1097This excellent chap was told this by someone at a job centre. He’d taken some time off after college and was later keen to start a career, so he went to get some advice. When asked what sort of job he was interested in, he said journalist, and this was the staff member’s reaction.

“I’ve now been a journalist for 12 years, I’ve worked for the BBC for 9 years. She was wrong,” our subject said in his audio clip Taken in Shepherd’s Bush, London.

(PS Proving that I'm late for absolutely everything, including my own birth, I realised the day after this image went up that it marked Someone Once Told Me's third birthday. Thanks to everyone who's ever visited. Now, where did I put those candles...)