My Perfect Job

[maggies_lens]

1. Would involve animals in some way, in a GOOD way, for instance being a butcher; not a good thing!
2. Would involve photography
3. Would involve writing
4. Would involve being around like-minded people
5. Would not involve the transport industry in any way shape or form
6. Would not involve children in any way that required any interaction from me
7. Would allow me to live well. I don't need to be rich, just good
8. Would allow me to travel places
9. Would recognise me in some way as being not being a scum sucker bottom dweller
10. Would not involve night shifts unless it was observing something awesome like the rare Amazonian Night Walking Zombie Fish in it's once a year mating ritual which takes place in the highest Bwahbwah Naha tree on the first full moon of April and only when the Shadow Squirrels can give them a lift up there.

So, I believe I need to be either:
a. A Nat Geo hound
b. A writer
c. A photographer
d. insanely rich
e. in a mental house

:)

Comments

[peregrinate123.livejournal.com]

An ecologist....

You basically just wrote out all the benefits of my job/ life in the bush studying animals apart from the fact we do lots of night hours but when you come home from a trip out bush you have time off to chill.

Sometime you should come up and go out in the field with me to see if you like it. I am always looking for volunteers, next year I'll be doing lots of research on possums :)

To get a career like this you would need to do a degree in animal science, ecology, wildlife science or something like that... Conservation biology even

One of these days I'll make an effort to post some photos from the past years trips, I get to see so many wonderful animals! It's very hard work but it feels good and is something to be 100% proud of :)

[maggies-lens.livejournal.com]

and how hard is it to actually get work in the field itself? You know, I reckon I would probably actually enjoy WRITING about excursions like that; let the smart people do the research etc, I'll take all that stuff and make it into something the everyday person could read and enjoy. I remember when I first started getting interesting in nature when I was like 6 or 7, there were almost no books about wildlife/ecology that were easy for a lay-person to understand (at age 7 I was reading at a 16 year old level, not blowing my horn, it's just facts, it doesn't make me smart, it just means I read and comprehend well). What I adored were magazine like Nat Geo and books by people like Gerard Durrell; they made the natural world accessable for someone like me, I loved how those writers could take something quite complicated and possibly boring to the not-nature-mad, like the breeding cycle of bees say, and make it into something REAL. I loved the photos that froze moments in time and showed you the intricacy of a bee flying, or how the muscles on a cheetah worked, or how a deers' hooves spread to take it's weight over snow. You know? I wish I could do something like that. But with a million and one much better writers and photographers than I, and with far more charisma, I haven't a hope. I really don't think I have the brains to be a biologist or anything like that, and chemistry is just a foreign language I have never been able to comprehend no matter how hard I try.

[nutmeg3.livejournal.com]

You could be a-d all at once. :-)

[maggies-lens.livejournal.com]

That would be so much damn fun :)

[herecirm.livejournal.com]

Please work for National Geographic just so you can be the first person to document the Amazonian Night Walking Zombie Fish.

[maggies-lens.livejournal.com]

I have made it my life's study, that fish. I've discovered so many amazing things about it. Nat Geo don't want me tho ;) I kena believe it :D

[herecirm.livejournal.com]

When you're the recognised world expert, THEN they'll be sorry!

[maggies-lens.livejournal.com]

totally!!!!

[qn128.livejournal.com]

Being insanely rich sounds good to me :)

[maggies-lens.livejournal.com]

it does sound rather fabulous, doesn't it :)