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Eccentrica Gallumbits

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Re: If you could be a top flight professional, in what would it be?
« Reply #25 on: 01 December, 2016, 03:49:09 pm »
Rock singer. Or guitarist. I want to be Keith Richards.
My feminist marxist dialectic brings all the boys to the yard.


Re: If you could be a top flight professional, in what would it be?
« Reply #26 on: 01 December, 2016, 03:50:30 pm »
Rock singer. Or guitarist. I want to be Keith Richards.

And Keith Richards wants to be a pirate so there may be a vacancy if you asked nicely.
I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that.

Phil W

Re: If you could be a top flight professional, in what would it be?
« Reply #27 on: 01 December, 2016, 03:56:00 pm »
Wildlife film maker

Re: If you could be a top flight professional, in what would it be?
« Reply #28 on: 01 December, 2016, 04:25:02 pm »
Test pilot, New Yorker staff writer, chef, rare books dealer, bicycle framebuilder...

LEE

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Re: If you could be a top flight professional, in what would it be?
« Reply #29 on: 01 December, 2016, 04:44:46 pm »
Musician.  Guitar.  Electric.  Rock.

Some people say I'm self-obsessed but that's enough about them.

Re: If you could be a top flight professional, in what would it be?
« Reply #30 on: 01 December, 2016, 04:47:00 pm »
Metal working artisan! Including but not limited to bicycle frames and old cars
not so much a gravel grinder.... more of a gravel groveller


Aunt Maud

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Re: If you could be a top flight professional, in what would it be?
« Reply #31 on: 01 December, 2016, 04:57:35 pm »
Fly fisherman on a big river in British Columbia, fishing for Salmon in the rain.

Samuel D

Re: If you could be a top flight professional, in what would it be?
« Reply #32 on: 01 December, 2016, 05:00:46 pm »
Test pilot, New Yorker staff writer, chef, rare books dealer, bicycle framebuilder...

Now we’re talking.

rogerzilla

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Re: If you could be a top flight professional, in what would it be?
« Reply #33 on: 01 December, 2016, 05:01:24 pm »
Has no-one had pr0n star yet?
Hard work sometimes pays off in the end, but laziness ALWAYS pays off NOW.

Re: If you could be a top flight professional, in what would it be?
« Reply #34 on: 01 December, 2016, 05:02:46 pm »
Darts.

Assuming I didn't have to practise, it would give me the most free time while competing at the top level.

Woofage

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Re: If you could be a top flight professional, in what would it be?
« Reply #35 on: 01 December, 2016, 06:05:25 pm »
It's interesting that a goodly proportion of the responses above list creative jobs (apart from Kim :demon:) but I'm guessing that those contributors are in professions with very little creativity. Were you steered in the wrong direction at school? Were creative jobs not portrayed as highly valued as those you ended up doing? I'd be interested to know the answers.
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Kim

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Re: If you could be a top flight professional, in what would it be?
« Reply #36 on: 01 December, 2016, 06:10:08 pm »
Creative jobs require innate talent, rather than just hard work and/or luck, and people are wishing for the talent that goes with it rather than the job itself?

Cudzoziemiec

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Re: If you could be a top flight professional, in what would it be?
« Reply #37 on: 01 December, 2016, 06:23:51 pm »
Maybe carpenter making bespoke furniture out of wood. Or potter. But I think I'll settle for being in the top 0.0001% of people who aren't too fussed about being in the bottom 99.9999% of anything.
Riding a concrete path through the nebulous and chaotic future.

Phil W

Re: If you could be a top flight professional, in what would it be?
« Reply #38 on: 01 December, 2016, 06:24:53 pm »
It's interesting that a goodly proportion of the responses above list creative jobs (apart from Kim :demon:) but I'm guessing that those contributors are in professions with very little creativity.

You guess wrong. But if you've already spent over half your life in a profession why not choose something different?  Choosing the same profession , would not be particularly creative me thinks.

Woofage

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Re: If you could be a top flight professional, in what would it be?
« Reply #39 on: 01 December, 2016, 06:27:49 pm »
Creative jobs require innate talent, rather than just hard work and/or luck, and people are wishing for the talent that goes with it rather than the job itself?

