Book Characters Whose Job I Wish I Had

Hello! It’s Top Ten Tuesday (hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl) and I’m so excited because my copy of Chain of Iron arrived early! Sadly, I have a ton of work to do, so I can’t read it this second. It’s staring up at me teasingly. Anyway, we’re talking about book characters whose job I wish I had. I think this may be difficult. We’ll see if I can come up with 10!

Cordelia Carstairs – Shadowhunter. Yes, I know that’s a picture of Lucie on the cover of Chain of Iron, but I’m excited to read it, okay? Cordelia is one of my favorite characters in The Last Hours. She is so caring about her family, and she is willing to sacrifice so much for her friend James, even though her love for him is unrequited. I probably wouldn’t be a very good shadowhunter, but it might be fun to kill demons.

Eliza – Writer. There might be a few writers on my list this week, LOL. Anyway, Eliza writes a weekly webcomic, and she’s very successful at it. While I probably wouldn’t be good at doing a webcomic, I would like to write and be successful at it.

Nannerl and Wolfgang – Composers. It would be cool to write music for a living. As an added bonus, Nannerl and Wolfgang got to travel to different courts and visit kings and queens. Nannerl had the unfortunate situation of being a girl in a world where girls weren’t really allowed to compose, and were expected to give up their careers when they were old enough to get married, but we’re going to give her credit, k? It’s very likely that she inspired some of Wolfgang’s compositions, so maybe we’ve heard some of her work before without even knowing it.

Jake – Time-Traveling Teacher. I teach a small Spanish class once a week (7 students) and also homeschool my son, and teaching the class of high schoolers can be stressful, but I don’t get to time travel. I don’t think I’d bother attempting to prevent John F. Kennedy’s assassination (things happen for a reason, after all) but getting to go back and experience a time I never lived through would be awesome.

Daniel – Photographer. I love taking pictures, and it would be an adventure to document a place like Franco’s Spain, even though it might be a little dangerous. I’d have to be very careful not to get caught.

Annika – Tech Entrepreneur. I love computers, and majored in computer science in college, so I could definitely be a tech entrepreneur.

Ana – Princess. Now, I’m not saying I want to be on the run and be an exiled princess, but I wouldn’t mind being a princess. Who wouldn’t? Sometimes their lives could be dangerous (in real life even, a lot of them ended up in the dungeon), but other than that, it might not be a bad life.

Jo – Writer. One of the things I loved about this book was that Jo was a writer, and I could identify with some of her struggles.

Samantha – Plant cataloger. If I was in Veronica Roth’s Divergent and I had to choose a faction, it would be Erudite. Anyway, I think it would be interesting to catalog plants, although I wouldn’t be too excited about the whole end-of-the-world thing.

Stella – Data Analyst. Stella’s job involves a lot of math, and it pays well, too. One of my first reactions to a review of The Kiss Quotient was “you had me at math” (Erudite, remember?). It may not be something I could do right now, but I wouldn’t mind doing this. I actually am using a little bit of math when I trade cryptocurrency, but probably not on the scale that Stella does.

Whew! I actually did it! I had to go back to books I read all the way back in 2018 to do so, but I found 10 jobs that I’d like (even though I had to use writer twice). I’m kind of happy being a homeschool teacher that writes and dabbles in cryptocurrency trading (even though the last one is the only one I really make any money from).

What kind of jobs did you pick this week? Did you find it as hard as I did? Next week is a Spring Cleaning Freebie. I’m not 100% sure what I’ll do for that one yet.