Jul 5 2007"Life's too short for the wrong job"
These are some old (but still clever) ads for a European job search site, with the tag line: "Life's too short for the wrong job." Which I'd normally agree with, but I've been a land mine tester for years and life is great. Sure, I don't have any more of my limbs, but who needs arms and legs when you're rolling in that sweet land mine testing money.
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Reader Comments
1. anon(ce) - July 5, 2007 11:15 AM
first!
2. forbesy - July 5, 2007 11:21 AM
well you laugh, but i always say thanks to the little guy behind the cash machine when i get money out. its not easy hours, but you can at least pay your own wages.
also love the petrol guy having a smoke. hmmm.
3. wiinja - July 5, 2007 11:40 AM
they forgot to show you my job - i'm inside the photo booth, taking your pictures with a crappy camera. it's better now that i don't have to just draw the photos
4. dlei - July 5, 2007 11:43 AM
I love it. Why can't we have witty , creative ads like that here in the US? Instead we have crap where people run around in bikinis drinking some beverage and walking around pastures after taking some medication.
5. Manuel Gonzales - July 5, 2007 12:19 PM
Taking medication and wandering pastures was one of my favourite pastimes in high school and college.
6. BobTheMul - July 5, 2007 12:55 PM
Dammit, show the ad on the side of the Tokyo vending machine that dispenses used ladies panties.
Or even the add on the side of an arcade game of Mortal Kombat - it's me with two sock puppets on my hands.
7. BobTheMul - July 5, 2007 12:55 PM
Dammit, show the ad on the side of the Tokyo vending machine that dispenses used ladies panties.
Or even the add on the side of an arcade game of Mortal Kombat - it's me with two sock puppets on my hands.
8. Dan - July 5, 2007 1:06 PM
Dammit, show the ad on the side of the Tokyo vending machine that dispenses used ladies panties.
Or even the add on the side of an arcade game of Mortal Kombat - it's me with two sock puppets on my hands.
9. Amy - July 5, 2007 1:10 PM
Three's a charm!
10. joflo - July 5, 2007 2:30 PM
that's gimmick since janet jackson's nipple slip.
11. lolita - July 5, 2007 6:55 PM
biggy smalls
12. lolita - July 5, 2007 6:56 PM
biggy smalls
13. lolita - July 5, 2007 6:56 PM
biggy smalls
14. Maddy - July 6, 2007 1:24 AM
very creative advertising. i wonder how long it`s gonna take for the people that actually perform those jobs (not in the vending machines of course) , to sue the adverting company and the customer for discrimination and for presenting their job as crap.
15. Alche - July 6, 2007 2:33 AM
I don't think they will get sued, the company is in Europe, not America.
16. scar104 - July 7, 2007 9:06 PM
Goddammit. All the ads I see are either porn-ish, or yelling BUY BUY BUY BUY! Like Corona ads. Nothing witty and funny like this.
17. nemo - July 8, 2007 10:24 AM
To wiinja in comment #3
No they didn't. And now we know what you look like.
http://www.geekologie.com/image.php?path=/2007/07/05/wrong-job-ads-02.jpg
18. CB - July 13, 2007 5:00 PM
- "dlei - July 5, 2007 11:43 AM
I love it. Why can't we have witty , creative ads like that here in the US? Instead we have crap where people run around in bikinis drinking some beverage and walking around pastures after taking some medication."
You don't walk around pastures after taking medication? That's your problem.
I like to talk about the great discount on my home mortgage to film crews while watering my lawn.