What is you dream job?
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So, I have my current job which is a really good job, but doesn’t make me happy or want to get out of bed in the morning. But I am also in need of more monies now and am looking to the future as I get older. So next month I am taking a week off and going to school. By early April I will have my Real Estate license and I am super excited about it. I love everything real estate, but have never thought seriously about it before. It makes perfect sense as a 2nd job right now. I also already have a mentor and have been offered a position (small town area, pays to know people) with ERA, but I want to shop around a bit (if only to be able to negotiate my commission percentage more).
If I had skills I would want to have a site dedicated to creating the best and funniest gifs on the web. This would make me super happy (gifs are AMAZING!).
So, what job would you like to do? What job should you be working toward in some fashion to make you happy?
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Ahhhhh! @Thumperchick can you fix my title again, please? You can dress me up, but you can’t take me out anywhere
@mfladd I’ll fix it for you.
@Barney
@mfladd
I volunteer to edit your submissions, @mfladd. Just run them by me before posting, and I will polish and tweak them beyond recognition.
I used to box for money. I miss it, but my bones break too easily to do it anymore. Also, I think Jen would be less attracted to me if I had a permanently swollen face at this point.
@PantHeist Really? Yeah, I would look for something that makes you happy with a longer shelf life.
@mfladd Really. Not like professional boxing, but I’d make a few hundred a fight. Wasn’t bad for a 19-21 year old.
@PantHeist (note to self: don’t ask PantHeist’s age and get depressed)
@mfladd haha I’m 29. I’m also still in college and have put myself through more shit than most people my age, so I wouldn’t feel too bad.
@PantHeist Foxy Boxing?
Medical Device R&D Tinker
@cranky1950
@mfladd Exactly!
@cranky1950 mine would be tinkerer in general… esp an independently wealthy tinkerer…
I want to be the O.M. (Omnipotent Moderator) of this site and delete all commenters who disagree with my views.
@Barney
But… what about
/image Obsidian
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@Barney
(Any Patriot talk would be reduced to ashes! Fuck no!
@mfladd
@Barney
that tickles.
O.M. @Barney - I completely agree with you (whatever you said).
@KDemo I shall spare you, my child.
Dream job?
To get paid to ride rollercoasters. Get free travel, room, food. Fly all over the world to different theme parks.
/giphy rollercoaster
@RiotDemon That would be cool!
@mfladd every time I see Kingda Ka or any rollercoaster like that… I want to travel immediately to ride it. I haven’t been on one like that yet. Looks super exciting.
Also, rollercoaster POVs make me smile.
Actual rollercoasters make me scream and laugh like a loony.
@RiotDemon Wish I could star more than once. Like a billion
@Pixy now if I could only find someone willing to pay me!
@RiotDemon I nearly applied for a job at Busch Gardens Williamsburg, but I was in Canada when I randomly saw the opening, and when I got home the position had closed. I was surprised to find a job I was qualified for based on my TV experience (and not in marketing), but it was supervising the A/V gear and production for their live shows. I didn’t really have much in the theatrical or budgeting experience they were looking for, but for everything else I had relevant work experience. I don’t exactly want to move to Williamsburg, but I thought it could be a great way to get into the amusement industry and get to a dream job in ride design or park management.
to be paid the big bux to mess around on the net, mess around reading weird books, mess around traveling.
@f00l
@mfladd
a rich one.
@f00l I have personally learned that while money is a necessary evil and can make certain things easier in life, it does not create happiness (at all).
Just be happy with what you do. In your case, that’s being a hot mess
@f00l Its called retirement
@mfladd
money does not create happiness. having a critical lack of it can somewhat render the pursuit of happiness more difficult, for those of us who are not wild adventurers or saints, anyway.
@f00l
Agreed. I have been financially successful, and not so financially successful (I am currently “between fortunes”). Having money didn’t necessarily make me happy, but it sure was easier to distract myself from my lack of happiness when I had resources.
That said, my current situation doesn’t bring me fat stacks, but my office is in a beautiful location, I have an awesome, warm, friendly staff and a reasonably low-stress situation. I think I prefer this situation to some well paying but high-stress corporate engagements I’ve had.
To bake the perfect brown butter chocolate chip cookies. Unfortunately I lack the recipe with needed tweaks, @Pantheist… so the perfect job is just another unattainable dream.
@duodec I think @PantHeist should make that dream achievable for all of us!
@duodec Where do you live?
@PantHeist NW 'burbs of Chicago. If you’re wondering if I’d consider boxing for recipe tweaks… tempting but no. Never did boxing and I’m too old to start now
@duodec Check the cookie thread again…
NW Chicago - that’s where I grew up (US-14 Northwest Hwy, Fox River Grove). Can you be a little more specific?
@duodec I would like to revise my dream job… now I wanna be a test taster for brown butter chocolate chip cookies.
