May 12, 2004
Dream Jobs
I was paging through these
eye-popping layouts from the House Industries book yesterday. It got me to thinking what a fantastic and unique company House is and what a priviledge it must be to work there. I don't know squat about font design, but so what - in my dreams, I already have an office there!
Here's a short list of my own Dream Jobs, positions I would die for with no regards to experience, location or impossibility:
I could probably go on and on, but I won't. Does any body else have some Dream Jobs to share?
Posted by mhinrichs at May 12, 2004 11:35 AM
Leading contralto at the Met. Or La Scala. Or the Paris Opera. Or Covent Garden (although I'm apparently too fat for Covent Garden). Or San Francisco...
You already know mine: scriptwriter in Hollywood circa 1920, moving into radio scriptwriting (still in Hollywood) in the 1930s.
Don't dream it -be it!
Every one of those jobs is obtainable. All you need is a portfolio they can't refuse (and that only takes hard work).
I love all of those, but I'd also add animator/writer during the golden age of Warner Brothers animation.
Heavy metal guitarist. Not hair band kind though.
Death metal. Man, the fans I'd have in Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Chile, Brazil and Mexico.
Playing "The Taming of the Shrew" (Petruchio, of course) and "The Lady From The Sea" (Obscure but riveting Ibsen) in rep at BAM for 3 months, then touring another 3 months to Continental Capitols; Frank Rich my complete dawg...
Playing something, ANYTHING, on the Simpsons. Tom Shales hales me as "the man of a thousand voices", we hide from Frank Rich in the Men's Room and do copious amounts of Textra, a new non-addictive drug that makes you feel like your whole body is swimming in fabric softener.
Zooey Deschanel's "Pizza Guy"; no strings attached, but one rainy weekend we share hidden lives of loss and lust only those in The Biz understand. I teach her about shallots, and how to eat an artichoke. She opens me up to a Whole New World of The Applebee's Salad Bar. This film has not yet been rated.
