I suppose that this was also an inevitable post from a university student.
Alright, so, imagine this. There are no qualifications that you need beforehand for this. Your wage is comfortable regardless of the job. You're guaranteed whatever job you desire! Here are my top 10 (in no particular order):
1. Whatever the heck people like Jane Goodall or the person who works with Koko the gorilla does. Fun fact about me: as a child, I was obsessed with Tarzan and wanted to live with monkeys. The dream lives on. No science, please, unless it's just writing what I observe and drawing conclusions to publish. No, I just want to live with monkeys. We can be best friends, and I can draw them and film them and communicate with them using sign language (actually, this job may have one prerequisite... maybe I can learn on the job). Yes, I really want to know what their job is and how they were lucky enough to get it.
2. Writing. I guess this one is pretty obvious from the fact that I keep a blog. How fun would it be to make things up, write them down, and get paid to do it? Fiction, poetry, blogposts... they're all so much fun. I love to daydream, and creating something from that is the best thing in the world.
3. Singing. I think I'm kind of obligated to put this one down since I'm studying this, but I still have a massive respect for music. How is it that a few sounds in the right combination can make you live such profound emotions and make your imagination run wild? It's pretty amazing, right? I want to make people feel things. I want to make them escape their lives and feel good for just a moment, or to feel empathy for other people, or to feel an emotional catharsis, or to inspire them. What a gift that would be! Now, doing it is the difficult part... somehow I doubt that I'm going to end up in a huge opera house, but I never want to stop sharing music with people. Music is such a gift.
4. Teaching. Teachers - or, should I say, good teachers - are such a blessing to the world. They inspire children and help shape them into the adults that they're going to be. Teachers have such immense power and responsibility when it comes to their pupils. Beyond that, though, teachers are people who have the ability to really help and reach other people. They can teach empathy, a love of learning, or acceptance. If a student is struggling and they reach out to him or her, a teacher can literally save a life. I am so grateful for some of the teachers I have had in my life who supported me and motivated me to achieve. Wouldn't it be wonderful to do that yourself? I would love to teach elementary children, I think.
5. Counselling/social work/working for a charity. Fun fact: I really, really want to help people. I hate it when people are sad. When my friend broke her toe I cried more than she did. As someone who suffers from severe depression myself, I find nothing as wonderful as making other peoples' lives better. Life is difficult. Anyone who tells you otherwise is blissfully deluded, so don't correct them. I'm almost a bit jealous of them, to be honest. Anyway, point being that I would feel so privileged to be able to make a difference in peoples' lives everyday.
6. Working for National Geographic. Okay, this is cheating because, yes, it does connect to writing. But, come on, who wouldn't want to travel the world for their job and see such amazing things? I once saw a video about some people who worked for National Geographic or Blue Planet or something similar. There was a man who lived in a cave in the Himalayas for about ten years to get footage of a rare snow leopard (forgive me if my facts are wrong, but it was something like that). As someone who often dreams of living alone in a cave with a piano and my cat, this sounds like paradise. Nature is so beautiful. It is so hard to feel depressed when you're out in nature, because you suddenly realize that you're so unimportant in the grand scheme of things. Mountains still stand beautifully, animals are born, plants grow, rivers run... and what you do doesn't matter as much as you think. And, for a moment, you can pretend that you're away from the stress of life and nothing matters. You can think, and I am personally so inspired to just create and make a mark on this beautiful world to capture it's beauty.
7. An organizer of sorts. I love organizing things. Lists, lists, lists. Making sure everything has its place. Maybe I could be an interior decorator. Or an event planner. Or a cleaning lady, but who doesn't actually clean. I just want to organize. Is this an actual job? I would love it! Oh, maybe I could work from home for an office (an INTERESTING office, like a publishing office) and sort through every file and put it in various folders, and AH!
8. Police officer. Okay, when I say police officer, I mean the police officers who do things like set speed traps or put on sirens to go to Tim Hortons or who save kittens from trees. I would never, ever, ever be able to hurt someone or even arrest them (probably) because I would just feel so bad for them. Or give them a ticket, unless they were a HUGE douchebag. Point being, I just secretly want to be the police officer who nabs her coworkers for speeding or using sirens to get a coffee. Then everyone would really, really hate me, though. Don't get me wrong, I have massive respect for the police. They keep us safe and put their lives on the line for us. That's amazing. But there are some of them who just need to obey the laws a bit better, you know? So maybe I'd be an officer for a week and give all the nice ones cookies and all the law-breaking ones a stern talking-to.
9. A stage manager: as I said, I love organizing. It would kind of be nice to be out of the spotlight and just help people have an easier time, you know? Acting and directing also appeal. Acting is amazing... you get to become someone else! I didn't put that separately, though, because I thought it was similar to singing in that regard.
10. Work at a national park, particularly a beautiful mountainous one or one with an awesome history.
This got a little bit long (oops). I guess it's easy to get carried away. I'm sure this list will change as I discover new things, and I definitely left out some cool things (um... historian? Archeologist (minus the science)? Musicologist? Dramaturge?). Anyway, thanks for reading!
-Laura
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