Body of work

In my life I have been paid to be (or do) these things:
• Artist (various)
• Costume Designer
• Costume Fabricator
• Editor & ½ staff of a semi-regular arts publication
• Fabric store Inventorier (not inventory of the stores, but the goods)
• Office manager (sort of) for a marriage & family therapist
• Vintage clothes store Presser
• Vintage clothes store Shopgirl
• Craft store & paint your own pottery Shopgirl
• Rubberstamp & art supply store Shopgirl
• Toy store Shopgirl
• Teacher (four year olds)
• Teacher (various altered arts including Junk Jewelry, scrapbooking)
• Writer (various)

I have done the following for little to no pay, or, for other sorts of remuneration (that word is correct, honest! I had to make Colin look it up, he is the most knowledgeable word person I personally know, and he didn't believe me, but it's right, I swear. . .):
• Acting (various)
• Book Reviewing
• Editing (various)
• Directing a multi-age amateur acting group in Hamlet (yeah, Shakespeare) and Bontsha the Silent (Isaac Bashevis Singer)
• Room stylist for people’s homes
• Selling plants on a college campus quad
• Stock girl at a food co-op
• Teaching math at an elementary school
Oops, almost forgot, I was on the Board of Directors for The Dance Connection!

These are things I think I might be good at, and would like to do, or do again, and be paid:
• Acting (various)
• Archaeologist
• Artist (various, esp. photography, esp. with a Holga, which I don't actually have)
• Editor & ½ staff of a semi-regular arts publication
• Hammock demonstrator
• Librarian
• Lighthouse keeper
• Organic greenhouse worker (maybe. . .)
• Book reviewing
• Movie reviewing
• Room stylist for people’s homes
• Scribe
• Successful thief, ala Robin Hood
• Tour Guide at a museum
• Travel writing
• Writing (various)
• I would also like to be a bike messenger, but I think I would be too scared, and too easily distracted and did I mention run a Poet's Cafe? Except that would suck if the poetry was always bad!

Here are a few things I would happily do, or do again and for nothing:
• Artist (various)
• Editor & ½ staff of a semi-regular arts publication
• Beachcomber
• Book reviewing
• Movie reviewing
• Work with refugees
• Room stylist for people’s homes
• Shell gatherer (yes, it IS actually different from Beachcomber)
• Travel writing
• Writing (various)

Finally, here are things I would never, ever want to be, under any circumstances, though I TOTALLY respect those who are:
• Auctioneer
• Antiques dealer
• Competitive swimmer
• Computer programmer
• Balloon ascensionist or racer
• Bridal consultant
• Factory worker
• Pilot
• Housekeeper
• Someone who works with the “criminally insane”
• Plumber, or anything to do with sewage, it totally makes me gaggy
• Podiatrist
• Stripper
• Surgeon, or work in a morgue, or for the autopsy peeps (see Plumber)
• Theatrical agent
• Window Installer
• Zookeeper

What about you???