# 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:** 3
**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 17, 2007, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-dream-job/412009/41 "2007-07-17T00:59:48Z")
[QUOTE=Terrifel] I love you. [/QUOTE] :😊: Now, if I could make mice that qualify for a Monster Manual entry or 20. . . 😃😃 ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2007, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-dream-job/412009/42 "2007-07-17T01:34:01Z")
Analytical Chemical technician, with an emphasis on environmental controls/remediation. And for one brief, shining moment I had it, too. _sob_ ---
**Author:** ![LavenderBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e95f7d/32.png) [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2007, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-dream-job/412009/43 "2007-07-17T02:58:15Z")
[QUOTE=kekenara] 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. [/QUOTE] I want to know how Samantha Brown got that job. Because she sucks at it. ---
**Author:** ![Shamozzle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shamozzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shamozzle)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2007, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-dream-job/412009/44 "2007-07-17T07:31:21Z")
[QUOTE=glee] I sometimes feel embarrassed about posting to these threads. But I can take it. 🙂 17 years ago, I got offered a job teaching chess full-time at a private school in the UK. 😃 When I arrived, they gave me full independence (I reported directly to the Headmaster) and asked if I’d like to teach anything else. I chose some computing, so the pupils would see another side of me. Then the sports department asked if I’d help out with the youngest non-team pupils. I ran touch rugby or used the fitness centre when wet. (It gets more intense, so those of you with a nervous disposition should stop reading now :eek: ) The school also asked if I could run an activity - anything I was interested in. Would ‘strategy computer games’ be acceptable? Sure. 🆒 So I run classes in Heroes 3 and Civilisation. 😃 DId I mention I offered to do roleplaying at weekends? :o The school thought I was a hero to work such anti-social hours. So that’s my job - chess, computer games, roleplaying and a little sport. May you all be so lucky! [/QUOTE] Good Lord. When do the Robo-babes with the silly-string machine guns show up? ---
**Author:** ![Shamozzle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shamozzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shamozzle)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2007, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-dream-job/412009/45 "2007-07-17T07:42:21Z")
My dream job is to run a small workshop/company where I design and build one-off, custom-modded water-cooled gaming personal computers out of custom-machined stainless steel and acrylic. Machines like these, designed/built by a genius named G-gnome: [ORAC 3](http://www.bit-tech.net/modding/2004/06/09/orac3_part5/1) [WMD](http://www.bit-tech.net/modding/2006/06/05/wmd_part3_g-gnome_case_mod/15) ---
**Author:** ![Orual](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/779978/32.png) [@Orual](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orual)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2007, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-dream-job/412009/46 "2007-07-17T11:52:43Z")
[QUOTE=Big Bad Voodoo Lou] 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. [/QUOTE] This past May, since May, Boston. I’ve applied for jobs all over the country, not that it’s helped me much so far … ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2007, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-dream-job/412009/47 "2007-07-17T12:36:44Z")
One where I’m not expected to lie to clients in order to make a sale and where Correct Delivery is valued more than overtime 😛 or “delivery on time but we’ll have to stick around for three months fixing things.” Ideally it would be one where I’d be given a task (or series of), be able to ask for any clarifications needed, give an estimate (a generous one, I’ll never understand why people always give ETAs they can’t meet - are they that bad at calculating time and effort, or do they think it’s what the client wants to hear? to me a realistic ETA has to include the possibility of missing a sick day), do my job, do any required touch-ups, get paid. I’ve actually had jobs like that. And in some, there was even a bonus for “no touch ups needed.” I’m thinking of dropping out of this consulting stuff (where I keep being slotted into support for badly-designed systems, when what I’m good at is implementation and optimization) and going into Translations. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2007, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-dream-job/412009/48 "2007-07-17T12:43:13Z")
[QUOTE=aruvqan] 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! [/QUOTE] You may have hit onto something interesting there. How many food critics or travel reporters talk about traveling/eating out with babies children someone with allergies a diabetic, or celiac? Most of the population doesn’t have a cast-iron stomach; many people, when on vacation, travel with their kids and would like to go “somewhere other than McD” but the travelogues don’t take kids into account at all. Or diabetes 😛 (my mother and aunt both just joined the ranks). ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2007, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-dream-job/412009/49 "2007-07-17T13:50:16Z")
