What are your ideas of the world's best professions?

[BikeWriter]

I'll start this off with chief wine taster for the Hilton Hotels.

[unsavedtrash]

1. does being kept count? Other than that I would say librarian-being near

all those books would please me greatly.

[BikeWriter]

5. I think we're safe saying gigilo or mistress. Those could be good. :-)

[Rowdyboy]

10. I'd LOVE to be a kept man, but research librarian would have been

my second choice. If I'd had any sense, that would have been my college major.

[Southsideirish]

47. Being near the books is nice but the public? Not so much. nt

[Oeditpus Rex]

2. Newspaper reporter

Or editor.

:D

[Heidi]

6. .

:spray: :rofl:

[Oeditpus Rex]

7. Shut UP!

:spank:

[Heidi]

8. K.

[Left Is Write]

23. I'd go along with editor.

[Oeditpus Rex]

25. You notice, though

that I also posted both those in the "worst jobs" thread. :silly:

[Left Is Write]

29. And I might go along with editor for that too.

;)

I have edited papers for my husand's learning team (he goes to school online) that were the most unintelligble, poorly-written pieces of crap I have ever seen. Making them coherent without completely rewriting them myself was quite a challenge. One guy said to my husband, "Tell your wife I owe her a beer."

A beer? A BEER? If I were charging for my services, you'd owe me several hundred dollars, you illiterate cretin.

[Oeditpus Rex]

31. Worst parts about being a newspaper editor

are putting up with asshat publishers and managing editors who don't want any stories that might adversely affect ad sales or circulation, and putting up with that part of the public who seem to think newspapers exist to serve their needs.

[Left Is Write]

32. I can't even imagine.

Well, actually, I can. The thought is more than daunting.

Then there are those readers who think the editorial staff has no right to editorialize. On the editorial pages.

[HEyHEY]

38. Been there, done that.... made it out alive - reporter is WAY better

Editor carries so many worries you start to forget why you're in the business.

[SeattleGirl]

3. Florist/Professional Gardner

Simply because I love doing flower arrangements, and I love working in my gardens.

[Syrinx]

4. Mr. Inherited A Fortune International Playboy Professional Do-Gooder

[Random_Australian]

9. God. You'd never get bored.

[Droopy]

11. Author

I can scribble down some words, but I don't think I could get a book deal. If I could write full time that would be my dream job.

[JohnKleeb]

12. For me right now it would be

baseball pitcher a closer to be exact. I mean you'd get to travel and play the game that you loved growing up plus I wouldn't have to worry about getting hits like I did in Little League. Oh yeah and the pay is nice too.

[BikeWriter]

36. Are you any good at it, Pard?

[samplegirl]

13. Orthodontist

Virtually every kid gets braces needed or not.

[Courtesy Flush]

14. Artist

Not just any artist... one of those whose paintings sell for tens of thousands of bucks. That'd be schweet.

[Hugin]

15. Aren't they all dead by the time that happens?

?

[seaglass]

16. Game tester or maybe game reviewer. I would actually like to play

the games, the job part of it could be flexible - as long as it was fun.:-)

[Haole Girl]

17. Trust Fund Baby.

Never have met one, personally, but always thought that would be the best. I know, it's not really a profession.:)

[BikeWriter]

18. I dated a Neiman Marcus heir for a while. She was not a happy person.

:(

[auntAgonist]

19. Funeral Director.

for me anyway , that would be my choice of work.

aA

[u4ic]

61. Travel writer/host

Like Rick Steeves on PBS.

That would be my ideal job. :D

[MissMillie]

20. restaurant critic

mattress tester.

[BikeWriter]

21. Mmm, food critic would be a great one!

[Left Is Write]

22. Writer, radio (in certain forms), voice overs

[Solon]

24. Personal massage therapist for Angelina Jolie.

:drool:

[Major Hogwash]

26. Jack Nicholson's golf caddy

Because of the stories he would tell while on the course.

"Son, did I ever tell you about the time I told Brando he was an idiot because he said he didn't like basketball?"

