What is your dream job?

[JadedLegend3]

In an effort to figure out what I want to do for a living, I thought I'd pose the question, "what is your dream job?"

Anything works. I'm open to pretty much any career...legal, that is. ;)

[Mazinkaiser]

Do nothing and get payed for it :D

but in real life for me it would be Advertising.

[AyuRocks]

Actor.

[bubblez]

A dragon.

But, if that market is already full, I've wondered about being a State Highway employee. Wear a hard hat and safety vest... slap on the headphones, and just swing the weedeater back and forth until 3:30pm. No one bothers you unless it's lunch, quitting time, or to move to another slice of highway. No one checks to see if you've cut every blade of grass.
Beats the heck out the nightmares about a building collapsing because a weld should've been 1 inch longer or that connection should've had 1 more bolt. Ugh.

[LT Garrix]

I'd love to work on developing new weapons. What can I say, I love to blow things up. :D I really wish there were no need for that, then I would probably say laser applications. I absolutely loved physics and did the optical sensors track for my degree.

Or maybe something in the special effects field. That way I could still blow things up.

Really, I don't have a lot of pent up aggression. There's just something about a good explosion that I just love. :)

[AyuRocks]

A dragon.

Really? Is that a job?

[bubblez]

Really? Is that a job?

Yeah, but the union is pretty strict.

[eta_carinae]

A professional tour tester! That way you could see the world. And get paid for it :D

In reality, something humanitarian. Like an aid worker. I've always liked helping people.

[harveywhispers]

If the world would be as it should, I would rightfully be a meglomaniacal dictator bent upon world domination. My methods would be simple force of will, coupled with some of those lovely explosions LT Garrix seems to enjoy so much. I would also have a variety of henchmen, goons and the assorted court jester on hand for my amusement. All would be quite fun to watch, as they were left to be devoured by tiny angry aquarium fish..... :D

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In my make believe world, I settle for controlling the world from the shadows. It is up to the puppet leader to suffer the ill will of the public. He is the one who must listen to the complaints of the goon squad relatives, deal with the potholes and go to the budgetary meetings. My job is to control ALL of the important aspects from behind the scenes, and enjoy the bounty of my ill-gotten gains.

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I always wanted to be a print reporter. A thoughtless prof stomped on that dream a long time ago, but there are times I still wish that I had told her to shove it and stayed the course.

For some reason, my creativity has been running pretty hot lately. Having all of these ideas really makes me wish I had taken some marketing courses in college. I think, had a found that field, I may have gone a totally different route than I have followed.

[BrowderChick]

Vet Med.

[skyboy87]

I am living my dream job. And for some reason, it's a job no one ever thinks of, they just kinda trip and fall in to it.

I am a Police and Fire dispatcher in a million-plus residential jusridiction. You know that voice at the end of the Fox show "Cops"? The one that says "Copy, 132 and Bush, got 'em at gunpoint"? That's me! Ha!

I have talked a few people out of suicide, sent cops to women being raped, sent ambulances to little old ladies who woke on Sunday morning to find the love of thier lives, thier other half, thier mate of 60 years, dead in bed beside them.

I have realized that there are ALOT more clinically insane people in this lil corner of the Universe than most people suspect.

I get to help people on a nightly basis, sometimes in a way that will change thier lives forever. And it is NEVER, EVER boring!!.

[matt_boy]

This has been on my mind quite a bit, too. I think I would make an excelent Chief of Staff for a President. Playing video games and writing reviews would be a sweet job, or being a travel writer.

[soyarma]

I, unfortunately, have WAY too many dream jobs.

These are the ones that I have done and wouldn't mind going back to

Blacksmith (love working with my hands and making swords is fun too)
Carpenter (more love working with my hands)
Landscaper (its good to get tanned and dirty)
Machinist (love making things out of steel, see blacksmith)
Mechanic (love cars, gas and bruised knuckles, but the wages vs grime factor sucks)
Race Car Driver (there is no adrenaline rush like it - other than street racing, but thats illegal)
Writer (love to create things with my mind)
Map Maker (there are stories everywhere on maps just dying to get out)

These are the jobs I've had that I wouldn't want to go back to

PC Technician (gah... whiny people who break their computers blaming you for it)
IT Manager (gah... more whiny people who break their computers and blame you for it)
PC Store Manager (all of the above plus extra stress)
ISP Owner (all of the above plus more stress and no money)
Commission Sales Person (selling crap you dont believe in for some greedy company)

