Fun jobs that you have NOT had but that you'd like

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I'd imagine being a product tester for a vibrator factory might be a lot of fun.

― clodia pulchra (emo by proxy), Monday, 13 February 2006 23:32 (twenty years ago)

Deaf dumb & blind pinball wizard.

― andy --, Monday, 13 February 2006 23:34 (twenty years ago)

Professor of Fine Arts

― Erick Dampier is better than Shaq (miloaukerman), Monday, 13 February 2006 23:35 (twenty years ago)

http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/23/evel6yk.jpg

― phil d. (Phil D.), Monday, 13 February 2006 23:45 (twenty years ago)

A person who comes up with street names.
A bulldozer.
Sorceress.
Forensic entomologist.
Epidemiologist.
Patron of the arts.
Pterodactyl.
Comic book writer & artist.
Feng shui consultant (the episode of Penn & Teller's Bullshit made it look pretty fucking rad; you can just say or do whatever you want and upsell people on ugly pseudo-spiritual kick knacks and gewgaws).
Infectious diseases specialist.
Courtly dancer.

― Abbott (Abbott), Monday, 13 February 2006 23:55 (twenty years ago)

Post- apocalyptic warlord.

― chap who would dare to be completely sober on the internet (chap), Monday, 13 February 2006 23:59 (twenty years ago)

Matronly old novel writer or poetess churning out loads of books from a small but dignified home with a few cats.
Games journalist (this is kinda possible, but who knows)
Bass player (maybe I'm getting too old tho)
Philosopher

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 00:06 (twenty years ago)

rollercoaster architect

― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 00:06 (twenty years ago)

There was a guy on Dr. Phil today who does that! His name is Tom. And he looking for love.

I would like to work as a personal shopper. Also: OWNER OF THE WORLD.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 00:12 (twenty years ago)

he *is* looking for love. Brain moving faster than fingers.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 00:13 (twenty years ago)

I was a personal shopper. At, um, HMV. It was basically directing people's mums to the metal section.

― chap who would dare to be completely sober on the internet (chap), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 00:14 (twenty years ago)

The guy who takes pictures of all of the area's houses and real estate for sale. Drive around all day, taking pictures of houses, get paid $$$.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 00:14 (twenty years ago)

Tour Guide (has to be someplace cool)
DJ
Bigamist

― naus (Robert T), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 00:21 (twenty years ago)

sedan delivery

― kanye twitty (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 00:23 (twenty years ago)

indiepop aerobics instructor
art model
Ambassador, somewhere, for sure.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 00:29 (twenty years ago)

Socialite

― Jimmy Mod (I myself am lethal at 100 -110dB) (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 00:30 (twenty years ago)

Writing one paragraph film reviews for a listings mag.

― chap who would dare to be completely sober on the internet (chap), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 00:31 (twenty years ago)

Shortstop

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 00:32 (twenty years ago)

being this person

― Maria (Maria), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 00:33 (twenty years ago)

Delivering old sports cars that have been renovated to buyers on the West Coast.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 00:38 (twenty years ago)

The car delivery thing, man oh man. My dad used to move/deliver cars, I think there were two different jobs at different times although the family stories are hazy. One employer allowed him to drive cars between NJ and MI, which was a convenient excuse for visiting my mother (before they married), and the other employer had not exactly come by those cars legally; Dad quit when it finally occurred to him that nobody sold their brand new Porsches or etc and "forgot" to provide full papers. Never a dull moment!

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 00:43 (twenty years ago)

In his defense (DUH!!!), he was young and stupid.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 00:44 (twenty years ago)

That sounds like exactly the kind of fun job that one should do when young and stupid!

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 00:51 (twenty years ago)

I know. Sometimes I'm afraid I wasted my youth -- it should have been so much more misspent than it was.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 00:56 (twenty years ago)

The car delivery thing, man oh man.

I did this for awhile! I worked for an auto broker for awhile, Sadly I didn't get to drive any of the new cars - I got to drive my boss back to the office from the client's site but it was still nice to get paid for doing nothing more than driving a 1989-era Volvo around LA while listening to the radio.

Picked up a lot of mad skillz in car dealer negotiation too.

― The Equator Lounge (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 00:58 (twenty years ago)

My sister and I have also driven cars for these folks: Auto Driveaway

― The Equator Lounge (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 01:01 (twenty years ago)

Drug Lab Rat.

