I’m currently a senior at Stanford. This means that I will be graduating in about 1.5 months. While many of my friends are already employed at Google (an insanely popular destination for newly-minted Stanford grads), or are headed off to graduate school or medical school, I’m still not entirely sure what I am going to do with myself. I know that I want to work, but the obvious question which follows is where? I have ruled out Google, but a whole lot of options remain. However, as I peruse through job listings each day, I frequently find myself wondering if any of the jobs that I am considering will be any fun (I know, this very well may be an unreasonable expectation).

All of this stress from the job search made me start to consider the jobs that characters have on TV. I realized that many of these jobs seem far more appealing than the ones that I have been looking at thus far. Therefore, if I could have my pick from the crop of TV jobs, I think that the jobs possessed by the TV characters listed below seem like the best options:

Carrie Bradshaw as a newspaper columnist on “Sex and the City” — Carrie has to be the luckiest journalist (if we can call it that) in the world. Her sole source of income appears to be her “Sex and the City” column which appears in the fictional New York Star once a week. Furthermore, her column is about half the length of the one I have written here and as anybody who has seen the show knows, consists mainly of rhetorical questions. Though she sometimes complains of financial troubles, with the income from her weekly half-column she manages to afford an apartment on the Upper East Side, as well as a wardrobe complete with $40,000 worth of designer shoes (calculated by Carrie herself) and an unspecified amount of designer clothing. She is also frequently spotted in trendy New York restaurants and hotspots. Not a bad life!

Michael Scott as the boss on “The Office” — I know that some people have aspirations of changing the world through their work. If that is your goal than Michael Scott’s job is not for you, as he practically does no work at all. On one episode of this season of “The Office,” secretary Pam had to detail Michael’s hourly activities during a day of work for Corporate. On that particular day, the log detailed that Michael did Bill Cosby impressions and stood in a pretzel line. He also took a nap. One might wonder if Michael’s job of doing nothing gets boring, however I feel confident that I could find ways to keep myself busy.

John Dorian, aka JD as a Doctor on “Scrubs” — While there are many shows with doctors on them, I think that JD on “Scrubs” has the sweetest deal (those guys on “Grey’s,” “ER” and “Nip/Tuck” live through an unhealthy amount of drama). He’s a goofy but competent doctor, who cares about his patients, but also seems to enjoy life himself. JD’s job has also not robbed him of his imagination, as he frequently finds himself engaging in an inner monologue which places him in bizarre fantasy-world situations (such as taking over roles in “Star Wars,” the “Wizard of Oz” and “West Side Story”). Last but not least, JD seems to have enough time to end his evenings in a bar with his friends where he normally orders an appletini — “easy on the tini,” of course.

“Bakery Owner” — Anybody who watches the show “Weeds” knows that main character Nancy Botwin is actually a surburban pot-dealer (who in the most recent season has also ventured into growing her own product to increase profits). The bakery — or fakery — is just her cover-business to deal with paying taxes and such. I have to say, while there is obviously the concern of partaking in illegal activities, Nancy makes drug-dealing seem pretty fun, effortless and profitable. In fact, other people have already been inspired by Nancy, as I recently read an article that detailed how an increasing number of middle-class suburban homes have been doubling as marijuana farms.