Jobs I've had that are So So

Computer Network Architect (creation is fun, but the stress and 24/7 on call is no fun)
Programmer (building programs is fun, but often mind numbingly dull at the same time)
Web Designer (more creativity, but honestly not as satisfying as working with hands)
CAD/CAM (there is something about all those lines)
Rock Band (music is fun, trying to make a living at is is not so much fun)

Jobs I want to do

Author (Author being a writer who is published, lol)
Historian (love history, if someone paid me to read musty books I'd be set)
Lumberjack (my brother does it and he really enjoys it)
Politician (I hate politics, but I think I could do a better job)
Radio Talk Show Host (politics without the responisibility, lol)

In the line of the Highway worker above, many delivery jobs aren't too bad. You get a lot of time to yourself, get to listen to tunes in the vehicle and pretty much do your own thing. For about 8 months at one point I was a delivery driver for a Pizza Hut. $2.25/delivery + tips meant I could make as much as $200/day driving around in my car (often with my friends) and listening to tunes while breaking every road law known to man.

But the number 1 Thing that I want to do is to get enough money to retire before 2050 and buy some land in the British Columbian Rockies, build a small log house near a lake and get me some whittling wood and a good knife and maybe a pipe and write boring poetry until I pass away.

[LiLOrion]

Doctors without Borders or
Doctor at a free clinic type deal.

(Granted I'd have to go back to school to get my MD degree but that aint happening anytime soon).


Although I do like working at home. It gets boring sometimes, but that just means I'm in here more often. :D

[zahncrelnik]

actor

[NYPinTA]

I want to be one of harveywhispers henchmen.... er...henchwoman.

Or own a movie theater. With 7 or 8 screens. And I would show 'Singin in the Rain' every spring.

[Quicksand]

Vet. Always has been, always will be.

Just can't decide between small or large animals. I'd love to help feral cats and such on reserves in Africa...but I do have a tiny fear of getting mauled.

[AyuRocks]

Yeah, but the union is pretty strict.

So, whaddya work? Medieval banquets? Harry Potter conventions?

[trinamick]

A translator, so if I didn't like one of the people, I could translate everything they said into something dirty. That'd be fun. :elol: I wanted to be a chef, but then I discovered that I hate to cook, so I guess that's out. A fireman would be cool, but not a volunteer fireman. They just sit around our town, getting drunk and falling off the trucks. Of course, I'm pathetically weak, so I'd probably tip over with my gear on and fall off a ladder. That would be bad. I wanted to be a carpenter, but then it got cold outside, and well, I'm a pansy. I guess I'll have to stick with the job I have for now, especially since bubblez is first in line for dragon.

[BlackThorn]

Job? Well, my dream is to not have to have a "job." Would be nice to make enough from my career to not have to have another job in order to actually have money.

[soyarma]

So that means you are all for the log cabin and the whittling wood to eh?

[LiLOrion]

One can only do so much whittling though. :)

[trinamick]

I've been helping my uncle build a log cabin. I keep telling him he should call it a log doghouse, cuz that's where his wife is going to be sending him. :D

[Larraq]

A safety for the Miami Dolphins,
WWE wrestler,
an Astronaut or Pilot

[AgentSun]

in no particular order of importance...

my dream job is to be (a/an):

actor
astrophysicist
medical doctor
physicist
marine biologist
lawyer
biologist
archeologist
anthropologist
astronomer
journalist
psychologist
heiress
CEO of a tech company
computer programmer
singer
dancer
fashion designer
advertising exec
photographer
novelist
secret agent
stockbroker
professional shopper
bartender
artist
animator
playwright
historian
car designer
architect
interior designer
pilot
astronaut
gourmet chef
entrepreneur
wealthy

[BlackThorn]

Better get crackin' then, AS.

[AgentSun]

well hopefully i'll knock 3 of those off the list soon. journalist, psychologist, and novelist.

[StephX]

When I was a kid I wanted to be an astronaut... Well, ok, first I wanted to be Princess Leia (lol I was four when Star Wars came out)... This was back when the space shuttles were new, and, people kept on talking about space travel, going back to the moon or visiting mars (seemed like it was talked about more then...or I just noticed it more) in the near future.

