There was a video years ago of a dog that was praised for standing on its hind legs like a human, a video later surfaced of how the owner "trained" it to behave that way.

It was horrible.

I always remember that when I see videos like this.

Or chopping chillis!

You recently turned 30. Lots of questions can be and will be answered with that!

Simultaneously did her masters at the LSE so I would suspect most of that was in junior positions related to research, not active policy.

So isn't it curious that it's these two that preach the longest and hardest about how much better we're going to be post oil & gas?

Better off for whom, I ask you?

They will still sit in ivory towers, commanding six figures, while the rest of us scrabble about for scraps like we always have.

Neither Jillian nor Emma have ever had to worry about a REAL job in energy - the kind at the coal face.

Never had to work shifts, never suffered the indignity of an oil crash related redundancy. Certainly never had to send CVs to a jobs they wouldn't win.

Winning is built-in for Oxbridge girls

The answer, of course, is that you shouldn't.

It's far, far more likely that you know a man or woman who works directly or indirectly within the UK's energy industry. Roustabout? Steward? Engineer? Technician? Survey? Inspection? Insurance? Measurement? Taxation? Legal? Supply chain? Services?

It doesn't hurt, promise!