Monday, September 7, 2009

Dream jobs...

You get to travel around the world, indulge in the most exclusive luxuries, get pampered at the best of spas and taste the most exquisite food, and above all you get paid to do these. Reads like a tag for an advert? Well how well can you describe the profile of a TV travelogue anchor. It is kind of a dream job where from your travel tickets to accommodation are looked after, and you are blessed with the chance to taste the most exquisite food of the world.... But there are certain things which are oblivious to the human eye, things to be endured behind the camera...

Imagine you cannot show even the slightest of giddiness of a jet lag, or stay awake for many nights to get the perfect lighting on the lens, walk across the muddiest and perilous paths to give the natural feel to the viewer... read and read (though supported by a research and script team) to display an attitude of all-knowing about what you are talking about. Then comes the all-important fixture of staying within the budget, with the Production Controller breathing down your necks.

A taste of world cuisine seems an interesting affair but when you are pushed to slurping a bit of raw meat and bread in the morning, spoons full of cheese of every kind, half-cooked veggies, creamy chocolate cakes and colourful drinks and juices to deliver your verdict on them... it doth allow your digestive system to become a conglomeration of colours and flavours.
Above all you are demanded to look good and strong, embracing a sense of happiness and wonder at things around you, depicting curiosity at every instance, immune to the heat and the rain or even chilling snow...

Now thinking about all this, I'd rather sit cozily on a swivel chair and do what I best like to do... imagining things and writing about them... as it is obvious there are many people around to whom such a job as traveling, enduring and looking good is a cake walk!

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