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What's worth doing?
Need physical fitness goal. Maybe another run or a good long hike.
Also need something useful to do with the rest of my time. Having no job is getting old. Might look for one just to save my sanity.
Need physical fitness goal. Maybe another run or a good long hike.
Also need something useful to do with the rest of my time. Having no job is getting old. Might look for one just to save my sanity.
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That's the trouble -- I have way too many ideas. Veterinary technician, with an eye to eventually being a veterinarian. EMT. Fiction writer. Doggie day care provider. Translator (currently only useful French-to-English). Aerobatics performer in airshows. Airplane mechanic. I'm sure I'm forgetting a few.
What would you do, if you couldn't do what you do now?
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What would you do, if you couldn't do what you do now?
In recent years, I haven't put as much emphasis on career. I really don't have much of a long-term plan to stick with something. My list of professions includes computer programmer of different flavors, B2C and B2B sales, professional poker player, construction (very briefly and won't do it again), financial analyst (really "commodities trader" would be closer, but FA was what was on my business card), instructor. For about half of my adult life, I've owned businesses instead of working for them. That has been largely tech-centered too, but I've also done tech recruiting, credit repair and travel sales.
To answer your question directly, I've been thinking about playing cards again. My current job is tiring, and there are lots of things in Florida that would be nice to be able to pay attention to for weeks or months at a time, so the flexibility allowed by cards would be really nice. I took a year off in 2001 to play cards and made about as much as I do in software... I've continued to play in my spare time and I'm much better now, so I think it is a viable choice. Longer term, I've always wanted to be a college professor. Really, I want to be a student and do research, but "professor" is the only form of that that isn't broke-making. I've never been able to commit to doing something that hard and time-consuming that doesn't pay at all. I imagine that I will do that if I ever get enough money together not to worry about it, or perhaps when I'm getting close to 40 and running out of time.
Or I could do just about anything interesting that comes along. I don't hold on too tight. :-) I'm sure I'd wander a lot more if I hadn't coincidentally gotten good at pushing around 1's and 0's about three years before the Internet exploded. It pays so obscenely well for something that isn't very demanding. The thing is, I used to love doing it. Now I honestly don't love it much more than I would doing many other things.