Dream Jobs OTHER Than athletes, actors/actresses

[michiruwater]

EXPLORER

[BaileyCatts]

Does "lottery winner" count?

If I can't be that, then I would love to be a house flipper. Go in and fix up an outdated house, sell it, then move on to the next.

[overedge]

Oh I think reviewing bad movies would actually be more fun than reviewing good ones. Think of all the snarky comments you could make!

Having done that job, I will say the opportunity to snark is not much of a plus. Because the vast majority of movies are not that good, and seeing lots of bad movies - not funny bad, just BAD - becomes really tedious after a while.

[Angelskates]

I think I pretty much have mine; just wish it paid enough that I only had to do it 2 days a week

Me, too. I'd work four days though.

[Allen]

The one I always go back to is being a creative director for a fashion magazine. I guess I'm channeling Grace Coddington's work for Vogue here

[julieann]

Museum curator. It would be the coolest job ever for a nerd like me. Or perhaps an adjunct history professor somewhere. Avoid the research pressures and stress of trying to get tenured.

I'm with you!

[danceronice]

Museum curator. It would be the coolest job ever for a nerd like me. Or perhaps an adjunct history professor somewhere. Avoid the research pressures and stress of trying to get tenured.

myhoneyhoney, my cousin is an archaeologist. He also lectures at UF, and a museum in Gainesville, but he also goes on digs andd whatnot. He told me to never get into it.

Heh. Same deal with curators. It doesn't pay very well, there aren't a lot of jobs, and you have to pray someone with a good job dies so you can have it. I wouldn't recommend museum work to anyone (or any NFP sector unless you're in grant-writing and development, aka asking people for money. Then you can pull six figures easy.) There's not really a lot of fun research or anything in museum work.

I wish I'd been a veterinarian, but I would never have passed the math and science even to get into the Caribbean option (the vet schools in British/ex-British Caribbean possessions are less picky than US schools) let alone an American program. (I barely managed a D- in freshman calculus and only got a C in physics because my lab partner knew what he was doing.) That's even with full professors essentially repeating the lecture to me after each class slower using smaller words.

I suppose my dream job would be a housewife in the country. I could clean the house and always been home for the dogs, get laundry done, cook decent meals, still have time to make stuff for my Etsy store without having to drag myself to work. I've never had a job I liked.

[Cachoo]

Heh. Same deal with curators. It doesn't pay very well, there aren't a lot of jobs, and you have to pray someone with a good job dies so you can have it. I wouldn't recommend museum work to anyone (or any NFP sector unless you're in grant-writing and development, aka asking people for money. Then you can pull six figures easy.) There's not really a lot of fun research or anything in museum work.

I wish I'd been a veterinarian, but I would never have passed the math and science even to get into the Caribbean option (the vet schools in British/ex-British Caribbean possessions are less picky than US schools) let alone an American program. (I barely managed a D- in freshman calculus and only got a C in physics because my lab partner knew what he was doing.) That's even with full professors essentially repeating the lecture to me after each class slower using smaller words.

I suppose my dream job would be a housewife in the country. I could clean the house and always been home for the dogs, get laundry done, cook decent meals, still have time to make stuff for my Etsy store without having to drag myself to work. I've never had a job I liked.

My Mom's comment to me (the feminist daughter) was while she supported my desire to stay out of the kitchen her greatest desire was to be back in the kitchen. She eventually made it back to the kitchen ( I happen to think feminism isn't defined by job title.)

[mkats]

I'm really lucky that I love my to-be job (still in grad school) and that it actually pays.

Although if I couldn't have gone into medicine, I would have loved to be a tulip-picker in the Netherlands. You know, when they plant those huge fields of tulips and hire people just to pick the flowers so all the energy goes back down into the bulbs so they can dig them up and sell them? I saw a special on this when I was a kid and have always wanted to try it. In one grad school interview they asked me what I would have done as a job in an alternate life and this is what I said and I got accepted!

[Vash01]

A freelance photographer
An artist (oil painter)
A research scientist
A public speaking coach
A physician
An Astronaut (should have been at the top of my list; in college I seriously considered becoming one)

[Quintuple]

- figure skating and gymnastics commentator (I would NOT be allowed on any family-friendly networks)

- cultural anthropologist for a pop publication (atrocity tourist, photographer of weird things)

- "the nose" for a perfumery or test kitchen (I'm extremely detailed and good at picking up tiny obscure notes when it comes to smell)

- documentary film maker

- floor exercise and skating choreographer

- stringed instrument maker

[leesaleesa]

Claims adjuster. Lol, the Office organizer will understand.

Music critic. I'm working my way through the '90's discography, and just discovered I find Kurt Cobain and Nirvana to be tiresome.

Photographer. But I'm doing it now,and it's not as cool as being a claims adjuster.

[Guinevere]

Archaeologist or something to do with history or castles.

[Aussie Willy]

My dream job is to be an office organizer.
I love office supplies and my own office is colour-coded and filed to within an inch of its life. My boss actually offered to pay me overtime to come in on a weekend and help her organize.

I can understand this one.

I would actually just love to be paid for all the stuff I do for skating (administration and judging). I would be a very rich woman if I did.

[Stormy]

Professional video gamer. There are people who make a living playing Call of Duty. That sounds so fun to me!! Or a video game tester. Basically anything to do with video games.

[beepbeep]

I don't really know what would be my dream. But I certainly know what would be nightmare.

- teaching university level stuff without having to deal with academia politics or research

This. To me it's "the reason I left my masters in physics". The thought of an academic job. I love teaching though Even my desperate to pass high schoolers.

Travel writer. Being paid to travel the world is pretty much my dream job.

To me it would somethig like a travel channel presenter, gets paid to saty in best hotels of the world and do some fabulous activities.

My dream job is to be an office organizer.
I love office supplies and my own office is colour-coded and filed to within an inch of its life. My boss actually offered to pay me overtime to come in on a weekend and help her organize.

I can understand this one.

I would actually just love to be paid for all the stuff I do for skating (administration and judging). I would be a very rich woman if I did.

We should go on business together.
When I worked on a lab during physics life, Id spend at least a day per month organizing me mess, labeling materials, organizing computer files and logbooks. Then I left physics and decided that I didn't want it all to go to waste, so I took on enginnering. I didn't want to suffer mathematically anymore, so I went on to production/industrial engineering, without knowing much about it.

Guess what they teach you there? Scientific ways to organize everything.
I'm seriously considering opening a consulting business as an organizer.

[Marge_Simpson]

Quality control inspector at the Ben & Jerry's factory in Vermont.

[madm]

Restaurant critic (getting paid to eat well)
Travel writer (getting paid to see the world)
Eco-tourism guide (getting paid to know something about nature AND travel)
National park ranger (low pay but living in the most magnificent places in our country)
Brew-meister (getting paid to brew and drink)

[snoopy]

Quality control inspector at the Ben & Jerry's factory in Vermont.

LOL. Nooooooo! I'd have to buy a new wardrobe in larger sizes. My backup job always used to be postman because you are getting paid to exercise. Since the implosion of the postal service though, I have to come up with a new plan. Though I think any dream job for me would have to be part of being a team. I usually find that work much more fun than "isolationary" jobs.

[madm]

Thought of a few more ideas:

Winery tour guide (or winery owner)
Sports/hobby store worker (making a career out of your own hobby - e.g. scuba, cycling, outdoor adventure)
Photographer
Historic/scenic railroad engineer (doesn't every little boy want to drive a train!)
Race car driver
Ski instructor (or other ski resort worker)
Boat operator for fishing trips