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PAINTED IN IRONY

It dawned on me today that my doing my job is the very definition of irony. Alanis Morissette thought she had irony pinned down when she penned ‘Ironic’, citing circumstances such as “ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife” and “rain on your wedding day”, as well as telling the story of a man who had a fear of flying but took his first aeroplane flight and “as the plane crashed down he thought ‘well isn’t this nice’”. Morissette was shot down because her definition of ‘Ironic’ was, in fact, nothing more than a description of unfortunate events.

But me doing the job I am doing is the definition of irony. I am the Product Manager for a brand of car paint, so I am involved in marketing this paint brand to the UK market, deciding where to install new paint machines, which products to put on periodic promotion etc etc. I am the point of contact for the whole UK field team and I am partly responsible for developing the brand and gaining market share.

So what? Where’s the irony? Well, it’s as simple as this:

I am colourblind.