I'm sure that applies in some cases (perhaps most) but surely not all? I could have been an instrument maker if I wanted to but everyone told me that I was good at TEH SUMS and TEH SCIENCE and therefore should go to university to study something related. Mrs W is very creative but ended up being a lawyer, a choice she simultaneously regrets and applauds ::-).
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Woofage

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Re: If you could be a top flight professional, in what would it be?
« Reply #40 on: 01 December, 2016, 06:29:59 pm »
It's interesting that a goodly proportion of the responses above list creative jobs (apart from Kim :demon:) but I'm guessing that those contributors are in professions with very little creativity.

You guess wrong. But if you've already spent over half your life in a profession why not choose something different?  Choosing the same profession , would not be particularly creative me thinks.

That's sort of my point. People dream of being in creative jobs but could they have pursued that dream earlier in life with different guidance?
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LEE

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Re: If you could be a top flight professional, in what would it be?
« Reply #41 on: 01 December, 2016, 06:33:26 pm »
Creative jobs require innate talent, rather than just hard work and/or luck, and people are wishing for the talent that goes with it rather than the job itself?

Being "Top Flight", or the best in your field, usually requires innate talent, no matter what the field.
Some people say I'm self-obsessed but that's enough about them.

caerau

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Re: If you could be a top flight professional, in what would it be?
« Reply #42 on: 01 December, 2016, 06:36:07 pm »
Yeah, rock guitarist. Unoriginal, but hey ho.
It's a reverse Elvis thing.

Re: If you could be a top flight professional, in what would it be?
« Reply #43 on: 01 December, 2016, 06:56:54 pm »
Cook or historian (or possibly both at the same time)
"No matter how slow you go, you're still lapping everybody on the couch."

Phil W

Re: If you could be a top flight professional, in what would it be?
« Reply #44 on: 01 December, 2016, 07:11:19 pm »
It's interesting that a goodly proportion of the responses above list creative jobs (apart from Kim :demon:) but I'm guessing that those contributors are in professions with very little creativity.

You guess wrong. But if you've already spent over half your life in a profession why not choose something different?  Choosing the same profession , would not be particularly creative me thinks.

That's sort of my point. People dream of being in creative jobs but could they have pursued that dream earlier in life with different guidance?

Your point about people not already being in creative jobs is incorrect.

Mr Larrington

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Re: If you could be a top flight professional, in what would it be?
« Reply #45 on: 01 December, 2016, 07:38:33 pm »
Travel writer.  Imagine getting paid to go on holiday!
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Re: If you could be a top flight professional, in what would it be?
« Reply #46 on: 01 December, 2016, 07:40:54 pm »
Darts.

I see what you did there...  ;)
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fuzzy

Re: If you could be a top flight professional, in what would it be?
« Reply #47 on: 01 December, 2016, 07:50:32 pm »
It's interesting that a goodly proportion of the responses above list creative jobs (apart from Kim :demon:) but I'm guessing that those contributors are in professions with very little creativity. Were you steered in the wrong direction at school? Were creative jobs not portrayed as highly valued as those you ended up doing? I'd be interested to know the answers.

I followed the paths that I did due to lack of academic ability. My intelligence was in the common sense arena and 'that looks like it goes in there that way round and connects to that bit' ability. Not to be sneezed at but, travelling the world going to sporting events as a paid endeavour would have been a choice were I of a more academic bent. I would love to be Ned Boulting......

Re: If you could be a top flight professional, in what would it be?
« Reply #48 on: 01 December, 2016, 08:55:18 pm »
It occurs to me that I want to be ruler of teh world.   In this capacity I can rid the world of all tyranical evil and become the benevolent dictator.

As I am a compassionate, good and altruistic person the world will inevitably become a better place for all.    :)

Re: If you could be a top flight professional, in what would it be?
« Reply #49 on: 01 December, 2016, 09:22:24 pm »
If I couldn't be a very picky gigolo, I quite like the idea of being a sought-after architect.
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