Want a good job? Pick up a book
Activities such as sports, playing a musical instrument or computer games make no difference to a person’s career, but there is a clear link between reading for pleasure and gaining a good job, it found.
The research, by Mark Taylor of Nuffield College, Oxford University, analysed the responses of 17,200 people born in 1970 who gave details of their extra-curricular activities at age 16, and their jobs at age 33.
