FI and I have this friend who is studying to be a mortician and eventually wants to open his own funeral home. Oddly enough, he gets ragged on a lot and there are quite a few jokes cracked at his expense (especially about his love life, as you can imagine). Personally, I think it's a pretty cool career choice, one that no one really thinks about. I mean, it takes an interesting kind of person to wake up one day and decide he wants to perform autopsies. Also, FI's uncle is a professional sand sculptor. It's something he just kind of fell into as a hobby and now he's on a Travel Channel show. I've been wondering - do you or anyone else you know have a career where people just kind of go, "Huh....wow"? Like how becunning wants to be a Latin teacher. How many people do you know who study Latin?? I think that is just so interesting. So....discuss?!

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Re: Interesting Career Choices
My dad is a geo-physicist. He looks for stuff under the ground. He was hired by treasure hunters once.
My mom is an audiologist which I only think is weird because I really don't like ears. I really really don't like it when people to touch my ears.
[QUOTE]Like how becunning wants to be a Latin teacher. How many people do you know who study Latin??
Posted by bsidebella[/QUOTE]
lol, Latin was our language requirement in middle school.
She/he has big plans, probably even to start "grading" pot- like they do meat, which I think would be a VERY good idea.
And it's ridiculous how blatant the pot shops are here in Colorado. It was "legal" in California too...but you never knew where the dispensaries were. Here...there are green plus signs all over the darn place!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncharted
He goes all of the world recording orchestras and bands for the games. He's recorded a number of time at Skywalker Ranch.
ETA: Found a cool youtube video- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIGgzeRgwsQ
[QUOTE]Oh- and I'm not sure if it's interesting....but it IS SUPER COOL. <strong>My friend from high school and member of our bridal party works at Sony doing all the music for their videogames</strong>, such as un-charted. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncharted" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncharted</a> He goes all of the world recording orchestras and bands for the games. He's recorded a number of time at Skywalker Ranch. ETA: Found a cool youtube video- <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIGgzeRgwsQ" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIGgzeRgwsQ</a>
Posted by lunarsongbird[/QUOTE]
I actually have a friend that is a video game tester for EA. Seriously, the guy is at work til 4am testing and trying to break the games. I never thought that would be a real job.
As for the mortician, I agree it's not a "normal" career choice, and knowing my sarcastic personality I would probably crack on him a bit, but I think it's actually a great career all the way around if you can handle it. For me, I'm a little too squeamish to be able to work on dead bodies. No thank you. But like PP said, it's a job that we will always need, so there's job security!
I can't really think of anyone else with weird jobs. Cool/neat jobs, yeah, but nothing that I would consider weird.
[QUOTE] It was "legal" in California too...but you never knew where the dispensaries were. Here...there are green plus signs all over the darn place!
Posted by lunarsongbird[/QUOTE]
Haha, there is one right across the street from my apartment here in CA. It was a hopping place in April!