Dream Job

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I always wanted to be:

a firefighter
a teacher

I will be neither of those things. First, I'm too old at this point to be a firefighter. I won't make it through the school and if I can't hack fire school, I won't be able to serve on the line. I'm a fire photographer to compensate, which joins another love: photography, so it's all good. Also, I can't be a teacher because I can't stand teaching. I get frustrated easily when people don't understand what I'm saying and I think it's pretty obvious. I have trouble sticking to routines and remaining consistent. I don't think my head could take the noise level of a classroom, even teaching older kids or adults. Yet I still romanticize about being a teacher.

What's your dream job that you'd love to do if you could do it?

Electronics Engineer. After high school I had to work and get a place to stay. ( With my family the rule was "18 and out") No scholarships, or financial aid, and the idea of a big loan scared the crap out of me. So I just Kept working. I did work in electronics repair for a few years, that was kind of fun.
My wife says I could go back to school now, but it just isn't practical. By the time I graduated I would be 40 and we would have major debt. If I stay working at my current job we will have our house paid off in 5 years and we will be debt free.
So I design and build circuits for fun.

Gynecologist - or a sexual health adviser.

I'd love to work in a GUM clinic, I would deal with hundreds of people a week to help with their most basic sexual health needs that will help them and other people throughout their whole lives, and it would allow me to educate large numbers of people. I'd be NHS but semi-private which if you can do if you have a speciality that NHS may be lacking, I'd specialise in menstrual health and that would give me more freedom in how I practice as well as my own office which will be full of books and leaflets to help my patients. I'd start-up an organisation dedicated to less widely-known about women's health issues with a mind on social aspects; menstruation and over-medicalisation of women's bodies, start off as a small web site then work up to a larger organisation. We'd support/fund/carry out research, activism, and provide sex education and 'girl talks' in schools that are body-positive, up-to-date, sex-positive, and not corporate sponsored. I'd also like to work on a medical centre dedicated to disability and sexual health, have in-house GP's and physiotherapy where health care workers can be in contact and working with other areas of the centre. I'd have sex workshops to help various people with various needs, sell different sex toys made for disabled people, and offer therapy for disabled people who have been sexually abused, or for their care workers to help them help the people they care for have a happy healthy sex life while still protecting the care workers from accusations or abuse themselves. Maybe include research in the centre to make it more economically viable.

This is unrealistic on many levels, not least of all because I lack the education and money, it would also be impossible for me to deal with people who would come into the GUM clinic who are knowingly putting themselves/others at risk or who are wilfully ignorant. Can you tell what my 'special interest' is? lol In all fairness biology, medicine and research have always been major factors to my idea of ideal jobs growing up...excluding wanting to be a farmer when I was five-years-old

OR....being a helicopter pilot would be totally cool!

I want Bloodheart to be my OB gyn!

What is GUM?

I don't know if I've always wanted to be a travel show host, but that's what I would love to do right now. Preferably for shows where you get pampered around the world.

Heh
GUM = genitourinary medicine, sexual health basically.

Something I can do with just a laptop and an internet connection from anywhere in the world that pays well and doesn't take up all my time and energy.

An under the table bus boy in whatever location I choose to habitate at any given time would also be splendid.

Religious Studies professor- I can easily continue on in education to do this (one of my undergrad majors encompasses this). It's just not practical. There's only so many opportunities for employment. I have a child & need to keep food on the table.

Database Admin- I like this because it's flexible. So many of my friends are DBAs. They can work from home when their kid is sick. I love working with computers. I guess I could have done this, but the Calculus scared me, so I never tried.

Licensed Professional Counselor- Currently working toward this and don't see any hurdles.

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There was a point where I wanted to do this - throughout college to be precise, I actually didn't go to university because this is all I could think of to do at university and I had the same issues with it as you; very few employment opportunities.

I was told I could do pastoral counseling part time while being an adjunct Religious Studies professor. I considered it, but the money would have been really lousy. I absolutely hate balancing happiness/fulfillment with finances, but yeah.... that's reality. Gotta pay the mortgage.

Stand up comic or improv troop member. I can still do those things, and I will someday.

I would also like to be a supporting character in a TV show, like Kramer in Seinfeld. I would be a cross between Kramer and Dexter Morgan from Dexter, with a little bit of George Carlin type of sarcastic anger thrown in for good measure. In other words, I would basically play myself, because I'm quite a character. Maybe it would be set on a college campus.

Of course, the problem with this is that the sitcoms of today suck, and censorship sucks, so it would have to be on Showtime or HBO or Starz. I would prefer stand up though.

Shrink
Guru
Non Violent Ninja
Stylish Hobo
Hunter Gatherer
Tortoise

I actually love the job I do now (phone support), even though I always wanted to be a programmer.

Video game developer or accountant.

I have a few video game projects on paper, but not enough patience for programming and absolutely no desire to leave it to a third party. On the other hand, I'm studying right now to be an accountant, and I'm really liking it. Finances and economics are my favorite topics. I'm not bad at mathematics, either.

Unfornately, right now I'm stuck on a supermarket. But I'm on vacation and looking for accountancy jobs so, who knows? Maybe I'll have luck before next month.

My dream job used to be doing environmental non-profit work. I also worked as a research analyst, a legal researcher, a community organizer, I could go on. Pretty awful for me.
I now work as a subject matter expert in an IT department doing policy and assessments. Much better. I am also launching a startup.

playing in the NFL or NBA
Be an FBI agent
Go from house to house looking for old junk to buy and sell like the American Pickers do.
Be an Auction Hunter
Be a professional ghost hunter
Own an antique/Sports Cards shop
Video game developer