NationStates Jolt Archive

You know, not all of us has dream jobs. Some of us took the job that we have because it's the only one available, or maybe it's the only one that we'd qualify for, etc. Whatever the reason is, some of us end up at jobs that we tolerate but if offer our dream job, we would gladly give up the current job for the dream job. So the question is, if you were offered your dream job, what would that job be?

Personally I wouldn't mind working for Duke University Rhine research Center, either that or I would go across the country collecting Urban Legends and Ghost stories and sell them in book forum, stuff like that.

Now it's your turn.

Edit: Let's think about job we could actually do, so no secret agent spy who's also a vampire slayer. :p

Head Librarian - Library of Congress.

That's right, the largest library in the world. :cool:

Head Librarian - Library of Congress.

That's right, the largest library in the world. :cool:

Hmm, if you get that job, then recommend me to be the archivist. ;)

Hmm, if you get that job, then recommend me to be the archivist. ;)

That's another good one. Only hitch is, even the lowest assistant librarians at the LoC bring in six figures, so it's probably pretty competitive. :p

Dream job? Does winning the lottery count?

I would love a job as a field researcher/biologist or something to that effect where I spend weeks out in the wild alone researching for National Geographic, Discovery Channel, or a University. Or just live out in the wild permanantly.

That's another good one. Only hitch is, even the lowest assistant librarians at the LoC bring in six figures, so it's probably pretty competitive. :p

Yea, well before I got rejected from NC State (who not only e-mailed it to me but mailed it to me too) and Chapel Hill, I actually wanted to be an archivist. I'm now studying to be an Occupational Therapist, it's a nice job, five figured job, great health insurance, and yet, I still think back to my internship as an archivist, and I somewhat miss it. What can you do, I need a job to support myself, OT pays well, great health insurance and I can get a job anywhere in the country so it's a logical choice to make.

Owning my own small-scale publishing company.

Steve McQueen.

I know it's not a job, it's a dude, but that dudes job. Sort of. I don't want to be an actor-but a filmmaker, race car driver, motorcyclist, all around badass guy...that wouldn't suck. And composer.

I don't want to do just one thing, I think is what I'm saying. I want that cool renaissance man Hemingway/McQueen whatever deal.

I couldn't be further from either of those two cats than I am, but you did say 'dream.'

An all rounder better with the bat than Bradman, better with the ball than Warne.

Realistically? I don't really have one. I got myself in such a mess trying to work towards a dream job, today I just try and take things one step at a time.

my job currently is kinda neat. i guess my dream job would be a professional landscape photographer of some sort, but right now i can do that as a hobby

Owning my own small-scale publishing company.

we do a fair bit of publishing where i work :) i started there as an artworker (preparing jobs for press) but have moved on to layout and am kinda the creative director now. i do a lot of different things in the job though :p

I'm sticking with medicine as my dream career but i'm starting to lean towards being a GP rather than working in a hospital. I'm lazy and that seems like the best place for a person like me :D

Researcher at Ispra-CCR or some other cool research facility of the EU (including the CERN, of course).

Head of the Italian State Railways, Italian Transports Minister, or EU Commissioner to Transports.

Mayor of Milan.

Astronaut.

Pubic hairdresser pour dames.;)

Retirement.

Only fools and horses work :/

Teaching university-level literature courses in Italy. Be that Italian literature, European literature, english literature - whatever. Preferably European Renaissance literature.

Does living off a large lottery win for the rest of my life count as a job?

Testdriver for Porsche, or some high-up position at Blackstone or some other Private Equity Group.

Does living off a large lottery win for the rest of my life count as a job?

My girlfriends family won the lottery when she was 11 (shame 10 other people won at the same time so they only got 500k) and she hates that it ever happened. So i'll say it is a job

I'm lucky enough to be doing my dream job :cool: I'm a prosecutor.

Eventually i want to go into politics and one day become POTUS.

Supreme Ruler of Earth... or Professional Generalite. :p

Somewhat more realistically, I've always wanted to be a doctor. Most other jobs sound like they'd bore me, actually.

Supreme Ruler of Earth... or
fight you for it


Professional Generalite. :p
mm

archaeologist in cyprus or mesopotamia. or a WRC team mechanic, have to train as a mechanic first though.

fight you for it



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How about we join forces and stab each other in the back along the way?

Actually, now I think about it, you can be supreme ruler. I want to be the puppetmaster. :)

Composer, be it film, choral, or whatever medium I decide to write in.

How about we join forces and stab each other in the back along the way?