― Abu Hamster (noodle vague), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 01:02 (twenty years ago)

i have a friend who's making more answering questions for a psych study about depressed people than i do at my campus job. while i don't want to be depressed, i'd love to make that much in a harmless psych study instead of actually working!

― Maria (Maria), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 01:07 (twenty years ago)

I went on a doubleblind Effexor trial back in the day. It meant I got free anti depressants but didnt know what they were (turned out to be prozac and it messed me up but hey, free!).

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 01:12 (twenty years ago)

i put my name on a call list for some focus group company a long time ago. they'd always call me with info about a new study that paid $$$, then they'd ask a bunch of questions to see if i "qualified," and when i got to the last question they'd tell me "haha sorry, if you'd only answered ____ we would have taken you."

― kanye twitty (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 01:13 (twenty years ago)

I fantasised for a long time about cushy jobs. Then today I sent a group of kids off to the library for a couple of hours, had a coffee and trousered ninety quid as a result. I suspect I may have my dream job.

― Matt (Matt), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 01:14 (twenty years ago)

But in keeping with the question, old-school cocktail barman, now that I would have fun with.

― Matt (Matt), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 01:15 (twenty years ago)

Ha ha, when I did barwork the one time I tried to make a cocktail in a flashy manner resulted in me shorting the till by drenching it in Malibu. In the middle of the lunchtime rush. Not fun.

― chap who would dare to be completely sober on the internet (chap), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 01:19 (twenty years ago)

Oops, sorry I'm not talking about being flashy. I've been a barman on and off for over ten years, it'd be kind of nice to do it in Harry's Bar. Chaps who do that whole throwing shakers around thing are appalling arrivistes. I'd much rather serve a good Martini.

― Matt (Matt), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 01:27 (twenty years ago)

Well it served me right for trying to show off. It was fucking WETHERSPOONS as well, so I don't know who I was trying to impress.

― chap who would dare to be completely sober on the internet (chap), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 01:30 (twenty years ago)

Dear me. It does make a chap wonder. Wetherspoons, you say? You poor thing.-

― Matt (Matt), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 01:34 (twenty years ago)

I would like to direct indiscreet films.

― Mr Jones (Mr Jones), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 01:35 (twenty years ago)

Who the fuck orders a cocktail in Wetherspoons, Joe?

― Abu Hamster (noodle vague), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 01:36 (twenty years ago)

P.I./Gumshoe
Established/Published Writer of mystery novels that actually $ell well
Restaurant Critic of decent, shi-shi, new, hot, trendy places

― Wiggy (Wiggy), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 01:45 (twenty years ago)

aah yes, restaurant critic. that would be awesome.

― Maria (Maria), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 01:50 (twenty years ago)

only if i could be robert sietsema and go traipsing around nyc for cheap eats -- i wouldn't want to have to eat boring upmarket french food all the time.

― kanye twitty (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 01:52 (twenty years ago)

Who the fuck orders a cocktail in Wetherspoons, Joe?

Wage slaves on their lunchbreaks, apparently.

― chap who would dare to be completely sober on the internet (chap), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 01:52 (twenty years ago)

rollercoaster architect

I used to know a guy who did/does this for D!sn3y. He loved the work, but it kept him away from home for incredibly long stretches, 6-8 months at a time, and it wore on him.

― pixel farmer (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 02:04 (twenty years ago)

Celebrity Blogger

― naus (Robert T), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 02:21 (twenty years ago)

BLOGEBRITY

― kanye twitty (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 02:36 (twenty years ago)

hockey player!
anthropologist in the field!
novelist who makes up languages!

― Maria (Maria), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 02:38 (twenty years ago)

oh and pop icon!

― Maria (Maria), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 02:39 (twenty years ago)

Celebrity Blogger is an oxymoron.

― Abu Hamster (noodle vague), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 02:43 (twenty years ago)

What about Drudge? Wil Wheaton?

― naus (Robert T), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 02:58 (twenty years ago)

I think I could ask everybody I meet tomorrow who those guys are without anybody knowing. Celebrity is such a debased word.

― Abu Hamster (noodle vague), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 03:00 (twenty years ago)

ilx moderator!

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 03:38 (twenty years ago)

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