One of my dream jobs would be to be one of those Oblivion Seekers in Morocco. All they do is sit around in a cave and smoke hash, drink tea and dispense friendly advice. The other one would be to drive a truck around checking on things; not fixing them or being responsible for them, just go and check and maybe take readings. Flood gages in remote areas, stuff like that. ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2007, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-dream-job/412009/50 "2007-07-17T15:16:15Z")
Caterer/Event Planner Or own my own bar and grill. ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2007, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-dream-job/412009/51 "2007-07-17T15:18:26Z")
I don’t think I’d actually have the stomach for it, but I always thought it would be great to be an international currency trader. You start out with Dollars, trade them for some Yen, then Euros, a few Pounds, and back to Dollars, ending up with (hopefully) more than you started with. The only job where you can literally make money out of thin air! ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2007, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-dream-job/412009/52 "2007-07-17T15:34:32Z")
A friend of mine once speculated that _someone_ has to stand around all day at Sea World, surrounded by women in bikinis, and play with dolphins. The only downside we could think of was handling dead fish. Sailboat ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2007, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-dream-job/412009/53 "2007-07-17T16:28:22Z")
[QUOTE=Shamozzle] Good Lord. When do the Robo-babes with the silly-string machine guns show up? [/QUOTE] I’m sorry, but your reference has me puzzled… 😕 ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2007, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-dream-job/412009/54 "2007-07-17T16:46:33Z")
[QUOTE=twickster] Editor in chief of a start-up gardening magazine. We’re working on our ninth issue as we speak. 😃 [/QUOTE] Lucky duck! Good for you. > [@LavenderBlue](#): > > I want to know how Samantha Brown got that job. Because she sucks at it. Maybe that is how she got the job. For me, I’d like to be a professional organizer. Get everything in place and then don’t look back to see if things have been reclutterfied since I left. ---
**Author:** ![Revenant\_Threshold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@Revenant\_Threshold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revenant_Threshold)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2007, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-dream-job/412009/55 "2007-07-17T16:52:08Z")
Something in video game design would be nice. That or an author. ---
**Author:** ![Shecky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@Shecky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shecky)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2007, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-dream-job/412009/56 "2007-07-20T17:31:00Z")
I plan on working with SCORE when I retire or just consulting for the local SBA office. I like figuring out how to make people’s businesses grow/start up. I’d have to be extraordinarily wealthy though. Otherwise the dream job is more along the lines of rose/grape farmer. ---
**Author:** ![Kiros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/439d5e/32.png) [@Kiros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kiros)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2007, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-dream-job/412009/57 "2007-07-21T03:06:54Z")
Truly a **dream** job? Run an investment bank and make millions by day, Ethan Hunt by night, followed up by spending the twilight years of my life as First Dictator of Earth. If you’re gonna dream, I say, then dream. ---
**Author:** ![DoctorJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctorj/32/2904_2.png) [@DoctorJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoctorJ)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2007, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-dream-job/412009/58 "2007-07-21T03:47:55Z")
Travel writer and/or food writer. Specifically, I’d like to do what Alton Brown did in _Feasting on Asphalt_, though I’d write instead of film and take an old convertible instead of a motorcycle. Writer would be great in general, but I’d want to have a little fame and fortune at it. I’d want to be popular enough to draw good crowds at book signings, but obscure enough to be able to go out to dinner without being mobbed. (Musician at the same level of fame would also be OK.) ---
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2007, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-dream-job/412009/59 "2007-07-21T03:53:03Z")
Writing fiction that’s beloved by both the masses and the critics, or some form of game design. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_C](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Captain\_C](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_C)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2007, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-dream-job/412009/60 "2007-07-21T05:23:16Z")
If I had the extreme broad-range of skills required (I’m slowly getting there): Mythbuster [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-dream-job/412009.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-dream-job/412009.md?page=4)