Alternative Lives

Abby posted about what career she might have ended up following and I thought I would do a similar post.

I am not an ambitious sort of guy - all I really hope for is a bit of happiness for myself and those I love.  I let others chase careers, fighting their way up the ladder or building their own business.  I have drifted with life to see where it has taken me - and it took me to a great job.  Not massively paid, but we get by, and the pleasure of working in a university more than makes up for it.

But had the trousers of time taken me in a different direction, where might I have ended up?  I see two main options.


The Toy Soldier Sculpter

On and off over the years I have messed around with scuplting toy soldiers.  Some good, some dreadful.  For a time I was training with a view to making it my work.  I was getting better and better, producing some that I thought were really rather good.  I might have chased that idea, had it not been for one fateful evening.  I was working away, having trouble getting a face to look right.  Mrs RC asked if she could have a go at making a figure, so I gave her one of the frames that I was using as the basis of my figures and away she went.  Within half an hour she had a masterpiece, far beyond what I was doing even with months of practice.  My career ended there.


The Guitar Shop Guy

This is still something that I would love to do, given the chance.  I would own the best guitar shop on the county.  I would be friendly and helpful and would not sell anything that I would not be happy to own myself.  And I would run a band club like a friend of mine takes part in where he lives in Canada, where people are brought together as temporary bands to rehearse a few songs and then perform them on stage a couple of months later.  Bands without the problems that longterm bands often have - music for the fun of it.  Yeah, my guitar shop would be the best...