I'd like to be a companion, in books by authors like Agatha Christie there's always someone who is "genteel" but "pennyless", they have a "job" as a live in companion. Awesome, somebody else puts a roof over your head, feeds you, clothes you and even pays you just for your company. I wonder if companions ever exisited outside the world of middle-class fiction? Failing being a companion, I'd like to be a theatrical props buyer, rumaging around junk shops with someone else's money to spend.