The Many Possibilities
Today I went to Lowe's and bought thirty peices of lumber (2x8x10, in case anyone was wondering) and while I was there I started thinking about the many forms a person's life could take, should they so chose. As I wandered through the lumber yard, I thought "Maybe someday I will refurbish homes and then I will come here all the time." Then, as the guy loading my lumber asked if the stuff floating around in the back of the truck was hay (it was), my life possibility changed into a woman who builds her own house and barn and has lots of horses. She refurbishes houses and horses.
I have speculated about being everything from a lawyer, to a writer (columnist, ideally), to a real estate agent, to a Nordstrom' employee, to a horse trainer. Maybe I want to live the kind of life that can include all of things at some time or another. Who knows? Not me.
I like asking questions of all you bloggers out there, so, here it goes. What alternate existences do you picture yourself in? Is your life detirmined (at least in your mind) already, or are the possibilities infininte? Talk to me...
I have speculated about being everything from a lawyer, to a writer (columnist, ideally), to a real estate agent, to a Nordstrom' employee, to a horse trainer. Maybe I want to live the kind of life that can include all of things at some time or another. Who knows? Not me.
I like asking questions of all you bloggers out there, so, here it goes. What alternate existences do you picture yourself in? Is your life detirmined (at least in your mind) already, or are the possibilities infininte? Talk to me...
posted by Cate at 10:53 AM
8 Comments:
a question I've thought alot about.
If I end up figuring out how to build a time machine, then I'll go back and hang out with Paul McCartney or Bob Dylan in 1965... either one, either way they'll both be in England then.
Failing that, I see myself either working in the film industry as a respected professional, or in the Art world as either a mixed media artist (film-art) or a designer or a gallery assistant? I'll probably get married at some point, but I don't know if I can afford to have children until I'm in my thirties.
I would also like to travel as much as possible, and see things that I could never explain in words to anyone, things that I would have to take them by the hand and lead them to it, pointing gravely and saying "See?" and then they would know too, and we could talk about it. Like waking up in Florence to the Duomo bells ringing, or sleeping on a train in Germany, a place where there was no sound in Oregon... There is so much to show.
Top 5 Career Paths I've Considered:
1. Lawyering.
2. Philosophizing.
3. Think-Tank-izing.
4. Musicizing.
5. Web/software developizing.
I wanted to do 4 and 5 the longest (pretty much most of my life)--but 1 and 2 are winning these days. The strand which unites them is a creative element--to make something new, whether arguments, prose, policy, melody, or software. This strand of interest will never leave me, I think.
But then on crazy-talk days I dream of moving to Alaska or becoming a professional thief. I'd do the latter for a while and then cool off with the grizzly bears.
top 5 possibilities for my life:
1. psychologist
2. actor
3. wife and mother
4. artist (this is in spite of the fact that I have no artistic ability whatsoever in the studio arts; but with the birth of modern art, I think I might be in)
5. get rich
Probably 1 and 3 are the only likely possibilities really.
top 5 things I never want to do:
1. be the guy that writes the cue cards for a morning talk show
2. be the guy that holds the cue cards for a morning talk show
3. be the guy who's famous for surviving a shark attack
4. throw tupperware parties
5. be the only person who has been known to lose all their teeth because they grind them in their sleep. Thank God for those night-guard things, huh?
I'll plagiarize Lauren.
Top Five alternate vocations:
1. Automotive Engineer
2. Stunt Pilot
3. Attorney or Politician
4. Owner of a $30m company
5. Web Designer
Top Five worst positions in life:
5. Telemarketer
4. Elevator lobby attendant
3. Male prostitute
2. Prison inmate
1. Andrew Bailey
wow... I want to play.
top five best jobs -
1. Artist
2. Film-maker (Art Director, Cinematography)
3. Folk Musician (band name: The Vintage Vacation)
4. Marrying Jared Leto
5. Writing fiction novels
top five worst jobs:
1. Professional Tennis "ball" girl
2. Data entry for a Scandanavian furniture company. (Bors Nichsvalsy-Kiervsen, 122 Piersente Lane, Kiev, Sweden...)
3. Laying floor tiles/lineoleum
4. The guy that holds the sign that points to new housing developments
5. Liposuction doctor.
Okay, top five:
1. Famous actress
2. Queen of at least a semi-respectable country
3. Socialite
4. Stay at home wife
5. And, if none of the above work out, I guess marketing will just have to do
5 Worst:
1. Emptyer of Port-Potties (by the way, did everyone read that story about the gros dude who was spying on people using the Porto-Potties from INSIDE the waste tank....yuck!!)
2. Vegas showgirl
3. Accountant
4. Crocodile Hunter or anything of that ilk
5. spokesperson for any sort of feminine product and/or certain kinds of prescription drugs (such as Valtrex)
Leave it to Erin to bring up the Porto-Potty spy.
herpes commercials are my favorite.
"if you take this drug, you'll find yourself in Australia, laughing and rock climbing with a handsome man, despite your horrible STD!"
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