Job Thingies

I was watching a documentary on Phone Sex Workers in Britain the other night and it got me wondering, what jobs could I do if I was that little less sqeamish, a little less prudish, a little less everything that inhibits basically. Now I duly hope that the few of you people that read this would be kind enough to comment on this, as I wish to have a, mainly immature, conversation.

There are many jobs in the world that we forget about. Sure, we remember that there are strippers and prostitutes, garbage men and lab workers, but we forget about the others, the phone sex workers, the taxidermists, the blood splatter specialists and the morgue attendants. Most of these jobs are really only seen in tv shows, either as a joke, or weird people that have these strange jobs that we forget exist and don't take from fantasy inside the tv show into reality and job applications.

I am a little curious as to how people apply for some of these sorts of jobs. How do you figure out your life calling is to take care of dead bodies or make a dead animal into a statue? How do you discover that you can make money by stroking peoples libido over the phone? How do you then get the experience, certifications or courage to then go for that job, that career path?

I know what I want to eventually do. I know it isn't everyone's cup of tea. I would love to be what is known as a Forensic Archaeologist, look at Palaeopathology (yes, it's a real word), explore childhood in what could be considered one of the more creepy ways to do so. Probably more creepy considering I'm about to apply to a teaching course, but hey, we all have our odd career sidetracks.

So I obviously lack some of the squeamishness that others have in bucketloads, but only for certain things. Get me to pick up dog poop or clean out rotten food from a fridge and I am outta there. I have a much more apparent prudishness, though the level of it can only be gauged once you know me well. I have to give it to those that spend their lives talking openly and frank and occasionally inventively about sex. I applaud them, as long as I don't have to be involved in the conversation. Let's stick to the other kinds of sticky and gross human functions thank you very much, and not in a fetishy kind of way.

So, what I want you to do (and I really hope you do) is write down an ooky, open or odd job that you would enjoy as a career, and why.....and then something that you would be completely against doing, and why (not the obvious "I won't be a prostitute/yoga instructor/midwife" kind of things).

So in the end, I am not bothered by dead bodies but would fail completely as a sex therapist.