Ask for your Ideal Job

It seems Alain de Botton's new book - The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work - is coming out just at the right time.

The publicity being organised to herald the booklaunch consists of an invitation to for those seeking their ideal job to post those details at

http://theschooloflife.typepad.com/the_school_of_life/2009/03/the-school-of-life-alternative-job-centre.html#comments

My entry -


VACANCIES SOUGHT:
(1) Prophetess
(2) Philosopher
(3) Dictatrix
(4) Court Jester
(5) Revolutionary
(6) Chat Show Hostess
(7) Paid Companion to Wealthy Person Who Loves Me
(8) Asker of Awkward Unanswerable Philosophical Questions

PSEUDONYM:
Andromeda Galaxy, The Princess of Paradox

PERSONAL MOTTOS:
"animis opibusque parati"
"By doing nothing, everything is done."

PERSONAL QUALITIES:
Charm
Wisdom
Wit
Logic
Beauty (the kind that is in the eye of the beholder)

TALENTS:
Imagination
Expression
Execution
Subversion
Analysis

VALUES AND AMBITIONS:
Reason
Problem-solving
Good Government
Minimum Government

- To be paid for what I would do for free.

- To be lionised.

- To make participation in politics rewarding and moral.

- To demonstrate the workings of direct democracy through http://www.1party4all.co.uk/

- To persuade enough people that a one-party state under a narrower franchise of taxpayers only is the rational form of government and that such a state need not be oppressive or totalitarian if all the safeguards in the party constitution are in place.

- To propagate the idea of the Domestic Partnership to revolutionise and improve gender relations, to be found at

http://thebattlefieldoflove.blogspot.com/2008/12/domestic-partnership.html
http://thebattlefieldoflove.blogspot.com/2009/02/question-for-a-gill.html

- To be one of the Great and the Good

- To be remembered by posterity

- To be known as a one-woman think tank

- To create a new religion

ANYTHING ELSE

Hosting a chat show specialising in interviewing super-villains.

Thinking of things for the participants to do in a Big Brother Politicians' and Super-Villains' Special featuring George Bush, Osama bin Laden, The Pope, The Dalai Lama, the Leader of the Chinese Communist Party, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and Harriet Harman.

SALARY c £1M pa ONO