Butcher, Baker, or Candlestick Maker?
Jul 12th 2007
Suzanne EnochOn Writing!
Here at the Romance Writers conference, I find myself surrounded by…writers. Some published, some not-yet published, but all of us crammed into the same Dallas hotel. This naturally made me think about careers. Specifically, which career I would choose if I couldn’t be a writer.
I’ve always been fond of animals, and before I realized how many poisonous snakes lived in Africa I had planned to be a naturalist like Joy Adamson (from “Born Free” for those of you too young to remember her). Then I considered veterinary medicine, but since I would only want to see healthy animals I probably would never have been very successful.
If we don’t have to take into account jobs I’m actually qualified to do, I think it might be fun to be an ice skater. Or somebody who makes those cool computer-generated robots or dinosaurs for the movies.
So if you could have any job in the world, what would it be? No training required. Just your dream job.
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30 Responses to “Butcher, Baker, or Candlestick Maker?”
twolilhahas on 12 Jul 2007 at 11:27 pm #
I’d love to be a stay at home Mommy with plenty of money to spare. That’s my dream job. I could stay at home with my babies, love them, and care for them, and have the money to do all the things I can’t do now. That’s my dream.
My dream job that I’m not exactly qualified to do is romance writer. lol Big surprise, right? Maybe one day…if I don’t give up.
krystal on 13 Jul 2007 at 12:40 am #
I have a lot of dream jobs or just jobs that I think would be a lot of fun. I would love to be a food taster (however, I’m probably the world’s pickiest eater, so this might not be a very good job) or perhaps a professional chef.
I would also love to be a writer and a first or second grade teacher. (This last one isn’t too far out of the realm of possibility because I’m currently going to school to become an elementary teacher. I only wish that I could somehow skip all the required classes and just magically become a teacher.)
If that all fails, then I would like to be a great and famous singer.
Patty L on 13 Jul 2007 at 1:13 am #
I would love to be an actress. Of course, talent would hold me back now, but in my dreams, I would win an Oscar every other year (that way no one would hate me). I also dream of becoming a published author and I hope as long as I keep plugging away that will eventually happen. Cross your fingers for me.
Finally, I would love to be a judge. Having worked in the law field for over ten years, has caused me to see some innocent people go to jail, but more often than not, guilty people getting off. I would love to be able to sit on the bench and make a difference in the world by making the world a safer place.
Krystal, I admire your determination to be a teacher. Teachers are underpaid and not nearly as appreciated as they should be and I commend you for your choice of career. I am sure you will make a difference in the lives of your future students. Thank you in advance.
pri.r. on 13 Jul 2007 at 1:51 am #
I would love to be a journalist who writes in magazines… or a romance writer…. but sadly i doubt i possess the ability for either…
cail on 13 Jul 2007 at 7:40 am #
i’d love to be a executive at a publishing house or a casting executive in TV.
Karen Hawkins on 13 Jul 2007 at 8:21 am #
I would go back and teach poli sci to college students. I loooved being a prof before and would love to do it again one day.
Btw, here’s a tidbit from the conference … we had a Goddess Get Together yesterday and took pics. I’ll post some tomorrow! We found out a few things, too … Karen Rose is the ‘baby’ of the group, being younger by a year than the rest of us and Rachel Gibson’s sense of humor can cut paper — she’s hysterical in person. More to come tomorrow!
SuzyQ on 13 Jul 2007 at 8:22 am #
Photographer. I love taking pictures of just about anything and anyone. I also enjoy the post-production of working in Photoshop and creating DVD’s and such.
My other dream job would be continuity director for films. I am forever picking up inconsistencies in films and I think that would be a really cool job. Not to mention the fact of meeting all the actors and actresses.
Susan K on 13 Jul 2007 at 8:26 am #
My dream job would be romance novelist. I’m working at it. The key is not to give up which I’ve done a couple of times. But that nagging and burning feeling inside won’t let me completely give it up.
I would also love to Scrapbook For Others. I enjoy doing it for myself (and best friend) that I think it would be fun to do it for others.
Finally, I would love to be a stay at home mom when I finally have kids (which should be in about 1 1/2 to 2 years from now). And I could still have one of the above jobs as well.
Susan K on 13 Jul 2007 at 8:34 am #
I have a question for the goddess’s that write Regency. Is there such thing as a map of England during the Regency period? I’ve been looking on the internet but haven’t found anything.
Darla on 13 Jul 2007 at 8:43 am #
Photography has always been a dream of mine.
Aimee on 13 Jul 2007 at 9:49 am #
I have two dream jobs I want to open my own preschool or day care. and I want to be a stay at home mom I love the days when I don’t have to go to work and I stayed home for a year and half with my oldest when she was a baby she is now 5. It was the best year and half of my life of course now I make more money then my husband so I know he won’t let me stay home with my babies.
PJ on 13 Jul 2007 at 9:52 am #
I’d be a travel photojournalist.
twolilhahas on 13 Jul 2007 at 10:24 am #
Oh, being a photographer sounds good, too. I love taking pictures. I could be like a kangaroo, stick my joeys in a pouch (Ok, so they’d probably need a little bigger than a pouch at this point, but you get the idea) and travel the world taking pictures that inspire me and then writing books with characters inspired by the pictures. lol Great! Now I have a plan. Yeehaw!
