Wednesday, June 25, 2008

CAREERS I'D PROBABLY HAVE LOVED & BEEN GREAT AT: A LIST

  1. typographer
  2. industrial designer
  3. socialite, fashionista, self-absorbed celebrity
  4. poet laureate
  5. second hand, rare, & interesting bookstore owner/operator
  6. web graphic designer
  7. computer programmer
  8. early morning park sweeper
  9. anytime park sweeper
  10. construction site laborman
  11. nature park ranger
  12. film score composer
  13. marketing/media director for niche hipster NPO (hint hint Ashtree)
  14. ascetic, monk, mute hermit, cave dweller, dervish
  15. unexceptional concert pianist
  16. librarian
  17. film/book review writer
  18. critic of anything
  19. (therefore: critical theorist (an Adorno people might understand)
  20. the old man in a suit and bow tie who comes to the park everyday to stare at everything blue and green and alive and silent
  21. successful blogger
  22. avid adventure traveler, busstop conversationalist, reciter of prayers and poetry
  23. connoisseur of: black pens, vanilla icecream, white oxford shirts
  24. exhibit coordinator
  25. light designer for artifact exhibits (specialty: Grecian urns or early-Gothic sacred sculpture)
  26. cultural icon
  27. high school english teacher
  28. drug addict
  29. amateur philosophizer, aestheticist, general bohemian
  30. turn-of-the-century revolutionary
  31. professional generation-Y confusite despondent wayfarer
  32. ipod wearing graveyard shift data entry prole
  33. eccentric public transport enthusiast
  34. classical concert program/CD booklet introductory notes researcher/writer
  35. unsuccessful sardonic antimotivational speaker

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

I just popped on to your site. Not literally, obviously, but I must say that #35: unsuccessful sardonic antimotivational speaker
is my favorite. I'm sure there's a real calling for that specific field of speakers :)

Ashley Ludwin said...

3. fashionista for sure
14. is the worst idea for you, what a waste that would be.
20. will be you some day.
21, 22, 23. are you
27. sounds awesome
28. i hate

and everything else is just as awesome, i just want to leave room here for other commentors.

OH and 13. you can be a part of/are an inspiration for :)

Anonymous said...

art is born from this list;
and every componant a color.
thank you for painting it.

alexandra said...

what a meditative list!
20 is beautiful!

and about the e.e. cummings poem.
(life without e.e. cummings is definitely lacking. what took me so long?)
i have the same goal of learning prufrock. but i'm giving myself more than a year...

golriz lucina said...

so ripe for mcsweeneys.

love it.

Anonymous said...

Well, thanks for the head nod!