'The Independent | Careers Advice'

I'm still in the early stages of The Job Hunt. These stages are known as "researching" and require close attention, great skill and lots of time. Yesterday, I decided to follow The Independent's 'Careers Advice', a nice shiny section underneath the Student tab on the website.

Well, I would like to thank The Independent for their comprehensive A-Z Careers. For those taking a look at 'C', you're faced with the two options of 'Chemical engineering' and 'Cruise staff'. 'R' can only boast the one career of 'Recovery driver', and 'Windscreen technician' looks lonely on the 'W' page. In fact, the only career that took my fancy from this A-Z (that's the whole alphabet of careers!) is listed solitarily on the 'O' page: 'Offshore helicopter pilot'.

The related article then tells me how this is the only sector that's in a period of growth. Growth! That's the sort of sector I need to be in in a recession! It's also an industry that is attracting younger applicants, and, most importantly, an increasing amount of females. You get to fly oil workers out to "the far northern rigs", so you'd practically be working in the oil industry. That's full of money! 

Of course, all that I've really learnt from this is how to waste time on the internet. Which, as well all know, is what "researching" really is.

Edit: I have now fallen into the Google trap. I've got 60,400 links to go through that are related to 'offshore helicopter pilot'. The 7th link takes me to www.helicoptercrashes.com. Maybe, just maybe, this career isn't really for me.