@compunaut Checked, the link to the base recipe is there but not the well regarded and closely protected tweaks. Unless I missed something?
I had a shot at my dream job but then I flunked out of medical school. I’m not bitter.
@elimanningface
I used to think it would be awesome to be a radio DJ. The reality of that midnight-to-morning shift, and shockingly low pay sort of sucked the joy out of it. Took me less than 2 years to decide that was NOT the color of my parachute. I took my love of music to the road and was a club DJ and did a ton of weddings over the years. Nice part about that gig… it was all nights and weekends and I could maintain a grownup job during the day.
Now, I think I’d like to be a radio commentator, or TV news cameraman. I’m pretty sure the bloom would fade from those roses about as quickly as the radio DJ thing did, but for now… sounds fun.
@ruouttaurmind I miss being a DJ at my (very professional) college radio station. I still think that’s the most fun I’ve had in broadcasting. But of course, there’s no money in that anymore.
TV news photog has great days and it has awful days. It also doesn’t pay well anymore (basically a trend for everything in broadcasting), but there are places where you can still make good money if you’re experienced and talented. Spend enough days in bad weather and you get tired of it fast, though.
I guess one of my dream jobs was to be a TV jack-of-all-trades. Need me to edit today? Sure. Tech a live shot? Sure. Direct a newscast? Sure. Fix some gear? Sure. Make some graphics? Sure. Shoot a package? Sure. Run audio? Sure. I actually wound up in that position at my last job. The advantages of working at a small station. About the only thing I haven’t done is produce. I’m pretty good at everything I’ve done, though, and I’m a very good director, if I do say so myself. I’m ready to be done for good with TV hours and pay, but I still wouldn’t totally rule out going for a director job somewhere.
@jqubed It’s curious how our interests, stemming from radio, moved towards TV.
In a truly perfect world I would make documentaries from soup to nuts. From concept to finished product. Shooting, editing, the whole bailiwick. Much like you describe your “jack of all trades” situation. Yet another very difficult way to make a living. What is it with me and being drawn to poverty? LOL!
@ruouttaurmind I was actually always interested in TV, we just didn’t have a TV station at my university. Radio was a lot more fun than I expected, though. I have no desire to be the “talent” on TV, but I’d gladly do it again on the radio.
I thought you might be interested in reading this about the demise of the TV news photographer.
@jqubed So there may be an option for me yet!
Thanks for the link.
What’s the word for someone who puts things together so they have better functionality and also take up less space?
@alphapeaches professional tetris player (not to be confused w/ amatuer tetris player).
@elimanningface then shipping is a good place to start, I suppose.
Truthishly, I would really like to work for @snapster. It sounds like he has created a really incredible place that people truly enjoy. I feel it is proven by the number of people that continue to stay here year to year.
My other dream (which I know is going to sound incredibly boring), is to be a corporate trainer. I would love to teach a different group of employees every week or day. How can you be bored when you are seeing new faces constantly, in different locales??
My last dream job would be an expert and trainer in emergency preparedness in a corporation. So for example, I would be making the plan to clear out a large building as efficiently as possible.
@conandlibrarian One of my larger clients in the early 2000’s was a division of Honeywell. I worked frequently with a group they called the “Disaster Recovery Team”. They were responsible for creating and implementing every detail necessary to minimize the impact of all variety of potential disasters. This included everything from disaster prevention to data backup to evacuation to establishing temporary operational functionality post-event. I was amazed at the truly massive number of details involved. They established policies and procedures for anything from minor plumbing malfunctions and power outages to catastrophic events like natural disasters, major fires or terrorist incidents. All that stuff most companies didn’t even consider prior to 9/11.
@conandlibrarian I think it might have been my first time meeting Snapster in person when he got out of a Porsche and asked if I wanted to drive it to the bar on the company’s behalf. He’s a good dude.
@slydon That’s really awesome. How are things?? Rare I get to see all the cool stuff you have been creating as of late.
Sinecure
Adam Savage.
Yup, I pretty much just want to be Adam Savage.
@placeholder One of my former co-workers, a mechanical engineer, worked at Mythbusters. It was probably a good job but I never talked to him about it because I never watched the show.
@SSteve
To make things. Custom electronic gizmos, 3D printing, etc. I like to tinker; it would be cool to do hobby stuff and actually get paid a decent wage for it.
Oh, such a timely question! I’m completely fed-up with my current job, and have no real idea what I want to do going forward. I’m tired of my industry and career and am looking for a change.
I THINK I’d make a good buyer for meh (with a little training/mentoring by the current team), but relocating to TX would be a huge change for my wife and me, as well as moving her away from her whole family. I’m toying with the idea of taking a long weekend and visiting the area with the missus to get a feel for it, but getting away for a weekend isn’t always the easiest, and of course flights are ridiculously expensive.
