Monday Morning Mock Draft

It’s 11:43 AM (B)EST time, so this is still the morning. Apologies for the lateness, but I forgot about this last night, then I had a compelled deposition this morning where I had to actually pay attention. I hate those. And on a Monday, no less.

I have a couple of good ideas from Señor and Scotchy, (the latter surprisingly not having to do with disposing of unwanted…leftovers), but I’m going to save them for a time I haven’t pissed away the morning with real life employment activities.

Today you are drafting the job you want, not the job you have. In an ideal world, where money doesn’t matter and you can just do what you want, what would that thing be? The only rule here is that it has to be an actual job. No matter how appealing that Spenser Gift’s iron-on is, there is no such job as “Female Baby Inspector”, at leas not that you would put on a W-2, so you can’t draft that here.

If I had my druthers, and didn’t have college educations to pay for, school loans and a mortgage, I would have skipped law school and gone on to become a forest ranger. Maybe not John Francis Smith up there, (the ranger in Yogi Bear not only has a name, he has his own Wikipedia page!), but someone who got to spend a lot of time outdoors, keeping the wilderness wild and living the life. And if an occasional poacher disappeared into a hot spring, well, there are perks and then there are perks.

With the one qualification that it has to be a real job in mind, and with noon rapidly approaching, I’m cutting this short and telling you that it’s time for you to