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Dream job?

MH2010

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Type of diabetes
Type 1
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Was thinking about jobs earlier and how boring mine actually is (shock lol) and just curious to know.

What's everyone's dream job?
 
So many things I think of now that we're never mentioned in careers classes at school / think I would have liked something like crime scene investigation, but I work in IT, and when I was at school I wanted to be a typing teacher or midwife random!!
 
Caring for our wonderful wildlife and or looking after baby animals, feeding them, playing with them, holding and petting them <3 working on a farm, forestry commission, in a museum or a forensic investigator/detective or a
P I.
 
Of course, everybody's dream job doesn't always work out but, here goes.
Having worked on a production line for over thirty years, I would have loved to be looking after historical archives wether in a museum or not..
Another is working for a professional football club doing what I do now, which is a groundskeeper. Part time obviously!
 
Hi I actually have my dream job I'm a maintenance engineer I love fixing things taking things apart as a kid I was always taking my toys apart to see how they work
 
I think I've said this before, in a similar thread, but anything working with words - writer, journalist or similar.

A few years back, the author Iain Banks wrote a book about his journeys around a number of Whisky Distilleries in Scotland. He was an epic petrolhead and each trip was made in a different car from his stable (including things like a classic Jag, a Porsche, an M Series BMW and a Land Rover), and many of the roads that he travelled on were perfect for, erm, exploring the handling characteristics of the various cars. Then, when he got to his destinations, he sampled various fine single malt whiskies.

Now that really is a dream job.
 
Sometimes it can take years before one realises their full potential..
We all know how well this guy did after ditching his old job.!

 
At the age of 30 years, I was a guide on seal and dolphin swimming and viewing tours in New Zealand. My boss offered to train me as a SCUBA diving instructor as well. At the medical, I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, and that meant the end of my career. I could no longer drive minibuses, SCUBA dive professionally, work in Antarctica (had previously worked at British Antarctic Surbey HQ, so was aiming to work South), return to Territorial Army etc. I'm not sure that the last 20 years have been worth living.
 
Dont know what to say about that..... Cant do it justice.


Ive never had a dream job
 
I would have my dream job working at Kew Gardens with the trees ... But I married a horticulturist instead !!! Job done
 
Im grateful that I did have a good career for over 30 years but I sort of fell into it rather than chose it so it was never my dream job. If I'd had my way I would have been a vet because like many on here I've always had a love of animals. My 2nd choice would have been a judge just so I could send those people who are cruel to animals away for a very long time!! Since I was forced to give up work a few years ago due to ill health, I think any job would be abit of a dream!!
 
There are many jobs I would consider my dream job. I've said since 7th grade that there are far too many things I enjoy doing to have just one career.

That said, aside from the overwhelming quantity of work, I've had one of my ideal jobs for the last 2+ years. I'm in a teaching role, helping graduates pass a licensing exam. I love the field of study. I'd be a perpetual student if I could, and since the field encompasses 15 individual subjects (in my state - a dozen or so more for the handful of students who seek licensing in another state), I pretty much am a perpetual student. I have hard-working students who are motivated to succeed - and at least once a day someone tells me they appreciate what I do. Twice a year I see my students succeed at rates higher than before I arrived here. I seem to be effective at what I do - and I've never been in a job where those I was directly helping appreciated it and articulated it so frequently and clearly. (One student ranked me 15 on a scale of 1 to 10.)

I arrive at work smiling every day.

But I'd also enjoy being a computer programmer, a civil rights attorney, a seamstress, a chef, a photographer, a mathematician. . . . you get the picture.
 
A lady never tells hahaha.

I would LOVE to be a judge. Not the kind that gives ****** sentences. I want to be the sort to give whole life tariffs.

No Mrs Nice Gal hahaha
 
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