From this Cinephile....

CINEPHILES UNITE!

I have decided to once again take up blogging. In college, someone asked me what would be my dream job. At the time I replied "teacher" but it was more of a career than a "dream." After a few minutes of thought I replied, "Blockbuster, I want to work at Blockbuster," Fast forward to 2011, (about 10 years since I was asked the question) where Blockbuster was bought out by DISH Network for $320 million, after they filed for bankruptcy.

So why Blockbuster? I had a small stint there in college and at Blockbuster, I got to do two of my favorite things: watch movies and recommend them to people. As an employee one of the "obligations" were to take home movies and watch them. I was told that having knowledge of movies would bring good customer service opportunities. Later I found out it was another way of saying, "don't stand around doing nothing." But the more I worked I found that talking to people about movies was a very comfortable and open place to discuss your opinions. Of course there would be times when the parties would not agree but at least you had a small saying of how that person was going to spend their free time by recommending or un-recommending a movie.

I was recently asked, "what if you weren't a teacher, what would you like to do?" I responded, "if I weren't teaching, I would like to get paid to watch movies and have people listen to what I thought about them." So here I am, the first step in achieving my "dream" to discuss movies.

Now if I can only get people to listen...