Calling all Loungers:

I need ideas.

I'm about to crack at my current place of employment.

Please contribute your ideas here.

Since you're ready to quit, I say stay for awhile.

That's what you did last time you were ready to quit.

Yeah, but now all the life altering crap is out of the way in the bossman's life.

I should mention the following two things:

I have a useless/meaningless degree in anthro.
Cabbies make more money than me.

May I suggest PR & Marketing?

Here's how to spin the degree thing;

"My degree in anthropology allows me to see how past consumer trends will shape and dictate the future buying trends of your target audience. I believe that this gives me the edge your company is looking for and will allow me to open new opportunities and alternative venues to further expand and enhance your business."

Hey ... it worked for me and I don't have a degree of any kind. Well, except for a possible honorary BS degree.

DG

Anthropology is cool, though not high paying unless you're tenured.

I don't think you stink enough to be a cabbie.

Maybe you could go to beauty school?

DG,
I'm gonna steal that.
Hope you don't mind.

And GB, I've considered that.
Along with: truck driver.
And I could totally stink if I gave up things like deodorant and perfume and shampoo.

It's yours for free, toots. Hope it serves you well.

If it doesn't I'll deny I ever typed it.

DG

Mention all the time you spent in the Lounge observing primitive life forms.

I could prolly earn my PhD writing about the social structure of this place.
Unfortunately, I'm too drunk to do that.

What did the anthropologist say to the stock broker?

Would you like fries with that?

High priced Las Vegas escort! You’ve got the right, um, credentials.

I think you should become a drug dealer, Abby.
Here's a "special" picture to get you motivated!

Or you could always become a hairstylist.......

Click on Me

I was ready to snap on the job last year due to stress (too much multi-tasking) but I tried this and it really helped.

The other alternative is to have a toot at work or to start putting in applications elswhere. You could fax resumes from where you work during the day.

I've only had one job before,
and I quickly got fed up so I quit;
I didn't actually quit showing up or collecting a pay check,
I didn't even quit doing the work,
I just quit caring,
I quit paying attention to everyone Else's crap too.
It worked for awhile.

Hey kirk! I've been doing the same thing for years too! Also meditating at work using this little mantra helps, "mortgage! utilities! food!(and now) Absinthe!( which also equals credit cards)"

What type of work do you do now, abby? Do you want to stay in sort of the same field, or exit completely? Are you opposed to going back to school?

Attend the John McEnroe Charm School and then become a Security Screener at Sky Harbor.

My mantra was " don't ask me I quit"
I repeated it all the time with great pleasure,
even the owner got behind it after awhile.
It went on for years till I got bored with it and quit.

my mantra is:

`I would prefer not to'

Mine too.

By the way, CeeGee, when did you start sportin' a beret?

even before then

So many ideas!
Thanks, kids.

I think I'll go with Cros' suggestion.
Mostly onacuz I like Vegas.
And I'm lazy.
And I prefer sleeping in.
The whole celibacy thing might prove difficult, but I'm sure I could figure something out.

Professional beer/wine/scotch taster?

I'd never be that lucky.

I hear their down a couple of crack whores in Allentown. There was a raid the other night and it netted a couple of crack whores and some guy named "Mad Man Mike".

So here are my suggestions:

Crack whore
Fluffer
Scat cleaner on scat porn sets
Personal chauffer to the stars(damn near close to scat cleaner)
Roadie for Rush
Pimp(Heidi Fleiss did well with it)
Howard Stern groupie
Piano mover
Peep show booth cleaner
Professional race car driver
Wild game hunter in Africa
Illegal immigrant wolf(helps Mexicans cross the border)
Alaskan pipeline worker
Clown at kiddie parties
Rodeo clown
Bozo the Clown
or any other type of clown that you could think of.

You could start your own web site- "Abby's Angels" $39.95 per month!

lawn wrangler

I'm not telling you why, but that's really damned funny.

....or professional trash truck racer.

I hear it pays, in Boston anyway.

Like so many of us here, become an ATF agent.

BATF- Becoming an Alcoholic Through Friends!

I just noticed that Jack hit 7K.

How about bartender?



What do you LIKE to do? What are your interests, beyond alcohol?

I figured that out, went back to school, and now have a job I really LIKE.

I'm not in any position geographically or financially to go back for my PhD.
My two options would be Michigan (where it snows) and UC Berkeley. My prof here went and retired, the bastard. They have yet to replace him.

Freelance airborne traffic reporter.
No need for fancy equipment (AV gear, helicoptor) or an affiliation with some bureaucratic TV or radio network to perform this job. Just get yourself a megaphone, a lawn chair, and about 20 big helium balloons.

Awwwwww, now ya gotta tell me!

DING!

Give the man a

wow

Just realized my last post could (and prolly will) be interpreted in oh so many ways.

That thing's really creepy.

It'll make SqueeGee wet fo' sho'.

I strongly advocate "doctoral student" as a career despite the obstacles. Then again, I would.

Have you ever taken the Strong Interest Inventory or the Meyers-Briggs?

The latter, not the former.

Perhaps you should consider becoming a lobbyist. No credentials are required and you have great experience in grassroots communications management. Realizing that being a Mod here can be spun that way is about all the skill it takes to be a successful lobbyist.


Besides, lobbyists get to go to a lot of cocktail parties...or so I've heard.