Career Paths You Almost Chose..

[ksm32]

You were trained in it, well schooled, and you had all your papers in order BUT?  It just didn't stick..

- Process Server & Repo Guy. "You've been served" < I was that guy.

- Personal Fitness Trainer. (an exorcise in PATIENCE with unrealistic people..)

- Guitar and Vocal coach. (the money can be great but you deal with a lot of sick kids and stinky adults, why not be a doctor)

..My girlfriend now wife and I also wrote a how to book on how to succeed at the auction but could not afford to get it published at the time..

[Robert Ghostwolf's Ghost]

Years ago, I thought about sending away for some of the courses offered on matchbooks for trades you could learn in your spare time, but I couldn't decide between lock picking, meat repair, forensic taxidermy, fudge packing, or phrenology.

[ksm32]

Years ago, I thought about matchbooks for trades between fudge packing.

LOL!

So you smoked AND you were gay?

[Yorkshire pud]

At 14, fighter pilot with the RAF; I could have made at least to selection, but I was (and still am) too lazy. Just before leaving school, journalist. Ended up being an international arms dealer and wrote porn.

[Uncle Duke]

Roman Catholic priest

[FightTheFuture]

Professional boxer.


I actually DID fight once professionally (175 lbs), but made almost no money (winning the fight). I figured it was too much work for what you get.

[aldousburbank]

I was 2 hrs away from signing the docs for Air Force enlistment with an emphasis on nuclear treachery based on my ASVAB scores at the time. On the final approach I experienced several sobering and odd "coincidences", smoked a hooter, then thought better of the situation and walked away. I think that the world is a weirder place for it.

[b_dubb]

Neuroscientist
U.S. Customs Broker
Car Salesman
Audio Recording
Delivery Driver

[b_dubb]

Neuroscientist
U.S. Customs Broker
Car Salesman
Singer Songwriter (not much of a singer really)
Audio Recording
Delivery Driver

[Robert Ghostwolf's Ghost]

Licensed shoelace inspector
Tuning fork tuner
Toxic lint disposal specialist
Apprentice clock watcher
Corporate ventriloquist
Clandestine organ harvesting tech
Certified tree hypnotist

[WhiteCrow]

Started life as a retard, became a pathetic loser, now I'm just a lazy bastard.

[Robert Ghostwolf's Ghost]

At 14, fighter pilot with the RAF; I could have made at least to selection, but I was (and still am) too lazy. Just before leaving school, journalist. Ended up being an international arms dealer and wrote porn.

I rather enjoy your Erotic Airborne Adventures series, which is the best historical RAF porn I've ever read.  "Emily gave an involuntary gasp when her slender fingers clasped his joystick and she realized it was even stiffer than his upper lip.  'So this is why everyone calls him Biggles,' she mused momentarily before surrendering with a blissful sigh to the most thorough strafing she had ever received." 

My only quibble is that there is no possible way Biggles and Algy could have fit three French countesses into the cockpit of a Spitfire, let alone engaged in the sort of strenuous activity you described in such exquisite detail.  Other than that, your historical accuracy and meticulous attention to detail is nothing short of superb!

[eddie dean]

Years ago, I thought about sending away for some of the courses offered on matchbooks for trades you could learn in your spare time, but I couldn't decide between lock picking, meat repair, forensic taxidermy, fudge packing, or phrenology.

It's still a hobby I trust. 

[Yorkshire pud]

I rather enjoy your Erotic Airborne Adventures series, which is the best historical RAF porn I've ever read.  "Emily gave an involuntary gasp when her slender fingers clasped his joystick and she realized it was even stiffer than his upper lip.  'So this is why everyone calls him Biggles,' she mused momentarily before surrendering with a blissful sigh to the most thorough strafing she had ever received." 

My only quibble is that there is no possible way Biggles and Algy could have fit three French countesses into the cockpit of a Spitfire, let alone engaged in the sort of strenuous activity you described in such exquisite detail.  Other than that, your historical accuracy and meticulous attention to detail is nothing short of superb!