Ellen on 13 Jul 2007 at 10:33 am #
Don’t laugh. I would love to be a professional baseball pitcher.
I AM SO ENVIOUS of you gals at the conference. In my heart, I am right next to you.
Ellen
twolilhahas on 13 Jul 2007 at 10:35 am #
Just to rant a minute, does anyone else switch from enjoying a book to hating it when the sex scene totally sucks? I’m reading this book (it’s not a squawker book or a goddess book, btw) and the sex scene has suddenly made me detest the hero. I mean, I understand wild, driving need, I get burning passion, especially, perhaps, if you’re an otherworldly druid type character, but a well-hung ferocious, giant jumping atop a virgin from behind and taking his pleasure with violent raging emotion, leaving her battered and sore for days, just doesn’t cut it for me. I’m having a terrible time reading the rest of this book. The heroine didn’t mind too much, but it was her first time, so she doesn’t exactly know any better…
cont…
twolilhahas on 13 Jul 2007 at 10:36 am #
so I shouldn’t mind either, I guess…but for five pages this stupid heroine has been complaining about being sore and continued to have sex with him, and then been more sore, until I’m hoping her sore parts fall off and she gets a clue. Maybe it’s just me, but that takes the romance away and inserts selfish man into the hero’s shoes.
There. I feel better.
Suzanne Enoch on 13 Jul 2007 at 11:11 am #
SusanK, try this site: http://users.bathspa.ac.uk/greenwood/index.html
I almost put down photographer for my dream job, too. I love going places and taking photos.
How about cowboy? That would be so cool. And I’d look cool too, I think. Maybe. Chaps are fashionable, aren’t they?
Susan K on 13 Jul 2007 at 11:38 am #
Thanks Suzanne, the site is a huge help!
cail on 13 Jul 2007 at 11:49 am #
well, if we’re really going dream jobs, i wanted to be a pirate growing up, sadly, thats very unrealistic, and i would LOVE to be a manager or coach for the yankees. i think when i think of dream jobs, i think of dream jobs that are possible, more than day dream worthy.
twolil- i agree with you completely, i once read a novel that i couldnt bear to finish bc of the lousy scenes.
Kay on 13 Jul 2007 at 12:43 pm #
twolil, that’s not a love scene, it’s rape to me, or at least very sexually unappealing, yuck
My dream job as a child was to be an astronaut. Kind of strange, considering how afraid of heights I am. LOL
Now, if I could borrow Harry’s wand and make it so, I would love to be a professional opera singer. It might take more than even magic because I’m tone deaf and have no sense of rhythm. :-0
Bonnie on 13 Jul 2007 at 1:04 pm #
Having raised three wonderful children and taught school for 33 years I’d like to travel and write a novel.
Judy F on 13 Jul 2007 at 2:51 pm #
I would love to be a backup singer. NOt that I can sing all that well but I have always wanted to do that. LOL
catslady on 13 Jul 2007 at 3:55 pm #
To be an artist of some kind. My parents didn’t consider it a possibility for any real job so I never pursued it but guess who has a daughter who is lol.
Keri Ford on 13 Jul 2007 at 7:22 pm #
I would so be a professional cheerleader. Pay me to jump and scream and be happy all day!! If not that, then a fitness instructor….but I doubt I’d ever give up stay at home mommy.
MizMacgyver on 13 Jul 2007 at 7:23 pm #
twolilhahas, I think I know what book you are reading and I so totally agree if it is, I did finish it though and it came out good, it is in a series right?
Kathy on 13 Jul 2007 at 8:14 pm #
I would love to be an orchestra or band conductor. Then I would like to be filthy rich and have foundations to administer. Yah, that’s it.
Julia London on 13 Jul 2007 at 10:23 pm #
I would have been a professional tennis player. I played competitively for a few years in my twenties (competitive being a relative term) and I used to have dreams of greatness. Sadly, I was not good enough — too slow.
We miss you guys at the conference!!
Jess on 14 Jul 2007 at 8:35 am #
I would love to be a lead broadway star. I have a background in music and theater. It is a passion I always wanted to pursue.
Also, I always wanted to start my own literacy organization, something that would help at-risk children and also cater to illiterate adults. Nothing breaks my heart more than someone who struggles to read. (Did I mention I’m a first grade teacher…teaching people to read is a passion I am fortunate to carry out every day.)
twolilhahas on 14 Jul 2007 at 9:18 am #
miz,
Yes, it is part of a series. I skimmed over the rest of the book. It did end ok, but I was almost wishing he’d stay gone and she’d live it up in his penthouse! lol
MizMacgyver on 15 Jul 2007 at 9:35 am #
twolil, that is the one I thought then, I almost knew it was. It was still a pretty good series but I still get the feeling there should be two more, what do you think? Right at the end of the last one it was mentioned that there were two more she was going to “recruit” for lack of a better word.