Occupations

RedShoesGirl · Oct 13, 2006

i want to add "lady spy" to my list from before, one that survives though.

lara

Lincsong · Oct 13, 2006

Elaina said:
I'd of been an actress. I did it for a while in the 90's (and it was awful let me tell you). Seems like it was much cooler back then.

That or a designer. Wait. I'm doing that now too.

Elaina

You were an actress?

Please tell me you were a comedienne.

Mr. Lucky · Oct 13, 2006

Well, my signature kinda covers it well. Either that, or -

A ne'er-do-well

Rapscallion

Jackanapse

Rake

Rogue

- you know, something along those lines.

BegintheBeguine · Oct 13, 2006

Scalawag.

Elaina · Oct 13, 2006

Lincsong said:
You were an actress? Please tell me you were a comedienne.

I did some stand up and improv, yes, but as to the actual paid acting, nope. I was a "serious" one: I had a couple auditions for dramas, got to the screen test for American Gothic for the role of the sister, some roles in dramatic movies (like JFK, I played 3 people in it as an extra (a child, a pregnant 20 yr old and a 35 year old, one of which you can hear me say in a heavy accent "I saw the pres-i-dent git shot, ohmygod!"), several commercials and a part in Walker, Texas Ranger, as some of the most notable. But I look like a silent film star, so you can guess where that would have left me.

My stand up was a bit too off the wall for the time. More like Eddie Izzard then Ellen Degeneres. Just didn't work when I was into it. If I got back into it, I'd probably have a better chance then I did have: it's not that I'm not funny (contrary to what I always got told by my family) it's just that people don't get me. Most still don't. I amuse myself, if you're amused, fine, if not I could care less. And that attitude was not around in 93-98, it was all about Adam Sandleresque type bathroom humor. Which I have, and can do, but it's more bidet then toilet. And women is really difficult to get into it. I have a bit I found hilarous, still do, about wanting to be someones psycho ex-girlfriend. Men find it funny to a point, women get up in arms. Back to you don't get me lol. It's not that I'm not crazy enough, but I wanna be the psycho, I just can't care enough to BE the psycho. Remind me to one day PM you the whole bit. So...it didn't work, and when I auditioned for SNL, I was told I was funny in an unusual way, and not pretty enough. I looked too much like June Marlowe as a teacher (which I don't see) and not enough sex appeal. then Mad TV...I look too much like Nicole Sullivan...and it got old, I had a baby, and I amuse myself still.

Mr. Lucky · Oct 13, 2006

BegintheBeguine said:
Scalawag.

Ah yes! A favorite!

PS - Give my regards to Nick Tahoe's!

Ace Fedora · Oct 16, 2006

I would start out as a private eye in the mid- to late-1930s, barely making my rent each month and drowning my sorrows at the bar downstairs. Eventually, I would go broke.

In desperation, I would borrow someone's typewriter and write a fictionalized version of one of my cases. Amazingly enough, I sell it to a pulp magazine. I write more stories. They sell. By 1943 I've written close to two hundred stories. I drink away my profits.

A radio bigwig gets hold of one of my pulps and wants to turn my character into a weekly drama. I write a few scripts and drink away my licensing money.

Inevitably, I die of liver failure in 1957. Forty years later somebody unearths an old copy of one of my stories and I'm hailed as a genius.

...not that I've given this a lot of thought or anything.

Mr. Lucky · Oct 16, 2006

Ace Fedora said:
I would start out as a private eye in the mid- to late-1930s, barely making my rent each month and drowning my sorrows at the bar downstairs. Eventually, I would go broke.

In desperation, I would borrow someone's typewriter and write a fictionalized version of one of my cases. Amazingly enough, I sell it to a pulp magazine. I write more stories. They sell. By 1943 I've written close to two hundred stories. I drink away my profits.

A radio bigwig gets hold of one of my pulps and wants to turn my character into a weekly drama. I write a few scripts and drink away my licensing money.

Inevitably, I die of liver failure in 1957. Forty years later somebody unearths an old copy of one of my stories and I'm hailed as a genius.

...not that I've given this a lot of thought or anything.

Dashiell, that you?

moustache · Oct 16, 2006

Conductor

No,not a train conductor. I would want to be a condutor of a major orchestra,preferably the Vienna Philharmonic,The London Symphony or the New York Philharmonic.These were led by Furtwangler and Krauss(1927-30 and 30-33),The LSO under Mengleberg and (one of my favourite composers as well)Hamilton Harty,and the NYPO led by Toscanini and Barbirolli.
Great company to be in!!!

JD

Shimmy Sally · Oct 16, 2006

timeless

I would have the same occupation regardless of era; 30s, 40s, or now.
I'm a 3-D artist/seamstress/designer/pattern-maker. Be it my alterations shop, my own manufacturing company, someone else's textiles factory, costuming for stage, freelance art... as long as I'm creating, I'm happy.

Ace Fedora · Oct 16, 2006

Mr. Lucky said:
Dashiell, that you?

Sadly, my man Dashiell was not the only hard-boiled writer to suffer from a lifetime of drinking. It seems to come with the job.

I wear my influences on my sleeve, I do...

drownman · Oct 16, 2006

Dancin the Savoy!

Ohh, I'd be lindyhoppin my brains out at the Alhambra, the Renaissance and the Savoy! I'd be asked to join Whitey's lindy hoppers, and travel all over the states and even to Europe! Maybe dancin' to Hammelby's big band swing?

olive bleu · Oct 16, 2006

:cool2: i'd be a mafia mamma.I could really appreciate the grand houses, the clothes, the jewels, lunching with the ladies every day.And I don't see nuthin', i don't wanna know nuthin'.....

Trampilot · Nov 16, 2006

Script writer working for Val Lewton.

PeeWee · Nov 16, 2006

I would have been a city fireman....just what I was

undertaker · Nov 16, 2006

A country undertaker just like I am now. It's all I ever wanted to do. Of course they ran the ambulances in those days. Can you imagine traveling in a Henney Packard at 100 MPH with an old Federal-Q screaming? Sorry I missed it

.

Regards,
J.S. "Your Freindly Undertaker"

Miss Neecerie · Nov 16, 2006

Thats a lovely Hp......

Denise...who has a thing for old hearses and combos....

kirawoidan · Nov 17, 2006

I would be an actress like Betty Hutton who was a good at mostly everything and was, of course, a talented singer.

Matt Crunk · Nov 22, 2006

I'd be a tattoo artist just like I am now. Only in those days I'd probably be slinging ink in the Bowery or down at the Pike in Longbeach. There wasn't a shop on every corner like there are today, and they were always called parlors, not studios. The average price of a tattoo was $5, instead of today's $150.

Below is the machine I'd probably have been using back then. It's a vintage Jonesy Roundback from the 1940s. This one is part of my personal collection.

This is a vintage photograph also from my collection. It's hand signed from "Sailor Jim Monroe" to the famous "Sailor Jerry Collins" of Honalulu, whom I assume did most of his work. Just thought I'd share it.

Matt Crunk · Nov 22, 2006

Ever thought of buying a restored vintage hearse to offer as an option at your funeral parlor? Modern hearses are so ugly, as are most modern cars. I think I lot of people would much rather take their last ride in a 30s Packard than a 2006 Caddy. I know I would.

-MC

undertaker said:
A country undertaker just like I am now. It's all I ever wanted to do. Of course they ran the ambulances in those days. Can you imagine traveling in a Henney Packard at 100 MPH with an old Federal-Q screaming? Sorry I missed it .

Regards,
J.S. "Your Freindly Undertaker"

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