Conference turris::womannotes-v3

    I'd probably tend the cottages on Star Island in the summer, and be a
    semi-popular (at least enough to pay the bills) author in the winter. 
    And I'd do part time work some evenings playing piano in a bar for
    eclectic but fun people.
    
    -Jody
    

        For influence: President, Supreme Court Justice
        
        For travel: Astronaut
        
        For fame and fortune: some kind of celebrity entertainment
        superstar like Bill Cosby or Bart Simpson
        
        For normal everyday kind of stuff: math professor at some
        rural university
        
        Others: lawyer (only semi-slimy though), retired lottery
        winner
        
        Dan

    professional student.
    
    Or professor, if I can't have the student option.
    
    D!

    I am still thinking....
    
       Tour guide for one...
    
       Matchmaker...
    
       Social director in an elderly housing project...
    
       Dietician
    
    Still thinking...
    
       Actually those I could do if I chose...but what I would really like
       is to be able to sing songs like Bette Midler!
    
       A vocalist that's it!

    College professor
    
    BJ

    This probably sounds silly, but here goes anyway.
    
    I'd like the job of God and Peacemaker.  Where everyone would have
    to answer to me, bring arguments, gripes and grouches to me.
    
    I'd make myself known (visible) to everyone so that they'd know
    that I *DID* exist - and that I could make everything right.
    
    
    
    - If only!! ;-(
    Tracy 

    Gardner
    
    Greenskeeper at a golf course
    
    Bookstore owner - so I could read all the new books
    
    Teacher
    
    All of the above part-time, so I'd have more time to play
    

	I like the job I have now, it's very stimulating, and great when a plan
	comes together.


	Otherwise, If I had enough money, I wouldn't have a job.

	
	I'd teach the physically handicapped to swim, I'd teach the elderly
	to swim.

	I'd run for the county and district council - I am currently on the 
	Parish council, and don't have time for the others.    

	Heather

    I've had the same dream all my life, and it hasn't changed.  I would
    earn my living by acting.
    
    E Grace

    
    Lyricist
    

    Book store owner specializing in Occult, SF, Fantasy, Comics, and
    Valuing Differences type materials. 
    
    Independently Wealthy, so I wouldn't have to work and could just do
    what I want to do. (Loaf and invite my soul)
    
    Phil

    
    I'd love to work in a huge, luxurious hotel, in somewhere like Mobasa,
    Kenya. My role? To do as I please, when I please! I'd help out with
    the entertainment, maybe teach some watersports, like waterskiing
    & jet skiing & spend my time generally socialising & taking it easy, 
    revelling in my wonderful way of life!
    
    Liz

Sport Sociologist/Psychologist for an NFL Team.  Yesssssss!!!!!!!!

Barb

    I would have liked to be an airline pilot. But I can't start at 49.
    But just as good........a professional tourist.........
    
    ....Bob

I'd like to own and run a magazine. (For a short while, I worked
for someone who owned three back-to-the-land-type magazines. It was
a nice lifestyle.)

Kathy

Science fiction author, the kind some men say are *ruining* the field. I'd
concentrate on relationships and characters rather than hard science. And they'd
be erotic!!

Singer of torch songs in a sultry dive on a frontier planet (.0 said to be
imaginative). 

Anthroplogist studying hunter/gatherer society and how it may relate to the
information society we are entering. liesl

>                  <<< Note 634.5 by AKOCOA::LAMOTTE "Peace" >>>
>       Matchmaker...


	Could you start with me??

	Oops, wrong conference. Sorry ;-)


-Andrea

    Andrea,
    
    in re wrong conference, not necessarily, ask E Grace and Mike V!
    
    :-)
    
    Bonnie

    Working with dolphins and killer whales at Seaworld!

    Forest ranger in Hawaii
    
    Linda

    If I could get paid a living wage for designing and running dungeons, I
    think I could handle that. [That's fantasy-role-playing-games, for the
    uninitiated - although it might be fun to design a real dungeon or
    two... "And don't you think a nice mahogany would do for the rack?"
    ;-)]
    
    Actually, software engineering would still be near the top of my list
    of job choices, though the projects I chose to work on would be new and
    different. And if I could work at my <theoretical> ranch in Wyoming,
    with a satellite link to the network and a view of the mountains out my
    window... Ah, bliss! 
    
    -b 

    Anything at all?
    
