Comments on: You Tell Us: Labor of Love

By: Charlotte McClain

Charlotte McClain — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 16:46:56 +0000

When I was a little girl my mother started teaching and I wanted to be just like her. Then in fifth grade I discovered reading and I wanted to be a writer. So now I am a teacher and a writer who is obsessed with firefighters and small towns.

I like anything that’s done well. Give me a homebody kindergarten teacher and I will be happy until she leaves school in the middle of the day without being guilty for abandoning her little darlings.

By: Jax Garren

Jax Garren — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 13:32:44 +0000

I’m with Wendy; I love to read characters doing things that are totally different than what I do because I get to learn new things. As far as heroes go, I think firefighters are underrepresented. There are few things sexier than a man willing to brave a burning building for someone’s pet!

By: Wendy Chen

Wendy Chen — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 19:44:16 +0000

I love reading about professions that are totally different from what I do — which is sit at a desk in an office job! Maybe it’s just another quest for a break from my reality!

By: Cindy_Pape

Cindy_Pape — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 14:08:58 +0000

I’m really loving all the great suggestions. Thanks, everyone!

By: Hell Cat

Hell Cat — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 05:03:58 +0000

I always wanted to be a marine trainer/vet type person. Not like a Sea World trainer, but ones who helped rehab the animals before putting them back into sea. Or a marine biologists. But I specifically wanted to work with orcas. If I worked on land it would be Big Cats but similar care. Working in a zoo and rehabbing or helping the breeding program. Unfortunately, I sucked at science. Bit of a problem.

What would I love to read now? I want more diverse heroines in the contemporary settings. Something like a vet tech or a kennel tech (a job I had that was hard labor but so rewarding in learning who you were as a person). Something unexpected, not necessarily those particularly. The not so glamorous sides. What about a vampire lady – you know the people who come and stick you for blood at 4am when you’re in the hospital? The jobs tell you about the character and there’s so much diversity around.

By: Jacinta

Jacinta — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 03:16:59 +0000

I wanted to be a writer, photographer or librarian. Oh or Baker (that lasted 3 months before i quit due to cranky bakers) I ended out as a librarian but turns out that its not all old books and dusty shelves My current library doesnt even have fiction books!!

For some reason in all the books i read the heroine has a job, but never actually goes to it…I want my characters to have real lives that they can’t drop at a moments notice.

By: Cindy_Pape

Cindy_Pape — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 02:51:05 +0000

STEM? Samantha, that’s a new one on me. But I’m totally with you on loving my geeks!

By: Samantha Ann King

Samantha Ann King — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 23:16:12 +0000

I love sexy STEM geeks–male and female.

By: Nicole Luiken

Nicole Luiken — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 20:29:14 +0000

I really enjoyed the medical backgrounds (nurse practitioner and EMT pilot) in Julie Rowe’s North of Heartbreak. Which is funny, because I cannot watch TV medical dramas (too gory).

I’m getting tired of wedding planners and independent spacer captains. But that just means it isn’t a selling point for me; I will still read books with those types of heroes/heroine if the plot intrigues me. (Zoe from Monster in My Closet is a wedding planner, but I still enjoyed the book)

By: Kym Wojtasik

Kym Wojtasik — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 20:17:06 +0000

I wanted to be a doctor, a hairdresser, a solicitor etc… That didn’t happen!!

I would like to see stronger female characters – Muay Thai fighters, Rally Car drivers, Marathon runners etc in books. I enjoy the manly man, one that is good with his hands and can fix stuff! Also men from the wrong side of the tracks (that were misunderstood and really good people).