# Need an awesome career **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 11, 2007, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-an-awesome-career/399687 "2007-04-11T19:47:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ex\_Scientia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f1d935/32.png) [@Ex\_Scientia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ex_Scientia)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2007, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-an-awesome-career/399687/1 "2007-04-11T19:47:17Z")
I just found out that tomorrow in my computer class, we must make a commercial about a career that we are interested in. Now being the stupid attention-wanting(read that with a different _w_ word but I am in the class right now) sixteen-year old that I am, I want some awesome career. Gimme yo ideas ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2007, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-an-awesome-career/399687/2 "2007-04-11T19:51:10Z")
Be the Bus Guy!!! Call snow days at your own whim! Tell over-protective moms that their 4th grader most certainly CAN walk 168 feet to a bus stop! Get many exciting and nearly unbelievable stories under your belt about inept bus drivers and their fanciful misadventures! Well, it’s better than it sounds here anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Ex\_Scientia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f1d935/32.png) [@Ex\_Scientia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ex_Scientia)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2007, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-an-awesome-career/399687/3 "2007-04-11T19:54:48Z")
Sounds wonderful! I don’t know if my teacher would understand why I want to be a bus driver while everyone else is a Doctor/lawyer/Nuclear Physicist. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2007, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-an-awesome-career/399687/4 "2007-04-11T19:56:05Z")
Pirate, with a skull-and-crossbones flag. (What do you _mean_, it’s not a real occupation?!?) ---
**Author:** ![Ex\_Scientia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f1d935/32.png) [@Ex\_Scientia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ex_Scientia)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2007, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-an-awesome-career/399687/5 "2007-04-11T19:57:09Z")
If I could do pirate, I’d do ninja. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2007, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-an-awesome-career/399687/6 "2007-04-11T20:02:09Z")
Well, I’m _always_ looking for [henchpersons](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=365891&highlight=Henchperson). ---
**Author:** ![Quiddity\_Glomfuster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/c4cdca/32.png) [@Quiddity\_Glomfuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quiddity_Glomfuster)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2007, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-an-awesome-career/399687/7 "2007-04-11T20:07:18Z")
OK, here’s one. I expect it’s a real career - saw it on a TV show and thought it was pretty cool. Seems agencies like the FBI and CIA need people to be able to do really good fake documents. It means knowing papers and other materials and inks and history and all sorts of interesting things. You’d need to have a chemistry background for sure. Or else look around - pretty much everything in your house has been invented/designed by someone. So, for instance, you might want to say you’d like to design computer cases or lamps - or machines that help assemble the payloads for the Shuttle. ---
**Author:** ![Santo\_Rugger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Santo\_Rugger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Santo_Rugger)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2007, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-an-awesome-career/399687/8 "2007-04-11T20:13:37Z")
I’m currently going to grad school for explosives, and used to have a job doing energetic materials testing. I’d watch up to three, 500lb ANFO car bombs a week, 2,000lb projectiles being propelled via rocket power at close to Mach 1, TOW missle tests, anti-terrorist type tests, you name it. I have a mechanical engineering background, but just about any engineering field will do (specifically chemical and structural). ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2007, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-an-awesome-career/399687/9 "2007-04-11T20:59:07Z")
[QUOTE=Ex Scientia] Sounds wonderful! I don’t know if my teacher would understand why I want to be a bus driver while everyone else is a Doctor/lawyer/Nuclear Physicist. [/QUOTE] Ahem. I don’t drive a bus, you gotta be crazy to do that. I’m the Very Important Guy that runs the transportation department. And you wanna be me so you can call the superintedent and say “sorry doc, no school today, that’s my professional opinion” ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2007, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-an-awesome-career/399687/10 "2007-04-11T21:00:37Z")
Become a lawyer. Help people, ensure public order and safety, protect liberty, uphold the Constitution and see that justice is done. I’ve been at it for 15 years and really enjoy it! ---
**Author:** ![DeVena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dec6dc/32.png) [@DeVena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeVena)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2007, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-an-awesome-career/399687/11 "2007-04-11T21:08:47Z")
Awesome? How about a job in [Antartica](http://www.coolantarctica.com/Community/find_a_job_in_antarctica.htm)? ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2007, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-an-awesome-career/399687/12 "2007-04-11T21:12:52Z")
You could be a [lumberjack!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDrIMzHzQQk) Leaping from tree to tree, as they float down the mighty rivers of British Columbia! ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2007, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-an-awesome-career/399687/13 "2007-04-11T21:25:26Z")
I’m a doctor/lawyer/nuclear physicist, and believe me, it’s not all it’s cracked up to be. If I had it to do over again, I’d be an astronaut/cage fighter/soldier of fortune. ---
**Author:** ![rhythmonly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ee59a6/32.png) [@rhythmonly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rhythmonly)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2007, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-an-awesome-career/399687/14 "2007-04-11T21:30:59Z")
1. Lion Tamer. 2. Secret Agent. 3. Billionaire. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2007, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-an-awesome-career/399687/15 "2007-04-11T21:39:07Z")
Baby photographer. Hot Air Ballonist. Art gallery owner. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2007, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-an-awesome-career/399687/16 "2007-04-11T21:43:15Z")
Film Archivist! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2007, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-an-awesome-career/399687/17 "2007-04-11T23:01:05Z")
Animator! (although I’m beginning to suspect it’s all just a myth) ---
**Author:** ![KlondikeGeoff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3e96dc/32.png) [@KlondikeGeoff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KlondikeGeoff)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2007, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-an-awesome-career/399687/18 "2007-04-11T23:28:13Z")
Hitman. Pros: Good pay, interesting travel, exciting, you’re an independent “contractor” and choose your own hours, you get a lot of respect. Cons: no health insurance or other benefits. ---
**Author:** ![zelie\_zelerton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/59ef9b/32.png) [@zelie\_zelerton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zelie_zelerton)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2007, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-an-awesome-career/399687/19 "2007-04-11T23:29:41Z")
Come over and drive a train! Shitloads of money, loooong holidays, excellent working conditions, management who know their place in the grand scheme of things and days where your job is to sit around watching TV. Plus you get to zoom around tunnels underground and go roaming down other secret bits that your average Joe isn’t allowed. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2007, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-an-awesome-career/399687/20 "2007-04-11T23:50:12Z")
Rad sponge! Get to do annoying, nitpicky plumbing and wiring jobs with the added hassle of wearing a canary yellow suit, orange gloves, and getting irradiated at the time. Good pay, benefits, and all sorts of fodder for stories at the bar. And you, too, might end up [having to clear a bag of crap](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=8381838&postcount=9) as being clean of radioactive contamination. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-an-awesome-career/399687.md?page=2)