IS YOUR JOB MAKING YOU UGLY?

Is your job making you ugly? (* to your cohost: “Well, ___, is it?”) A UK skin care clinic called Harley Street Skin has devised an online calculator that will reveal whether one’s job is causing them to age prematurely. The “Aging Jobs Index” tells how wrinkles and saggy skin can be caused by your work life. To gauge whether one’s job is accelerating the aging process, participants answer a series of questions ranging from how much time they spend sitting down to their stress levels and whether they work around “harsh chemicals.” Based on their responses, the calculator will generate a score out of 100.
– Scores below 40 denote “minor ageing,” or a low risk of work-induced “ugliness” with minor signs like wrinkles around the eyes.
– Scores between 40 and 60 indicate a risk of “moderate aging” denoted by poor posture and lines around the eyes.
– Scoring 80-100 means extreme aging, in which the sufferer has thinning gray hair, frown lines, poor posture, sun spots, saggy skin, jowls and undereye bags and dark circles.
(Do it live on air – it’s fun! And complete B.S.! The ageing/jobs calculator is here: https://www.harleystreetskinclinic.com/data/ageing-jobs-calculator/)
* There’s something wrong with this calculator. I just ran it on myself, and it goes to 100, but I scored a 180.
* If we get a bad score, are we supposed to go to the Harley Street Skin clinic, or quit our jobs?
* “Working around harsh chemicals?” Does really, really awful coffee in the break room count?
* This is B.S. Look at actors: Blake Lively, Danny DeVito: same job. Are they both ugly? No. Although we’ve never seen Blake Lively first thing out of bed in the morning.