advertizing. But I love that picture, G.

― sgs (sgs), Monday, 1 November 2004 12:11 (twenty years ago)

Advertising forms are really difficult - I was never sure whether to take the piss or not. A friend actually told me he interviewed someone because in their interests they put "high class hookers, Drugs, and crack whores".

I had one that asked me "what would you do if you found out the world would end at midday today". My answer of "wonder why I spent the morning filling out this bloody form" did not yield me an interview.

― 3underscore (___), Monday, 1 November 2004 12:28 (twenty years ago)

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