LOOK! It’s 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? My current occupation is surprisingly enough in Banking. I’ve managed to find a niche for myself here and I like it.

The original plan was to be a professor (German languages and literature) but I never got around to the Ph.D. for various reasons. While I would like a job that involved more travel, I am happy with where I am.

2. If time/talent/money were no object, what would your dream occupation be?I would love to speak about 90 world languages and be a tour guide. I want to do it all, from rock climbing in the Himalayas to posh Rivera vacations. On the side I would like to be a published linguist, and while I’m at it, I want to settle this issue about that Proto-Indo-European language too. I mean, think about it, while the tourists are having some free time, I’m off in a café or sitting on a rock in like, Cairo writing my latest findings. Sounds very romantic to me.

3. What did/do your parents do for a living? Has this had any influence on your career choices? My father was an engineer of the electrical kind. My mother never had a career, but had many jobs. They brought me up to believe that not going to college was hardly an option, but their influence on my career choice ended there.

4. Have you ever had to choose between having a career and having a family? That is hardly an issue in my life.

5. In your opinion, what is the easiest job in the world? What is the hardest? Why? Well, the easy way out of this question is to say that, theoretically, any job you love is easy and a job you hate is a hard one. But I will go one step further and say for me, the hardest job would be a children’s oncologist or something involving intense physical labor, like being a firefighter or a lumberjack. It is hard for me to think of a job I would classify as being easy – because work that is too easy would be boring, and that is hard, being bored for 8 hours a day. I don’t think my postman works too hard. In fact, some days he doesn’t even deliver the mail. It looks easy to me though.

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