Welcome back to Romance Writers Weekly where each week our authors answer a question or write about something presented to us. This week Xio Axelrod wants to know if we weren’t writers what other creative career would we most want to try?
At the ripe young age of 51 I’ll have to admit I’ve tried a few different jobs in my time. I started my working careers at the tender age of 13 babysitting for my siblings and neighborhood children, moving into retail, CNA, housekeeper, babysitter, nursery worker, oh my, the list goes on and on.
I would have to say if I wasn’t writing though and I could pick one creative job it would have to be landscaping. I had a boss who is now landscaping heaven I’m sure, who taught me not only the nursery business when I lived in Florida, but also how to design, bid, and landscape businesses and homes.
The first landscape job I ever assisted with was a Post Office in Lake Como, Florida. It was a wonderful experience and I was soon learning how to walk onto a piece of property, hear the thoughts of the clients, and then going home to sit around the kitchen table to map out a design full of shrubs, flowers, and beautiful gardens of perennials.
So if I had to choose a creative job I would want to do if I wasn’t writing novels it would definitely be landscape designer J
I would have to say if I wasn’t writing though and I could pick one creative job it would have to be landscaping. I had a boss who is now landscaping heaven I’m sure, who taught me not only the nursery business when I lived in Florida, but also how to design, bid, and landscape businesses and homes.
The first landscape job I ever assisted with was a Post Office in Lake Como, Florida. It was a wonderful experience and I was soon learning how to walk onto a piece of property, hear the thoughts of the clients, and then going home to sit around the kitchen table to map out a design full of shrubs, flowers, and beautiful gardens of perennials.
So if I had to choose a creative job I would want to do if I wasn’t writing novels it would definitely be landscape designer J
Now let’s hop on over to Xio Axelrod and see what she would be doing if she wasn’t filling our bookshelves with amazing novels.
http://xioaxelrod.com/
http://xioaxelrod.com/