In High School I scaled back the dream to becoming a pilot. I got some heat for saying that in a class once. It was odd. All the girls there were talking about wanting to be doctors, teachers, Lawyers, and such. Guess what they told me? "But, women arn't aloud to become pilots!"

I think I had a WTF look on my face for the rest of that day....partly because someone said I couldn't do something (I never heard you can't do this or that dream by my parents) because I was female and partly because of all people it was a African American female wanting to become a corporate lawyer told me this. Kinda Ironic. lol

I started college off as a Perfessional Pilot major. My instructor thought I was a "natural". If it wasn't for the all the money, on top of the tuition, it cost to fly (err or the seeming eternal bad flying weather, or the military helicopter that flew waaay to close to me and my instructor once) I'd probably would have finished it. Also found out that flying those little trainer planes is a bit boring....not fast enough. ;)

Oh well, I tried! It wasn't a total loss. I bet I could still fly if I had to. I got to co-pilot a open cockpit bi-plane (with a parachute strapped to me), once... and while I was there one of the women grads from Parks College became, I believe, the first female fighter pilot. Take that future lawyer. :;)

After that there was the dream of working in tv somehow. I finished school with a comm. degree, and, worked in the production dept. of a tv station for 3 years. Fun job. The station as in a medium market and even us PA's had to learn how to run almost everything in the department. The pay just sucked. I would have stayed in it longer if I liked the town I was in and didn't meet my hubby down here, moved and stayed home to raise my daughter till she hits school age.

Now I'm in need of a dream tangent again...my little girl is four.


hmmmm....my personality profile (Myers-Briggs INFP) thingy says I'd make a good actor, editor, writer or Counselor (probably not career counselor lol)

[Owlman]

Pro Wrestler

Wish ECW was still around. I could be the next Raven! I would be stuck as a cruiserweight (205lb).

After getting heartbroken yesterday, I will do any spot and take any punishment!

[I-am-so-Johns-girl]

Ben's dresser. :lech:

[LT Garrix]

AS, if you really want to fulfill that list you're going to spend all your time in school. I guess you'd better get cracking on the wealthy part so you can afford the rest. :D

[stellar]

Skiball lane waxer.

[ItsThatGuy]

Hmmm, acting would be fun, especially with all the movies getting made out here in Baton Rouge now. It's kinda getting paid to make people happy (Unless you suck), and I like making people happy.

But given my recent unemployment, I'm gonna try and learn how to work a camera, since I've learned photography is an easy way to get to see the world cheap.

[StephX]

Ben's dresser. :lech:

:rollin: :lech:
"Here, Ben, let me help you adjust with those stalkings." I-am-so-Johns-girl to Ben Browder on the set of Farscape for the ep. Scratch 'N Sniff.

[JadeScape]

My choices are:
Computer Graphics
Alternative Medicine

[Owlman]

Metal vocalist/guitarist
Metal Bodyguard
Video Game Maker

[I-am-so-Johns-girl]

:rollin: :lech:
"Here, Ben, let me help you adjust with those stalkings." I-am-so-Johns-girl to Ben Browder on the set of Farscape for the ep. Scratch 'N Sniff.
:spew:


*I was actually thinking more along the line of helping him get into those leather pants! :lech:

[J.Crichton]

To be the bicycle seat of the women's olympic cycle team.....Oh wait thats what I want to be reincarnated as...Dream Job? to win lottery so I DON:T HAVE TO WORK!!!! Frell Yeah!!

[trubador]

:spew:
*I was actually thinking more along the line of helping him get into those leather pants! :lech:
Into or out of???

:flee:(Trub scampers off to the B'bank Con)

[BlackThorn]

Sure hope it's into. Would hate to see Girlie have to spend the rest of her life on the run from Fran. :ewink:

[I-am-so-Johns-girl]

:spew:


*I was actually thinking more along the line of helping him get into those leather pants! :lech:

Read it again....INTO....and with quiet dignity too! I love Ben but I'm not a stalker or pervert!!! Squeeeee! ;)

[Clarsax]

A scifi/fantasy novelist and a naturalist for me.




Hmmm, acting would be fun, especially with all the movies getting made out here in Baton Rouge now. It's kinda getting paid to make people happy (Unless you suck), and I like making people happy.



That would be fun. I wouldn't mind getting into some of the background work for movies as a dream job. Writing the screenplay or script, director, animation, something like that.

