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

[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*