12 career memes for 12 months: your favourites this past year

30 Dec 2014

From astrophysicists to X-ray technicians, Siliconrepublic.com’s career memes of the week have poked fun at professions again this past year, and some clear readers’ favourites have emerged.

Besides (hopefully!) providing a laugh, our career memes spotlight jobs for anyone considering a career in tech, offering information on things such as educational requirements for a particular job, the skills the profession requires, and even salary expectations.

In 2014, readers overall loved 10 memes pay cheeky tribute to scientists the most, followed by Career memes of the week: mechanical engineer and Career memes of the week: physicist.

Here are the popular memes from each month this past year that got readers chuckling and sharing.

January – Career memes of the week: mechanical engineer

February – Career memes of the week: X-ray technician

March – Career memes of the week: animator

April – Career memes of the week: physicist

May – Career memes of the week: private investigator

June – Career memes of the week: community manager

July – Career memes of the week: electrician

August – Career memes of the week: dentist

September – Career memes of the week: technical support – part 2

October – 10 memes pay cheeky tribute to scientists

November – 10 web designer memes draw out funny side of job

December – 10 photographer memes focus on their career

Tina Costanza
By Tina Costanza

Tina Costanza was a journalist and sub-editor at Silicon Republic. She came to Ireland from Canada, where she had held senior editorial positions at daily newspapers in Ottawa and Toronto. When she wasn’t saving dangling participles, she was training for 10K races or satisfying a craving for scones.

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