Actually, now I think about it, you can be supreme ruler. I want to be the puppetmaster. :)

ok i'll rule and you can pull the the strings of others i point out to you

Environmental Health Technician with the ability for promotion to Environmental Health Officer.

Hello, Army career!

I always thought it would kind of neat to be one of those explorers who go to the amazon to find treasure in the name of empah! (or maybe a starfleet officer:cool:)

though looking outside I think an umbrella factory owner would be spiffy

My dream job would be to make a living wage helping to rehabilitate wounded birds of prey. If I could get up every morning, drive to work, and spend the day scrubbing out cages so that a hawk with a slowly mending broken wing could fly again.. I would be the happiest person in the world, without a doubt.

Someone already took "supreme ruler of the Earth," so I'll go with being a co-host on "Pardon the Interruption." That looks like a fun job.

Owning my own small-scale publishing company.

What's stopping you?

What's stopping you?

Maybe he already owns a big one.

retiring after High School...:p

own a small cinema (moving theathre)

small is 300 seats

and do not think that our cinema is something like cinema in USA

own a small cinema (moving theathre)

small is 300 seats

and do not think that our cinema is something like cinema in USA


So that means that you would have had 300 people watching the movie 300? :eek:

Ambassador or Judge

Whatever ya got...

I'd love to work with nanoscience, but I'd basically just love to be a scientist.

When I was 3 or so I wanted to be an ice cream truck driver.

I've had jobs that would make your skin crawl. I have also had jobs that were totally amazing only marred by shitty company politics.

I just started a new job on Tuesday.

I think I could possibly have found my dream company if not my dream job.

Nothing is perfect. The Japanese understand that ;)

Time Magazine Photographer. :)

I wanna be a very well known author.

National Geographic photographer. You get to travel to the most amazing places and take pictures of them.
Or, producer for one of the big news shows. That'd be fun too.

I want my radio show back.

Just what until after my apotheosis. Then you'll see what I want to be...

Prime Minister.

Or photographer.

Prime Minister.

Or photographer.

Why not both? You could do it in a Spiderman / Peter Parker kind of way

Why not both? You could do it in a Spiderman / Peter Parker kind of way

Would he be emo?

Would he be emo?

and he'd have to thrust annoyingly

Why not both? You could do it in a Spiderman / Peter Parker kind of way

Well, my main interest in photography is motorsports.

I guess the PM would be guaranteed the best positions.

and he'd have to thrust annoyingly

Who would? :confused:

Who would? :confused:

You in your spiderman-esque PM / photographer role

Sorry but thems the rules :p

You in your spiderman-esque PM / photographer role

Sorry but thems the rules :p

I'd have to be a guy, too? :p

I'd have to be a guy, too? :p

Damn you.

Fine. Yes I'm adding sex change operations to the list of requirements for the role of PM

Fine. Yes I'm adding sex change operations to the list of requirements for the role of PM


Needlessly convoluted.

So that means that you would have had 300 people watching the movie 300? :eek:

300 watching 300 is better than 10 watching 10, but not as good as 2010 watching 2010.

As bad at it I'd probably be, I'd love to be the chief media liaison person (and possibly speech-writer) for the Prime Minister. Failing that, Prime Minister. I want power.

Well-moneyed Entrepreneur. Though that's a ways off, I just can't imagine having one job for my entire life. There are so many things that I want to do, and so many projects I want to finish in so many fields, that I just can't see anything else coming to fruition... And me being truly happy about it.

I'd like to run my own independent record label, a restaurant, a guitar workshop, and a chocolate shoppe. I could be content with running just one of those, but I'm setting my sights on acquiring the means to run all of them. A lofty goal, sure, but one I'm looking forward to, and one I'll have fun accomplishing. Hopefully.

I want my radio show back.

What kind of radio show was it?

Paramedic.

'nuff said.

Porn tester

Military Dictator of my own semi-recognised micronation.

That, or Secretary General of the UN.

My dream job would to be to devote myself full time to performing music.

I have three dream jobs that as a child I absolutly wanted to be

1. An Artist

2. A Radio Dj

3. A Police Officer (every kid does though)

I have had 2 of them and so I am quite happy with how that aspect of my life has turned out. I no longer want to be a police officer any more.

What kind of radio show was it?

crappy. I hated the music, but it was a good schedule for me 11pm to 6am Monday through Friday and then I got to go do promotion on the weekends (which was basically getting paid to hang out at various fun places and smile and hand out bumper stickers) I made like $10 an hour but it gave me time to do other things that I wanted......like work at a "real job" during the day.

It would be cool now because I would leave after the kids were asleep and get home before they woke up. It was a no brainer job, nobody was awake at that time unless they were high or also working a craptastik job, so I basically got to talk about whatever I wanted between songs.