    Colonist in the asteroids, probably hydroponic farming.
    
    --bonnie

    Owner of a metaphysical bookstore/cafe/movie theatre...
    
    Actress/singer...
    
    Personal empowerment trainer...
    
    Writer of books on all of the above subjects...
    
    :-)
    
    Nanci

    A paleontologist or archeaologist.  (I like to dig in the dirt.)
    
    Working in one of the national parks.  I recently found out that woman
    friend of mine from high school is a research biologist at Glacier
    National Park and I am sooooooooooo jealous.
    
    A carpenter or cabinet maker.
    
    -Mary

Company Director of a multinational operation. (CEO equivalent)

I'd like a transport company best....

Jane

    
    
    
    When I went to Florida (Clearwater) in February last year,
    I met this guy named Jeff on the beach. He was 42 years
    old but looked about 30. His job was renting out cabanas
    and umbrellas and chairs. I sat with him under his cabana
    for the week, and had the time of my life! I met so many
    different people in one week! Jeff kept a camera with him
    at all times to remember people and snap pictures of 
    unsuspecting young ladies, too. He set up at 9:00 am and
    packed up at 5:30. He had had that job since he was 22.
    When he was 20, he went to Clearwater for a week with one of
    his buddies, and befriended the guy who rented out cabanas,
    sat with him the whole week. Then he went back to Minnesota.
    A year later, he moved to Clearwater and got the job renting
    cabanas. He's been there ever since. I want his job! But,
    at the same time, I want a Ph.D. in Psychology. Everybody
    that sat with us that week asked how he got the job. Everyone
    wanted it. I'm dying to go back...
    
    
    
                    -Jennifer!
    
    P.S. The Psychology degree will be a reality someday, but having
    Jeff's job is a BIG wish.

    Gemologist/Jewelry Designer
    
    Wildlife/Landscape Photographer
    
    Woodworker/Furniture Designer
    
    Traveler
    
    Some of each of these during each month on my on schedule, of course,
    and from a homebase in a warmer climate.
    
    Martha
    A survivor of N.E. winters

    
    A fiction author, or perhaps one of the people who write the lovely
    verses to go in greetings cards .. not the tacky ones, but the ones
    with real feeling.
    
    Sam
    

    Owner of a combination antique store/art gallery specializing in
    antique jewelry, antique & contemporary art glass & paintings by
    contemporary female artists.
    
    
    Lorna
    

    Owner of a Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Comics, gaming store.
    
    Owner of a tavern/pub w/a disntinctly fantasy aire.  Something you
    might see at a ren fair.
    
    Stewardess--I love to travel, but wouldn't want the stress of actually
    flying the plane.
    
    General manager & director of all park operations at Disneyland.
    
    
                               L.J.

    I would love to have a job, any job, that involved being *under*
    *water*, and *especially* if it involved dolphins or other marine
    mammals.
    
    D!

    
    I can hold my breath for a really long time and when I swam
    competitively, I could swim 75 yards underwater.  Does that
    qualify me for a marine mammal?  =8-)
    
    Carla
    

    Cheyenne,
    
    The DJ part might be easier than you think (although you probably won't
    get paid)  Check out a college station near you, they may let community 
    members do radio, or you might be able to take a class where you could
    get some airtime.  You will probably be able to play what you want.
    
    Lisa

    A film director.
    
    --- jerry

    I'd like to be the owner of a health/fitness club.  
    
    or...
    
    An Olympic swim or ice skating champion!
    
    
    -Dotti

    wildlife manager/conservationist/ecologist/teacher for about
    a million acres.

    
>    I can hold my breath for a really long time and when I swam
>    competitively, I could swim 75 yards underwater.  Does that
>    qualify me for a marine mammal?  =8-)
>    
>    Carla
    
Why not, Carla? I said in the basenote to be creative.
    
    Kate    

    When I was a kid, I wanted to have the same job as Oscar Levant:  Go to
    a friend's house for dinner, be amusing, then take over the guest room
    for several years and do nothing but get in the way.  When kicked out,
    find a different household to amuse. 
    
    Ray

    Given the current state of things and my current feelings:
    
    	I would run a store (much too cold a word for it - a "sharing
    place") for yarn and yarn related crafts - weaving, knitting,
    crocheting.  A place where people could buy good quality yarns at
    reasonable prices and meet in a congenial atmosphere for sharing of
    ideas and creations.
    
