"Line?"

[jmfargo]

Tonight I started a new job. It's only a week-long, and lasts from an hour to an hour and a half each evening, but it pays well, and it's probably one of the most interesting positions I've ever accepted. Coming from a man who (at last count) has held over 60 jobs, that means something. I'm not sure what it means, but something. Definitely.

I'm a line-reader. I'm helping a graduate student/actor learn her lines for a Shakespearean play in which she is taking part*. I have to correct her if she makes even the tiniest of mistakes, which means that it demands my attention at all times, but since I enjoy reading and I "get" Shakespeare, it's more enjoyable than work.

Don't tell her that, though. She might not want to pay me!

Still, pretty cool, huh? What's the neatest job you've ever held?**

*I wanted to say "play that she's part of," but felt bad slaughtering the language in such a way after mentioning The Bard.

**I'm tempted to wait until tomorrow morning to post this, because that's when I get most responses to questions like this one, but I know that if I don't do it now I'll never remember.

Comments

[sarin-girl.livejournal.com]

over 60 jobs??? how old are you? a bazillion? hehehe..

Um, the neatest job, I have to say bartending.. I love it :)

Most strangest job, working as a PA for this guy who ran his own business, out of his garage, and apart from the usual PA stuff, my job involved scanning pictures of naked people for his swingers site.. it was one of my first few jobs out of high school.. I was very naive..

[jfargo.livejournal.com]

28 years old. 50+ of those jobs were in a 5-year period.

I'm not proud of it, but at the same time I am, I guess. :)

That one job of yours definitely sounds interesting. Not naive once the job was done, I take it?