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I guess I’m already doing it - broadcaster.
But if I could do something else, it’d be restoring Edison cylinders and other gramophone records for the Smithsonian.
My dream job is to hire Shagnasty to go blow up Buckingham Palace. 
Seriously…or rather, perhaps not, I think my dream job is some combination of world-renowned physicist/award winning author/special operative for some nameless intelligence group/World Rally Championship-winning driver/jazz club owner/lothorio. Think DereK Flint: “Didn’t you have four women last time I was here?” “Well at one time, sir, I had five, but that was getting to be too much.”
John Barry, or maybe Lalo Schifrin could write my theme music, Mamet does the dialog, Frankenheimer choreographs the car chases.
Stranger
Tenured English professor
or cashier at Trader Joe’s.
I’d love to be the next Annie Liebovitz. Respected photographer of famous people. Get to travel and take awesome pictures of beautiful people. And since I’d be important, I probably wouldn’t take much BS in return. Make some money. Be allowed to be a bit weird (not creepy weird, but hey I’m an artist weird). People would look at my photos and say, “Wow. How did she do that?” etc.
Jeez, have you sent this guy a resume yet? Seems like you two are destined for each other.
And even if he was right here, single and straight, he’d still be too good for me. 
According to these people, I don’t even exist:
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=363288&page=1
Enough already, lady!
Ego doesn’t grow much else.
Look for attention much? :rolleyes:
Ideally I want to be some sort of Viking hero, but there doesn’t seem to be much demand for that sort of thing anymore, so I suppose I could be content with Beloved Unifier of Mankind, or Grand High Lord of Terra, or Imortal God-Emperor of Man, or something like that.
Military Training Instructor. Too bad it can never happen.
Right now I’m split between computer forensics investigator…
… and safety diver in NASA’s zero-gee training tank. Work with astronauts, go dive, and get paid for it all too!
I would like to be paid:
- to play chess
- to play computer games
- to roleplay (Dungeons + Dragons)
- to teach (but only smart motivated kids)
- to have long (School) holidays
Oh. :o
That is my job. 
Nooo… 
Philanthropist is still best, but I thought of another one: pastry chef. Who’s not happy with a cupcake or a pretty cookie? I hate getting up early, though…
And I’d probably get really, really fat…So I guess I’ll stay with distributing and disbursing my vast wealth.
I want to be a composer, but somehow make money doing it without selling my soul.
I don’t know really. Owning a bar, more like a chain of bars and restaurants, would be cool. But I have no qualifications/experience in that field. Though I’m working in a bar now, it’s at a level too low to be of any use in the future.
I also want to apply to this after I get my MSc, so wish me luck.
I’d also like to direct a film or five, be a super hero, get a PhD in economics, manage a for-profit micro-credits institution, bring peace to the Middle East, be a test driver for off-road vehicles, smuggle marijuana, get a degree in psychology, discover a cure for cancer, create tobacco that tastes as good as the real thing but does **not **cause cancer (I’d settle for either), be a professor in Middle Eastern modern history, and develop software… Ideally, on a part time basis.
And win the lottery. Twice.
I’d like to be a stage manager or a lighting designer in a nice little theatre somewhere that’s not New York or L.A.
I can’t speak to the rest of your dream jobs, but if you really want to run bars/restaurants, the bottom is the best place to start, preferably barback/cook. This may be somewhat true of other businesses, but it is particularly important in restaurants that the management understand exactly how things get done at even the lowest level, and be able to perform any job required at a moment’s notice. I’ve worked for restaurants where the owners filled in as grillman, bartender, or fix-it-man when the regular guy didn’t show up/is too stoned to work/got stabbed by his girlfriend/is in jail for manslaughter; these guys ran the cleanest, most efficient, profitable shops I’ve ever seen. I’ve also worked in restaurants where the owners–professional ‘resturanteers’ with no practical food service experience–show up once or twice a week to “keep an eye on things”, and immediately disappear into the office to check the books (read: do a few lines of coke): I’ll leave it as an exercise to the reader’s imagination to discern how successful these establishments were.
Running a bar or restaurant is very hard, risky, stressful work…but also very fulfilling for those who enjoy it. The bottom is the very best place to start from if that’s what you want to do.
Now, back to dreams…
Stranger
every city that has a population of artsy people should have an outlet such as this for artistic expression. i’ve been a big proponent of something like this for years. when i am in control, it shall come to fruition, and you can be the one running it, dear kalhoun.
ears perk up
hm…how you doin, sweet little australian thang?