I knew when I wrote the first draft that cramming five people (The two homosexuals and the three buxom but physically accommodating French tarts) into a single seat fighter was bound to raise eyebrows. However my editor who frankly doesn't know the difference between a Supermarine Spitfire MklX and a front loading washing machine siad go with it.


I wanted to change to a MklV Mosquito bomber but he said it was less dignified that the Gallic aristocracy should be pushed into the bomb bay.


The third option which I pondered was an obsolete Hampden Bomber, as Lancasters hadn't yet been flown (This was 1941 remember), and no British RAF hero was to fly in something not on the very cutting edge.

[Bart Ell]

It's still a hobby I trust. 

I think you meant passion.

[Robert Ghostwolf's Ghost]

It's still a hobby I trust. 

What? Do you think fudge and other confections pack themselves in those cartons before being shipped to retail stores?

[Robert Ghostwolf's Ghost]

I knew when I wrote the first draft that cramming five people (The two homosexuals and the three buxom but physically accommodating French tarts) into a single seat fighter was bound to raise eyebrows. However my editor who frankly doesn't know the difference between a Supermarine Spitfire MklX and a front loading washing machine siad go with it.

I wanted to change to a MklV Mosquito bomber but he said it was less dignified that the Gallic aristocracy should be pushed into the bomb bay.


The third option which I pondered was an obsolete Hampden Bomber, as Lancasters hadn't yet been flown (This was 1941 remember), and no British RAF hero was to fly in something not on the very cutting edge.

It's that dogged insistence on historical accuracy that sets your work apart from the rest of the genre and elevates it above the level of mere smut.

[Yorkshire pud]

It's that dogged insistence on historical accuracy that sets your work apart from the rest of the genre and elevates it above the level of mere smut.

I draw the line at using food in my great works of erotic fiction though; Although even if I say so myself, the cucumber and squash used in "Rampant adventures of Studs Ramrod, private investigator" was inspired.

[Uncle Duke]

I knew when I wrote the first draft that cramming five people (The two homosexuals and the three buxom but physically accommodating French tarts) into a single seat fighter was bound to raise eyebrows. However my editor who frankly doesn't know the difference between a Supermarine Spitfire MklX and a front loading washing machine siad go with it.


I wanted to change to a MklV Mosquito bomber but he said it was less dignified that the Gallic aristocracy should be pushed into the bomb bay.


The third option which I pondered was an obsolete Hampden Bomber, as Lancasters hadn't yet been flown (This was 1941 remember), and no British RAF hero was to fly in something not on the very cutting edge.

Beaufighter....roomiest crew station of all the Brit WWII fighters.

[Yorkshire pud]

Beaufighter....roomiest crew station of all the Brit WWII fighters.

Yeah, but as the Whispering Death was mainly maritime it played havoc with the plot...Not that rapacious sex in the confines of WW2 military aircraft has much in the way to offer with serious plot lines.

[Uncle Duke]

Yeah, but as the Whispering Death was mainly maritime it played havoc with the plot...Not that rapacious sex in the confines of WW2 military aircraft has much in the way to offer with serious plot lines.

Sure, giving you the opportunity to have our hero strafe a German coastal convoy while being pleasured by the buxom French wenches and/or the homosexuals on the way back from a Biscay patrol.

[Robert Ghostwolf's Ghost]

I draw the line at using food in my great works of erotic fiction though; Although even if I say so myself, the cucumber and squash used in "Rampant adventures of Studs Ramrod, private investigator" was inspired.

Good old Studs! He knew how to make the WRENs bubble and squeak.  Too bad he succumbed to spotted dick after being seduced and deliberately infected by that German double agent.

[Robert Ghostwolf's Ghost]

Sure, giving you the opportunity to have our hero strafe a German coastal convoy while being pleasured by the buxom French wenches and/or the homosexuals on the way back from a Biscay patrol.

