I believe there’s a book called exactly that, and I may have read it five or six or seven years ago. I suppose I should look it up and link to it, in case there’s a gold mine to be made by referring folks to it. Hmmm…maybe it was called something else. I don’t think it was this (but Toastiest highly recommends it everyone nonetheless): Do What You Love, The Money Will Follow by Marsha Sinetar. I mean, I thought the whole point of doing what you love is that you’re deciding you don’t quite care whether or not the money follows. Do what you love AND make money, too? I’m not so ambitious. But if you are, I’m sure it’s absolutely a fabulous book, and if you, dear reader, were to purchase a paperback through this link, I’d be well on my way to doing what I love (blogging about whatever the brain synapses deem blogworthy) and rolling in the dough! (Perhaps I could afford a ciabatta roll at Whole Foods!)

Anyway, my point…where was I doing with this post?

Ah, yes, I was just compiling my weekly Toastie Radio Top 25. I do this every single week, even if few listeners bother going to the website (well, you can even do it from this website and never even listen to the broadcast). Why? Because I love playing with rankings and statistics. The geek in me has liked doing stuff like this since I was a kid, when I’d play Olympic Decathlon on my Apple ][ Plus, as six different TV charactes, and keep statistics on their results. And later I’d play Micro League Baseball with mixes of real teams, All-Star teams with real players from various teams, and completely fake team composed of…television characters. I’d play a sixteen-game season and keep stats, with pencil and paper. And then I’d type it all up with my Apple word processing program and print out league stats results.

So getting songs voted on for Toastie Radio and publishing a weekly Top 25 is my way of tapping into this interest.

So maybe I should’ve been an actuary…or a statistician of some kind…or I should’ve…No, not gonna play the coulda-shoulda-woulda game. What do I need to do starting right now to lead myself to a job or career that involves this type of analytical, but fun, kind of thinking? (Actuaries really don’t do anything fun, do they?) This is a rhetorical question. I’m just thinking aloud. Math courses, grad school, books to read? I don’t know. And I’m thinking aloud in Toastiest as opposed to a private journal because I’m operating under the experimental premise that I might be more likely to act on idea if I have these ideas out in the open and not in some sort of vacuum.