what I should do when I grow up aka job meme

[alonewiththemoon]

From firefly_124 :

1. Go here.
2. Put in the following - Username: nycareers, Password: landmark
3. Take their “Career Matchmaker” questions.
4. Post the top ten results.

1. Makeup Artist
2. Costume Designer
3. Set Designer
4. Anthropologist
5. Special Effects Technician
6. Sport Psychology Consultant
7. Industrial Designer
8. Historian
9. Actor
10. Tilesetter

Apparently I should have stayed in grad school.  Oh well.  It's funny though, in a way I do most of these things through belly dance.  Make up artist:  check.  Costume designer:  you betcha!  Set designer:  well, I try to pick nice theatres for my shows.  If I had a venue all at my disposal I'd be creating sets for it.  Anthropologist:  pretty obviously.  Special Effects Technician:  well... sort of, in an overlapping with costume design kind of way.  I think the career guide meant old school move little models around and rig explosives kind of technician, not CGI programmer.  Sport Psychology Consultant:  I do that for myself all the time.  Industrial Designer:  no, don't think I can make that one fit, unless you include writing choreographies to Neubauten.  Historian:  see anthropologist.  Actor:  most certainly, good dancing involves a lot of the same principles as good acting.  Tilesetter:  ok, that one doesn't work at all.  But I make mosaics on occasion!

Food for thought, I guess.  Maybe I should be a makeup artist and go work at MAC.  Or maybe I should go to tilesetting school.  That would be hell on my nails, though.

Still no functioning email at home.  The problem isn't Norton Antivirus, or any of the other pop up blockers I could find in my system defaults.  I'm starting to give up.  If I hadn't just printed 500 business cards with my email address on them, I'd switch over to gmail.  What I need, I think, is an email program that will leave mail on the server so that I can view it from multiple locations.  I wonder how that would affect my folders, though.  Sigh.

Comments

[rojagato.livejournal.com]

If I hadn't just printed 500 business cards with my email address on them, I'd switch over to gmail.

You can set up your RCN account so that it forwards to a gmail account (or any other email address) as a temporary (or longer) solution. It would be a pain in that it wouldn't save the incoming message in any of your RCN folders.

What I need, I think, is an email program that will leave mail on the server so that I can view it from multiple locations.

Having your mail available on the server -- that's what gmail (and any other email service) does, and I'm not sure that gmail even gives you an option for local download. And, yes, you'd have to set up another folder system for the stuff that you leave on the server.

[alonewiththemoon]

Having your mail available on the server -- that's what gmail (and any other email service) does

I should have been more clear--something just for the home computer, and still using the rcn webmail interface on computers on which it works.

I am thinking about that forwarding option, though.

[jasonlizard.livejournal.com]

I found their questions a bit too vague. I used to do this stuff all the time in high school to try to get an idea of what I liked. Tilesetter?!

1.Conservator
2.Petroleum Engineer
3.Electronics Engineering Tech
4.Electrical Engineering Tech
5.Hydrologist / Hydrogeologist
6.Chemical Engineer
7.Agronomist
8.Carpenter
9.Sheet Metal Worker
10.Tilesetter

[alonewiththemoon]

Let's start a tilesetting company!

[jasonlizard.livejournal.com]

While it sounds better than petroleum engineer, I can't go there.

Some years ago, like 6, we had a tile guy come do some work in our bathroom after we had a plumbing problem. He said he hated the cold but couldn't go down to Florida because he couldn't afford to work there. It seems that a lot of immigrants would set up shop doing tile for the bargain price if $8-10/hr. He could feel the pressure here, too, as he'd lose jobs to Brazilians.

But I could handle being a carpenter. Though I think a conservator would be a kick ass job, while there's still something to conserve.

[peregrinekt.livejournal.com]

actually, I think tilework/design is pretty cool and kind of wish i were doing that if i had to chose, over doing whole houses. theres something to be said about doing something and then physically making it, rather than what I do which is design it but then someone else goes and builds it. there are a lot of really neat artsy kinds of tiles and tilework around, but for some reason so many people here pick boring old white subway tile, or whatever. we dont see so much cool exterior stuff here in new england because it can't take the winter, but some of the tile fountains in spain or california etc...very nifty.

[alonewiththemoon]

Oh, I think it's cool too--I can understand how it was assigned to me based on my answers to their questions.

[saturniidae.livejournal.com]

One of my classmates used to work at MAC, and she totally loved it. I can give you her email if you are ever actually interested.

[saturniidae.livejournal.com]

Ooh, "explosives specialist" was on my list! I also got a bunch of variations on mechanic or biologist.