Some great jobs

I was watching Top Gear with my husband and I said to him, "Jeremy Clarkson has the best job in the world." The dude was driving a Lamborghini on the show, telling us that it was such fun to drive the car.

And there are other jobs out there that are just fabulous. Mine is not one of them. My job is littered with insecurity, writing walls (I don't believe in writer's block, I believe in hitting walls and getting past them), bad reviews, unhappy readers, and creepy Amazon.com ratings (like they actually tell you how your book is doing but it's all we authors have until the royalty report comes and we know the whole truth). My job is also about great reader emails, wonderful readers, some of whom become friends, that great feeling when I get a paragraph right, some great reviews, and so on and so forth.

Writing is hard work. I just started working on a new book and when I started the book I had the feeling I always do on page 1 - "How am I supposed to produce a whole book based on a title?"

And then I tell myself that I should be happy to have the title. My problem is that I can't write a book until it has a title. I can't even write an essay if I don't have a title. I need the title to get me through the book. There's no logic to this, I just function this way.

So...speaking of great jobs, here is a small list I made - feel free to add to it:

1. Jeremy Clarkson - this guy drives cool cars for a living and does other cool things with cars (he spent one season trying to destroy a Toyota truck)
2. Anthony Bourdain - he travels around the world and eats a variety of different food
3. Brad Pitt - do I need to explain this one?
4. Paris Hilton - she makes a living going to parties (I'm not condoning her fame; all I'm saying is that she parties for a living)
5. Rick Stein - he also travels around the world, eating good food, finding places that make good food

I wanted a top 10 but only managed the top 5. My husband suggested Bill Gates but I don't think he counts. He worked like a dog to get to where he is and now he's trying to save the world. Can you imagine a more frustrating job?

My mother always says that who cares if you like your job or not as long as you earn a living doing it. And there's truth in that - we don't all always love our jobs, sometimes we do what we do because the bills have to be paid. I love being a writer - but fact is that there are parts of this job that truly suck - but overall this is who I am and I can't change that and don't want to change that.

I'm sure if I asked the people on my top 5 great jobs list if they loved their job, they would say the same thing - I love my job overall, but there are parts of it that suck.

What do you think is the perfect job?