time for a change

[moominmolly]

I'm fantasizing today. Let's say you had NO IDEA what I do for work (which is probably true of most of you), and all you knew was that I wanted a change of career.

What real, achievable thing in the world should I be doing instead? Something that plays to my strengths and allows me to make something, somewhere more awesome just by showing up and being ME at it.

Comments

[the-xtina.livejournal.com]

Freelance troubleshooter.

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

! If that existed I would be awesome at it. Good call. Maybe it does...

[touchofgrey.livejournal.com]

Photographer specializing in circus-type acts.

[clara-girl.livejournal.com]

this is reasonable. and there's even a market!

[rosefox]

I was thinking "performance photographer" too.

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

Huh. I'll think about that! There might need to be studio space involved...

[regyt.livejournal.com]

I could imagine you going into photographic journalism. Or storyboarding / designing events or event spaces. Or illustrating graphic novels with photography.

[mzrowan.livejournal.com]

School teacher or entertainment agent?

[ukelele.livejournal.com]

As a former schoolteacher, I don't see it. I mean, I see *parts* of it, but I think other parts would be a bad fit.

[amber-phoenix.livejournal.com]

Photojournalist.

Which I say entirely selfishly, because I would love to see your work as such.

(P.S. There's a bit of a running joke that longueur should be an emergency statistician. Freelance troubleshooter isn't far off.)

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

:) I think that's the dream career that probably wouldn't actually work in person. If I were independently wealthy, it is what I would do with my time, but I fear I would be bad at running that type of business and also bad at working for someone else at it.

But perhaps that's just cynicism...

[chienne-folle.livejournal.com]

Cities would hire you to paint their fire hydrants and telephone poles and stuff like that, to turn ugly-but-necessary infrastructure into art.

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

... *misreads "paint" as "pant" and was both amused and perplexed*

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

*laugh* AWESOME

[veek.livejournal.com]

You're fantastic at speaking other people's languages, including children's. I could see you teaching -- not in front of a classroom necessarily, but maybe by making educational videos? doing usability design for educational software? Of any kind.

[jacflash.livejournal.com]

Something like this... fun-but-thinky little videos that teach, maybe?

[spinrabbit.livejournal.com]

Itinerant teacher of stilts and other awesome ways to move.

[pseydtonne.livejournal.com]

I guess "runnin' thangs" is not actually a job.

Your strengths are problem solving, languages, photography and chilling out customers. Too bad teaching photography in Montreal isn't particularly feasible without an extra citizenship.

Whatever you do, can I be your lackey? Everyone needs a lackey.

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

If I need lackeys, I will totally call you first.

[jbsegal.livejournal.com]

Wow. I want the answers to this for me…
I'll mull over you while I gank this for myself.

[dreda.livejournal.com]

Not quite a personal trainer, but a leader-of-awesome-crazy-exercisey-things - you know, something like, "you can learn how to FLY in six months if you come play with me!"

(I am totally stealing this meme-y thing.)

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

Ha! Yeah!!

I'd want to be like a party planner, but for crazy mad schemes. Like, you write to me and say, "I have $3000 and I want to bike the Great Wall" and I plan out all of your options and details.

[gentlescholar.livejournal.com]

Secret Agent. Look at it: languages, photography skills, physical fitness, and totally charming enough to get state secrets out of people. You'd be a natural.

(I'd totally watch that movie.)

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

You have NO IDEA how much I love spy thrillers. :) In fact, it was a combination of a tempting but not-quite-right job prospect from another nerdy company and watching a few episodes of Covert Affairs that brought this into relief for me. :)

In all seriousness, one planning hurdle here is trying to show up 100% for being a parent AND 100% for a job. What I want is a job where I have awesome responsibility, authority, creativity, and flexibility.. from 8:30-5, Monday through Friday.

[rising-moon.livejournal.com]

awesome responsibility, authority, creativity, and flexibility.. from 8:30-5, Monday through Friday

Yeah, the time constraint takes out my first choice, which would be "ringleader." (I mean that in the literal majordomo of the center ring, of course.)

My second thought was "full-time grassroots philanthropist". ;)

[ukelele.livejournal.com]

Something in a prototyping or experimental or blue-sky firm/part of a firm, where your job involves starting a gazillion out-of-the-box things while someone else gets to evaluate and/or finish them, decide on their suitability for the broader corporate strategy going forward. Starting projects, and involving other people in them (whether by management or evangelism). I expect the industry matters much less than the creativity and talent of the people.

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[harimad.livejournal.com]

MOOMINMOLLY: personal trainer and dietician for the easily bored. "I promise a different routine, exercise, or (if desired) nutrition strategy every month."

Re: Posted before I read other ideas

[intuition-ist.livejournal.com]

i might pay for that...

[concrete.livejournal.com]

When you see Bonnie, ask her about the person she met who created the travel chopsticks and a hundred other things.