[Shipscat]

Something at least a little creative...something that I'm good at and get paid fairly well for without working eighty hours a week.

I have no idea what that would be.....

[vikingscaper]

My dream job would be a pirate.

[AgentSun]

a pirate, vs? i would think your first choice was to be a viking.

[JadedLegend3]

I think my dream job would be to be either Johnny Depp or Viggo Mortensen's girlfriend...or both. ;)

Do you get paid for that, I wonder?

[Shipscat]

I think my dream job would be to be either Johnny Depp or Viggo Mortensen's girlfriend...or both. ;)

Do you get paid for that, I wonder?

Not legally.

[vikingscaper]

a pirate, vs? i would think your first choice was to be a viking.

How about a Viking pirate???

[AgentSun]

weren't they enemies at some point?

[soyarma]

Wow AS, that's quite the list.

I am personally against most Post Secondary Education, thus you will notice that my list excludes anything that requires more school (bar historian, which means I'd have to betray myself and become a part of the PSE machine).

[Scaper_S]

fighter pilot (in a eurofighter) or novelist or photographer or astronomer or spy

[I-am-so-Johns-girl]

I think my dream job would be to be either Johnny Depp or Viggo Mortensen's girlfriend...or both. ;)

Do you get paid for that, I wonder?

Who cares??? :roflmao:

[soyarma]

What the heck is a Eurofighter?

Nm, found it, I think I've seen that in the odd movie, or maybe its predecessors. If I had a chance in hell of becomming a fighter pilot I'd love to be in the cockpit of an F-22 Raptor. Supersonic stealth flight, invisible radar, and more cool gadgets than a geek in heaven!

The JSF would also be fun as it is a new vertical takeoff jet and ever since I saw the first Harrier I thought that that was the coolest thing I'd ever witnessed.

[Scaper_S]

What the heck is a Eurofighter?

Nm, found it, I think I've seen that in the odd movie, or maybe its predecessors. If I had a chance in hell of becomming a fighter pilot I'd love to be in the cockpit of an F-22 Raptor. Supersonic stealth flight, invisible radar, and more cool gadgets than a geek in heaven!

The JSF would also be fun as it is a new vertical takeoff jet and ever since I saw the first Harrier I thought that that was the coolest thing I'd ever witnessed.


You'll be wanting to go here then: RAPTOR (http://www.f22fighter.com)

[Col. Kathryn O'Neill]

er... well lets see.. i love animals so would most likely be a vet, (most likely small animals)
scifi writer (Seein as I love to write and i think im pretty damned good as well)
win the frellin lottery and not have ta wk at all

[AgentSun]

i love education. i love learning. ultimately, no matter how much i complain about school or papers, i love the fact that i'm in school and i'm learning something. therefore, most of the things i listed have something to do with education.

[Col.Batguano]

My dream job would be a pirate.
Ben's dresser. :lech:

I want to be - a space faring Viking/Pirate Sith Lord Astronaut, who also part times as Claudia’s dresser :drool:

[PKrecruit04]

To be Rockne S. O'Bannon, Joss Whedon, Aaron Sorkin, or J.J. Arbams. Yeah, I'm a frustrated writer who does something he hates for a living. :-(

[AgentSun]

ooh i want to be buffy. yeah the dying thing sucks, but i rock! or faith. killing innocent people is bad, but i had fun doing it.

[matt_boy]

weren't they enemies at some point? No not really. Different times. But technically Viking culture was pirate-ism.

The Euro-Fighter is one cool jet. They went a totally different direction then America went with the Raptor. It's agility in the air is stunning. The only thing I wonder is if the human body is capable of utilizing it fully. At those speeds the manuvers the plane can do might kill the pilot.

[witchdoctor]

1. science fiction author

2. involved in writing, producing some cult science fiction TV show or movie, maybe with cameo or small recurring appearance (one of the lone gunman was recruited from the production crew of X-Files) -none of this is inconsistent with #1 above.

3. theoretical physicist in the field of quantum gravity or zero point energy

4. astronaut

Oh, wardrobe technician seems to be an up and coming profession, so if Claudia, Raelee or Gigi need help dressing or undressing, I would be more than happy to help with that job. . . . But, if you do it for free, can you still call it a job? Helping beautiful stars dress and undress, its not just a job, its an adventure!