What's your dream job?

[Whitmore]

I'm going touchy with my topics this week, but forgive me - it's this time of the year.

So, imagine: there are no boundaries, your wifes / hubbies are completely fine with your choice of career, there's enough cash to feed the kids. Stop being realistic. What's your dream job?

I'll start with saying that I'd have a café somewhere in the Provence. I love gastronomy - coffee, cigars, the wife makes delicious food and my brother (a soap addict) sells his lavender soaps. Good life.

Now you!

 

[SRock]

For me it would be to own/operate an indoor firing range/gun store. I could serve as both the lead instructor and gunsmith. I'd like a 25M indoor range of 14-21 firing points and a modest showroom of about 1,500 sq ft. I'd really like an opportunity to properly educate people on safe handling, uses and operation of various firearms for various purposes.

Alas, I think it more likely that I'll move on to being a history teacher when I retire from the service.

 

[Luc]

Growing my grapes to make my wine. I would keep it small using a minimum of machinery.

A couple of veggies and fruits just for myself at home. Spending more time outside to take care of those!

First, I need to learn how to grow my plants without killing them

 

[marvin100]

Bikini inspector/NY Times food critic

 

[bigmo]

Well the gun range/store would be a very good job, but I believe my dream job would have to be a hunting guide out west.

 

[SRock]

Well the gun range/store would be a very good job, but I believe my dream job would have to be a hunting guide out west.

Maybe we should consider a joint venture!

 

[MoJoe]

These days? Getting paid for doing nothing.

 

[herbnerd]

my job title is "research and development manager", in reality I am a product formulator - mostly developing softgels, chewable tablets and capsules for natural health products.

I want to add cosmetic formulations to my list of skills - and naturally include a shaving product formulary

And yes, I really do have my dream job!

 

[Jethro1984]

I had my "dream job" in Law Enforcement.

And then I lost it.

Now i'm trying to get it back.

 

[SpyvSpy]

My dream job would be driving and testing cars like the guys in Top Gear.

 

[Johnny Dale]

My dream job would be driving and testing cars like the guys in Top Gear.

That would be fun! I would know who the Stig is also!

As far as a dream job would be owner of an after-market parts store for Harley Davidson motorcycles. Having a couple of decked out panheads and shovelheads display. Ahhhhh!

 

[Confuzius]

Publican.
I already love entertaining and hosting and I'm passionate about food and libations.
I'll make this happen one day, even if it is a retirement move.

 

[pmast]

I'd like to have a small, self sustaining hobby farm. Just enough to provide for the family and keep us busy.

 

[Obsessed]

Well, I don'y know what my dream job would be, but the one I have now sure as s**t isn't it. (Yes, I know it's a crappy economy and I'm lucky to have any job, but that concept unfortunately appears to be my employers' guiding principle.)

Sorry for the minor rant. Please continue fantasizing.

 

[mbrooks]

See avatar. I could spend the next forty years banging around the mountains of Alaska and western Canada in a fifty-year-old amphibious Beaver and be happy as a clam.

 

[Confuzius]

Well, I don'y know what my dream job would be, but the one I have now sure as s**t isn't it. (Yes, I know it's a crappy economy and I'm lucky to have any job, but that concept unfortunately appears to be my employers' guiding principle.)

Sorry for the minor rant. Please continue fantasizing.

I saw something somewhere; "most employers only pay their employees just enough not to quit, and therefor most employees only work hard enough not to get fired."

The solution I've come up with is to be my own employer, I've just had a hard time figuring out how to implement it so far...

 

[krissy]

A marine biologist in SE Asia, i worked with a real marine biologist in HS and did research at a remote island for 4 days for one of my science classes and absolutely fell in love with the research that the do. (yes the whole class did go on that field trip it was required of the class.) But I also like to travel so it would be fun to work in the travel industry as well.

But more realistically now that I have a family I would love my own store front business for my soaps and other bath and body products that I make. But not very realistic where I live. Although it would be nice to move my soap lab and lotion lounge out of my kitchen. Someday maybe I'll get a kitchen set up in the basement for that.

 

[Obsessed]

I saw something somewhere; "most employers only pay their employees just enough not to quit, and therefor most employees only work hard enough not to get fired."

The solution I've come up with is to be my own employer, I've just had a hard time figuring out how to implement it so far...

True enough. The ony solace I take in the situation is that when the market picks up, tumbleweeds will be blowing through the office, and they will reap what they sowed.

 

[luvmysuper]

If all other financial needs were taken care of, then...
the owner and chief administrator of B&B.

Free to roam, ramble and chat to it's fullest extent.

 

[Leche]

A job like Myth Busters. Messing around with stuff, blowing things up, and so on. That would be perfect.