Wednesday 12 November 2008

Alternative Career

As one career is coming to its end, I started to think what other things I might do, in case the plans to become an internet magnate don't unfold as quickly as I expect. The advert below on exec-appointments.com caught my eye. I have no special forces experience but I can drive an Aston-Martin, and I quite like the idea of being a "Targeting Officer." In fact I can think of one or two potential targets already...

(It does say I should not discuss my application with anyone, so I'd appreciate it if you kept this all to yourself)
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21 comments:

Anonymous said...

I'd love to be a spy... if you get the job you can hire me as your Australian point man? 0069 Licenced to ......

Somnambulist said...

@bambam - Why do I get the impression that the appeal for you is less the behind the scenes shafting of enemy plans, and more the behind closed doors shafting of enemy spies...?

Daddy Papersurfer said...

They're looking for tarmac layers for the M 16? - excellent - I reckon you might stand a chance.

Somnambulist said...

@DP - I think I might be more of a digger, DP. Laying tarmac (or, in fact, laying anything) sounds more up bambam's street.

70steen said...

I could do that!! Seriously I could. Who would ever suspect me to be a secret agent

When is the closing date & why are these jobs always London? tsk

(your word verif has also provided me with a secret pseudonym 'Dalingr'... secret agent Dalingr ... I like it .. oops it's not secret anymore doh!)

Somnambulist said...

@70s - I think you'd make a great agent. I can just imagine you sidling up to Roger Moore in the Spy Who Loved Me... :-)

p.s. dalingr.com is one of the few remaining .com domains. Suggest you grab it now!!!

70steen said...

ooo can I have Daniel Craig instead ;-)

Somnambulist said...

@70s - danielcraig.com is taken I am afraid. Or did you mean... ah, yes, well, I'll ask him and see what he says.

70steen said...

ha ha as much as Dan Craig PhD in the makng maybe a lovely man .... I would prefer that you drop my name in with the other more famous version ;-)

Somnambulist said...

@70s - Are you sure 70s? That's a, err, helluva smile he's got. I've been to Seoul and can't say I'd recommend it, but I am sure it would be a fascinating experience.

OK, I'll have a look in the phone book for the other one, then...

70steen said...

Mr S I think you may have stumbled on yet another alternative career.... ;-)

(gosh I so love your word verif's as they are words not jumbled up 'dimwappy')

Somnambulist said...

@70s - How extraordinary. By an almost incalculable coincidence that was my nickname at school.

70steen said...

lol Mr Dimwappy it is then!!

Somnambulist said...

think it's best we keep that one to ourselves :-D

Anonymous said...

All resignations are cancelled.

Somnambulist said...

@UDH - I don't think you ever get to 'resign' from MI6.

Anyway, who's resigning? Only thing I'm resigned to is another few days of dithering...

Anonymous said...

Believe it or not, I actually checked out a similar ad for MI6 about a year ago, again, looking for employment in case my internet fripperies failed.

In my application, I requested a gorgeous-babes quota to be added to the job description but the snooty bastards didn't even bother to reply.

No wonder the country's going down the drain.

Andrew Goulding

Somnambulist said...

@laog - I think the problem is not that they didn't want to give you the job, rather the difficulty with sourcing the bevvy of gorgeous babes... since the capitalisation of the former Soviet block, all the hot chicks that used to fill the ranks of the counter-espionage brigades are now working as lap dancers in Newcastle. It's a sorry state of affairs for would-be under-cover agents.

Lynne Rees said...

'my name's Nambulist, Som Nambulist' just doesn't have the right ring to it. 'Wappy. Dim Wappy' is better, for an alternative chinese take-out delivery kind of Bond. Extra prawn crackers, please.

(my word verification starts with bum... better than ending with it, I guess)

Somnambulist said...

@lynne - Wappy, Dim Wappy it is. Sounds a bit like the start of a rock n roll song (..dim, wappy wappy, do :-)

(nice pic!)

Anonymous said...

Newcastle here I come-ski!

Andrew Goulding