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And if I don’t become a professional scholar?: A High Fidelity Inspired List
Laura: So you’ve got a list here of five things you would do if qualifications and time and history and salary were no object? One of them you don’t really want to do anyway. Wouldn’t you rather own your own record store than be an architect? …And you wouldn’t want to be a 16th century explorer or the King of France-well, there you go then. Dream job number five. Record store owner.
01. Flight attendant and/or commercial airline pilot, 1930s
02. Tour manager/planner for a band of close friends with no intention to be famous, any period
03. Pin-up model for Alberto Vargas, 1940s
04. Writer/arranger of oral histories, counter-cultural movements
05. Gay, black, male transvestite involved in the NYC drag ball circuit, 1960s-1980s
06. High fashion and/or couture designer
07. Travel agent, travel writer, trip planner
08. Moderately comfortable creative writer or musician
09. Flare bartender for a high volume and/or famous bar; or, alternately, a comfortable local dive
10. Burlesque dancer, any period
11. Used book store owner
12. Surrealist and/or modernist artist (any medium), revolutionary café dweller
13. Independently wealthy socialite
14. Photographer, photojournalist
Laura: So you’ve got a list here of five things you would do if qualifications and time and history and salary were no object? One of them you don’t really want to do anyway. Wouldn’t you rather own your own record store than be an architect? …And you wouldn’t want to be a 16th century explorer or the King of France-well, there you go then. Dream job number five. Record store owner.
01. Flight attendant and/or commercial airline pilot, 1930s
02. Tour manager/planner for a band of close friends with no intention to be famous, any period
03. Pin-up model for Alberto Vargas, 1940s
04. Writer/arranger of oral histories, counter-cultural movements
05. Gay, black, male transvestite involved in the NYC drag ball circuit, 1960s-1980s
06. High fashion and/or couture designer
07. Travel agent, travel writer, trip planner
08. Moderately comfortable creative writer or musician
09. Flare bartender for a high volume and/or famous bar; or, alternately, a comfortable local dive
10. Burlesque dancer, any period
11. Used book store owner
12. Surrealist and/or modernist artist (any medium), revolutionary café dweller
13. Independently wealthy socialite
14. Photographer, photojournalist