Tell me your dream job

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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So even I’m getting tired of my motif postings, posting about independant writers and about my school troubles. I’m a man trying to find a scent and figure out which way to go. It only makes it more confusing because depending where I turn I hear conflicting things - imagine that. Some people go where the money is and fun will follow. Others tell me to screw the money and figure out what it is that I love. Furthermore some whisper in my ear that if I do what I love money will follow. And then my anarchist friends tell me to plot the end of the world. Heh.

That last part was a joke.

I was in school looking at Computers as my means for the future. Programming and Internet voodoo would be my keystone in the next arch of my bridge. During school I was in a groove, stuck in a path and accepting of it. But with the end of school I’m suddenly sitting on an open plain and I stand here spinning in a circle looking around and just trying to decide which way to even begin walking.

So I’m standing here and looking around and I feel like I’m lost and yet I know precisely where I am. I love computers and the Internet, I love writing, I love gaming, and I love people. The truth of the matter is that I could be happy doing just about whatever. Here I am 22 years old and I have no clue what I want to devote my life to.

I think I could be happy living here and running a game store. Not much money there barring serendipitous events. I mean let’s be honest. Aside from possible financial stress, it’s an amazingly stress free job.

I would love to do something on the Internet, but I have no idea what. Possibly money but probably fairly short term without continuous evolution barring one big idea.

I could win the lottery and live the life of a rich fat and happy geek on a plot of land ripe with wireless Internet and other electronic toys.

I think it would be cool to be a game designer, like a board game or card game, but again that’s a limited market and I don’t know how high I’d have to go to actually make a living at it.

Ironically the job which I think will make me the most happy is the game store. I just can very easily see myself living a happy life working at my own game store. There are problems, I know, but ignoring all the multitude of possible problems - this is the most appealing dream for me.

So, no holds barred, best case scenarios - what’s your dream job?

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A world-class professor. People’d invite me to lectures, cite my books, give me awards; I’d travel, write, research, have loads of time off in the summer, teach, read…

It’d be perfect, really.

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Artist. A successful one.

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I want to own a sport-fishing boat, and take happy tourists out to catch the biggest fish they’ve ever seen in their lives in waters off Hawaii or Costa Rica or anyplace that’s beautiful and warm.

For the other six months of the year, I’d like to be a prolific, respected artist and musician.

The first one is within the realm of possibility. The second one is not, but you didn’t say it had to be realistic, now did you? :wink:

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I’d like to be an old-timey foley artist, doing all those little tricks to make sounds like wrapping my hand in a chamois and punching a side of beef while holding a fistful of celery.

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I’d write and make movies. Good ones. All different kinds-- claymation, dramas, kung fu, whatever I felt like. If they made money, great. If not, as long as I could live as well as I do now and could retire, I wouldn’t care.

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I was asked this question on an interview once, and I said “Hammock tester”.

People have no sense of humor. On the positive side, she said it was the most interesting answer she ever had from that question.

I didn’t get the job. I really didn’t want it, but come on… she asked.

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I’d love to be a Naturalist for the National Park Service.

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well, i take pressure and stress very well, and going through the same ringer that the original poster is going through. with that baing said, i’d like some sort of job that requires me to be called out to perform a task or a job or fix something. it’d have to require high risks and high rewards. for example, when car companies shut down an assembly line to fix a problem, they’re losing literally millions by the hour. they’ve got to look at the system, figure out the problem, fix it, and have confidence that it’s fixed when the line starts up again. that’s what i’d like to do.
…just think of me as the wolf. and yes, i shoulda made that my user name.
another job i’d like would be something in local politics. enough control to get some things actually accomplished, yet not big enough for nasty, widespread corruption. and it pays good and looks great on a resume.

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Equipment Manager for the Seattle Seahawks. Not too much pressure, get to travel with the team, hang out with the players, etc. Do these guys get a ring if they win the super bowl?

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Owning a small pub.

Though I would end up weight 500 pounds from all the beer and wings I’d consume.

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Successful novelist. Just successful enough that people know my work and rush out to buy my books as soon as they come out. I could do a few book tours, then spend most of my time at home, writing all day.

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2 year micro-gravity sex study reseach subject.

I’ll even take minimum wage.

I’m dead serious.

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this might be a slight hijack…and it might have been done before…
but couldn’t we have some sort of job listing page attached to this website? some of the people here who own businesses/are HR people for firms could find some smart people through this site.

i mean, wouldn’t that help to alleviate the overall feeling of angst that threads like this seem to come with?

…or am i being overly optimistic?

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'Sexual Response Test Subject"

It works likke this: You know that commercial for the “warming gel”, where the really cute lady makes that “I’m gonna get me some” face, and has hubby rub her back?

Well, I’m the guy in the test lab that when they have a new gel/creme that has HER rub me down with it to test my response. Of course, then she’d need a little rubbing down, and so on.

Or, lets say Victoria’s Secret wants to see the effect their new line has on the average male. So I sit on a comfy chair while Giselle, and Tyra and the gang parade by and take turns sitting on my lap and we sip champagne off of each olthers necks.

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My answer is identical to Telperien’s.

That was a bullshit question for them to ask. If your answer is anything but the job you’re applying for, then you’re not “a good fit for the company.” If your answer is the job you’re applying for, it sounds like you’re just giving them the answer they want to hear.

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I want to be the guy who names all the IKEA products.

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Hey, I’m 52 and I still don’t completely know what I want to do when I grow up! :smack:

My dream job? Professional ski patroller and avalanche researcher. Travels the world studying snow, avalanches, prediction, prevention, monitoring, and protection. Northern hemisphere only; from May-September works as a dive instructor.

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Library Of Congress.

Or Smithsonian.

Anything involving the collection.

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My dream job is my dad’s job. Sit in the house all day and get paid tons of money to invent one thing a year. Raise children and write amateur plays for the rest of the year. Other than allowing his hair to go white, his face hasn’t aged. Why? Because he does NOTHING.

However, unlike my dad, I am not a genius that can invent things in the shower and science causes my ovaries to wither so I can’t have that job.