The ABA just had an article about VocationVacations, a fascinating business that lets people try out their secret (or not so secret): “This is what I'd like to do if I weren't practicing law.” (The article was in the June 17 edition of the ABA Journal eReport. Subscription may be required.)
According to the ABA's description: “The company offers 60 different packages, including brewmaster, horse trainer, cheese maker, sports announcer, wedding coordinator and golf pro, says founder Brian Kurth. Prices range from $350 for a one-day stint as an animal therapist to $5,500 for a week with a fishing guide in Alaska.”
I checked out the golf pro listing. You can get one to two days of mentoring with a PGA Tour Professional including two rounds of golf at a world class golf facility for $5,999 - $8,999 per person. There's another golf pro listing where you can have two days of one-on-one with a Golf Pro for $899 + taxes.
The site has a list of what the company calls its “holidays” that are currently available.
It also lists “VocationVacations in the making,” and the potential newbies range from Animator, Aquarium Manager, Archeologist, and Art Auctioneer to Whiskey Distiller and Zookeeper.
A postscript:
In case you're wondering about the "animal therapist" vacation and how a therapist can give therapy to an animal, that's not how this animal therapy works. Here, the animals give therapy to humans instead of the other way around. As the site explains it, therapy animals visit the elderly in nursing homes and children in the hospital.
Links:
ABA article: http://www.abanet.org/journal/ereport/jn17career.html
VocationVacations site: http://vocationvacations.com
VocationsVacation golf pro description: http://www.vocationvacations.com/vacations/PGAGolfPro/index.asp
VocationsVacations list of currently available holidays: http://www.vocationvacations.com/vacations/CurrentPackages.asp
VocationVacations in the making: http://www.vocationvacations.com/vacations/making.asp
Posted by ajlevy at June 20, 2005 2:55 PM