I missed my true calling as a hawker
While filling out this form I had a hard time finding an entry in the ‘Occupation’ select box to match what I do. You can tell that the list comes from some dusty old insurance almanac, being almost completely devoid of any reference to more recent professions. In the end the wonderfully mechanical ‘Computer Operator’ was as close as I could get, conjuring up images of me pulling cranks and levers all day long at a giant steam-spewing counting machine.
I also got an insight into some of the many other ways I could be keeping the lights on, which include:
Arborist
Armature Rewinding
Artificial Inseminator
Boxer
Canal Operation
Cemetery Subdivider
Chewing & Smoking Tobacco
Digger Driver
Dry-Liner
Electrotyping & Stereotyping
Extraction of Pine Gum
Folding Cardboard Boxes
Freezer & Locker Meat Provisioner
Fur/Gown Trader
Gravedigger
Gypsum
Hawker
Hypnotherapist
Log Merchant
Machinist
Mattresses & Bedsprings
Milk Agent
Money Lender
Mushroom Picker
Net Maker
Panel Beater
Pigs
Police Protection
Pools Collector
Pressed and Moulded Pulp Goods
Private Detective
Railroad Property Lessors
Ship Building & Repairing
Shoe Repair & Hat Cleaning Service
Stonemason
Tarmacadam Worker
Tree Nuts
Wood Pallets & Skids
X-Ray Apparatus & Tubes