Become a Director of comedic film. Animated or live action. I have an interest in both.
Become a comedy writer for the Daily Show, or hell, be a correspondant for that matter.
And heck, who amongst us wouldn’t want to be in a wildly successful rock n roll band?
Note to self: Learn how to play or sing…
More directly related to my profession… it’d be nice to finally write and illustrate some childrens books. Even be nicer if they did well.
And then it’d be wonderful if they became so popular I could afford to move far away and live somewhere beautiful. Say, Ireland or Maui. Cold and misty or hot and tropical, I’m not picky.
I’d like to be in charge of keeping incredibly stupid commercials off the airwaves. Every commercial ever produced would be shown to me once. If and only if I give my approval of that commercial, it may be aired. If not, it may not. This dream of mine was sparked by the nearly incessant airing of those horrible GAP commericals. Have you seen those commericals? Yech! I don’t use the term “worse than Hitler” lightly, but virtually every GAP commercial merits that title; and they’re on about twenty times per hour! Someone must put a stop to this; that someone should be me.
every summer i go to a chamber music camp for high school and college age string players hosted on mt lemmon in az. the coaches each are assigned a group to work with, and also plays in a quartet with other coaches. i think i could do that…unfortuneatly it’s only a week long.
to fill the rest of my time, i’d just like to play in a string quartet, touring the country, playing in all the great concert halls across the country. of course, betsy, who i share this dream with, would have to be playing cello by my side.
Inside of profession: I’m damn near living it. I’m a stand-up comedian. Though I’d love to be part of the rep company at Second City, and use that as a springboard.
Glassblower - I’d love to do the kind of stuff Dale Chihuly does.
If only I had some talent.
Sailing ship captain - Does anyone remember a TV series called “Adventures in Paradise” starring Gardner McKay?
He sailed a 3-master, IIRC, around the South Pacific delivering cargo. When I was a young’en I wanted to be Gardner McKay, without the paternity suit.
Aseroid miner - Born a little too early for that one.
Book store owner - New and used, but no crap. Since we live in Oregon wine country, a combination book store/wine shop/coffee house doesn’t look too bad.
Unfortunately, I have family/bills/obligations, and I need my steady (and not too shabby) salary, and I get to retire in 9 more years.