Careers I am still seriously considering

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Script writer, sub-editor, corporate lawyer, legal aid lawyer, actor, stand-up comedian, novelist, pop star, features writer, model, social researcher.

I'm 29. Is this funny anymore?

― N., Saturday, 4 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Nick if there's one thing Disney has taught us it's that if you believe in yourself you can achieve anything.

I heckled a comedian last night while drunk.

― Ronan, Saturday, 4 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

You have the looks to be a pop star, but I am not yet convinced that you have the talent.

― the pinefox, Saturday, 4 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Since when has talent been a requirement to be a pop star?

― David, Saturday, 4 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

No, you have the talent, but not the looks! You are now too old to be both a pop star and model. Unless you model for Merc or sing in the Merc window display.

― Marianna, Saturday, 4 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I know Marianna, I know. Mind you, I do still look like I'm 12 and the Toni & Guy man picked me out to demo on and then took polaroids and rang me up to come in to do an all-day shoot as part of his hairdresser of the year contest entry in June. It was v.exciting. Probably won't happen though and I'm not getting paid or anything.

― N., Saturday, 4 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I do still look like I'm 12

How much of a beard have you actually managed to grow then, N.?

The earnings potential of these career options covers a wide range. Money & maintaining your chosen lifestyle is not important to you.

You are a hippy.

― David, Saturday, 4 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It's not that it's not important to me. It's just that there are other things that are also important. Does that make sense? What I mean is, I'd rather be earning £50K a year than £15K. Am I still a hippy?

― N., Saturday, 4 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yes.

Its just that now you're pushing 30 you've grown up a bit & a turning into a sensible, practical kind of hippy.

― David, Saturday, 4 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Stop denying it... your a total hippy.

You wouldn't have the stamina for a career in modeling baby!

― Marianna, Saturday, 4 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Why can't you be all of them at once?

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 4 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

What about a career in baby modelling?

― N., Saturday, 4 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

What, wearing babies?

― Matt Fallaize, Saturday, 4 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

No, not that.

― N., Saturday, 4 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

surely, it's not too late to be most of those? Apart from the lawyer stuff, that would take ages to qualify for.

― jel --, Saturday, 4 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Nah, most models (and even baby models) are under the age of 18. Except in Milan, where models are allowed to be as old as 25!

― Marianna, Saturday, 4 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Be a stand-up novelist.

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Saturday, 4 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

yeah but you could always become like a hand model!

― jel --, Saturday, 4 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Wow, ILE really isn't a good place where you're free to dream, is it?

― Mandee, Saturday, 4 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Mitch, just so you know, you're not fooling any of us -- we are all very much aware your last name is Net70.

― Mandee, Saturday, 4 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

N., I was under the impression that you'd just *accepted* a new job. Are you getting the fear?

I think you should be a TV pundit.

― Mark C at laurel's, Saturday, 4 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Social researcher could be quite fun. I mean you'd get to run around spying on people in the name of science.

I can't imagine settling down in one career and wanting to stay there forever. And 29 is old but not THAT old.

― Maria, Saturday, 4 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I want to be a ballet dancer.

― toraneko, Sunday, 5 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I want to get degree after degree

― anthony, Sunday, 5 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I want to be a Japanese Monster Wrestler..."Go! Turborocket Buglebear!!

― jel --, Sunday, 5 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

N. - positive spin: you are keeping alive imagination and the hope of personal reinvention. Negative spin: you have failed to grow up. Sociological spin: you are caught in an increasingly prevalent position at the intersection of changing economic structures and norms about maturity: work it how you will.

― Ellie, Sunday, 5 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The jig is up. Thanks a bunch, Mandee.

― Mitch Net70, Sunday, 5 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Nick, come to Thailand with me, I may have a job opportunity for you. If you can love someone long time that is of course.

― chris, Sunday, 5 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ah ha! He has found a netcafe in between all his endless erotic adventures. Speak, Chris, tell us what little you have seen of Thailand through your hotel window.

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 5 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"29 is old but not THAT old"

― *sighs*, Sunday, 5 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm not there yet Ned, I'm at home frantically running around trying to pack and realising that my backpack is way too small so I have to go and get a new one. but no fear, I will be reporting.

― chris, Monday, 6 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Most wise.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 6 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Before learning about STDs, I wanted to be in adult films. I guess health class was good for something after all!

― Dan Perry, Monday, 6 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Before learning about STDs, I wanted to be in adult films.

Much is now explained.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 6 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Dan's movie would have been called Hootie and the Blow-wench, of course.

― Nicole, Monday, 6 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yes, and the theme song would have been "I only wanna cream on you," ha ha ha.

I DO NOT LOOK LIKE HOOTIE! That would be my brother. (He's gonna kill me if he ever checks the referral logs...)

― Dan Perry, Monday, 6 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Dan would have been much better off in a porn version of Prince's life. All the chiffon, whipped cream and strawberries dipped in chocolate might have gotten to him after a while, though.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 6 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I liked Ellie's answer best.

― N., Tuesday, 7 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I need a new career too though I think model and pop star are probably out. And I'm 29. Go Nick go.

― Tom, Tuesday, 7 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Surely only a really arrogant person would think themselves qualified to become a model or a pop star? I need a new career too so people will stop thinking I am stupid as I discovered on Sunday that someone I know thinks I am clever & I liked this.

― Emma, Tuesday, 7 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I got a new job, well, sort of.

― jel --, Tuesday, 7 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Surely only a really arrogant person would think themselves qualified to become a model or a pop star?

Surely you could say the same about lawyer or script writer or anything else one might aspire to, really.

― N., Tuesday, 7 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yeah but its you Nick - and we like calling you arrogant.

― Pete, Tuesday, 7 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yes, I was forgetting that.

― N., Tuesday, 7 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Also to be a model or pop star requires great good looks and / or talent whereas to be a lawyer requires a couple of years of law school i.e. any fule could be one if they have a modicum (or less) of intelligence.

And what Pete said. My ideal career would be working for Inside Soap.

― Emma, Tuesday, 7 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Having reread that I realise that to become a pop star does not necessarily require looks or talent so it isn't arrogant to aspire to be one. Carry on aspiring, Nick.

― Emma, Tuesday, 7 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I am clever & I liked this

Well, duh.

― Graham, Tuesday, 7 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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