BS: My daughter's interesting career choice

Subject: My daughter's interesting career choice
From: Willie-O
Date: 10 Sep 01 - 01:06 PM

Yup, professional career counselling, grade ten for-credit style, has convinced her that her true path is to be a... hobo.

I don't know what happened...those 561 train songs I've been singing around her since infancy must have seeped through somehow...

First song she ever learned on the guitar? "Hobo's Lullabye", of course.

What's a parent to do? Lately I've been obsessively singing ("practicing" as I like to say) "This Old Mandolin", and I guess that hasn't helped matters.

Well, time to catch an outbound...
Willie-O
Puzzled but Proud Papa

Subject: RE: BS: My daughter's interesting career choice
From: catspaw49
Date: 10 Sep 01 - 01:19 PM

Ya' know Willie, I felt like a real interloper reading your daughter's journal, but I gotta' tell you.......That's a pretty neat kid! I loved the focus on "crappy" in the first one..........But as I read through..........You have much to be proud of there.....and I ain't talkin' about Rick's crappy guitar.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: My daughter's interesting career choice
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 10 Sep 01 - 01:19 PM

emily is a talented writer

but if shes gonna be "some writer person" shes gonna hafta learnta CAPITALIZE, PUNCTUATE, AND USE A SPELL-CHECKER

Subject: RE: BS: My daughter's interesting career choice
From: Troll
Date: 10 Sep 01 - 02:24 PM

water yew dixn sum kinda FANATIC er sumthin

troll

Subject: RE: BS: My daughter's interesting career choice
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 10 Sep 01 - 07:32 PM

yup

Subject: RE: BS: My daughter's interesting career choice
From: GUEST,Ely
Date: 10 Sep 01 - 09:24 PM

We had to take this thing called the Kuder Interest Survey (or something like that) and it told me I should either be a ranch hand or an auto mechanic. It said I'd be better at those than 99% of girls and 91% of boys. Too bad auto repair didn't fit into my schedule. I'm cleaning up dog poop at a veterinarian's office right now--do you think that's close enough?

--Ely (another daughter who's bound to make a weird career choice)

Subject: RE: BS: My daughter's interesting career choice
From: Amos
Date: 11 Sep 01 - 12:32 AM

Well I just loved Emily's posts and I can GAYrantee you that she'll grow up to be one Purde Dee Live Wire, whatever she does for a living.

Giver a hug for me!

Amos

Subject: RE: BS: My daughter's interesting career choice
From: CarolC
Date: 11 Sep 01 - 01:05 AM

Is that ms. alicia teacup you're talking about? She's a good writer.

Subject: RE: BS: My daughter's interesting career choice
From: Peter Kasin
Date: 11 Sep 01 - 01:29 AM

She moving to Hoboken?

Subject: RE: BS: My daughter's interesting career choice
From: Willie-O
Date: 11 Sep 01 - 01:02 PM

no she's emily cameron. Her handle (ha!) is agent_teacup, that's a character in one of her many unfinished plays.

Ely, you sound like you'd make a good hobo as well.

Willie-O
Due to today's horrific events, I just want to say thanks for your interest, there's understandably not much room for levity today....

Subject: RE: BS: My daughter's interesting career choice
From: MMario
Date: 11 Sep 01 - 01:08 PM

well - when I was in high school my kuder tests said I was best suited to be a forest ranger, a lighthouse keeper or a priest - so of course I ended up as a computer technician whose major sideline is improvisational acting. what do tests know?

Subject: RE: BS: My daughter's interesting career choice
From: Amos
Date: 11 Sep 01 - 01:11 PM

Maybe you should be guarding a lighthouse in the middle of a forest somewhere, MM -- offering remote marriages and burials at a discount.

A.

Subject: RE: BS: My daughter's interesting career choice
From: lady penelope
Date: 11 Sep 01 - 02:47 PM

It sounds as good as the "career advice" I recieved when I was 15 ( so you could choose which 'A' levels you went on to do ). When asked by the 'careers officer' what subjects I was interested in, I replied " Sciences". To which the 'careers officer' said I should train to be a nurse and turfed me out of the room!

Glad we no longer live in that type of society!

Good luck with Hobo-ing and always remember to get either a pot of cold cream or a very good moisturiser ( really stops chafing from getting out of hand - or feet )

TTFN M'Lady P.

Subject: RE: BS: My daughter's interesting career choice
From: CarolC
Date: 11 Sep 01 - 02:55 PM

She posted as alicia teacup on a thread she started last may. It was a good thread. At least I enjoyed it.