# What is your dream job? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 16, 2007, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-dream-job/412009 "2007-07-16T17:46:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Emotionally\_Unavailable](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d9b06d/32.png) [@Emotionally\_Unavailable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emotionally_Unavailable)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2007, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-dream-job/412009/21 "2007-07-16T19:26:23Z")
Food and wine critic. I cant imagine anything finer than being paid to eat and drink and then tell about it!! ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2007, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-dream-job/412009/22 "2007-07-16T19:30:55Z")
Restaurant reviewer would be one of my choices, too. But I’d really love to be the librarian in charge of collection development at a well-funded public library in a mid-sized, relatively progressive city or college town. Calling all the shots, deciding what books, DVDs, CDs, and electronic materials to spend the budget on, meeting the needs of my community and sneaking a few of my own interests in there, even fighting a little ignorance… that is my career goal right now. ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2007, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-dream-job/412009/23 "2007-07-16T19:44:39Z")
I’m pretty much doing it now, working in radio. There’s a very short list of other things I’d jump at the opportunity to do, but tops would be to restore vintage recordings for record labels, or the Smithsonian, or both. ---
**Author:** ![MandaJo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@MandaJo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MandaJo)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2007, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-dream-job/412009/24 "2007-07-16T19:57:26Z")
I’ve got mine: teaching AP Language and Composition (rhetoric & non-fiction) & AP Economics and coaching Academic Decathlon in a school where they more or less give me my head and let me do it the way I want. It’s just about perfect. ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2007, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-dream-job/412009/25 "2007-07-16T20:03:44Z")
[QUOTE=anyrose] Broadway Diva and media darling 🙂 [/QUOTE] Hey, that was mine! When I saw the thread title, my first thought was “Broadway Diva.” Maybe we can be dueling divas. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Mouse\_Maven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@Mouse\_Maven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mouse_Maven)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2007, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-dream-job/412009/26 "2007-07-16T20:10:15Z")
I’d give anything to work in mouse/rat trangenic work and strain development. (I am a **huge** rodent nerd. Yah hear that Jackson Laboratories?) Other options: Writing monster manuals for RPG’s and/or history books. Owning a small book store. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2007, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-dream-job/412009/27 "2007-07-16T20:44:41Z")
I would like to read slush piles at home. Baen has a few volunteer ebook slush readers, but I would rather get paid for it. I woudl prefer fantasy and SF, but anything except sports and romances would be fine. Biographies would be interesting, history would be good as well =) Alternately, telecommute to alpha and closed beta test MMORPGs, and get paid for it. I’d even work minimum wage and no benefits for that [mrAru slaved 20 years in the galleys for Uncle Sam so I could have tricare for life so I don’t need benes 🙂] Food critic would be nice, but being diabetic would be a problem, unless it was to travel and write specifically for the food challenged so they could go out and know what they could look forward to in different cities. You know, travelogs for diabetic might actually be a valid niche seeing how prevalent type 2 diabetes is becomming! ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2007, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-dream-job/412009/28 "2007-07-16T20:48:17Z")
Six years ago, I got part I of my dream job: I bought a bookstore. Four years ago, I got part II: Actually making a living as a freelance writer. Now, if I can just hit the bestseller lists and take the bookstore up one more notch so I can pull a decent salary out of it… ---
**Author:** ![Orual](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/779978/32.png) [@Orual](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orual)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2007, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-dream-job/412009/29 "2007-07-16T20:55:53Z")
Archivist for a historical society or university. (I just got my MLS! I’m fully qualified! Someone hire me? Please?) Novelist. ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2007, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-dream-job/412009/30 "2007-07-16T21:00:27Z")
Successful screenwriter. Funny thing is, I have no desire to write a commercial, Hollywood feature. I wouldn’t mind accepting an Oscar though, considering I have the speech already prepared. And contrary to popular practice, I don’t have any desire to direct though. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2007, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-dream-job/412009/31 "2007-07-16T21:01:59Z")
[QUOTE=SpoilerVirgin] Hey, that was mine! When I saw the thread title, my first thought was “Broadway Diva.” Maybe we can be dueling divas. 😉 [/QUOTE] Well, I’m an alto/bass and a character actress - you can have the soprano/ingenue roles. Deal? ---
**Author:** ![Terrifel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@Terrifel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrifel)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2007, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-dream-job/412009/32 "2007-07-16T21:49:31Z")
[QUOTE=Mouse\_Maven] I’d give anything to work in mouse/rat trangenic work and strain development. (I am a **huge** rodent nerd. Yah hear that Jackson Laboratories?) Other options: Writing monster manuals for RPG’s and/or history books. Owning a small book store. [/QUOTE] I love you. ---
**Author:** ![Kozmik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8dc957/32.png) [@Kozmik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kozmik)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2007, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-dream-job/412009/33 "2007-07-16T21:54:16Z")
A job where I can travel frequently (once or twice per month). ---
**Author:** ![kekenara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/858c86/32.png) [@kekenara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kekenara)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2007, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-dream-job/412009/34 "2007-07-16T22:08:44Z")
I’d love to be a model but I’m too short. or… I’d want [Samantha Brown’s](http://travel.discovery.com/tv/samantha-brown/samantha-brown.html) job. ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2007, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-dream-job/412009/35 "2007-07-16T22:12:11Z")
[QUOTE=anyrose] Well, I’m an alto/bass and a character actress - you can have the soprano/ingenue roles. Deal? [/QUOTE] Works for me. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2007, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-dream-job/412009/36 "2007-07-16T23:01:35Z")
[QUOTE=Orual] Archivist for a historical society or university. (I just got my MLS! I’m fully qualified! Someone hire me? Please?) Novelist. [/QUOTE] When did you graduate, how long have you been job hunting, and where exactly are you located? I’ll earn my MLS this May ('08), and while I hope to stay in Florida, I’ve been told that we have to be willing to relocate anywhere for work. ---
**Author:** ![Soul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Soul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soul)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2007, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-dream-job/412009/37 "2007-07-16T23:37:59Z")
I’d love to write the story bibles for video game concepts. Or be a neurosurgeon or NICU/PICU/Pediatric Oncology nurse. Perhaps a personal trainer. An ambassador to the country of my choice, with the option to move whenever I like to whatever country I desire would be great. Director of the Smithsonian sounds like fun, too. There are any number of things I’d love doing. The problem is, I never feel like I can focus on loving one without worrying about missing out on all the others. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2007, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-dream-job/412009/38 "2007-07-16T23:44:05Z")
Librarian Museum employee. Own my own comics/gaming store. ---
**Author:** ![Kozmik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8dc957/32.png) [@Kozmik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kozmik)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2007, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-dream-job/412009/39 "2007-07-16T23:51:09Z")
[QUOTE=Bosda Di’Chi of Tricor] Museum employee. [/QUOTE] Did you see the movie _A Night at the Museum_? Dream job? Sounds more like a nightmare. ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2007, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-dream-job/412009/40 "2007-07-17T00:38:31Z")
Host of my own children’s television show The Laboratory Of Proffessor Von Fun. I wear a labcoat and makeup, tell stories, teach science and have the time of my life. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-dream-job/412009.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-dream-job/412009.md?page=3)