*snicker*

Seriously, downunda the mining industry have got with the plot and are now quite happy to have females driving the enormous trucks and operating the giant digger machines. Could you see yourself doing that?

Or logistics clerk in a shipping company. Warehouse picker/packer. Mechanical bull wrangler. Shopping trolley wheel aligner.

I could see myself doing that! Think the Flashdance Welder girl without the flash, without the dance, and without the welding. I could weld though. It's just really big soldering.

And I (no, really, I do) have warehouse experience. A temp job at Honda soon after college. I really enjoyed it, I was fast at finding the parts, I loved the physical nature of the job.

I am already wrangling all the bull I can handle, and I am way too in tune with the plight of shopping trolleys to be able to put aside my anger at those who won't push their carts together and therefore excacerbate the wheel alignment issue. I can be really mean. (NO, you say, NOT YOU??????) ;)

Keep the ideas coming!

(Something potentially GOOD happened here yesterday so I have hope again. Yet still I am ready for a new journey if need be.)

Can you rollerskate? An old cow orker of mine used to own a Snap-on truck and he said the people who picked parts and tools at the warehouse were on skates. The warehouse was acres apparently and it was how everyone got around. It was a requirement, according to him. Someone should maybe google that to see if it's true. I'm suddenly getting this gullible me vibe.

Our inventory guy has been sharpening knives for friends and family. He invested in a $600 sharpener, and just signed up a grocery store to do their knives periodically. I think he gets $5 per knife. He made $300 one Sunday by doing it from the back of his pickup truck in a friends development. He didn't even have a sign up. The neighbors called each other, and they came out to watch and get theirs done.

it could turn into a real job.

That would be an awesome gig.

This is a great skill, and would lend itself to moon-lighting jobs.
The drive-in hamburger joints in Bend and PDX still have their car hops on skates.

It so would.

His pocket knife is crazy sharp, too. hair splitting sharp.

truly

There's a guy around here who does that. He loves his semi-nomadic life, driving around in his panel truck loaded with tools. He'll also refurbish knives completely.

I could join Fox Force Five

Mia: It was show about a team of female secret agents called "Fox Force Five."
Vincent:What?
Mia: "Fox Force Five." Fox, as in we're a bunch of foxy chicks. Force, as in we're a force to be reckoned with. Five, as in there's one..two ...three..four..five of us. There was a blonde one, Sommerset O'Neal from that show "Baton Rouge, she was the leader. A Japanese one, a black one, a French one and a brunette one, me. We all had special skills. Sommerset had a photographic memory, the Japanese fox was a kung fu master, the black girl was a demolition expert, the French fox' specialty was sex...
Vincent: What was your specialty?
Mia: Knives. The character I played,Raven McCoy, her background was she was raised by circus performers. So she grew up doing a knife act. According to the show, she was the deadliest woman in the world with a knife. But because she grew up in a circus, she was also something of an acrobat. She could do illusions, she was a trapeze artist -- when you're keeping the world safe from evil, you never know when being a trapeze artist's gonna come in handy. And she knew a zillion old jokes her grandfather, an old vaudevillian, taught her. If we would have gotten picked up, they would have worked in a gimmick where every episode I would have told a joke.

Or you could join the Shitmen and fight crime in the sewers.

I would LOVE to join The Shitmen.

We need to work on a theme song.

I dunno. I think it would sound like crap. :D

Oh must you poo-poo our ideas? ;)

*luvz Pete* :)