If you could, at this very moment, walk away from your current job and go into whatever profession you wanted, what would it be?
Surely there are some among us who, when they were growing up, did not envision a career such as they have now. I bet there are plenty of us who are stuck in so-called dead-end jobs, wishing we were elsewhere!
Who’s with me?
And then there are those people who are currently unemployed. Yes, it’s possible you’d be less picky about a job right now, since you have none; but if you had your choice, what would it be?
For me, two possibilities:
Within my profession, which is editing: I’d like to edit a movie-review publication; specifically, I’d just about cough up a Smurf to work on Videohound. They have a lotta errors, and it would be so much freakin fun!
Outside my profession: Something adventurous! How about an explorer? A trader in the West Indies? A locksmith in the Alps? Something with travel. Oh, and a good dental plan.
I’m still trying to decide that. Right now, I’m on the path to being either a phys. ed teacher, a physiotherapist, or a firefighter. Right now I can go any way. I dont know which I want yet.
Failing that, evil dictator of a small country, surrounded by loyal minions.
I want to be an Egyptologist, damn it. I have wanted to do that since I was 7. Damn parents wouldn’t let me go to college where I needed to for it.
“You should be a teacher.”
:rolleyes:
You would have thought it was still the Fifties in that house sometimes.
Or I want to be a writer. Despite some of my posts, I swear I’m actually good at it. Of my two favorite genres there’s not much call for erotic horror on the SDMB and the guy who owns the Amber license won’t sell it or give anyone permission to publish more stories based on it.
Just a few days ago I was saying that if I could have any job and money was no object, I would like to be the person who puts together the playlists for the soundtracks that play in the background at restaurants and retail stores.
My dream job would be to train big cats (lions, tigers, etc.) for movies and commercials. It is truly a job that has everything. Big Cats, Travel, Movies, odd hours. Who could ask for anything more??? Sigh, unfortunately it just wasn’t meant to be.
I would love to be a geologist. Probably working in Colorado studying soils, mines, slide areas and erosion for developers to help decide upon the correct usage of land. There’s a buttload of development going on here in all four corners of the state.
About four years ago (I was 28 at the time) I was looking for a school that I could enroll in but I didn’t do it and probably wont for reason I would rather not state.
It’s a fasination (sp) that I have had since I was a young girl. Rocks, minerals, the earth, the movement, how the air and sky helps with erosion…it goes on. Nothing like driving through DeBeque Canyon on I-70 looking at the layers of rock and the Colorado River flowing through it to get a wanna-be geologist wet with anticipation.
Ideally if I could do it, I would attempt to go to the Colorado School of Mines, 'sposedly the top in the state.
[1] Within my own profession (general IT/IT security/IT audit)
I’d love to be a web designer, or more realistically a content editor or web researcher.
[2] Outside my own profession
I dream of selling indie and dance CDs to naked women in a football ground (Boundary Park, I think, or for a sunnier location maybe the Sydney Football Stadium).
I always seriously thought it would be really cool to be a female pirate, like Anne Bonny or Mary Read. The old fashioned kind, because I prefer sailboats and am scared of atomatic weapons. But they don’t have many openings these days. Sigh!
Well, I’m trying like hell to make it as a writer. I’ve been working odd jobs to pay the bills, but one of these days I’ll get my Big Break. If I could have it any way I wanted it, I’d be a travel writer for a magazine such as The Robb Report or Condé Naste (sp?). I’d get to travel all over the world and write about it!
Outside My Profession:
Airline pilot. A guy at my church does it and he’s gotten pretty sick of me asking him about it all the time. What can I say? What could be more exciting than gunning the throttle on a 747?
I saw Airplane! when I was nine. After the scene where the ramp agent (the guy who has the lighted sticks and guides airplanes to the jetway) accidentally steers the jet into the terminal, that became my dream job.
Lucky for all concerned that I never went for it, eh?
(Slightly more) seriously, Dave Barry once wrote that his dream job would involve having a walkie-talkie and/or a golf cart and I agree. I had a walkie-talkie for work for a while and it was sooooo much fun. Not to mention this job was in a high-class “gentlemen’s club” (stop the giggles, I was one of the few clothed women employed there), so the drama was nonstop.
Within my profession: I have my dream job right now (such as it is) by working a few hours a week at a local bead store (I make and sell beaded jewelry on a very small-scale basis). Most of the work is menial in that it involves a lot of careful weighing and bagging and messing with display shelves, yet I’ll never tire of it. To be surrounded by all the pretty shiny baubles is inspiring for my own work, and opening the new shipments is almost better than Xmas. Also, I get steep discounts and to top it all off, my boss is a total sweetheart and pays me quite nicely.
Bead therapy…ahhh! Off to “work” now, as a matter of fact!
YOU BASTARD!!!
I have made it my life’s work to track you down and kill you horribly.
Unless you tell me in detail how you came to be in this position.
There are two jobs that I have long wanted to do, and are currently top of the list.
Art Department in movies I am not near talented enough to really confidently pursue this professionally. But I am doing it, in my own small way, for small independent unpaid movies that friends make. This is cool.
Porn Yeah, we all want to work in porn. I want to Direct (create) not participate. And it looks likely that I will get that chance, too. This is good, as I want to make movies that are actually entertaining on more than just the obvious level.
Further down my list are such things as cartoonist which I am surprisingly unsuited for, 3D computer graphics in which I am woefully inadequately educated, and lazy bum who does nothing all day which I would not get paid enough to survive on.
Ooh, here’s an idea - a professional movie extra, or maybe a Children’s TV script writer… coooool…
