In Babylon 5 there is an amazing line. I do not know the character but he’s played by the same actor who played Chekov from Star Trek and he is a baddy. He says “being a freedom fighter is great, but it doesn’t pay” or words to that effect. This is one of the great laws of the universe. If playing Fortnight, lego or writing blogs paid the bills we could do it forty hours a week or more. Alas they do not but lets imagine a world where the bills are paid and I can do whatever I like.
One unpaid job that would be lots of fun would be a professional “church crawler”. Sounds odd doesn’t it? But in fact it would involve visiting old building and looking at them. I could look at the stained glass, the carvings and all the other ancient and interesting features of the church. In real life this is something that I do. One day I discovered that a church near where I grew up had meisercords that were unknown to scholarship. I hightailed it back to Cheshire and went to see them and found that the cheap Warborton family had installed blank meisercords.
Another fun job would be hotel inspector. I am sure that they do have quality assurance people who check the quality of hotels but I bet they are a subspecies of the spreadsheet people. In my world these hotel inspectors would go on holiday to hotels and would rank hotels in the same way people rank wines.
The ultimate job would be a blog writer. If I could spend my time just researching and writing blogs I would be a very happy man.
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