If You Weren't Doing This...
What would you do? I mean, we all have the thing that we are engaged in now, like social work, and medieval research and photography, etc...but what is your second love?
I was thinking about that this morning. I love agriculture and growing things and art and colors and working with my hands. But there is this other thing that I think about sometimes, a path I didn't take because I never even thought about it, and it seems so unlike me. Radio, public radio. What if I had gone into radio journalism? Could I do that even now? I probably won't, but it's somthing I think about from time to time.
I bet you all have something like that. What is it?
I was thinking about that this morning. I love agriculture and growing things and art and colors and working with my hands. But there is this other thing that I think about sometimes, a path I didn't take because I never even thought about it, and it seems so unlike me. Radio, public radio. What if I had gone into radio journalism? Could I do that even now? I probably won't, but it's somthing I think about from time to time.
I bet you all have something like that. What is it?
posted by Hannah at 8:32 AM
9 Comments:
I totally have about three answers for this!! I have this closet dream of opening a greenhouse/nursery one day, so that is number one. Another thing I would do is bake pies, which doesn't seem like a very lucrative endeavor. And the third is to study birds. Like, to band them or to study migration patterns or something. I think there should be a law that everyone gets to go back to school at age 30 to do what they should have done in the first place. :D
You should give it a shot. Maybe you could freelance and do some of those "editorial" type pieces that I hear on Morning Edition sometimes. Is there such a thing as freelance radio?
I would love to be a DJ. Not radio journalism, though, a music DJ. I even looked into it when the guys left who did a legendary alt-country show on Northwestern's college station. There were already people on the waiting list to fill their spots, though, and not being an NU grad, I was on the bottom of the list.
I would like to run a bakery. Cupcakes, mostly, but once they lose their trendiness, any dessert, mostly. Or a breakfast cafe.
I would love love LOVE to run a B&B. That's in the back of my mind for someday when we settle down someplace in the country.
I love working with my hands. I think I would have made a good carpenter or auto mechanic or something.
You can submit freelance pieces to NPR. My friend Nikki used to. She tried to be an intern with This American Life but in the end couldn't afford to make rent if she did.
Oh! One more thing for myself: It's always been my daydream to accompany a choir at a little church. I just saw a listing on Craigslist last weekend, and I wanted so much to apply, but Tim was like, "Um, hello? Full-time school, an internship, and two jobs already? Maybe now's not the best time." Rats.
Last night was such a frustrating class! Even though tonight will probably go better, things are not satisfying today.
The thing is that 40 hours a week is a lot of time to be doing something you aren't totally sold on...but then, if you don't do it, you have no money. I wanted to focus more time and energy on creative pursuits, but it's not working out so well. Fortunately, this is the last week of the farmer's market...and now I can say that that is a thing i DON'T like to do, even though I had thought I might.
LeAnn...going back to school at thirty would be such a good law. Studying birds would be really cool...and so would having a nursery. I love the smell of potting soil. In my apartment there is a sunroom, and if I'm here when spring begins, I want to start a bunch of plants in there.
LeAnn, I think you can study birds at ESU. Remember Doug? He was getting his masters in Bio when we dated, and he was all about the birds. Bluebirds, I think.
Eliza, when she gets more into her career as a doctor, wants to open a breakfast restaurant. She so loves to cook, and is very good at it.
After cooking for a living, though, I can say that that is NOT what I want to do.
I have been thinking about this question quite a bit. For me, I think my answer always goes back to writing. I think that I come up with a new novel/poem/essay idea everyday and rarely take time to put it into practice. I'd ultimately love to write some sort of novel that takes place in Marion, maybe loosely based on stories I've heard about my long-dead relatives. When we were living in Marion, I really got into writing quite a bit of poetry about simple experiences--I remember I sent one to Jen that was about husking corn ... Anyway, writing is really my first love that I forsake far too often.
But, reading other responses, I would really be down for us all starting a bakery. I can contribute biscotti! I LOVE to make it every year for the holidays -- and I'll bring some in December!
I had at one point thought about rehab. I think that if I had known more when I went to ESU I would totally changed my major to that.
I someday dream of having a fabulously famous salon and being known all over the world for my hair talent. I do love to do hair!!!
I wish you were closer so you could do mine. I need it done again and the lady I go to has done the same thing the last three times. It's nice but I can't help being curious what someone else would do.
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