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Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Occupations I might rock or suck at.

  1. Shabbos goy
  2. Ambiguous fortune cookie writer (Big things await you around the corner.  It is only by leaving that you can return.  Expect huge payout when temperature drops in southland.)
  3. Mystery shopper
  4. Ninja shopper
  5. Samurai shopper
  6. Sumo shopper



Here in NY State, I work for a wheat research team.  I used to be their part-time lab technician;  now I'm their parter-time field technician.  I work two days a week doing whatever (I can physically do that) needs to be done.  Threshing wheat in the barn, transplanting in the greenhouse, packaging seed in the workroom.  I do that.  I especially like the greenhouse work, but it's all good.

I used to love lab work.  L<3VE.  Something just clicked, and I was done.  I'd like to work in a microbiology lab again, maybe, but maybe not.  Last night I dreamed John Larroquette was the senior research associate showing me his PCR gel (if you know what I mean, ladies).   It was so perfect that I asked This is a representation, right?  and he said, No, this is the document!   He walked away, knowing this discovery meant a lifetime of research grants, and I thought God, I hate science.  [This is not the first time John Larroquette has found his way into my dreams, and I do not know what that means.]

I don't have formal experience doing anything but this and lab work.  And cleaning houses.  And door-to-door proselytizing.  Knock-knock.  Give me money.  I can't see it being lucrative:  no one gives money to preachers.

So, on the road I'm open to lots of stuff.  I won't want a long-term commitment for a while.  There are a few things I won't do (unless you're John Larroquette, apparently), but almost everything is on the table.  Brainstorm, please!