(This post is part of the Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge. You can find links to other writers' answers over at Long and Short Reviews.)
Prompt: A job that I'd be good at.
There was a time when I would have said, "Anything physical." I used to be very athletic, and the idea of becoming a firefighter or part of a rescue service for our national parks seemed like a perfectly realistic possibility. Twenty years in Information Technology, and particular the last five years or so, has pretty well put paid to that notion: I am not in anything like that kind of shape anymore.
I'd like to get back there, but then I'd like a lot of things.
So realistically, right now, I'd probably be good at anything to do with words and writing and like that. Technical writing, for example, if that was a skill that anybody in any kind of management position actually valued. I might make a reasonably successful author, except that between the full time job and being a parent I really haven't had time or energy until just recently. So maybe, but first I'd have to pull something together that I actually can publish.
Game design seems like a reasonable possibility; I've played a lot of games over the years, and -- for tabletop roleplaying games in particular -- I'd have a lot of fun writing flavor text.
Beyond that... I don't know. I could be professionally decadent -- I'd be really good at that one -- if that were a career possibility. And I still like to think that I'd be good at solving supernatural mysteries, with or without a talking dog to help me. Wizardry? I mean, I've got good pattern recognition and troubleshooting skills, so maybe. I don't think I could ever go full-on Dark Lord of Evil Evilness, but I could wander around in robes and try to figure out the cheat codes for the Universe that would let me do otherwise-impossible things.
What about you? What would you be good at?
Yes, I could totally see you as a game designer or technical writer.
ReplyDeleteIf only we authors were better paid and respected! :)
Lydia
If only!
DeleteGood choices.
ReplyDeleteThank you!
DeleteIt can totally see you solving supernatural mysteries with your very own Scooby... I mean, why not? 😀😀
ReplyDeleteIt's really the van that would be hard to come up with.
DeleteI agree with Lydia... we need to find a way to get paid for doing what we love to do. Oh... I have Goddess Fish and I get to talk to authors all the time, so I guess I do :-)
ReplyDeleteYay!
DeleteGame design ought to be fun, anyway. (Once upon a time, before computers, I remember being told and reminded never to tell anyone that my siblings and I used to make up stories by acting them out as games.)
ReplyDeleteOh, that sounds like fun!
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