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Ideal for: the very beautiful.
Job specifications: You are the painter’s muse, which sounds very romantic
and poetic, but in reality, involves sitting in a very uncomfortable
position for several hours, probably naked, while being tormented by flies
from the fruit bowl in the background.
Drawbacks: If you’re posing for a starving artist—which is probably the
case, since the more famous ones are too busy making portraits of the
nobility to bother with the likes of you—the only reward you’ll get for your
labour is, well, a fruit bowl and the promise of being immortalized on
canvas. Unfortunately that doesn’t pay the bills, or the chiropractor,
who’ll need several sessions to remove the crick that had developed in your
neck.
Perks: There is the small chance that a prince may see your picture
hanging in the gallery, fall madly in love with you, and whisk you off to
his summer palace. And hey, it beats being a fishmonger.
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