Today as I sat with my grade level team, doing our curriculum mapping, one of the teachers mentioned that she used to be a children's toys reviewer for Amazon. The company would send her crates of toys and she would watch her children play with them and write reviews. Apparently she got paid about a hundred and fifty dollars for each review!! what a great way to give your kids new toys (even for a short period. They usually lose interest in them in a couple of weeks time anyway!) and make money over the summer!
Hmmm. . . What would I want to be?
I used to want to be a radio news reader. I guess a small part of me still does. Although I dont know many people who listen to news on the radio anymore. I took two courses on Reading for Radio as part of my post graduate study and I loved it!
A baker! I do it when I have the time, but should I have to quit my teaching job for some reason, then I would have to depend on my baking for additional income.
A restaurant reviewer! A good friend has just begun doing this and I love what I see on his blog. You get invited to some of the poshest, nicest restaurants to eat their food, and all you do in return is write about them. (Sorry Div, I know its not that simple, but I would just like to think so)
Photo journalist! I think its a cool job. except I have none of the skills it requires. :(
Modest Fashion Designer. I emphasize on the word 'modest' because there is a real dearth of fashion designers that make fashionable yet modest clothes. I know many Christians who think fashion is evil and hence dress frumpily. I think it is possible to live frugally and still wear nice clothes.
Run a Bed and Breakfast Oh how I would love that! What an unhurried life! I love meeting people, chatting, cooking, napping in the afternoons. . .sigh! But my mom tells me I am not a very good hostess, because I spend more time chatting that I do serving the guests. So that's off the list.
Or
I could just continue being the wife, mother and teacher that I am !
seriously!
I am so thankful for my job!
The blog should be called SCATTERBrain's long journey to Maturity. So we would have not just a teacheramma but someone who is ready to try the other the things you mentioned here :-) LOL
ReplyDelete@ Anon: It does seem like a very long journey even to me!
ReplyDeleteB&B my dream too.... Maybe Alex and I can come and start one and you can occasionally fill in? :)
ReplyDeleteI like the restayrant reviewer blog , although I miss his more personal writings!
OOps I meant restaurant not restayrant( accent,, hehhe)
ReplyDeletei love the baker... and am always tempted to give up my job to do it... but experienced people in the family have cautioned me against it as it is a 24x7 job if you intend to make at least a little profit and with a small kid, it gets all the more difficult. B&B sounds scary... imagine all the cleaning up you will have to do all the time...
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