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BS: My daughter's interesting career choice

10 Sep 01 - 01:06 PM (#546378)
Subject: My daughter's interesting career choice
From: Willie-O

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


10 Sep 01 - 01:19 PM (#546392)
Subject: RE: BS: My daughter's interesting career choice
From: catspaw49

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


10 Sep 01 - 01:19 PM (#546393)
Subject: RE: BS: My daughter's interesting career choice
From: Jim Dixon

emily is a talented writer

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


10 Sep 01 - 02:24 PM (#546451)
Subject: RE: BS: My daughter's interesting career choice
From: Troll

water yew dixn sum kinda FANATIC er sumthin

troll


10 Sep 01 - 07:32 PM (#546659)
Subject: RE: BS: My daughter's interesting career choice
From: Jim Dixon

yup


10 Sep 01 - 09:24 PM (#546717)
Subject: RE: BS: My daughter's interesting career choice
From: GUEST,Ely

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)


11 Sep 01 - 12:32 AM (#546782)
Subject: RE: BS: My daughter's interesting career choice
From: Amos

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


11 Sep 01 - 01:05 AM (#546792)
Subject: RE: BS: My daughter's interesting career choice
From: CarolC

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


11 Sep 01 - 01:29 AM (#546797)
Subject: RE: BS: My daughter's interesting career choice
From: Peter Kasin

She moving to Hoboken?


11 Sep 01 - 01:02 PM (#547173)
Subject: RE: BS: My daughter's interesting career choice
From: Willie-O

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....


11 Sep 01 - 01:08 PM (#547179)
Subject: RE: BS: My daughter's interesting career choice
From: MMario

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?


11 Sep 01 - 01:11 PM (#547184)
Subject: RE: BS: My daughter's interesting career choice
From: Amos

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

A.


11 Sep 01 - 02:47 PM (#547281)
Subject: RE: BS: My daughter's interesting career choice
From: lady penelope

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.


11 Sep 01 - 02:55 PM (#547287)
Subject: RE: BS: My daughter's interesting career choice
From: CarolC

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