How would you most like to be 'employed'?

[LynzM]

I use 'employment' loosely, because I don't necessarily mean work that you are getting paid for, rather, how would you most like to employ yourself? What appeals to you?

How I'd like to be spending my life:

1.) Spending a lot of time talking to people about cross-cultural living and experiences. Whether it's living in another country or living outside of the culture you were brought up in (religion, sexual orientation, etc.), I find this stuff really fascinating. If I got to travel with a good translator to each place and a good photojournalist, so much the better. At some point I'd love to compile a book about people's experiences like this. Seeing places through new filters is something I find really fascinating.

2.) Reading a lot of books. Fiction and non-fiction, fun and serious and deep. I love books. :)

3.) Doing something physically active that I enjoy - climbing or hiking or swimming or camping, just being outdoors and being fit. I don't do this one nearly enough, lately.

4.) Learning something all the time, preferably from a good teacher/mentor/tutor. Lately that's been pottery and dance and now banjo, but I'd also love to attend some sort of small-group discussions among intellectual people from all sorts of backgrounds, where there is a continual exchange of information and branching off onto new tangents, but always learning. I've been thinking of joining Mensa to see if that fits this need, for me... :blush:


So, what would you like to be doing? If money and time (and possibly child/parent-care) were not issues that came into it, how would you pass your days and weeks and years? :)

[youthere]

1. I want Anthony Bourdain's job.

except the vegetarian version of it..so that would make me the anti-Anthony Bourdain.

[BarenakedLady]

2. Be an artist

But I don't want others to tell me what to draw/paint. Or I want to own a gallery or a bookstore.

[supernova]

3. Writing primarily and reading

in my own home studio and office, interspersed with trips to the library or working with actors on delivering my lines.

:-)

*sigh*

[AlCzervik]

4. i want Rick Steves job.

yup.

[geardaddy]

6. Me too.

Except for the appearing on camera part.

[AlCzervik]

8. yes i could also skip that part, i hate, hate, hate having my picture taken.

i have so many wonderful vacation pictures and i'm in not a one of them-----and i like it that way.

[DS1]

5. A sort of cultural commentator, like a lefty PJ O'Rourke

[Tuesday Afternoon]

7. gainfully, would be a nice change --

x( :D

[theredpen]

9. High-dollar prostitute

[TimeChaser]

10. Oh, I'd love to get payed for reading books,

I also wish I was a good enough artist to get payed for what I scribble

[guitar man]

11. record producer

I'd like to be the next George Martin or Quincy Jones...

[bif]

12. Yes

I'd love to be employed. It's been three long years.

[MorningGlow]

13. I'm doing some of what I want--freelance writing

But I also want to own a New Age bookstore (without having to worry about it turning a profit) and have my own theater group.

On edit: I also want to be a cofounder of a Waldorf School--our area desperately needs one.

[Oeditpus Rex]

14. Teaching

Where "teaching" equals providing important and desired information, not necessarily in a classroom setting.

[madinmaryland]

15. AutoCAD.

Yes, I'm an Engineer!

[graywarrior]

16. Paid for my sick comedic skills

[Akoto]

17. I'd like to work from home.

I'm unemployed at the moment because of a chronic pain condition, which I'm learning to deal with. Fortunate that I'm still young and can live with my folks!

Still, I'd really like to find work from home. All I've been able to track down online is customer service and/or telemarketing.

[flvegan]

18. Volunteering.

I'd probably spend most of my time doing whatever Sea Shepherd is doing. During downtime, working with Food Not Bombs or something like that.

My second choice would be billionaire playboy. Richard Branson, but without the goofy stunts.

[YankeyMCC]

19. Helping to bring kids out

into the wilds.

Working in a garden

Reading

Sleeping :)

[SteppingRazor]

20. Nothing. I would do nothing.

(Thank you, Office Space!)




Seriously, though, if money were no object, I'd be gone. South America for a while, then maybe Australia, then Asia and so on. I'd live in hotels and travel till I got it out of my system.