Last year, in Coolest Professions post, I listed my ideal jobs: Archeologist, Photographer & Writer. Now 6 months later and slightly wiser, I can see what I really liked about these jobs. Here is the partial list:
Archeologist:
- Adventure & risk – I know it won’t be as exciting as Indiana Jones & Tomb Raider but still it is one of more exciting profession out there.
- Sun – I love sun & outdoors.
- Discovering & exploring – I love learning new things, & I have diverse interest in history, culture, evolution & religion.
- Desire to tell great stories one day
Photographer:
- Creation/Art – Some people may say photography is simply capturing. But I don’t care what you call it. Creating or capturing great photos doesn’t happen by accident. I love to create something great.
- Independence – Photographers can take their job wherever they want to go. They can work when they want. They can take a vacation & call it work. And they are their own boss.
- Cameras – This is probably lame but I love modern camera & all the things you can do with them.
- Coolness – Another lame excuse but their is certain degree of coolness attached to photographers. I guess I want to be cool too.
Writer:
- Independence – Just like photographers writers are free to do what they want, when they want, & where they want.
- Creation/Art – I am sure everyone will agree that writers create
- Beaches & Sun – I just imagine poor writers with not enough money for rent but they can work from a beach. They win!
Looking at this list, I realized that independence, outdoors, exploration, travel, coolness, creation, & technology is important to me. I wondered what job can give me all these elements.
As some of you know, I will be starting my own business (God willing) in September when I laid off. I haven’t figure out exactly what I will do but a few thing I want to do are website design & development, social media applications & cell phone applications, basically working from computer. I think this will fit exactly with element above. I can work whenever & wherever. I am sure I can do some design work by beach or lake. I always wanted to play with some many new technologies but never could find any time. Now I can finally learn Ruby, write G1 apps. And I will get to create new stuff. And all of this is cool, especially if I succeed and become rich
So the coolest profession in my opinion is an entrepreneur!
