Just to Pay Expenses

What’s the best job in the world?  One for which “…they actually pay me to do what I love!”  Talk about a dream job.

Jefa-fa Dun-ham (as his puppet Peanut calls him) has never worked at a real job.  He has always been a ventriloquist. (Sorry about commercial in the link.)  People just pay him millions to entertain them.

How unlike the Michigan man of the early 1900s I read about in the book, Anchor Post.  His daughter wrote that her father was a preacher of the Gospel; he farmed only to pay expenses.

So, I will take the advice of Kristen Lamb, author of Are You There Blog? It’s Me, Writer.  She said to her audience – writers, “When people ask what you do, you need to tell them, ‘I am an author’ or ‘I am a writer.’”  Since I believe Messiah would have me proclaim Biblical truths through my stories and essays and I enjoy writing, from now on I will tell people I am an author.  I just work in a factory to pay expenses.

Whom do you know has a dream job?