How tragic was your first email address?

grumpysheep@hotmail.co.uk


“Your email address, the way you come across is the most important part.”

Barclay’s latest LifeSkills advert takes employment advice to a patronisingly low level. Your MSN names may haunt you forever but we’ve grown up and left them far behind.

Connor, 23, Physics

heyitsmeagain6@hotmail.com – “heyitsmeagain5 was already taken”

Emilie, 18, Classics

dodo_croissant@hotmail.co.uk – “I’m half French and my surname happens to sound like croissant”

Katie, 21, Economics and Philosophy 

xxkatierxxlurvsredbull@hotmail.com – “I really loved Red Bull”

Kat, 20, Law

Kathotbabe@btinternet.com – “It can’t really get any worse”

Tom, 19, Geography

tomycisthebest@hotmail.co.uk – “I’m dyslexic, it was a failed spelling of Tommy”

Jenna, 19, History

grumpysheep@hotmail.co.uk – “I was a grumpy sheep in my Year 4 school play, I thought it was cool”

Nat, 20, Economics

cutiexxx11x@yahoo.com – “I have no idea what was I thinking”

Sophie, 20, English Lit

sofii.dofii@hotmail.com – “I contemplated the edgier versions of Sophie to figure out what would be the coolest”

Your first may have been pretty shocking but no one is stupid enough to put any of these on their CV.