[underpants]

27. Gynecologist or proctologist for the grotesquely obese

[JVS]

51. Not proc/ gyn to the stars?

[seemunkee]

28. brewer

[BikeWriter]

33. I'll drink to that!

:toast:

[Dukkha]

30. rock star

my life long dream which I fell short to achieve :(

[flvegan]

34. Beastie Boy or Ferrari factory pilot. Or maybe

ASPCA Humane Officer, cuff'n and stuff'n folks hurting/abusing animals. Ooh, that's a good one. Me, a badge, a gun, a car with lights and a siren, and one goal...rounding up the trash hurting the critters.

[Patiod]

35. Animal shelter worker is both best and worst

My friend is HR director at an extremely well-funded animal shelter. They're not no-kill, but damned close (she confesses that they can't place the huge volume of pit bull and pit bull mixes that come in)

The place looks like an expensive small college or private school - clean and big, and the animals aren't kept in cages - the dogs have big clean indoor/outdoor compartments, and the cats have "kitty casitas" - big plexiglass and carpet cubicles where they're easy for the public to see.

I cry every time I visit her - there's nothing more heartwarming than seeing a family leaving with a "new" dog or cat to add to their family, and there is a constant stream of people leaving with a new pet.

On the downside, I'd have trouble controlling my homocidal urges when it comes to the abused animals that come in their doors, or the people for whom their animal is no longer "convenient".

[mongo]

37. Sex shop proprietor

Well most days anyway...

[HEyHEY]

39. Tugboat Captain!

[BikeWriter]

40. I know a Tugboat Captain who goes up and down the big muddy...

It seems an exciting life.

[wildhorses]

41. I would like to be a cowgirl

what fun I would have

or a water skier...that would be fun, too!!

[BikeWriter]

42. I've done the work of a cowboy on and off for years...

It's hard work, but fun at times.

[brook]

53. My post below...

re working in entertainment. I always tried to work westerns...'cause the wranglers were the greatest!
Hard work, yes. But pretty damned special as well.

[BikeWriter]

55. Oh, yeah, especially if you have good stock to work with. :-)

[brook]

56. Not. Gonna. Go. There.

:blush:

[LSK]

43. photographer

[BikeWriter]

48. Photography sounds like a pretty good profession. yes.

[momophile]

44. architect. but like Goff or Pei or Calatrava or Gehry.

[Crazy Dave]

45. Seriously...I'd love to teach

It would be for my own job and life satisfaction versus the pay. It's like giving a gift to society and to a future generation. I would especially love to teach my trade which is computer drafting but you have to go to a lot of bullshit schools and spend a lot of money in order to be certified to teach at any type of school versus the on-the-job training and books I've read for over 11 years.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

46. A LOT of sommeliers wind up alcoholics

So, I'm not sure if I'd want to taste wines for a living.

[NNadir]

49. Nuclear engineer.

If I had my life to do over...sigh.

[JVS]

52. My father did that. It is an over-rated experience.

[NNadir]

57. Well maybe your father and I would see things differently.

[JVS]

58. I think a lot of it has to do with the treatment of Engineers...

in general an Nuclear Engineers in particular.

My father worked at Westinghouse for 22 years and those guys got treated pretty shabbily. Our favorite routine would be that the company would always hint strongly that layoffs were around the corner right before Christmas. Now I'll concede that in Pittsburgh in the mid 1980's having one's job constantly threatened by cutbacks was the norm, however I would think that someone with a PhD in engineering wouldn't have to put up with that shit.

[NNadir]

59. Well the 1980's were not the high point of nuclear engineering I think.

I suspect that the future will be different.

[JVS]

60. The plutocrat bastards at the top will always make work suck

[brook]

50. Property Master in flim & TV.

It's what I did for a long time. Spending someone else's money (lots of it); shopping, then shopping some more; using lots of creative skills, working with a variety of 'unusual' (take that anyway you want) people and tearing your hair out on a daily basis. I loved it.

[JVS]

54. Tin-pot dictator/ military strongman!

[KitchenWitch]

62. American Football kicker

[swag]

63. Layabout, bounder, dandy, gladhanding dandy.

Those are the best.