If you’ve read my post yesterday, you know that I am considering the idea of becoming a used book store proprietor. I had at one time thought that if I stayed in education I might pursue a library degree because I thought librarians had kick-ass jobs. No regular classes. No lesson plans. A room full of books and computers and their own offices to boot.

Okay, there was the “kid” thing. A school librarian does deal in students, but as they get older their needs are fewer and as far as I could tell the high schoolers merely used the library as a place to be rather than a place to work on being a successful student.

Used bookstores are far more attractive than new, but I can lose myself in either. If it were not for the awful hours I would have likely gotten stuck with I would have applied for a job at some of the local stores when BabyDaughter starts school full time this fall. I really can’t work weekends or nights because I am selfish and suffer from middle aged entitlement delusion I need to have that time free for husband and children.

I am still writing. Still waiting to hear from the Sci Fi magazine in Edmonton on my “call back” short story. When I was last at Barnes and Noble, I treated myself to a handful of sci fi and fantasy magazines to read and get writer’s guidelines and have plans to plague them with my prose because traveling for days on end gave me plenty of time to come up with story ideas – disturbing ones – but ideas regardless.

So my dream is to be a published writer and truthfully, I love sci fi/fantasy more than any other genre when it comes to writing. I found this great writer, Lavie Tidhar, in Apex. I found Ryck Neube there as well. To this end much more SF reading needs to be done.

But if I have to have a “day job” – there is no “hafta” in my life and I am luckier than most in that respect – then working in/owning a book store would be a dream day job. It even comes before owning a coffee shop which is primarily because I don’t like coffee at all and only frequent those places for teas. I have never heard of a tea shop. I suppose though you could be a tea shop that serves some coffees, but bookshop would be an ultra cool job despite the work. And there is work I am discovering in my research. However, who couldn’t hang out with books all day?

So here’s the meme: if money weren’t the issue (or tangible benefits of any kind really), what would your dream job be? Where? Why?

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