For me my dream job is being a doctor, a job I am trying to work towards. I'm doing my A-levels at college (England). I'm in my first year and doing the second set of exams, the first set I got A in maths, further maths & chemistry and a B in Physics 7 Biology. They've like me to get 4A grades in the next set of exams which I've just started.

Next year I'm going down to 4 subejcts probably (the average is 4 in first year, 3 in second year but I've done one extra) though it may be 3 based on my results. I'm definitely keeping maths, chemistry & biology as all are good subjects they like for Medicine. Physics is also a good subject but it depends how I do in the exams (A I keep it up, B unsure, C probably won't, D definitely wont, E teacher wouldn't let me, U[fail] teacher may hurt me). i won't be doing Further Maths because it's not down as a key subject for Medicine and i could not manage a 5th subject in the second year of college.

Hopefully after applying I'll get an offer a from medical school and then get the grades I need. Backup plan is I'd go for another science subject at Univeristy and then go for medicine as a post-graduate. Would lead to the same place but take 2/3 years longer and cost a fair bit more in Univeristy fees, therefore I'm really really hoping it works out first time around.

I'm training right now to go into my dream job of acting.

I want to be a medical examiner. I plan on it. Other than that, being a world renowned musician would be really great.

I want to unite the world into a single nation and erase all boundries. i don't want violence, I just want peace. It isn't too unrealistic, it just may not happen anytime soon. europe appears to be uniting into a single nation, how much longer until there are Six Continental Nations? eventually, why not The Westren and Eastren Nations? And then maybe someday, The united Empire of Earth. there won't have to be any more fighting, and we can all get along in peace and harmony in the spirit of Brotherhood. as one Nation, we can heal the Earth, and fix all the damage we've done to it.

crappy. I hated the music, but it was a good schedule for me 11pm to 6am Monday through Friday and then I got to go do promotion on the weekends (which was basically getting paid to hang out at various fun places and smile and hand out bumper stickers) I made like $10 an hour but it gave me time to do other things that I wanted......like work at a "real job" during the day.

It would be cool now because I would leave after the kids were asleep and get home before they woke up. It was a no brainer job, nobody was awake at that time unless they were high or also working a craptastik job, so I basically got to talk about whatever I wanted between songs.

I wish I could have a radio show... but I hate talking out loud enough, and then I'm one of the idiots that has to correct themselves mid-sentence all the time... :(

crappy. I hated the music, but it was a good schedule for me 11pm to 6am Monday through Friday and then I got to go do promotion on the weekends (which was basically getting paid to hang out at various fun places and smile and hand out bumper stickers) I made like $10 an hour but it gave me time to do other things that I wanted......like work at a "real job" during the day.

It would be cool now because I would leave after the kids were asleep and get home before they woke up. It was a no brainer job, nobody was awake at that time unless they were high or also working a craptastik job, so I basically got to talk about whatever I wanted between songs.
How'd you sleep?

I would want to be a HR manager for a large international company and to be in charge of culture training for American nationals being sent abroad (or in charge of the training in the foreign country, that would be cool too.)

Oh, I could be a consultant that gets hired by foreign companies to come in and train their people on American culture. Perfect!

I have done two already that were up my alley. Served in the Army. Most of the time I was assigned to armor. Had alot of fun and served my nation in war. Second is what I am doing now. Creating a great business has really paid off financially and emotionally. Third plan is to most likely buy a group of Riads in old town Marrakech of all places. Would like to run a boutique hotel business. Maybe open a couple clubs in Marrakech also. Love the city and that is where the wife's family is from.

I want to unite the world into a single nation and erase all boundries. i don't want violence, I just want peace. It isn't too unrealistic, it just may not happen anytime soon. europe appears to be uniting into a single nation, how much longer until there are Six Continental Nations? eventually, why not The Westren and Eastren Nations? And then maybe someday, The united Empire of Earth. there won't have to be any more fighting, and we can all get along in peace and harmony in the spirit of Brotherhood. as one Nation, we can heal the Earth, and fix all the damage we've done to it.

In terms of peace, I always thought political dissociation combined with economic and social association would work better.

In terms of peace, I always thought political dissociation combined with economic and social association would work better.

That would seem to be the best route.

My dream job? Working for any of these major movie companies as an top editor or screen writer some time after I graduate from Film School:

(in preferred order)

1) Universal Studios
2) Warner Brothers
3) New Line Cinemas (if I play my cards right the next few years, most likely)
4) Dream Works
5) Paramount
6) Tri-Star
7) Columbia
8) MGM
9) Any other company I couldn't think of