Friday Queries -- On the Job

[kybearfuzz]

TGIF! This week has been a long one. My recent training had me thinking about job opportunities and my future direction. Naturally, it influenced the questions I am posing to anyone who wants to play...

1. If people change jobs/careers four times in their lifetime, what would you likely try next?
   
2. How or why did you choose your college major or field of study? Do you work within this field?
   
3. What was your worst boss like (who is, of course, NOT your current boss because he/she is wonderful)?
   
4. They are filming a sequel to Brokeback Mountain and you are hired as the casting director, who do you pick to be your new hot and heavy cowboys?
   
5. Could you be a psychic? I'm thinking of a number between 1 and 100, what is it? What would you want to be your prize if you get it right?

1. Lottery winner and man of leisure!
   
2. I picked chemistry when I was a junior in high school. I really loved how chemistry worked, how two innocuous things could be mixed together to make something relatively dangerous. I also love to figure things out, so analytical chemistry was my bag. Really, it was like learning how to do magic. And I used to work as a chemist, but I put the knowledge to use now when I review laboratory information for work.
   
3. My worst boss was a crotchety old Baptist idiot. He always said he was a good Baptist man, but had cheated on his first wife and was unfaithful to his second. If you weren't a white Baptist male over 40, you didn't know you ass from a hole in the ground. Strangely enough, I met all of those criteria except age. We locked horns regularly until I transferred away. Later I found out that he didn't realize the huge volume of work I produced until I left. What a loser...
   
4. For a younger crowd, maybe Liev Schrieber and Jeremy Piven (if he'll stop shaving his chest, darn it!). If I were going the daddy route though, I'd pick Sam Elliot and Tom Selleck (or maybe Kevin Kline and a bearded James Gandolfini).
   
5. Now this wouldn't be fair as I know the number :D

Comments

[demcub.livejournal.com]

1. Weatherman, Highway Planner, Installation/Delivery Person for furniture - none of these jobs have any accountability to be right or good.
2. Political Science - have always been into it. Still am. :)
3. General Manager when I worked for TGI Fridays - did lines of cocaine int he bathroom, needless to say, a tad unpredictable.
4. George Duran (Ham on the Street) and Roger Clemens - might as well put my two celebrity crushes together.
5. 58 - and i'll leave the prize upto your psychic ability. :)

[kybearfuzz.livejournal.com]

Line of coke in the bathroom? Yikes! I'm glad I don't work for him...

[truebrixon.livejournal.com]

OMG, finally someone else who has a crush on George Duran! I knew it couldn't be just me.

[rixtur.livejournal.com]

....George Duran fan here! ANyone know if he is gay?

[truebrixon.livejournal.com]

I've tried looking but haven't been able to find anything say either way....so frustrating! lol

[mat-t.livejournal.com]

Job opportunities and a future direction huh? *wishes in vain that the future direction lies near NYC*

1. I had a hard enough time picking THIS career. I like your answer of "man of leisure" *g*


2. I had no clue what I wanted to do. I had taken a couple of programming classes in high school and had discovered a talent for it. I didn't love it, but it was okay, and lucrative. So I majored in Computer Science. I hated it during school, but couldn't come up with a better choice. Once I started working in the industry, I came to enjoy it (sometimes at least *G*).


3. The evil boss I had last year and ranted about in my journal. He made me angry enough one day to just walk out of the office after a meeting with him. It was like 4:30 though, so noone noticed. ;) Around the office, we still refer to him as "Zippy" (as in "Zippy the Pinhead") or Screen Door (as in "as useful as a screen door in a submarine"). He couldn't understand how he could ever be wrong, or how anyone else's opinion could be valid if it didn't match his. He pissed off everyone he ever worked with here. Was soooo glad to see him quit after four months (which I think is obvious *g*)


4. No clue. I stink at casting *g*


5. Hmmmm....31? As for my prize, having you around to cuddle would be it! :)

[kybearfuzz.livejournal.com]

Oooh.. I'd change the number to "31" for cuddles.. :D

[mat-t.livejournal.com]

Well, if you'd make a trip to visit, you could have them any time! C'mon, you know you were thinking 31... *G*

[mississippicub.livejournal.com]

1. Well I have been a radio DJ/reporter, meteorologist, news reporter, computer programmer and now teacher... so I have done 5 already... I think I am through with career changes.
2. I started out as a Astrophysics major cause I wanted to be an atronomer... but after interviewing the head of the meteorology program in a news show I switched to that and graduated. Course, I don't use it at all now.
3. My worst boss was at the radio station. He had several sexual harassment suits against him by women, and I often cussed him out.
4. I'm no good at casting either
5. Psychic... no... but I am good at reading people's moods. I'll say 42... and I want a cookie! hehehe

[kybearfuzz.livejournal.com]

Cookie! Cookie!! Cookie!!!

[mat-t.livejournal.com]

Damnit, I was gonna say 42, but I thought it was too obvious! And I don't even like Hitchiker's Guide! Though, since 42 was the first thing I actually typed, that means you have to come cuddle anyway ;)

[586bc.livejournal.com]

1. Maybe a teacher, maybe a crime lab employee, maybe something Food Network-y.
2. I just always loved music, and still do, but I really just dabble in it these days. *sigh*
3. My worst boss wasn't even my actual boss, she was a supervisor in another department at the mortgage company, but she took it upon herself to try and micro-manage everybody that even walked down the hall. She was at Target one afternoon after work, and I had the opportunity to run over her in the parking lot. I regret not doing it.
4. Let's see...maybe Jesse Metcalfe (Desperate Housewives) and George Eads (CSI)...or maybe James Denton (DW) and Ricardo Antonio Chavira (that's Carlos on DW...mm-mm).
5. I will guess 36, and if I'm right, you can owe me a beer.

[kybearfuzz.livejournal.com]

Oooh.. I saw Ricardo Antonio Chavira on this week's cover of TV Guide, he's luscious...

...and I'd get you a beer anyway :)

[boobooirl.livejournal.com]

1. I think I'd enjoy working in advertising for a while.
2. I chose chemistry because it seemed fun and pretty interesting in school. I dropped out of the research environment about 18 months ago and do more project management than anything nowadays - albeit still somewhat in a chemical field.
3. When I worked in a disco from aged 17-19 our boss was a stupid, thick farmer. Hadn't a clue what he was doing and had us all in constant fear of losing our jobs. Then HE got sacked... haha!
4. I totally agree with your bearded James Gandolfini. I think I'd like to see him paired with Michael Chiklis. Yummy!
5. 62! If I'm right I'd like the secret to your good looks :)

[truebrixon.livejournal.com]

1. Professional stage actor. There's nothing quite like performing on stage.
2. I was a chemistry major. Much like yourself, I am really interested in how things work and what happens when you combine things. Also analytical chemistry was my fave. I guess I sort of use it in my bartending since that's mixing a lot of different things together to create an entirely different cocktail.
3. My worst boss ever was at my first job. I was working illegally to begin with (14 when he hired me to work in the kitchen an barback). When I turned 16 he refused to increase my pay to the federal minimum wage, so I quit.
4. I will second Michael Chiklis, but I'm not sure who else I would cast.
5. Um, let's see, reading your mind now...OMG SHOES!! wait that's not a number, but it is in there a lot...that's a good way to block unwanted mind readers :) I'll go with 27. For my prize...I'll leave that up to you to choose. I know you have good taste.