That aging isn’t for sissies has been obvious for awhile, but there’s a new crop of advice manuals about how walking the walk of youngsters works as an age-defying tactic.
Sparked in part by bestselling “How Not To Look Old” (which offers life-altering observations on how young women wear lip gloss, their mothers wear lipstick or, worse, lip liner), another expert is convinced that one way to take 15 years off your age in a job interview or at work is to know your way around Apple products:
Rule #5: Peruse your local Apple store. At least learn the difference between an iPod Classic, iPod Touch, and iPod Nano and you’re on your way. And buy a set of those identifiable white headphones to keep around, even if you don’t have the iPod to go with them. It’s all about perception.
So says Steven Vicussi, author of a book with such a long-winded title it could bring on dementia: “Bulletproof Your Job: 4 Simple Strategies to Ride Out the Rough Times and Come Out on Top at Work.”
So talk about Apple and you’ll be cooler, younger, hipper.
Reminds me of a friend, in her early 30s but a bit of a proud Luddite, who says things like “the email” (as in “I was on the email the other day”) and refers to her iPhone as “thingy.”
Let me know what you think in the comments…
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Via Huffington Post
14 responses to “Forever Young: Talking Apple Takes Years Off”
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So people work at ageist companies? My how far ethics have progressed. Oh well, at least they employ women nowadays so ogling the day away is possible. And in these ageist companies they will be young women, hurrah!
The journey is the reward, but it’s nice to have a pitstop now and then.
Well, I’m the author of the best-seller, Aging Backwards: Secrets to Staying Young (http://tinyurl.com/75et72) and I’ve used Macs/Apple products since 1984 when there were two programs: MacWrite & MacPaint. I currently have MacBook, iMac, 2 ipods, so does my son. I also use OMG and BFF liberally in my vocab and NEVER say “The email,” LOL.
Not sure how someone with an iPhone can be called a Luddite, no matter what she calls it.
Also, there’s definitely a continuum: an occiosional lol or omg, is fine but when u r talking lik omg, rofl did u c that guy wit the iphone b4? You sound like a goddamn tween girl. I’m looking at you “Aging Backwards” 0_0
Church of Apple play nice. Speaking Valley Girl has kept me young.
A Luddite with an iPhone? No problemo! I’ve encountered many people who didn’t know they were supposed to sync them to iTunes and some didn’t even HAVE computers.
“How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four; calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it a leg.” Abraham Lincoln
As a tinnitus sufferer I hope the volume is turned down on the nano portable music player pictured in the snapshot inserted into the journalistic article printed in your electronic column.