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Wednesday Lunchtime Poll #5

Yesterday we caught one of our interns playing Second Life while he was supposed to be tracking down the best price on a midnight green Vespa LX for the head honcho’s daughter. While the fact this intern chose, as his alter ego, to be a 63-year-old crack whore with daddy issues was more than a bit disturbing to us, it did get us wondering about the rest of you.

So we ask:
If you weren’t in advertising or design, what would you be doing?

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  1. I’d probably be working as an old-lady foot smeller (a.k.a. Ski shop lackey) in a ski town (see: Durango, Steamboat, Jackson Hole) by winter and hopefully as a fly fishing guide by summer. Which actually sounds nice, as I’m facing a bunch of deadlines and impending design doom this week.

    What would you Egotist writers be doing?

    — josh mishell · Jun 18, 08:40 AM · #

  2. party/event planning, using all those years of French for something, using my mad typing skills for $ as some big wigs personal assistant, yoga instructor, Nia/Zumba instructor, dog walker, dog trainer, home organization/declutter consultant, work for a magazine about food & home/garden, like Sunset, writing articles or working in the test kitchen! (it is lunchtime right now – and all I can think of is the yummy prosciutto/smoked gouda panini accompanied by the watermelon-mint with feta salad I made this weekend – Ridiculously good I tell ya!)

    — MW · Jun 18, 08:58 AM · #

  3. drugs

    — J · Jun 18, 09:19 AM · #

  4. Maybe a career in panhandling? Though some might say that if you put a lot of thought and effort into “will work for _______” sign, that might be considered dabbling in design and/or advertising. I’m torn.

    — Josef Buchanan · Jun 18, 09:38 AM · #

  5. Probably the same thing I did when I moved here without a job: drinking too much and pwning n00bs on xbox/ps3 while waiting for my spirit to break enough to apply at Target.

    — justinpaluch · Jun 18, 10:26 AM · #

  6. Anonymous, crime-fighting super hero. But I suppose that’s not really the kind of career you choose. It chooses you.

    — Ryan J. · Jun 18, 10:28 AM · #

  7. I was so hoping to see Adam’s great answer from before:

    Two chicks at once.

    — Notreallyme · Jun 18, 11:04 AM · #

  8. I’d learn how to use Quark.

    — Aaron · Jun 18, 11:04 AM · #

  9. I’d probably be a cake decorator competing on those Food Network extreme cake design challenges all while watching my waste line expand.

    — Rona · Jun 18, 11:26 AM · #

  10. I’d still be in the Marine Corps.

    — Ian T. Nordeck · Jun 18, 12:49 PM · #

  11. I’d probably move back to Albuquerque and paint murals again or: work as an IT specialist, bike courier, bike mechanic, finally send these stacks of poetry books to a publisher, web developer, guitar instructor, art teacher… its hard to say. I really love what I’m currently doing.

    — Broox Pulford · Jun 18, 02:54 PM · #

  12. I would probably be an architect and sleeping outside of offices of Oppenheim in Miami hoping to get an job there. http://www.oppenoffice.com

    — Zach O. · Jun 18, 05:45 PM · #

  13. i would be finding the cure for cancer.

    — Stuart Confer · Jun 27, 06:42 AM · #

  14. Racing F1 cars. :)

    — Brian Suter · Jun 27, 07:43 AM · #