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                  Tough question!!!
    
    For a full time position, I would do something that used my creativity;
        an architect, an interior decorator, a fashion designer.
    
    And part time I would do something around, voice, beauty, expression;
        a model, a singer, a piano player.
    

 I'd be a lawyer. You get paid $150/hr to argue over minute points.
Almost like soapbox! :-)

re .3:

So which is it, "Being a Daddy" or -< PILOT >- ?

    I don't know.  I was confused then, and I'm confused now.
    
    Lorna
    

     Easy, photographer for National Geographic magazine. 
     
     
    Tom
    
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    Well I could fly my kids around....:')
    
    
    
    Mike

    Absolutely no question in my mind as to what  would do .. I would
    teach .. probably 11th and 12th grades.
    
    Bubba

    I'd be a carpenter, which is what I wanted when  I was choosing between
    trade school and high school, but my parents insisted that I go to regular
    high school, which resulted in that I graduated with nothing. I Wasn't
    college bound and didn't have a skill, so the Marine Corps got me.

    
    Jim

    
    I think maybe I'd be a teacher.  (high school or college)
    
    I'm hoping to teach when I retire.  My parents were both teachers, 
    and IMHO it's a noble profession.
    
    /Mitch.
    

    Gonna be a teacher...after August.
    
    Teaching high school English and drama.
    
    Daniel

    Planning on becoming an attorney, specializing in internation business.
    
    If I had it to do over again hell would have frozen over before I
    would have become a technical writer! I'd tell you why, but I surely
    would be set hidden.
    
    Dan

    Starting this fall, I'm going to school full-time so that I can become a
    singer.

    I got my first acceptance last night!!!

    I'll probably end up earning substantially less than I could ever make in
    compooters, but at least I'll be happy!

    - Jim

    A street car conductor. Standing there with my change thingie, and the
    dho-dha for punching the clients tickets. :) And if I could!! I would
    name my street car to 'Desire'.:) Bad puns

    Teach college I think. Perhaps high school. I'll probably do this some
    day.

    Or maybe be a fireman. I almost did this. Took the exam and everything.
    I was about 481 on the list (17,000) took the test. With promotions
    being based on exams I'd probably be a Battalion Chief by now. And 
    close to retiring with 20 years too. 

    Option 3: Naval officer. Always did like those uniforms. :-)

    Too late for me to take options 2 & 3 now. :-(

    			Alfred

     
    A Vet (Horse Doctor)
    
    Got to admit, I prefer my Dogs & Horses company to the company of a lot of
    people I know.
    
    Then again the Photographer for National Geo. job sounds excelent too.

I'd probably go for a career a lot like the one I have: mostly using my
ability to think, and spending some time working with people.

That covers a lot of ground.  It might be in any field of science or
engineering or management.  It might be academic, government or private
sector.  It might be more or less teaching, research, development or 
production.  But I don't think I would change the basics of what I do
from day to day.  It just fits my abilities and needs so well.  I get
money, satisfaction, security, fun, human contact, variety ...

There's a lot of other stuff that I think would be interesting, but I am 
pretty sure I would not have the ability to do as good a job at those 
things.  And most of them (artist, therapist, writer, guru ... ) are only 
worth doing if I could do them really well.

 I think designing roller coasters like the new one that just opened at Six
Flags would be fun. :-)

    
    
    #1 Choice -- opera singer
    
    #2 Choice -- college professor (I've done this, and hope to do it
                 again)

    
    new car dealer in El Ley, or surf shop owner in Santa Cruz

    re .20, I'd like to own an antique jewelry store in Santa Cruz.
    Just think, we could be neighbors!!
    
    What a thrill it would be, huh?  :-)
    
    Lorna
    

    
    
    
     Goodyear blimp pilot.
    
    
    David

    
    lighthousekeeper with a home publishing firm for fun.
    
    -Jody
    

    ..quality control manager in a whore house.
    
    Bubba

                               Condom mannequin.
        
        

    
    
    -1 -2
    
       :-)
    
    
    David

    Fighter pilot.
    
