Could he do yours?


Imagine you had to switch careers with Our Hero for a month. Could you handle what he does for a living, and everything it entails? Could he cut it at your job and everything involved in bringing in your paycheque?

god, he'd start crying in like 5 minutes. i don't think pollinating corn is up his alley. plus, it's not a heels and make-up sort of job. although he does seem to like Hawaii. probably not this side of this particular island, though.
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I would absolutely love to see the li'l purple squirt scrub someone's fecal matter from the walls of a toilet stall. I would pay handsomely to see it.
Yes, I'm serious. It's something I get to do at my job on a fairly and disturbingly frequent basis.
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TheMadMonkey said:

Lovely.

My sis does housekeeping at one of those big fancy, rich-people hotels. She comes across that shit (no pun...) daily.

Raze said:

"our hero"

He couldn't do either of my jobs without snapping, I think.

I work two retail jobs, so that means customer service. And that means -pay attention, Prince -being nice to people, even when they really don't deserve it.

At one job I'm double-duty as both head cashier, in charge of keeping money organized and new trainees trained, and go-to person for shipping and receiving in the electronics department. I'm entrusted with keeping what amounts to thousands of dollars worth of equipment organized each day and coming and going to the right spots.

At the other job I'm a keyholder, so essentially a manager and supervisor when the real manager can't be bothered to show up. So, we've got receiving product, dealing with cranky customers, keeping an eye on till and making sure other employees stay honest. Yahoo.

So could Prince do that? Hell no. He's too anti-social to handle customers, and couldn't deal with product because he'd get distracted by the keyboards or something and start playing.

In all fairness though, I couldn't do his job either. I have nil musical ability, and my knowledge of how the industry works is only slightly higher than your average music fan, but not enough not to get myself as an artist ripped off.

scandalousalan said:

Half out of affection, half out of facetiousness.

I'm a Sales associate at a major department store in the largest mall on the east coast, I get to dress nicely, smile and interact with people all day in a clean pleasant atmosphere, and shop whenever I feel like it on my employees discount, Prince would not mind my job, but the PAY STINKS! Physically I don't have the energy or creativity to do what he does.
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could prince do what i do? hell, *I* can barely do what i do. prince would be escorted from my workplace by lunchtime.

could i do what he does? no. performing and writing lyrics isn't so mindboggling, but i don't have the patience to learn keyboards or guitar. maybe if all i was paid to do - if i had 40 hours a week in a room where it was my JOB to learn and get good at those instruments, then MAYBE i could be a fraction as proficient - but in my spare time, i've never ever gotten comfortable with any instruments other than drums, so no. technically speaking, couldn't do it.

I'm just having visions of Prince analysing the daily banking and creating a creditors pay-run for the local Council whilst I come up with my new album entitled 'Things'.

Things tracklist;

1. Tap Tap 3:42 (excellent drumming skills with a couple of pencils. Haystack murmurs some random stuff too)
2. Bloody Hell 2:58 (Haystack sings slightly out of key about all the things that surprise him or annoy him. The odd 'tiddly pom' here and there is reminsicent of Bjork's Medulla album)
3. I'm Bored Of This Already 39:26 (Haystack muses that the job exchange thing was a bad idea, even though he's made CD copies of all Prince's vault stuff and plans to bring them back home. Stunning musical background which is actually an instrumental version of Moonbeam Levels that Haystack found whilst searching around the vault)

I am a Special Ed. teacher in a self-contained high school class. I work with kids with emotional problems- mostly boys. The girls are tougher, tho; when someone is having a bad day it affects the whole room- which isn't that big to begin with. I teach multiple subjects. I am usually the smallest one in my classroom. Could Prince do my job? I doubt it. Some days I'm amazed I can!

No, I could not do Prince's job. Although I can read music and play an instrument, I can't sing. I think I dance like Elaine on Seinfeld and freeze when someone is watching me because of it. I'll wear his clothes and profile, tho!