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Why I love LinkedIn, or 'It's not about how good you are, it's about how good you look'

 When I used to work at [insert big corporation here], I never felt very proud of it. When people would ask me what I did for a living, I would say I sold drills on the internet. This was a particularly effective answer when I was once at a comedy set, and the comedian was mining the crowd for professions to make fun of (you’re never going to win the moral Olympics saying you work at a big corporation, especially when everyone else in the room is allegedly an NHS nurse). This answer was probably less effective when someone I didn’t know asked me what I did at a party, and then walked out of that conversation looking at me slightly weirdly. But, to be honest, I’ve never been impressed when someone tells me what their job is. Generally, the least interesting topics of conversation I have been involved in concern a. what are you doing on the weekend, and b. what do you do for work. (Conversely, my favourite topic of conversation is asking people what they studied for A-levels, somet