His group scenes also would be much more plausible if he set them in the Humbley-Pudge Gallipoli.  Plenty of leg and head room in that baby!

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[GeorgieForPresident2216]

Joined the Canadian Armed Forces at 17 to fly CF-18s.  I was in the Regular Officer's Training Program which would have covered all my University costs.  I discovered I had pollen allergies while at the Aircrew Selection Center, which dragged me out so much I didn't even write my name in the correct spot on my tests.  I was reclassified as a ground crew engineer, but without the proper motivation I pulled out after a few weeks of basic training.  Now jobless and loaded down with debt, kind of regretting that decision.

[UnscreenedCaller]

cowgirl
nun
ended up with the serial occupations of medical assistant, software engineer and teacher.

Joined the Canadian Armed Forces at 17 to fly CF-18s.  I was in the Regular Officer's Training Program which would have covered all my University costs.  I discovered I had pollen allergies while at the Aircrew Selection Center, which dragged me out so much I didn't even write my name in the correct spot on my tests.  I was reclassified as a ground crew engineer, but without the proper motivation I pulled out after a few weeks of basic training.  Now jobless and loaded down with debt, kind of regretting that decision.

I worked as a software engineer for a defense company doing support for the US F-18, a fighter jet I happen to love. Before the company moved down south and we lost our jobs, we worked on some state of art projects for the Canadian DND, supporting CF-18's. I met a lot of military in the process. It was a pleasure working with these guys, they were polite and A-OK with women working defense projects. And after hours, they really knew how to cut loose at our local watering holes.


Sadly, the cockpit of an F-18 might prove to be too small for Yorkie's coterie, but I bet he can work the effect from  the carrier landing hook into his series to great advantage. 

[Robert Ghostwolf's Ghost]

Sadly, the cockpit of an F-18 might prove to be too small for Yorkie's coterie, but I bet he can work the effect from  the carrier landing hook into his series to great advantage. 

I agree, but it will never happen because every time he tries to write naval erotica he gets seasick. 

[Yorkshire pud]

cowgirl
nun
ended up with the serial occupations of medical assistant, software engineer and teacher.



I worked as a software engineer for a defense company doing support for the US F-18, a fighter jet I happen to love. Before the company moved down south and we lost our jobs, we worked on some state of art projects for the Canadian DND, supporting CF-18's. I met a lot of military in the process. It was a pleasure working with these guys, they were polite and A-OK with women working defense projects. And after hours, they really knew how to cut loose at our local watering holes.


Sadly, the cockpit of an F-18 might prove to be too small for Yorkie's coterie, but I bet he can work the effect from  the carrier landing hook into his series to great advantage. 

Arrester hooks and cables are an intrisic element of BDSM naval erotica. But as RGWG helpfully points out I suffer seasickness and therefore can't do any meaningful first hand research.
Damn.

[UnscreenedCaller]

Arrester hooks and cables are an intrisic element of BDSM naval erotica. But as RGWG helpfully points out I suffer seasickness and therefore can't do any meaningful first hand research.
Damn.

Alas. Perhaps this is not the right time to bring up the catapult. 

[Uncle Duke]

His group scenes also would be much more plausible if he set them in the Humbley-Pudge Gallipoli.  Plenty of leg and head room in that baby!

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Any a/c that ugly would have been French.

[Treading Water]

It's that dogged insistence on historical accuracy that sets your work apart from the rest of the genre and elevates it above the level of mere smut.

I draw the line at using food in my great works of erotic fiction though; Although even if I say so myself, the cucumber and squash used in "Rampant adventures of Studs Ramrod, private investigator" was inspired.

Arrester hooks and cables are an intrisic element of BDSM naval erotica. But as RGWG helpfully points out I suffer seasickness and therefore can't do any meaningful first hand research.
Damn.

Alas. Perhaps this is not the right time to bring up the catapult. 

Crap, I thought I could get another two days out of this jammy-top....
(My sides hurt!)