06 March 2011

Best Job In The World?

While reading a book on financial planning, in order to determine the real value one puts on money, the author asked his readers to ponder on several questions, which are :

What is it that I am really good at?
What do others regularly tell me I am good at?
What do I enjoy so much that I would do it for free if I had $20 million?
What would I stop doing tomorrow if I had $20 million?
What would I do differently with my life if I only had just three years to live?

The first two questions, well I still can't find a good answer to it. I don't have an exceptional talent that sticks out like a sore thumb. Some of my friends have the ability to capture such beautiful photos, some make pretty good music, another writes good stories, another is creatively gifted, another bakes moth-watering cakes, while some other of my friends are simply gorgeous. The last one is a talent of some sort.

Well I don't have all that. Not a single talent that really screams to be spread into the wilderness of the world. So to friends who do, appreciate it, and do something about it. Don't let your talent sit on its lazy ass.

The next three questions were easier. Plans, I have tons. And all of them sound like pretty good plans that I have a hard time of just choosing one. We'll see, we'll see.

And then I remember reading about this in a magazine some time ago.

'A professional honeymoon tester.'

I'd do that for free! All the petty fights that married couples have would be trivial when you are surrounded by the amplified beauty of the world. How can you stay mad at your partner when a picturesque sunset is taking place just outside your hotel window? When you standing on the beach of Mauritius? The only valid reason I can think of to be perfectly ok to have fights with your partner on such breath-taking scenery is if he has been caught red-handed cheating with the cute waitress. 0.O

Kinda reminds me of that over-hyped 'best job in the world', the island caretaker. Sheesh. That is really one of the best job in the world.

No comments: