Young Professionals C or D?

This clearly doesn't relate to white collar office workers - so why are they tarred with the brush "professional"? As I say, it's just a code.

I'm always amused when scanning through BDSM personal ads sites (for amusement only, I hasten to add) and see people who have ticked the "Professional" box thinking it means "well-off", when in that context it actually means "i take money to fulfil your perverted fantasies"

this is the key thing. this is the age period where you're constantly questioning society as well as existence in general but because no satisfactory answer can really be found to such questions (tho you can be deluded into thinking otherwise by some cod-philosophical texts at university or distracted via hedonistic pursuits such as 'joining a rock n' roll band' and/or smoking/drinking so much that you spend your later life just trying to deal with the consequences of that). so why do people always assume that 'you had it sussed' then? and that joining the ratrace or whatever is a betrayal of the 'values' (no sell out) you championed then (smashing the system OR becoming a gazillionaire magically somehow, tho often a confusing mixture of both)?

to be honest tho i walk past pubs every night in the week on my way home from work and see suited people in there and i do wonder if they'll be in there the next night, and the night after that, and the night after that...as it seems many people are - and as an ambitious but lazy and easily distracted YP myself i do sometimes judgementally wonder how some can be seemingly so lacking in ambition themselves

Yes, it is what I wanted, thanks for asking.
-- Markelby (boyincorduro...), February 22nd, 2005.

i've worked in offices where there's a vaguely cheerful atmosphere, perhaps because of a combination of people's career ambitions being low but their family and social lives being quite full (even if that means spending most of your time in the pub)... i also worked in a media studio which was like a morgue (everyone liked that kind of job but didn't like the boss or how the company was run) so it's horses for courses. and i've worked in a room all by myself which in a way may be the worst situation of the three.

also location strikes me as a big factor.

Either way - I am young and a professional - but I do what I enjoy (sometimes); what I wanted to do since I was 15. I didn't stumble upon some corporate job after graduating with a business degree because I had no clue what I really did want to do. Those are the types of "young professionals" that I would qualify as a dud.

And ya, Stevem - it certainly takes a certain type of personality to be able to work alone for much of the time and not go completely mad!