Dream Jobs* (in no particular order)

• Tintin (aka international photojournalist and detective)
• Novelist
• Small museum manager
• Environmental/urban planner
• Criminologist
• Judge
• Dancer
• Anthropologist
• Archaeologist
• Landscape architect
• Art and literary critic
• Curator
• Private investigator
• Spy
• Artist
• Criminal mastermind
• Fat controller

*I must make the note that I am blessed to have a career – as a writer – that has allowed me, at one time or another, to dip into many of the above careers (plus many more). I can think of only one other career path that allows you to do that: acting.

Reality Jobs (in order)

• Receptionist (for my Mum in school holidays)
• Body Shop Christmas-present wrapper
• Barista
• Server (and secret eater) of ice-cream at Haagen Dazs – opposite Windsor Castle
• Artist’s model
• Dancer
• Arts events and book publicist
• Journalist: production manager/sub-editor
• Journalist: features writer (CLEO)
• Freelance: writer, editor, project manager, stylist
• Repeat the previous two for a couple for years
• Newspaper columnist (Sydney Morning Herald)
• Travel and food writer (Gourmet Traveller)
• Freelance again (I think!)
• Book editor (Random House)
• Lifestyle Director (OK! Magazine)
• Communications and Media Manager
• Full-time ad agency copywriter, a la Mad Men… and freelance consultant and entrepreneur (MADE Tasmania)