May 22, 2003
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If you were suddenly forced to trade jobs with a friend or family member for one year, what job would it be and why?

I suppose my mom's, because it's the job I'm most likely to do okay at (I've helped her out in the past & stuff).

Karen, 23
Ames, IA USA

I'd probably trade with my brother Brian. We're both programmers. I think we're comparably paid. A trade with Brian would be the least disruptive to me and the person I was trading with.

Cathie, 53
Novi, MI USA

Interesting question... Not my husband's job, for sure. While I think I could teach, I know I could not teach math. My brother is a traveling salesman - not too appealing. Dad works in a papermill. Mom is retired (definitely appealing - but not a job). My one friend edits content on computer software programs from her home. That I think I could get into.

Cindy, 41
VA USA

Mother

Stephanie, 27
TX USA

I think I'd take the job of my friend Stephanie. She's an art history professor.

Laura, 38
Lowell, MA USA

Hmmm. I don't know too many people with great jobs. Right now it would have to be Scotty. He works at Tim Horton's...which is less than stellar, but he's a baker (which is cool) and makes like $10 an hours. Plus it's right near my house. Man, I just want a job, any job!

Keri-Jade, 23
Brampton, Ontario CANADA

Right now I wouldn't mind trading jobs with my friend Don who is working in a documentary production company in NYC.

Felicia, 37
Lowell, MA USA

I would jump at the chance to trade jobs with my best friend, Betty. She's a professional singer and works weekends and a couple of evenings during the week ~ makes enough money to pay her bills and live comfortably. If she really applied herself and became a little more aggressive with promotional stuff, I know she could make a fortune. She's traveled around the globe doing
what she loves the most and has had some wonderful opportunities. Yup, I could handle this type of work for a year!

Fisch, 47
Preston, CT USA

I'm "retired" and I'd trade jobs (cooking and cleaning and picking up for everybody) with any "man's" retirement.

Jill, 61
Saylorsburg, PA USA

I would trade with Ryan, who is a wetlands research scientist in Montana.

Tam

I've got a friend who travels a lot to fix medical computers. He says the problems are usually fixed in 20 minutes.

Alias Irrelevante

I'd swap jobs with one of the kitchen people at Burrito Boy and work mith my good friends Priscilla and Lily, and Juan Pablo. Wicked times would be had by all.

A-Dog, 20
Eugene, OR USA

If we can assume that with the trade comes the qualifications, then I would swap jobs with my daughter, who is a lawyer. It's a profession that has always interested me.

Jane, 63
West Linn, OR USA

I want Reba's job as she works for the government and will retire with a pension. She can have my non-working, since '82, life.

Laney, 60
TX USA

Any of them. I could go for a change of scenery from this cubical.

Ryan, 29
Riedlingen GERMANY

I would have to switch positions w/ sis-n-law. College professor. I could speak to the young folk very easily. teach a philosophy of sorts.

Christine, 37
Syracuse, NY USA

I would trade jobs with my Mother. She's a nurse.

Melodi, 19
Gahanna, OH USA

I want to be a student again,I would trde with me son. He has an apartment that I pay for, groceries that I help pay for, a college education that I pay for and just about everything else that I didn't have growing up.

KarenNJ, 25
Milltown, NJ USA

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