I always wanted a cool job. Don't get me wrong, I love what I do, but how awesome would it be to be able to make a living as a mystery shopper, for instance? Sneaking up on unsuspecting people, critiquing their every move, twirling the tip of my handlebar mustache each time they walked away with a sinister, "I know something you don't know" look. I mean, a handlebar mustache! I don't even have one of those! See? It's cool already.
But I'm not very good at keeping secrets, so maybe that wouldn't be the job for me. More than a sinister, knowing look, I'd probably stand up at the table as the waiter went to fill my glass with Diet Coke instead of the Coke I ordered and yell, "NO! Don't do it! I'm your mystery shopper!" (thereby losing the 'mystery' aspect of mystery shopper).
Maybe I'd be better suited for work in a focus group...except that I work better alone and I have a pretty serious lack of focus. Still, I feel my opinion is very important, so why shouldn't everybody else agree? And that's what they're looking for in these things right? Important opinions. So what if I review every television show in existence with, "Well, it's no Lost," or my only means of critiquing food products is whether or not they are spicy enough to make my face spontaneously combust? That's valuable information!
No? Maybe you're right. Maybe those aren't for me. In the end, I guess making some extra money with cool jobs isn't in the cards. For now, I'll still have to work the ol' 9-5. Though, I did just see an ad for subjects for an online insurance study... Can't be worse than the experimental medical testing I subjected myself to, right?
Right?
Perhaps I can help a little here. I've worked in the Mystery Shopping industry in the past (both in field and on the reporting side). It's not really all that cool.
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