I was talking with a friend this morning who postulated that scientists are now acceptably romantic - sexy, even. There was Russell Crowe in A Beautiful Mind and even Coldplay recently wrote a sort of love song about a scientist.

So this got us thinking. It’s fine to write songs or movies about scientists, but web designers? Well, as he said, “See that kettle of fish over there? The one that’s absolutely, totally, definitively not the same as any other?…”

You get the point.

The only time I think I’ve heard the web industry mentioned at all in lyrics is in U2’s Kite - “In the time when new media / Was the big idea” - but that hardly counts as sexy.

So now we’re looking to compile a job-related compilation album, based entirely on occupations made sexy or desirable in song. And that’s where you come in.

So far we’ve got:

• Mail delivery enabler (”woah woah hey hey mister postmaaaaaan…“)
• Medical professional (As witnessed in Robert Palmer’s “Doctor Doctor, give me the news, I’ve got a bad case of loving you…” and the Thompson Twins’ “Doctor Doctor, can’t you see I’m burning burning”. By the way, someone should really tell them that they make a cream for that nowadays)
• Call centre representative (As in Sade’s Smooth Operator?)

OK, so we were scraping the barrel with that last one. Any more ideas?