What is your dream job?

from JoeUser Forums
Let's pretend that some shadowy benefactor came to you and told you that he would pay you $100,000 a year. All you have to do in exchange for this paycheck is to find a job that you love to do, that you would rather be doing than hanging out in front of the TV or the computer screen, and work it like a regular job for the rest of your life. (Yes, you can take vacations.) What would your dream job be? (Let's keep it a little realistic, now; there probably are no positions available for, e.g., a Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders Official Bra Fitter.)
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Reply #1 from JoeUser Forums Top
I'd like to write Novels and screenplays. I think I'd be willing to pay someone else to let me do that, hehe!
Reply #2 from JoeUser Forums Top
Computer game designer
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Reply #3 from JoeUser Forums Top
I've already got the "job" I always wanted, so unless he's willing to pay me to be a wife and mother, then I'll have to pass on this one. 
Reply #4 from JoeUser Forums Top
Haha...my ideal job would be a rock star because of the money, nice clothes, and travel

But for real...i want to teach music during the day and play in a symphony at night
Reply #5 from JoeUser Forums Top
Poetmom, I think our theoretical benefactor would be willing to call you an "in-home, in-family daycare provider"...

Personally I'd keep several aspects of my current job (the ones where I get to solve problems and address peoples' needs) and dump the ones I don't like (mainly dealing with management issues and interpersonal problems).
Reply #6 from JoeUser Forums Top
I love being a Soldier and I plan to be a teacher when I get out (I'm actually doing both right now as I teach Korean to new servicemembers). But, in the interest of this thread, I'd have to answer Major League Baseball Umpire. I'd love to be a player, but lack the skills to do it. But, I could be an ump.
Reply #7 from JoeUser Forums Top
I'd open a bookstore.
Reply #8 from JoeUser Forums Top

i can't decide !. i'm like that. i can't even take hypothetical situations lightly, citahellion ... is there any hope for me ?

but if forced to choose, i guess i'd be paid to write (but that fact alone would possibly be enough to make me not want to do it anymore).

vanessa/mig XX
Reply #9 from JoeUser Forums Top
I would either be a stay at home mom...

Or a super model!
Reply #10 from JoeUser Forums Top
I love being a Soldier and I plan to be a teacher when I get out (I'm actually doing both right now as I teach Korean to new servicemembers). But, in the interest of this thread, I'd have to answer Major League Baseball Umpire. I'd love to be a player, but lack the skills to do it. But, I could be an ump.


chip,

you call the plays at the plate, I'll take first base, k?
Reply #11 from JoeUser Forums Top
chip,

you call the plays at the plate, I'll take first base, k?


I'm on it! And anyone gives us any lip, they get the heave-ho!
Reply #12 from JoeUser Forums Top
And the Yankees get the heave-ho just because they're the damn Yankees, right? lol
Reply #13 from JoeUser Forums Top
And the Yankees get the heave-ho just because they're the damn Yankees, right? lol


I'd toss them all with the slightest provocation - maybe none... Jeter'd be first with A-Rod quickly following.
Reply #14 from JoeUser Forums Top
I'd be an ice cream taster (it is too a real job!). I'd have to invest in a personal trainer, but it would be worth it. Do you think they'd let my boys come to work with me?
Reply #15 from JoeUser Forums Top
I'd be a travel writer. Meandering around the globe all the time would be fun, and I think I'd grow to deal with living out of a suitcase, especially If I got a big expense account.
Reply #16 from JoeUser Forums Top
I could only stand to be an umpire if I were guaranteed not to be fired, and even then I think the twisted pleasure I'd get from making the players and fans miserable would last maybe a week. Yes, I hate baseball.
Everything else sounds pretty neat, though. Owning a bookstore would be a very good job for me too. Maybe I could specialize in selling only books I've read. It would be a pretty small bookstore for a while, but I'd be very happy to expand my booklist.

i can't even take hypothetical situations lightly, citahellion ... is there any hope for me ?

but if forced to choose, i guess i'd be paid to write (but that fact alone would possibly be enough to make me not want to do it anymore).


There's always hope, mig. Maybe you can take the money and just keep doing the writing that you already do here, and pretend that isn't what you're being paid for.
Reply #17 from JoeUser Forums Top
i'd be a kids show host... that would be the raddest. or a lifestyle journalist (oh wait... i am!!). i love my job!!