List three jobs you’d consider pursuing if money didn’t matter.
This is more interesting than your average question.
Three jobs indicates a career, in which case Prime Minister, Queen, or chocolate maker.
I’m obviously not serious about any of them, and I can’t cook, but they’re things I think I’d find interesting and probably very annoying.
Getting serious
To me a career as a writer is far more than a job, it’s a vocation. Writers work from the heart, soul, and muse.
I would have loved to have been a playwright on the grounds that I’d tend to use a lot of comedy but with a strong message. People could go to laugh, be encouraged to think, or both. I like audience choice.
Public speaking would always be on the table for me, in fact it’s just landed on my table (via my phone) again.
I love speaking to people and seeing if I can help them to heal, and inspire them to create the change they want to make in their lives.
I particularly like taking apart the ‘only human’ idea and drawing out how incredible we humans are and can be. It’s an extrapolation of having elements of the Big Bang in our DNA. If that doesn’t make us more than we can possibly imagine what does?
Being given an audience and a chance to help makes me so happy.
Job though?
It doesn’t matter who you are, if you can find work that doesn’t feel like work, you are one of the luckiest people on earth.
A job doesn’t interest me. Connecting and helping, creating laughter, inspiring, uplifting, these things do.
Whether that’s a play, a talk, a workshop, it doesn’t matter. These are the things I would pursue if money didn’t matter.
If it didn’t I could hire halls, find my own actors and backstage teams, employ producers. I could publish a book without a second thought. I could mount advertising campaigns on social media.
Without the money, much as everyday life is, everything is much harder. I still do what I want to do, but my reach is limited by not only the expense, but how to cut through the sheer overwhelming numbers of people doing the same thing. Especially when you’re up against the giants in every field.
I’m not negative about it, I won’t stop, but lots of money would definitely grease those wheels of forward momentum.
Best love
Deb xx
Deb Hawken - Amorah 