smattering.org >> the friday five

1. What is your current occupation? Is this what you chose to be doing at this point in your life? Why or why not?
I am currently a computer nerd. (Aka technician) I build computers, fix computers, sell computers, etc…. I pretty much knew sice I was 12 that I would be doing something like this. It’s nice to have a job that is also your hobby.

2. If time/talent/money were no object, what would your dream occupation be?
I’d love to be one of those little devils that sit on people’s shoulders and tell them to be bad.
3. What did/do your parents do for a living? Has this had any influence on your career choices?
My mother has been making porcelain dolls for most of my life. She makes them in her house. (the house I grew up in always had hunderds of little eyes peering at me from all sides, ask Troy, it was wierd.) My dad is also a computer geek. He started programming on punch cards. This likely had much to do with my technical lifestyle.

4. Have you ever had to choose between having a career and having a family?
No, and at this point, I am starting to doubt that I will ever need to make that choice.

5. In your opinion, what is the easiest job in the world? What is the hardest? Why?
Hard question. I don’t know all the jobs in the world. For me, the hardest job would be a surgeon. All the blood and such, the fear that if you fail, someone could die, not my idea of fun or easy. As for the easiest job…I don’t know…pillow tester?