Otherwise I’m just trolling job sites without filters, searching for anything that might be interesting.
@DaveInSoCal I hope you find what you are looking for, my friend. Sometimes we need change to make us happy. And that is what is important (ok, paying rent is too).
@mfladd Thanks man. I rapt envy people who know what they want to do.
I love my job. I don’t make a damn thing but it is so enjoyable. I’ve always loved anything to do with travel, from being an agent to this. If someone would pay me to test out resorts, that’d be just fine.
@KittySprinkles Yeah, but you have to be nice to people.
@Barney Well, fuck.
@KittySprinkles
Your response was ambiguous.
The response could reflect how you feel about being nice to people.
The response could reflect how you are nice to people.
Or a bit of both.
Don’t clarify this. Leave us the mystery.
@f00l I think @KittySprinkles just realized that part of her job description requires that she has to be nice to people. Thus, her comment.
@Barney
Yes, but leave a little mystery here. Sometimes a little mystery is a good thing.
My ideal job is programming computers. And guess what? I have a job programming computers. Last year I got a job at a smallish company that makes industrial cutting machines and is 17 minutes from my house. I love going to work every day. Right now I’m bug-hunting in the program our awning customers use to design their awnings and it’s a lot of fun.
I especially like programming computers when they interact with physical things in the real world. Through the 90s I worked at a music software company which was right up my alley since music and computers are my two favorite things. My job previous to my current job was at a company that was doing research in nuclear fusion through high-pressure acoustic cavitation. I got to write the software that controlled all the machinery in the experiments and collected and displayed data in real time. We designed and built stuff a small team with a minuscule budget should have had no business being able to build. It was an inspiring place to work. But the company changed focus and my position devolved into an IT job and stopped being fun. So now I have a fun job again.
@SSteve
Wow. Sorry that didn’t stay on track.
i’d like to go back to being a medic. you get to work in the moment. no decision by committee. it’s just you and your partner figuring out a course of action. you get to meet a lot of interesting people. you also get immediate job satisfaction when things go right. sure, there’s sometimes a crushing pain when they go wrong (any bad call involving children), but, you also learn great coping skills from those.
also, women seemed to like the uniform. i saw the new guy that got my pager (it was the 90’s) a couple months after i left. he says “can you call these women and tell them this isn’t your pager anymore?” i laughed until i realized he was serious. oops.
@carl669 Ya ole dog!
There are a hundred jobs I could name, most involving helping animals, one of my favorites, using a high powered sniper rifle on poachers of endangered species. But as far as a real world job I could actually get and be paid for, here it is:
I spent 30 years as a grant administrator for the city, offering grant opportunities, reviewing applications, writing contracts and monitoring activities and use of funds for nonprofit community service providers. Over the course of my career I got to spend about $40 million helping to better the lives of those less fortunate than myself. Now, that’s a pretty good dream job in and of itself. But in a grant writing course I attended to become a better trainer for my applicants, I learned that the Carnegie Institute offered grants for heroism. HEROISM. To spend my days funding and administering projects related to heroism was my dream job.
@moondrake
Any chance you could still apply for and get that job or a similar one? That’s a great dream job. One of the best.
@f00l Possibly so, but the reason I never did it is that I’d have to move.
@moondrake Re: moving
/youtube not that there’s anything wrong with that
@compunaut My house will be paid off next year, and I’d like to see what life is like without a house payment. Plus I’ve been retired for a year and a half and I don’t think I could go back to sitting in an office all day.
If the job of Intergalactic Overlord isn’t available,
Worldwide Beer and Scotch Tester with my own jet would be nice.
@daveinwarsh American Overlord is apparently taken, but I.O. is still available. It does require frequent TV appearances, however.
I’m the neighborhood Craft Beer Taster (unpaid intern); how does that fit into the WWB Testing org chart?
@compunaut You can be the back-up WWB&ST person. You get a jet also…
I’d maybe like to work my way into ride design and/or amusement park management, but I don’t want to go back to school for an engineering degree on the design side (turns out Notre Dame has a roller coaster design course). Or maybe flight director/mission director at NASA or a private space company. I realized when I started working in a TV control room that the setup and methods were actually very similar, one is just much more complex and higher stakes. But I’m not really interested in going back to school for the aerospace engineering degree that’s probably required. The high-stress TV environment I’m trying to stay out of means I probably shouldn’t try that either, though. Or maybe the social media/marketing person for a beach town. That at least I’m already qualified for.
@jqubed
/image roller coaster tycoon
@RiotDemon I have probably spent months if not years of my life playing that in its various incarnations! Have you downloaded RollerCoaster Tycoon Classic? It’s basically RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 for mobile, but it works much better on mobile than their attempt to port Locomotion to mobile a couple years ago!