    In the summer, I would work at Star Island, taking my loom so I could
    weave during the quiet times.  Maybe even teach weaving there!!! Now
    that's my idea of Heaven!!!!!
    
    Ellen

    Work with the a Detective Unit of a Police Dept. or the CIA or
    something like that using computers.  I love to dig at facts and also 
    analyze them, similar to what I do today at DEC....
    
    Judy

I would like to be a high school history teacher, who teaches about as many
cultures as I can (*not* just the white male heterosexual European viewpoint).

I would like to be the head of a school which teaches the above, along with
a multitude of "foreign" languages (like Russian, ASL, Swahili, one version of
Chinese, Japanese, etc).

I would like to own a HUGE ranch outside of Denver and raise cattle.

Maybe joint own a women's getaway with my best friends, but let them
take care of the business.

     Carol

    I love to spend time introducing children to science and technology.
    It would be a great job, especially if i had a partner who taught
    music.  My son and daughter are 9 & 7, and often beg me to "do
    experiments daddy! Please!!!"  For several years we have spent time
    on weekends and evenings with a chemistry set, electronics, magnets,
    holograms, moebius strips, computers, microscopes, videocameras and
    pieces of machine junk, minerals animals...anything at all that
    grabs their attention.  It is a lot of fun to had them a widget
    that responds to them and just watch.
    
    I try to mix in some theory with each play session.  Crayons and
    copies of the periodic table for chemistry notes, diagrams and
    pictures from science magazines, encyclopedia searchs when they
    ask questions.  I ask them to describe the things they handle and
    observe, and how they relate.  They are already developing quite
    an ability to abstract general principles from observation. Some
    times they will surprise me hours or days later with insights
    into things i have not shown them yet!  Other children mob our
    house and ask for the sessions, but it is very hard to work with
    more than 2 or 3 effectivly, but it is always fun.  My next project
    is to take piano lessons so we can make music together.  When they
    want to make noise, I'll pluck a guitar note and tell them to find
    it on a keyboard or with voice.  They often get into one of the
    toolboxes full of things and play for hours with lenses, prisms
    crystals and mirrors by themselves, learning how they can manipulate
    light and mix its' colors...and it is fun to hear an adult visitor
    ask a question about something lying around, and get a demonstration
    and explanation from a little mind a fraction of their age....mwr
    

    RE:  634.44
    
    Sounds FANTASTIC!  Ever consider writing a book for parents and kids on
    the subject?  I hope my husband and I are as creative with our child.
    
    Laura

    
    re 634.44, .45
    
    Yes, yes!!  a book, a pamphlet even.... maybe a new notes file??!!!
    
    Your children are lucky to have someone who can stimulate their minds
    so well; hope my husband and I will be as creative.
    
    =jamd

re:.44 - I'm quite impressed. I have always felt that an education in
science should be a *hands* *on* experience. Many kids today feel that science
is a dry and dusty topic, because all they are ever taught in schools is
to memorize laws and results.

To this end, I am a volunteer in the Science by Mail program. This is a
program which matches up kids between 4th and 7th grade who are interested
in science with real live "Scientists" (I'm actually an engineer but my
degree says science, so I qualify.) The volunteer scientists write to their
student pen-pals.  Both students and volunteers are sent packets - these
packets contain various experiments, and fun context for those experiments.
For instance, the last one was an adventure, where you had to go through
a cave, like computer adventure games, solving puzzles, and it involved
experiments such as using lemon juice as invisible ink and making Oobleck.
They kids send me the write ups of their experiements and I provide 
encouragement and critique.

It's fun. If anyone is interested in joining, contact me.

D!

    re .47,
    
    I am quite interested, but do they take mathematicians?
    
    Eugene

Well I dunno, but they took me and my degree was in Computer Science, so I
don't see why not.

A couple of people have asked for the info regarding Science-by-Mail, so
I am posting the information here so I don't have to send it out a gazillion
times.

	Science-By-Mail 
	Museum of Science 
	Science Park
	Boston, MA  02114-1099  
	(Ph: 800-729-3300).

Also, if you know kids you think would want to be in the program, the
price is $40 per membership (where one membership can be a group of up
to 5 kids) - I am told there are scholarships available. Call/write for
details.

D!

    
    Municipal Polka Master of Eau Claire, Wisconsin