Nylon inspector for Las Vegas chorus lines.
As I posted elsewhere, I officially retire on Friday. When I read the OP, I thought that there wouldn’t be anything that I would do but I actually wouldn’t mind scoring standardized tests. I liked grading when I was in grad school. Where can I get information on that?
Having been both a field scientist and teacher in the biological sciences, it was no surprise when I retired, I retained my fascination with the biological realm, and returned to my serious lifelong interest of unusual and rare desert plants.
I love the challenge of getting the seed and figuring out how to grow them - many of them have unusual requirements for germination and growth, so it is a fun puzzle to solve. I love the intricate keeping of records and growing seedlings to flowering age…and then giving/donating them to friends and institutions.
Most folks would really see this as tedious, labor intensive, and generally a pain. I love it!
You know how on car commercials there’s often a written disclaimer that says “professional driver on closed course”?
I want to be the professional driver.
[Note: I did NOT say stunt driver. That’s not my gig. I’ll do the straightaways.]
Dude…you have no idea how wrong you are in this particular manner.
I am an executive steward at a private club. three stories in a city high rise.
350,000 sqft of space, front and back of house. we do banquets for up to 700 people using all three floors.
Wanna see how many dishes there are to be washed? LOL
When we go back I would love to give you a trial run, if your willing.
Oh, and I promise I won’t make you “scrub stuff”. I have a whole separate team for that duty.
Night watchman/security. I mention it because a relative has been suggesting it for a bit; a friend of hers is doing it and he’s looking to retire. It’s seven hours of sitting and reading, finishing with an hour of greeting the people that come in early in the morning.
One of the writers on a really good sitcom.
I’ll update websites. No development or anything. Maybe just a WYSIWYG form I can fill out to get new content posted. And I don’t want to write the content. Just send it to me and I’ll post it.
Right now (and for the past 20 years) I develop sites, I develop site editors, and I often develop content. I would love nothing more than to just be the person who sits back and fills out all those nice forms all day. Easy peasy.
I am exploring options for plunging more into medeival arts and the possibilities of selling my crafts on the SCA and ren faire circuits, cosplayers, etc.
Small metal castings, glass beads, leatherwork, investment casting, basically settle into a simple semi retired artist type existence. few more years and I should be ready to retire at 55ish.
I am exploring options for plunging more into medeival arts and the possibilities of selling my crafts on the SCA and ren faire circuits, cosplayers, etc.
Small metal castings, glass beads, leatherwork, investment casting, basically settle into a simple semi retired artist type existence. few more years and I should be ready to retire at 55ish.
Easiest would be tutor for intermediate FileMaker Pro users who want help developing their databases.
Close runner-ups would be: proofreader for an English composition workshop; gender & feminist theory newspaper columnist, cranking out an article once a week; FileMaker developer for professional clients who don’t know databases but know what they want them to do.
Some things would be more effortless (e.g., sorting plastic forks into red, green, and white piles) but I’d quickly become bored, and there’s nothing easy about doing dull boring work, generally speaking. The above-mentioned things are fun and challenging enough to keep me engaged but not challenging enough to frustrate me or threaten me with the situation of being unable to do my job.
I just heard on the news recently about ‘Gaming tutors’…seems like gamers would be lining up to get to paid to teach their favorite online game.
The thing that is absolutely the easiest for me to do, the thing that I have been doing since grade 10 or before, the thing that I can literally do in my sleep (because that’s what many of my dreams end up being), is… design fictional worlds.
Unfortunately I have never found a way to turn this skill into an income.
In ‘92 I went to Sheridan College to study animation, only to find that the world design part of the course was relatively minor, and animation was more about ‘acting on paper’. So in what may have been one of my less optimal decisions, I did not continue, but went back to work.
Now I am deep into writing and (I hope) publishing a book and several other stories, and I am drawing on that skill again. Time will tell whether there is any interest in my stories…
Desktop Wallpaper Artist.
If there was some way for me to cash in on that skill, I would be sitting pretty.
I like Wally’s job, in Dilbert. Most places I’ve worked had one, one was actually named Wally. I often dream that I have a job where I have done nothing for years, there is a lot of pressure to look busy, with constant fear someone will notice my non-productivity.
I have an easy job now. I train CR reps. I just call 800 numbers, and they record me to train their operators. Doesn’t pay well, but job satisfaction is high, and you’ll thank me when you get a really competent operator.
Bus driver. I’ve just been made redundant from my airbus driver job, and given that I have literally no experience or skills outside of that, I’m seriously looking at a ground-bus driving job. I think it’d be alright to be honest, the pay is shit though.
I’d go back to being a proofreader.
Typically, you don’t wait for the boat to show up. The bridge rises every 30 minutes or other predetermined set time. So you just set the timer. No watching for boats.
I want to be the guy that drives the chase car when they’re transporting windmill blades. Flashing lights on…check. The blade’s right in front of me…check.
Sounds easy enough, but shit happens. In St Martin a yacht left a port open and nearly killed the drawbridge operator.
In between openings, the bridge-keeper hangs out at The Saint Martin Yacht Club. They drink coffee, I have a bloody when I hang out with them.