If I were not doin' what I am right now, I would be...

I think I would be a good dectective.

Why talk about what we WOULD be doing or what we COULD be doing...........let's live right now. It's all we can do anyway.

Pah - a lot of us have changed what we do about earning a living and that will happen now more and more. For some of us, it is beneficial to explore our interests.

Yes, over time. I'm talking about RIGHT NOW.

I definately would be a lobsterman on the Gulf of MAine or else a waterman on the Chesapeake. Its all physical labor and involves a daily respect for the sea and my equipment.

I would like to be a paleontologist, or something related.

"Respect for the sea and my equipment" - So now we are respecting water, and "equipment"....? Is there no hope for humanity?(DAILY respect no less!)

You don't "love" your profession. You've grown sort of a tolerance for it, as you know you have to do SOMETHING. What you do just isn't as bad as whatever else you'd HAVE to do.

As a lobsterman, Id be providing humanity with a sea treat. If youre not familiar with the many faces and moods of the ocean, then you dont really understand what Im talking about.

I think about being a boundary rider or drover/stockman for a big cattle station. Long days on my own never bothered me at all. just me my horse and dogs. Dependant only on myself, the equipment i have and the environment i work in.

Of course i'd have to have sat comm.

"Lobsterman" - Killing another species to feed MY species for their praises.(Narrow minded, unenlightened self interest) "Faces and moods of the ocean" Is this to be respected? Respect amungst humans is pointless enough, now we're respecting water?

Are we really TALKING about how we'd like to spend most of our time WORKING for a government who couldn't careless? Is this it? Surely a "profession" is not even worth talking about, let alone starting a topic on it.

Your own personal self esteem problems notwitstanding, might I introduce you to the several definitions of respect. Some involve words like "hold in esteem" , "recognition of personal qualities through affection" or the combination of "approbation , deference , and admiration".
Like I said, if youre not familiar with the sea, thne you probably wont have a clue .

Continue your running critiques, maybe someone else will give you the time of day.

If you dont like lobster (a well managed resource that is not in decline), well,maybe youd like some of my crabmeat, its very tasty made into a crabcake.

Campaign and political strategist. Still a possibility.

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I got an idea, why don't you go **** all the seacreatures out there already?

Perhaps a reality check would be in order for you, NAACP, you seem to live
in a dream world that doesn't exist.

Define "reality".......

"you seem...." You're PERCIEVING me to not know what "reality"(a suspect word to say the least) is. But who's to say your PERCEPTIONS on what's going on around us is anymore valid than mine?

As I said, define "reality"...........

Hm, I think I would love to be a professional photographer for National Geographic Magazine.

Wow, taking pictures of events/other people/beings. "Click". How enriching.