JFF: Dream Occupation

I'd be a writer of great stories living in the south of France, sitting at a cafe somewhere, drinking great wine and having a good old time!

Writer or Photographer

But really, I'm doing my dream occupation...I always wanted to be a mom and I am!

Want to do/be:
Author/Illustrator
Archeologist
Creating a Foundation to help children

Some things I Have done/Am trained in/Have Degrees in: Interior Design, Counseling, HR, Artist, Anthropology, Fine Arts of various medium, Ceramicist.

PURELY to have the skills without having to go to school for them... an MD with advanced work in surgical techniques, trauma, and pharmacology.

OR

A world class thief. That kind of education gets you killed half the time. I'd like to be able to get into anywhere at anytime and get out again like a ghost.

But in the real world (bypassing 16 years of schooling & specializing & internship; or a good solid 10 years in apprenticeship if I could manage not getting killed by my coworkers or caught by the police ;)

I'm already working on my dream occupation. It's a little bizarre. But it works for me.

I want to teach 2 quarters a year (college level), spend 1 quarter a year on a dig doing double duty as an archeologist and staff nurse, pad that dig on either side with nursing for an NGO in the region & photojournalism and writing fiction. (I've been publishing since I was a kid though, that's no big deal).

The degrees I'm currently working on are - anthropology/archeology
- art
- nursing
- already have a psych degree; accidental degree... I'd pad my hard science classes with psych classes since they're easy A's. When you have the credits, why not write the silly paper that gets you the degree? I'm holding off on writing my thesis papers until my last quarter at school... otherwise it would mess with my funding.

I've been going to school part time since kiddo was 2 months old (he's currently 8), and I'll be done with school right about the same time he's starting ((we call it the "paying for college perpetually plan")).

HOWEVER: If I could just have skills dumped in my head (matrix style) the following would be mandatory:

- languages (about 20 of them)
- medical training
- martial arts training
- weapons training
- electronics training
- sex training (hey, who *wouldn't* like to be the best ever, or at least best they could be, in bed?)
- singing (I have a terrible voice)

Well, I actually have my dream job (SAHM) !If I could just figure out how to get PAID for it!

:(

I would LOVE to be a nurse in the delivery ward. :) I enjoy working with different people every day, I love babies (especially newborns), and I always like seeing families with their new babies.

A chef/owner of my own restaurant

I loved being a teacher before I had kids. It was always my dream to be a stay at home mom so I am living my dream. It is wonderful.

I would want to be a florist, aside from the fact that I have terrible allergies. I know that florist's are a very competitive business but if money was no issue I wouldn't care I would love to do it. I love flowers, arranging them, designing things with them, looking at them and smelling them.
There are many other occupations that I think I would like to have as well like a professional cook, a professional seamstress, or even a politician (one who's not crooked.) who might be able to make a difference in the world! But if I had to pick one, I'd choose the florist!

will you hate me if i said what i do now?? lol. truly, career-wise, i fell into an office job at entry level, and have advanced a little here and there, and i love it. my only "dream" change would be that last promotion to get me into the window office (haha)! i am pretty happy with things the way they are! :) i don't really have any untapped talents just dying to break out - actually vice versa, my job sort of uncovered talents i didn't know i had. so i am truly happy and fulfilled.

I have a few: A weather girl, a court reporter, a talk show host, an elementary school nurse (they have it made!), an actress, a singer, and a P.E. teacher.

I would wind back the clock about 10-12 years and go to med school so I could be an emergency room doctor or general surgeon. I wouldn't care how much the schooling cost nor would I care about my salary; I think I would enjoy it because I find how the human body works to be absolutely fascinating and I would love the challenge that emergency medicine and emergency surgery provides. Anaesthesiology comes close - the downside is that it really can be life or death but the upside is that most of your patients don't really talk to you once they're out (hah!).

A complete departure from that would be chef, particularly pastry chef. Unfortunately the hours for a chef completely suck if you work in a restaurant! Oh, that and I have absolutely ZERO artistic ability.

I would be a Hollywood make-up artist/hair designer for the stars. I would love to make people beautiful, while listening to them complain and vent about their busy life, and making great money/tips!

Fun question! I have quite a few dream occupations so here goes:

1) Animator/Director at Pixar ... would love to be in that type of field being surrounded by extraordinary, quirky, imaginative and creative people while making great money. In other words, letting my creative freak flag fly and its o.k.

2) A writer (who actually had books on the NY times bestseller list) meeting people, signing books, travelling the world

3) Screenwriter/Director of indie films ... perhaps with one academy award under my belt ... ha!

and my final dream occupation .... ta da!... being a mom! I actually enjoy the journey of being a SAHM.

oooh, if i had money...i'd HIRE you as my personal organizer! lol :)
if thought about this a bunch, so i would be an NP, a nurse practitioner. not even a nurse anything right now, but i wish i were. good quest my dear. i'm sure you'll get lots of varying responses on this one! :)

I would choose to be a book editor. I love to review and edit research papers, essays, and short stories for people. Many of my friends send me e-mails asking me to edit their work. I would be thrilled to edit full time and get paid for it.

Id really love to be an olympic gymnast. I was really in to gymnastics when I was younger, but I gave it up because it my grades were suffering from it. However, I love to exericse, flip and dance. Im not really flexible anymore, but I would love to be.

I think I would be a writer of fiction novels.

And my Anti-Dream job would be an event planner. Did that for too long already!

Interior designer or architect.

vegetarian caterer who also specialized in celiacs, and allergy needs
nutritional therapist
breastfeeding consultant

perhaps all three

I would love to be an event planner! No weddings, just corporate shindigs, birthday parties, etc. I LOVE to plan our family's, and to do it all the time would be FABULOUS!!!

I have absolutely loved being a homemaker, wife and mama, and still do. My ambitions (I had not really expected to marry) were centered in drama and music, and I was happy to put them aside.

But in the suggested dream world, now that my kids are grown, I think I would go back to those fields and work part-time in some sort of community theater - not only having fun but also helping children and adults express themselves in ways they never thought they could do. I do a little of that now (a little acting, a little singing, a little writing) and I wouldn't mind doing more. But then I'd need a personal organizer for the rest of my life, so I'd hire you! OK?

I would LOVE to be a homeopathic chiropractor. We have had the most amazing experience with one and I am just in awe of them.

A prosecutor. Get those pedophiles behind bars.

I'm a divorced mom who works part-time so that I can be with my son as much as possible until he is school aged, so being a SAHM would be wonderful. However, if we are talking professional paid jobs I would love to be a Zoo Keeper. It would be great to work in a zoo, care for the animals, and be outdoors year round. I used to volunteer as one as a teen at a small town zoo and it was great. Alternately being a park ranger in a big national park like Yellowstone or the Smokey Mountains would be amazing. Working on digital special effects and animation would be the best indoor job possible. Art is a long time hobby but the animation programs they use are too expensive for the hobbyist. Good question! I've enjoyed reading everyone's answers.

If your scenario allows for talent with a snap of the fingers I'd be a singer or performer of some kind! I've always admired people with musical talent and big, beautiful voices.

In the meantime, I've got the dream job now - I work PT as a consultant doing classroom training and one-on-one coaching of people going through a job/career search, I also have a private career coaching practice, I'm also starting my dissertation towards a PhD in Industrial/Organization Psychology. Once I have my degree, my dream job will be as a significantly higher paid consultant!! that still has flexible hours and variety in my work.