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alternate careers..

post #1 of 14
2/12/04 at 6:00pm
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If you weren't doing what you are doing, what would you really like to be doing?

I would like to be a luthier, and work in a clean, well-lighted place, with the smell of hide glue and varnish, and the hissing sound of a well tuned plane cutting thinner-than-paper shavings from 200 year old spruce from a Bavarian forest.
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post #2 of 14
2/12/04 at 6:14pm
Me, I'd either be a ranger for BLM or a professional pool player.
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post #3 of 14
2/12/04 at 6:17pm
A fitness professional, of course. :bounce:
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post #4 of 14
2/12/04 at 7:33pm
:cool: I'd like to be a BLUES BROTHER! Like Jake, only alive!:cool:
"C'mon...Baby don't ya wanna go? Down to the same old place... Sweet Home, Chicago!" :smoking:
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post #5 of 14
2/13/04 at 9:05am
I've always wanted to be a commercial pilot. Travel the world and see the sky the way few have seen it.
I almost got into computer assembly but turned it into more of an interest/hobby.
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post #6 of 14
2/13/04 at 9:49am

Re: alternate careers..

Interesting timing TBH, a coworker of mine brought in his sons gutar for me to tune today (the kid is 6 and dad doesn't have a clue) anyway it was a cheap guitar, buzzing, intonation out of whack etc. I fixed it up and he asked me where I learned to do that. I told him it was just years of playing guitar, to my point many moons ago I too wanted to be a Luthier, I even looked into going to school for it, but like a lot of things, it too went by the wayside.
To answer the question now, I would like to be a writer, food preferably or a chocolatier that didn't have to worry about the rent!
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post #7 of 14
2/13/04 at 1:53pm
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Want to read something that will make you crazy? I think it's called Making a Guitar, by Cumpiano and Natelson.
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post #8 of 14
2/14/04 at 9:14am
I'd like to be a travel and food writer maybe, or find a way to just travel and be paid for it!

In five years I hope to become a retired teacher. That's absolutely attainable. ;)
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post #9 of 14
2/14/04 at 3:55pm
I'd like to be a Zamboni driver. :)

Speaking of luthiers, I have plenty of luthier friends. Here's the backs and sides of my new guitar. Still under construction, delivery date probably sometime in May.



Kuan
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post #10 of 14
2/17/04 at 5:01pm
I would enjoy being a tracker and guide living in a cabin in montana or oregon.

Otherwise I would be a professional backgammon player. :)
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post #11 of 14
2/17/04 at 7:18pm
Funny...I'm on the outside looking in. I'd like to have my own bakery. At the moment, I'm only an avid hobbyist of pastry.

Professionally, I'm in graphic design/publishing.
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post #12 of 14
2/19/04 at 6:57pm
Hmm , maybe a Colombian drug lord or perhaps the Don of a connected family ?
No , thats just to much like being a chef .
How about an archeoligist in the spring and summer and an astronomer during the cold season .
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post #13 of 14
2/20/04 at 5:07am
hmmmmm......well, I cater, teach, organize and run farmer's markets, write, consult, organize and run stage preformances....
with each of these it seems that I am working on the computer more than ever and less on the stove...I would like to write manuels for schools on how to incorporate farm/nutrition and cooking into their curriculum or search out cool ingrediants around the USA. Oh wait that is part of the job I do now.....Career change,logistic eningeer....is there such an animal?
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post #14 of 14
2/23/04 at 6:50pm
Here are a few careers I have considered in the recent past:
Photographer
Food and/or Travel writer
Forensic sceintist
Archeologist
Vet or Zookeeper
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