Dream Jobs

Length of Shower: 9 min--The dream job, everyone has one, but I have had several throughout my life.  Some were real passions and some where confused realities.  Today I will rank my dream jobs in chronological order of when I wanted them.

1. Kindergarten/1st grade:  Lawyer.  I wanted to be lawyer during this time in my youth because I thought that they made the most money AND it was like the only job i really knew about outside of what my father did.

2. 2nd Grade: Guy on the back of the Garbage truck.  This guy was my idol when I was young.  I wanted to be him so badly because he could do all the things that I got in trouble for.  He had it all...no worries about breaking stuff, he got to throw things and make a mess, he was dirty and that was ok, he ran the trash compactor on the back of the garbage truck and most importantly he got to ride the truck by just hanging onto the back of the truck like some action hero.  Man, he had it all!

3. 3rd Grade:  An usher at our church.  I thought that these guys actually got to keep the money they collected during offering.  Plus, they only had to work one day a week for about an hour.  That seemed like the easiest job ever.

4. 6th Grade:  A stunt man.  These guys were the coolest guys on TV.  They actually got to be in the cars during the chase scenes and jumps during my favorite TV shows (The Dukes of Hazzard) that I watched every week.  Plus, they were tough, but didn't have to deal with the hassles of being famous or recognized in public.

5. 7th/8th Grade: Pro basketball player.  Um...obvious reasons here.  They played a game for millions of dollars!

6. Early High School: A Coach.  These guys were the distiguested men of sports.  They got the glory when the team won, they handled the losses with dignity and as a bonus they never got injured.  This was the adult way to have a profession in sports.

7. Late High School:  A teacher (finally something practical!).  This was performance with control.  Perfect for an actor, singer with type A personality.

8. College: Anything but a teacher.  Go figure on this one.

9. My first apartment: The gas company guy who gets paid $30 to flip a switch and turn on my gas.  I mean who has an easier job than this guy?  He sits there all day in front of a wall of switches and when he gets an address from the operator he walks over and flips the switch for that address.  And every time he does it he gets like $30.  Um....easy.

10. Post-Post-College: A professional Softball Player.  These guys get paid to drink beer between innings and play a sport without any of the pressures of actual pro athletes.  Um....where do I sign up?

11.   Current: Writing this blog!  Finally the perfect job....now if I could just pay rent with it ;)

Whatever your dreams or goals are, go get 'em fans!!