    In fact, I had already been accepted at Annalpolis when my eyesight
    tested at 20/25 in one eye.  I was told the Navy required 20/20 or
    better or you need special approval.   Had already aced the written
    test at U Conn, too.  Scored a 95 percentile on it.
    
    Oh well, no jets?  Scratch that.  Off to engineer school.

    I should have been a cowboy !

    Really ! 
    
    I watch the rodeo's on TNN every Sunday, and yup, I'm sorry I 
    didn't become a cowboy. I hear they make big bucks too.

    Jim

    Rodeo cowboys bear little resemblance to range cowboys.  Range work is
    dirty, hard labor with long hours, poor conditions, and low pay.  Many
    range cowboys do rodeo work to supplement their incomes.
    
    And rodeo work is like the acting profession.  Of the thousands of
    rodeo cowboys, only a few make much more than a pittance if you average
    it over a season.  It's a nice addition to the regular pay of a range
    cowboy, but it ain't a living wage.

    RE:29
    Well the way you described it makes me more sorry I didn't become a
    cowboy.;)

    I bet 41 year old cowboys are healthier and more manly than 41 year old 
    computer jockeys.

    Jim 

    Re .30: Depends what you mean by "manly". The cowboys I know tend to
    look old before their time - though some people like that
    wrinkled-leather look (with the hat-brim-white forehead accent). Then
    there are the tobacco-blackened teeth (and sometimes _missing_ teeth,
    and/or missing pieces of gum or jaw), the bowed legs (some having been
    broken a time or two), the gnarled hands (sometimes plus arthritis)
    from years of doing hard labor in sub-freezing cold or scorching sun...
    Heck, to make it to the 40s as a working cowboy/rancher demands
    someone who was pretty resilient to start with!
    
    'course, many of the ranch-type folk I know are wonderful people, and
    some of 'em do live very long lives indeed (though my theory is that
    the weak have been weeded out early for generations, so they've self-
    selected for toughness). But there are plenty who rack themselves up,
    have troubled family lives, abuse alcohol and tobacco (and anything
    else that comes along)... If you want to fantasize about being a
    cowboy, fine - heck, I did, for years ;-) - but don't count on it being
    that way for real.
    
    -b

    You know I,m not serious I hope ! I romanticize about it and that's
    about it. Maybe I should go on one of those city slicker cattle
    drives? Do they really exist ?


    Jim

    re .32, you wanna go with Jack Palance?  :-)
    
    Lorna
    

    Re .32: There are quite a few "dude" arrangements, from fairly
    arduous working-ranch setups to luxurious, make-believe-cowboy places.
    I've seen some advertised in travel magazines and such. [I've never
    gone on one of these myself, though some do look like fun, especially
    the "follow the wagon-train route" kinds; maybe someday.] I don't
    remember off-hand whether I've seen any explicitly involving cattle
    drives, although I expect there are some. 
    
    And then there's the "budget" technique, in which you take a month of
    vacation time and travel out to some ranching community and offer to
    hire on as a room-and-board, below-minimum-wage laborer, which is the
    version I used (it helped that I'd gone to college with one of the
    rancher's kids). A lifetime of anecdotes, for just a little pain and
    suffering. ;-)
    
    -b

    I grew up on a farm and ranch.  I've been thrown off of more horses
    than most people these days have been on.   As such I have no love
    for horses.  There's just something about a mode of transportation
    that has it's own not-very-intelligent guidance system, but I would 
    go back to the lifestyle of the family farm and ranch if I could figure 
    out how to make a living at it  and could come up the the half-million 
    dollars it would take to get started.  

    There's an old joke about three guys that won the lottery.  They were
    asked what each of them would do with the money.  The preacher said
    he would go on mission, the accountant said he'd invest the money,
    and the farmer said he guessed he'd just go on farming until it was
    all gone.

    fred();

    I'm going horseback riding in a few weeks after the black fly season is
    over. There's a place near my house. The last time I rode on a horse
    was when I was sixteen years old. All I remember is that the darn thing
    only wanted to follow the other horses, and my nutz ached for a week
    after. I know why those rodeo cowboys talk through their noses.;)

    

    Jim

    
    Jim,
    
    
    Let go of the horses neck, your goulies won't be sore then. :')
    
    
    
    
    Mike