1. A shoe designer. I am so going to do this one—just as soon as I finish, or maybe start, my PhD. There'll be time, I'm sure. How great would it be? I don't think I need to explain my passion or interest or fascination with the humble shoe—let alone the ostentatious one!
2. Song Lyricist. I need to be able to go to my grave knowing I have penned some pithy lines. Songs seem the best forum for this. Poetry is too obscure and too proper—I'd like something almost a bit cheesier.
3. A Dream ——(?). I have not worked this role out yet. Or how I will make a living. Not analyst. Not internet psychic. It's the content of the dreams that fascinates me, but I don't really want to actually get inside people's noggins. Not psychoanalysis. Research of some sort. Creativity of some sort. I am working on a definition.
4. Architect. When I had to go to the careers counselor in high school I would always read up on what I thought I might like to be one day. Being a systematic type of person, (annoyingly, due to my high number of planets in Virgo), I would start reading the job guide at the beginning, becoming rapidly bored by 'b'. Architect always stood out in the 'a' section. I do love buildings, interesting, beautiful, quirky buildings. It would be a noble thing to be: an architect.
5. Bear Grylls; Kevin McCloud; Alain de Botton. Why are they all men? I would love to have the kind of jobs these men have. They travel the world doing quirky things that I love to do: perservere; architecture; wax lyrical. I am not sure I would want to be on TV, but the rest is envy producing.
6. Writer. Possibly, it could be considered, maybe, sometimes, I am already one. 'Being' one when you grow up though would entail being able to confidently call yourself one. It would also be more career-like if you could get paid to do it.
7. Neckwear Artist. I would so love to tell you the name of the company I will have when I am a neckwear artist—but it's the old 'I'll have to kill you' thing because I haven't registered it yet and I don't want anyone to pinch it. Neckwear will include knitting, sewing, body jewellery, corsetry, socks and other things that may come close to your neck. What? P—— at work can put her leg around her neck, if she is wearing a sock—neckwear! It's a no-brainer.
8. Mythbusters Scientist. This is the answer to a long debated question. Ooh, no, I'll put the question on the question list. You have to find that to know what it was. Mythbuster scientist is the answer.
9. Covert Operative. I wait everyday to be headhunted into this career. The problem is I don’t want to work for ASIO. I would rather be a KGB spy or a French Foreign Legion spy. This is probably a dangerous thing to say in the current climate. I don’t want to be on a side, but that is a little hard in the spy game, and my sense of loyalty precludes being a double agent.
10. Book store owner. Forgot that I ever wanted to do this and that great plans and schemes—one silver, bullet shaped one of which I still harbour as a great possibility and a great amount of fun. Can’t say more, but look out for it in a street near you if we ever get off our bots and do it.
Wear 383: To Have, and To Hold - A Dilemma
4 years ago
Re: No. 2 - it is poems that are cheesy, not withstanding the photo of ee cummings on facebook that is profoundly cool.
ReplyDeleteRe: No. 3 - perhaps a Dream Catcher, but don't lose too much weight and start wearing string bikinis or you might be mistaken for something made of twigs and string that looks like its been made by a 7 year old.
Re: No. 4 - a friend of mine said many years ago, something along the lines of "doesn't everyone at some stage aspire to be an architect".