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)
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