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
THE VOICE OF REASON Solon, (born c. 630 BCE—died c. 560 BCE), Athenian statesman, known as one of the Seven Wise Men of Greece (the others were Chilon of Sparta, Thales of Miletus, Bias of Priene, Cleobulus of Lindos, Pittacus of Mytilene, and Periander of Corinth). Solon ended exclusive aristocratic control of the government, substituted a system of control by the wealthy, and introduced a new and more humane law code. He was also a noted poet.
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