So Where's That Job Posting for MP3 Player Stocker/Music Suggestion Specialist?

Granted, I've never actually seen such an advertisement online or in the paper. Even so, I did have the experience last week of an enthusiastic visitor to this site asking me for various hair metal and arena rock song recommendations to help stock his MP3 player. I couldn't have been more delighted, as part of the great fun and satisfaction of writing online about a topic I love is passing along all the music I find pleasurable and significant and for which I genuinely believe others might very well share the same affinity.

Of course, this incident also got me to thinking about all the endeavors I would love to engage in for a living for which there exists little or no market. The lost vocation of artful outbursts of profanity comes to mind, as does the notion of wage-supplying horror movie marathons complete with intermissions dedicated to refreshments and group analysis. Still, certainly atop any such wish list would be a full-time position supplementing, shaping and otherwise attempting to enhance the public's collective musical library. I guess for now I'll have to settle for part-time, freelance status, as it remains one of my most treasured honors to champion '80s music on this website, even more so on the many occasions when I absorb just as much wisdom from an enlightened readership as I ever impart. So, until the world's concept of business and commerce does a complete 180 toward the truly important things in life and away from hollow, bitter pursuits intended only to escalate wealth, I'll just wait here with you, fair readers, "with a wide open country in our hearts and these romantic dreams in our heads."

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