# What do you really enjoy doing and wish that you could get paid to do it? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 21, 2015, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-really-enjoy-doing-and-wish-that-you-could-get-paid-to-do-it/710533 "2015-01-21T23:46:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2015, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-really-enjoy-doing-and-wish-that-you-could-get-paid-to-do-it/710533/41 "2015-01-22T18:43:06Z")
(Oops you, I see the beach combing has already been mentioned! My bad! I only read the other entries after responding!) So I will change my entry to haunting museums. The odd, the old, the distant, etc,etc. ( And I’m not counting anything or reviewing anything, no how!) Just rambling around, taking it all in. There’s a lot of museums, and I love to travel, so I’m thinking this could work for me. ( Clearly, I would require frequent time off to still hit the beach, however!) ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2015, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-really-enjoy-doing-and-wish-that-you-could-get-paid-to-do-it/710533/42 "2015-01-22T19:01:20Z")
> [@Shakes](#): > > I’d like to get paid for telling anonymous people on the internet they’re wrong. No you wouldn’t. That’s my job. ---
**Author:** ![Hopeful\_Crow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/da6949/32.png) [@Hopeful\_Crow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hopeful_Crow)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2015, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-really-enjoy-doing-and-wish-that-you-could-get-paid-to-do-it/710533/43 "2015-01-22T19:03:38Z")
Hey, **elbows,** there’s plenty of beaches to be combed. Nobody said that that there couldn’t be more than one of us out there. So go for it! Who knows, perhaps one day we might meet on some sandy strand. The museums sound cool too. ---
**Author:** ![Living\_Well\_Is\_Best\_Revenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Living\_Well\_Is\_Best\_Revenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Living_Well_Is_Best_Revenge)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2015, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-really-enjoy-doing-and-wish-that-you-could-get-paid-to-do-it/710533/44 "2015-01-22T19:08:41Z")
> [@stretch](#): > > Do you play a lot of tennis? My step-father plays so much tennis that he started stringing his own rackets. That turned into a business stringing for people at his club. He makes enough stringing to pay for his tennis hobby. And, after retiring from his “real” job, he started coaching local high school tennis. > > I like to read, hang with the pets, and spend time with the grandkids. I bet I would get tired of reading for a living, and I know I would get tired playing with the pets or kids, so I think they will remain for fun instead. I wish I knew your dad or someone like him! I spend a small fortune on stringing. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2015, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-really-enjoy-doing-and-wish-that-you-could-get-paid-to-do-it/710533/45 "2015-01-22T19:10:05Z")
Flying, filmmaking. I could get paid for filmmaking, but I’d like something more steady. ---
**Author:** ![FuriousGeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecae2f/32.png) [@FuriousGeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FuriousGeorge)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2015, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-really-enjoy-doing-and-wish-that-you-could-get-paid-to-do-it/710533/46 "2015-01-22T19:37:56Z")
Scorekeeping for the Yankees (or any baseball team for that matter) ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2015, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-really-enjoy-doing-and-wish-that-you-could-get-paid-to-do-it/710533/47 "2015-01-22T19:40:05Z")
I watch a lot of TV, mainly half hour sitcoms with just a couple of dramas mixed in. I’m quite the completest - most of the shows I’ve watched, I’ve seen every episode and do so for all new shows. I like to read reviews but I’m not sure if I could review shows in such detail, at least as much as they do on _The AV Club_, since I watch so many each week. A lot of times those detailed reviews bore me anyway. I would really like to write a week-in-TV-shows-I-watch roundup! 🙂 And/or recommend new shows to people. I also never miss an Indians game (baseball) and have spent a few years blogging every game. It’s fun but it’s tedious (it takes 3 hours to listen to a game then 1-2 hours to write about it and make graphics) but I would enjoy it more if I got paid! ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2015, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-really-enjoy-doing-and-wish-that-you-could-get-paid-to-do-it/710533/48 "2015-01-22T19:47:47Z")
> [@An\_Gadai](#): > > I like digging up interesting/funny/weird/cool historical stories and images and showing them to my friends online. It’d be nice to be able to get paid to do it. I enjoy trawling through archives immensely and I spend many hours at it, being able to do it professionally would be my dream job. I work for a national not for profit and we do have a professional archivist / historian on staff. This is not a common job, but it does exist, and someone somewhere must be looking for a new one. Me, I like to watch movies and read and play video games and make jewelry. All of those can be translated into a job but I’d rather just do my 9 to 5 one I have now. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2015, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-really-enjoy-doing-and-wish-that-you-could-get-paid-to-do-it/710533/49 "2015-01-22T21:58:59Z")
I’m already doing it. Working on my art (these days I’m doing photo montages). Quit my day job at 50, never looking back. ---
**Author:** ![dracoi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90db22/32.png) [@dracoi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dracoi)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2015, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-really-enjoy-doing-and-wish-that-you-could-get-paid-to-do-it/710533/50 "2015-01-22T22:47:13Z")
I do like my day job as an accountant. But there are certain creative things I don’t have time for. One of them was running role-playing games (you know, D&D-style, though rarely D&D itself in my case) as the gamemaster (dungeon master, if you must). Most people only want to be a player, and gamemasters are usually in short supply. While I treasure my rare chances to be a player, I’m actually very happy in the role of GM, and have received a great deal of praise for how I run things. I’ve worked with all kinds of groups, too, from preschool kids, all the way up to adults in their 30’s. Back in my high school and college days there were event certain holiday weekends during school breaks where I actually did put in more than 40 hours a week as a GM. So I know that I could handle a full-time workload if I needed to. Long-term, though, I think it would lose it’s charm if I spent more than 20 hours a week on it. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2015, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-really-enjoy-doing-and-wish-that-you-could-get-paid-to-do-it/710533/51 "2015-01-23T02:08:33Z")
Mechanic, lumberjack, beer taster, pinball tester, porn surfer, ski instructor, dart thrower. Gimme My Money! ---
**Author:** ![Fossil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/47e85d/32.png) [@Fossil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fossil)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2015, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-really-enjoy-doing-and-wish-that-you-could-get-paid-to-do-it/710533/52 "2015-01-23T14:07:29Z")
I hope I am on the verge of making money from my hobby. I love playing poker and have qualified (by playing 2 satellite tournaments) to play in the Aussie Millions main event! The first prize is $1.6 million. If I win more then $30K, I will use some of it to bankroll playing regularly and see if i can make it my second “job”. Late last year I started a new job as a swimming teacher, I get pain dismally but love it so much that I’d do it for free if i could afford to. The other dreams would be as a fellow beach comber and also a researcher for a novelist. ---
**Author:** ![Lorene89095](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@Lorene89095](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lorene89095)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2015, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-really-enjoy-doing-and-wish-that-you-could-get-paid-to-do-it/710533/53 "2015-01-23T15:34:59Z")
The job I really want is being on the PCH Prize Patrol… Think about it,everyone is overjoyed to see you,you get to change peoples lives! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-really-enjoy-doing-and-wish-that-you-could-get-paid-to-do-it/710533.md?page=2)