Monday, September 05, 2016
Dream Job
WTTW Chicago Public Media - Television and Interactive: The Museum of Science and Industry needed someone to run their gigantic and legendary model train set. William Davidson is the model train lover who got the job
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Dream job is right. I never had a full model train set up but I always wanted one. Not just toy trains, I wanted model trains. I new people who had set ups in their basement and would marvel at how cool it was to make a small version of a real thing…while also driving trains. I think trains is one of my oldest passions, one I have mostly grown out of, but is still something that always brings excitement. The passion this guy has for trains and their miniature counterpart is evident. He appears to love every second of his work at clearly takes pride in it. How many jobs can there be where your full time obligation is to play with model trains? That is every kids dream. I am curious what he does all day other than fix the trains. I am sure there is a lot to fix and he also goes and does work on the set up during the day, but I can’t imagine that takes an 8 hour day…either way, what a cool job.
It’s weird, because while I was watching the video, I just kept on thinking how unlimited a human being truly is. Model Trains - something seemingly so trivial, something that most people wouldn’t have much thought, something I definitely have not put much effort into looking up about, could have so much meaning and power behind it. William Davison, a simple person, works to fix and maintain model trains for the a science museum, and he loves it. First, how many people can say that they work for their love. It’s something we all hope as children, but very few achieve it. Second think of how important his job really is. It may just be fixing trains, but those trains are part of a larger museum. A museum which is meant to give people knowledge and inspire people. Someday a person might walk in there and see those trains, and be so inspired that it might lead them to make the newest invention that helps million of peoples.
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