01/02/2022
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"Just a Gigolo", Bing Crosby (1931)

They say the first day back to work after the holidays is the most 
depressing day of the year.

So I thought a bonus Hit of the Week song was in order to help bring a 
little joy into your drab, wretched lives :-)

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A few years ago I read somewhere that they recommended that people make a 
radical career change in mid life - not because they have to, but just to 
juice things up.

Evidently they felt that flipping from one drab, dead end job to a new drab 
dead end job is an improvement.

Anyway, they said on the news a lot of people are doing that now as the 
Covid pandemic winds down.

I, myself, have never felt the need to do that.

Working in the computer industry things change quite a bit every five years 
or so and almost totally every ten.

It's quite different today from when I first started.

But anyway I thought it might be fun to ask, what career WOULD I flip to if 
I were to do that.

Like most technical people, I'm a real "people person" - that's why I went 
into Software Engineering in the first place (although I might have been 
somewhat misinformed about that).

Anyway, it would have to be something like that.

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A while back there was a guy in the news named Jeffrey Epstein.

He was a "procurer" - that sounds so much nicer that "p*mp" or "wh*remonger" don't you think?

Anyway, THAT sounds like an interesting line of work to be in.

He made a lot of money and got to meet a lot of rich  and famous people, 
like Prince Andrew, Donald Trump, Bill Clinton and Bill Gates.

The trouble is, I wouldn't know how to get started in something like that.

I mean, in software development you need to have some formal training, 
either college or at least a technical school - but I don't remember seeing 
any classes in "procurement" when I went to the U - maybe they were over in 
the business school - I wasn't really looking for that when I went there.

Considering it's the "world's oldest profession", you'd think there would be a more defined, educational pathway so that a young person who might be 
interested in pursuing a career in that field would know how to get started 
in it.

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I saw a movie once where a procurer kept his girls in line and dependent on 
him by getting them all heavily addicted to narcotics.

I don't know ... I bet the drugs I would need are probably illegal in 
Minnesota, and I'd have to deal with some rather unsavory characters to get 
them.

In another movie, the procurer would beat up one of the girls from time to 
time to scare the others to keep them in line.

But I don't know about that either - I've never hit a woman before - and 
frankly I think some of these chicks could probably beat the crap out of me 
if I tried something like that - this could all backfire horribly on me.

Maybe "procurement" isn't such a great job after all.

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Of course, I could be just a "gigolo".

I worked my way through college doing that, but it's so humiliating.

The first hundred or so are the hardest and ...

Wait a minute - I never did THAT!

I must have dreamed that in some weird, twisted nightmare.

Although, it all sounds so glamorous the way Bing is singing about it.

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Maybe I'm not such a "people person" after all.

Although, being a Software Engineer is a lot like being a "gigolo" - I mean 
people pay me for my body - well the "brain" part of my body anyway.

So it's kinda the same thing, ... sorta, ... a little, ... isn't it? - Okay 
maybe not.


Ya, I think maybe I'll just stick with being a Software Engineer :-)

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Here's a real blast from the 1980s :-)
David Lee Roth - Just A Gigolo / I Ain't Got Nobody (1985) (Music Video - 
Dave TV Version)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ui-zBq-f5XA

David Lee Roth
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Lee_Roth


Stay Jazzed!
--Tom Swezey
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