Update: July 2008: Did you know you can audition to be a Blue Man?!
You’ve read What Color Is Your Parachute? 
You’ve written down your meaning in life till you’ve cried as suggested by Steve Pavlina in How to discover your life purpose in about 20 minutes.
You’ve taken workshop after workshop to discover your ideal career.
Yet you’re still coming up short. Here are some more ideas that may strike a chord:
Fast Company Magazine’s Day in the Life of Work series - especially the butter sculptress profile - always stuck in my mind. Somehow they found people to interview with careers as varied as:
Wave Runner
Wheelchair Racer
Consumer affairs hotline operator at a spice company!
None of the above?
How about investigating some of the off-the-beaten path ideas Popular Mechanics explores
in This is My Job:
- Storm Chaser
- Surfboard Designer
- Wind Farmer
- Food Scientist (meet the inventor of the Frappucino)
- Crash-Test Technician
- Pediatric Transport Doctor
- Sleep Doctor
- Avalanche Forecaster
- Helicopter Repairman
- Aerodynamics Engineer
- Baseball Bat Maker
- Oceanographer
- Geophysicist
- Stuntman
- Lifeguard
- Pyrotechnician
Still haven’t found what you’re looking for? (Maybe you want to be an imitation rock star 
Check out Vocation Vacations for more interesting ideas.
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