If you decided to leave advertising today, and have thought about other jobs you might you want to pursue (especially throughout 2020), what have they been? I’ll start (and be honest):

Mailman.
Coffin Maker.
Obituarist.

Go.

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Photographer (like not a commercial one, one of those that just shoots newborns and elopements)
Etsy shop owner for some quirky product Ive dreamed up
Move to a sketchy beach town and take over their local ad market. Live my life making easy billboards, newspaper ads, and signs on reasonable deadlines with little rounds of revisions— swim in the sea, eat cheap tacos, drink a margarita every night, and walk my dog on the beach.

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Port Aransas, TX comes to mind. Lots more on the gulf coast, I’m sure.

- Music producer
- Coffee shop owner
- Video game arcade owner (plz come back to life)
- Therapist
- Porn scriptwriter
- Investment banker (if I'm gonna work a ton of hours, might as well make good money
- CIA case officer

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I’d start an Only Fans. Gimme dat 💰💰💰!

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You can def do this now. Been thinking about it too

Chocolate collector

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“Don’t touch that! This chocolate’s just for lookin’.”

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Park ranger or forest ranger.

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I’d probably own a coffee shop

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Came here to say that

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Interior designer.

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Butcher

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Sell plants!

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Ceramist or furniture designer, and photographer/director + writer.

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being queer eye 5 in 1 for people, volunteering to save cats, basically the things I have been doing to help out but getting enough $ to survive doing that

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Grocery store/stripclub.

So when husbands say they’re heading to the grocery store to grab sugar they won’t be lying.

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I’ll work here.

Curator

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Wilderness EMT / helicopter pilot / ski patrol for surrrrre

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The nurses who get to be with patients as they wake up from wisdom teeth surgery

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I kicked and punched my nurse when I was under. By the look on her face when i came to, I wouldn’t have wanted to be her. Thankfully she was ok, if not a little shaken.

Barista. Chef. Architect. Wedding Planner.

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Team One was that exciting, huh?

Book and stationery shop

Mailman was on my list as well. Same with psych therapist.

Closet and storage organizer; personal shopper.

Woodworker / Furniture Refinisher

Why so much desire to be a mailman?

Bukowski is a bad Henry Miller knockoff. I said it.

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