Occupation: Intellectual Vagabond
Jan. 13th, 2009 05:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
So I have written about my lifestyle before. I have often run into issues with government identification. I have often wondered why a driver's license requires an address (which in turn has fairly strict proof-of-residence requirements). Tax forms become difficult. Most years I have income from three or more states.
When my addresses change on more of a monthly basis than yearly, it is one thing to update addresses in various online places so that tax forms, shipping addresses, and so on find me. Updating my driver's license becomes an expense and time-waste I do not need in my life.
So now I find myself updating my passport. I am not a fan, since the new US passports contain RFID chips and other troublesome technologies. My lifestyle and desire to travel out of the country requires me to do this, however, and so I start the process.
I start on the paperwork only to find that there is now a required field labelled "Occupation". There is another one, optional, labelled "Employer".
What kind of question is that? Why is this needed at all? What should I list, given my current lifestyle and the fact that the passport will be good for ten years?
Any suggestions from the peanut gallery on what I should list in this field?
When my addresses change on more of a monthly basis than yearly, it is one thing to update addresses in various online places so that tax forms, shipping addresses, and so on find me. Updating my driver's license becomes an expense and time-waste I do not need in my life.
So now I find myself updating my passport. I am not a fan, since the new US passports contain RFID chips and other troublesome technologies. My lifestyle and desire to travel out of the country requires me to do this, however, and so I start the process.
I start on the paperwork only to find that there is now a required field labelled "Occupation". There is another one, optional, labelled "Employer".
What kind of question is that? Why is this needed at all? What should I list, given my current lifestyle and the fact that the passport will be good for ten years?
Any suggestions from the peanut gallery on what I should list in this field?
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Date: 2009-01-13 10:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-13 10:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-13 11:07 pm (UTC)Employer: "politicos, venture capitalists, n'er-do-wells"
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Date: 2009-01-14 01:11 am (UTC)Employer: United Federation of Planets Starfleet Command
That'll hold you over for ten years, no?
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Date: 2009-01-14 02:12 am (UTC)(as best as i can tell, making stuff, buying stuff, selling stuff, analyzing how other people make/buy/sell stuff)
marketing maybe? that pretty much covers anything in retail & sales, right? getting people to buy stuff
i was actually glad that kentucky decided i am not a resident, because the hassle of transferring everything to kentucky was going to be more work than i really cared to deal with when i moved here. im not really looking forward to having to deal with that in a new state in a year or two when im NOT living on a campus
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Date: 2009-01-14 02:38 am (UTC)Do you have any evidence that occupation and employer will actually show up on your passport? I somehow doubt it considering most people don't stay at jobs 10 years anymore.
If you wrote more on the blog (not that I can talk) you might qualify as a writer. Of course, that fits nicely with the Bohemian title.
if you're going to go with your title...
Date: 2009-01-14 04:58 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-14 05:04 am (UTC)I don't understand what they're going to do with this information. Surely it doesn't get listed on your passport. (I haven't examined the new RFID ones yet, nor do I have any idea what data the chip contains.)