# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4da419/32.png) [@Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gala_Matrix_Fire)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2007, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-an-awesome-career/399687/21 "2007-04-12T00:55:57Z")
Zoologist. Biologist. Crocodile Hunter. Horse Whisperer. International supermodel. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2007, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-an-awesome-career/399687/22 "2007-04-12T01:24:22Z")
[QUOTE=Ex Scientia] If I could do pirate, I’d do ninja. 😃 [/QUOTE] My kind of guy. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2007, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-an-awesome-career/399687/23 "2007-04-12T01:51:18Z")
Pimp, yo. ---
**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 12, 2007, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-an-awesome-career/399687/24 "2007-04-12T17:01:17Z")
[QUOTE=rhythmonly] 1. Lion Tamer… [/QUOTE] Good one. I suppose we should ask if he’s got a hat. You know, one of those electric ones, with letters that light up and say “LION TAMER,” right across the front. ---
**Author:** ![Shecky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@Shecky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shecky)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2007, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-an-awesome-career/399687/25 "2007-04-12T17:47:53Z")
Fred Garvin, Male Prostitute ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2007, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-an-awesome-career/399687/26 "2007-04-12T17:53:47Z")
Do you want to impress your teacher, the rest of the class or a particular hottie? To impress your teacher\*, I suggest … teacher! :eek: To impress the class: Rock Musician, Porn Star or Racing Driver 🙂 To impress a hottie: ask their friends first. Girls might like a vet or a horse whisperer. 🆒 (Actually any well-researched and presented career will work on a teacher) ---
**Author:** ![Jimson\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/838e76/32.png) [@Jimson\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jimson_Jim)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2007, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-an-awesome-career/399687/27 "2007-04-12T17:59:18Z")
[QUOTE=Pygmy Rugger] 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. [/QUOTE] Damn I want your job. On no account should you do your commercial on becoming a claims adjuster. It is depressing, mundain and unless you got your college degree in insurance, rarely if ever utilizes anything you learned in class anywhere. ---
**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 12, 2007, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-an-awesome-career/399687/28 "2007-04-12T18:34:56Z")
What I would love to go with wouth be ninja, hitman, or billionaire(I think they might be able to be combined). And there aren’t really any hotties in this class, plus I’ve got a girlfriend. I might go with Criminal Lawyer, and aren’t animators only in South Korea? ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2007, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-an-awesome-career/399687/29 "2007-04-12T19:14:20Z")
Criminal lawyer is my “for reals” job and while I do find it challenging and rewarding, there’s still something to be said for “hockey goon.” ---
**Author:** ![cowgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8c91f0/32.png) [@cowgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cowgirl)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2007, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-an-awesome-career/399687/30 "2007-04-12T19:15:00Z")
[QUOTE=Mr Bus Guy] And you wanna be me so you can call the superintedent and say “sorry doc, no school today, that’s my professional opinion” [/QUOTE] I don’t know about the OP, but **I** want to be you. ---
**Author:** ![Frosted\_Glass](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frosted_glass/32/3926_2.png) [@Frosted\_Glass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frosted_Glass)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2007, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-an-awesome-career/399687/31 "2007-04-12T20:16:24Z")
Architect. Everyone wants to pretend to be an architect. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2007, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-an-awesome-career/399687/32 "2007-04-12T20:58:23Z")
[The Idea Job for you is Accountacy.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5ZGqsihrfI) [Maybe a Government Job is what you need!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqhlQfXUk7w) ---
**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 12, 2007, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-an-awesome-career/399687/33 "2007-04-12T21:29:37Z")
[QUOTE=Jimson Jim] Damn I want your job. On no account should you do your commercial on becoming a claims adjuster. It is depressing, mundain and unless you got your college degree in insurance, rarely if ever utilizes anything you learned in class anywhere. [/QUOTE] No, you want my old job. My current job is about (if not more) as mundane as yours sounds. ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2007, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-an-awesome-career/399687/34 "2007-04-12T22:47:47Z")
OK, I’ll come clean. I am a teacher, but I teach … chess, computer games and roleplaying. 🆒 The last time there was an Internet poll on ‘most desirable job’, I came second to a woman who translated porn films. 😃 That’s fair. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2007, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-an-awesome-career/399687/35 "2007-04-12T23:22:14Z")
Taekwondo Instructor. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2007, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-an-awesome-career/399687/36 "2007-04-13T00:00:51Z")
[QUOTE=glee] OK, I’ll come clean. I am a teacher, but I teach … chess, computer games and roleplaying. 🆒 The last time there was an Internet poll on ‘most desirable job’, I came second to a woman who translated porn films. [/QUOTE] Translate porn films? _How?_ Okay, so you want an exciting career. How about… solar house designer? You get to use your math, drawing, and building skills to demonstrate to people that a house need not be a financial drain to operate; that even without utilities or fuel, you cannot freeze to death in the house even in a Canadian winter; and that the house can give them a new start in life. You will need: good 3D visualisation, writing, drawing, math, and artistic skills. Plus either a) an engineering or architecture degree, or b) residence in a jusrisdiction that lets non-engineers and non-architects design for pay. Even so, you may have to demonstrate practical building experience and/or knowledge of your local building code. No, wait, that’s what I’m doing. 😃 I can also recommend the profession of electronics engineering technologist. This is midway between an electronics engineer and an electronics technician. Basically, engineers create designs; technologists translate engineers’ designs into reality (and create the systems to test them); and technicians fix things. We still get to blow things up in the lab, though. So what do I do with my EET diploma these days? I write manuals. Now there’s an exciting career: chasing down errant commas, arguing about grammar, and trying to sell Marketing on the necessity of hyphenating compound adjectives when they’ve already decided on the name of the product, and it’s unhyphenated… and unclear. Basically, we write for clarity and ease of translation: precisely the opposite of marketers and political speechwriters. ---
**Author:** ![GawnFishin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e9bcb4/32.png) [@GawnFishin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GawnFishin)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2007, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-an-awesome-career/399687/37 "2007-04-13T02:29:26Z")
Crash test dummy. Either that or Sepuku instructor. ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2007, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-an-awesome-career/399687/38 "2007-04-13T02:32:44Z")
[QUOTE=Sunspace] Translate porn films? _How?_ [/QUOTE] Apparently she translated any dialogue. 🙂 “Hello, I hear you have a problem with your plumbing.” ---
**Author:** ![LavenderBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e95f7d/32.png) [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2007, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-an-awesome-career/399687/39 "2007-04-13T02:32:55Z")
Writing Test Grader. I make pretty good money and I get to wear my pj’s to work. ---
**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 13, 2007, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-an-awesome-career/399687/40 "2007-04-13T02:33:48Z")
[QUOTE=Sunspace] Translate porn films? _How?_ [/QUOTE] In English: oohhh, mmmmm, ah, oh babeeeee.. Au Francais: oo la la, mmmmmm, ah, oh bebe… 🆒 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-an-awesome-career/399687.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-an-awesome-career/399687.md?page=3)