Once in a while, you hear people say that they love their job so much they can't believe they're getting paid to do it.
I spent my life doing a wide assortment of jobs: working in factory boning chicken for Campbell's Noodle Soup, working in a freight company office, hospital business office, and in an insurance company (interspersed by about 20 others over the years.) None of these were what you would call a "perfect fit" for me. Looking back and taking all of my interests into account, I've finally realized that in a perfect world, I would have been a world traveler and producer of wildlife documentaries.
I might have sat on a Rwandan mountainside with Dian Fossey and watched gorillas. I could have trekked through the jungles of Gombe with Jane Goodall to observe the chimpanzees. I would have gone on National Geographic Expeditions to exotic places to do award-winning films about thought-to-be-extinct animals.
Of course, this would assume that I was strong and athletic, that I had photographic/cinematic skills and that I had no family obligations. Oh well, it would have been great fun. So, tell me, what's version?
WHAT WOULD HAVE BEEN YOUR PERFECT LIFE?
4 comments:
I have pondered on this. And I can think of many things that fit the bill, but, the #1 thing I keep going back to is being a gourmet chocolate tester. Traveling the world to different countries tasting chocolate. YUM !!!!!
My dear lady, is it too late to achieve a VERSION of your dream? Perhaps a trip to Africa with a group involved in wildlife preservation? Or a college course in documentary-making, or trying your hand at a little sketch-book about wildlife or gorillas? I have had to greatly reduce/rework my dreams, too, but am getting some happiness out of trying for these "altered dreams."
Would have played baseball in warm weather and wrote stories over the winter.
Now I blog. But I don't get paid for it. Pity. It's the one thing I can still do.
I would have loved to spend all day being creative cooking,sewing, spinning ,knitting anything like that
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