14 September 2007

What Should I Be When I Grow Up?

What better way to waste time on a Friday afternoon than to muse about a new career? According to Career Cruising, which I found through Rome-Colored Glasses, here are my top ten suggested jobs (out of a list of 40):
  1. Personal Financial Planner
  2. Certified Public Accountant
  3. Corporate / Commercial Lawyer
  4. Research Analyst (Financial)
  5. Lobbyist
  6. Economist
  7. Economic Development Officer
  8. Customs Broker
  9. Special Effects Technician
  10. Judge

I am rather appalled at how boring that all sounds, while at the same time, kind of bemused - I'm neither #1 nor #2, but not all that far off. And I'd be a great judge, but I'd have to be a lawyer first. But, what is #9 doing in there? Does that speak to my penchant for tossing water balloons off the deck?

Most interesting is that nowhere on the list of 40 is a job title that comes close to what I actually do. Maybe that's because "Director of Everything Else" is just too idiosyncratic?

10 comments:

  1. niobe4:58 PM

    Here are my top ten:

    1. Historian
    2. Criminologist
    3. Judge
    4. Anthropologist
    5. Activist
    6. Writer
    7. Criminal Lawyer
    8. Civil Litigator
    9. Lawyer
    10. Critic

    Looks like they've got me pegged.

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  2. Aliki20064:59 PM

    Wow--customs broker?! What on earth...?

    I'm off to check mine.

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  3. Aliki20065:05 PM

    Here are mine!

    1. Anthropologist
    2. Social Worker
    3. Clergy (ha!)
    4.Addictions Counselor
    5.Sport Psychology Consultant
    6.Psychologist
    7.Art / Music Therapist
    8.Rehabilitation Counselor
    9.Recreation Therapist (what?)
    10.Historian

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  4. Beck9:02 PM

    1.Cartoonist / Comic Illustrator
    2.Activist
    3.Writer
    4.Print Journalist
    5. Critic
    6. Medical Illustrator
    7. Translator
    8. Fashion Designer
    9.Craftsperson
    10. Potter
    All right! I'm unemployable!
    (and a butter tart is a little Canadian snack - it's a mini pie with a gooey syrup-y filling. I might post pictures, if I make them.)

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  5. Melanie D.9:13 PM

    I may have to try that. I'm sure it will come up with the same as any other similar thing I've ever done. Teacher/social worker/human rights activist. All of which I have been or aspire to be. I'm pretty much a book you can judge by the cover.

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  6. Aurelia11:21 PM

    Lobbyist isn't boring, especially because it involves taking people out to drink nice drinke and eat lovely foods.

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  7. Tabba11:51 PM

    these types of things fascinate me. I'm on my way to do mine now.

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  8. Julie Pippert2:56 AM

    I like Niobe's list...will you hire me? :)

    Julie
    Using My Words

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  9. Jane Dark11:50 PM

    I find it really interesting that on no one's list have I seen the job of Operations Manager -- and if I had stayed in the corporate world, that's almost certainly the position I would have been holding, or working towards, right now.

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  10. thrice8:29 AM

    COO = "Director of Everything Else"

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