If you could have any occupation

Like many of you on this thread, I too love history, but lack the educational qualifications to do anything professionally with it. Having said that, being a tour guide is a GREAT way to enjoy working with history, and it usually doesn't require a professional degree.

I think you would enjoy being a tour guide Sue. I worked as a guide for a couple of years in Salem and thoroughly enjoyed it.

When I was an school I wanted to be an architect. I went to art school and studied Technical Illustration and I did photography as part of the course. I fell in love with the photography and got a place on the Photography course which I gave up because I got a job as an illustrator. After all that I hated the job and I found myself very unemployed so that is why I'm an accountant!!!

I love my job but I would have loved to be a photographer. The lad who sat next to me at art school is a photographer for Life magazine! How cool would that be! 

This is a terrible story but many years ago while on one of my jaunts across country, I was traveling through Utah with a friend. We hit traffic at a time when there really shouldn't have been any traffic, so we figured there must have been an accident of some kind. Sure enough, about an hour and a half later we came upon a horrifying crash scene when a horse trailer caring several horses had rolled over and caught fire. There was the smell of burning horse flesh and one animal had been completely decapitated.  No humans were hurt.

I remember feeling physically ill, but a simultaneous reaction was anger that these poor creatures has suffered so while the humans transporting them got off with a few bruises. I looked at my friend and said, I wish it were humans instead of horses out there.

Sorry! I got off topic!