What do you REALLY want to do for a living?

You've got a chance to change careers, and do something you've always wanted. What would it be?

I used to be a Systems Architect - mostly wireless LAN's in conjunction with real time locating systems ("indoor" GPS, if you will). I hated the on-demand travel, the perpetual need to stay connected via phone/pager, and the "I graduated last week" wet behind the ears kids who ran half the start-ups into Chapter 7.

So I quit, "woodshedded" for a bit, and now I design/build custom furniture.

My wife is a Senior Financial Planner, and is going to school one day a week in Horticulture/Landscape Design. Hopefully (soon) she'll be able to get away from balanced portfolios and long term retirement planning and work outdoors.

What's your dream, and how close are you to fulfilling it?

But I work in haute-finance; the tension between Wisdom and Mammon is a tough one.

Gave it a go, now im too old!

http://www.static13.com

:evilgrin:

An independent bookstore. I love books and I think I would finally be doing something truly worthwhile.

Terry

yup. wanna be Mike Malloy (but on major networks). always wanted to do it. have been told my voice is perfect (by Mike himself btw).

now, how to get into the biz? x(

I would need to practice a heck of a lot more than I do now...

and see what happens.

how do i do it?
what do i need?
where do i start?

:) sorry, really have NO idea how to even begin

I already do it, but I'd like to be able to quit my day job.

And I'm one year, two months and one week away from achieving it! (At least, earning my law degree; then I have to pass the bar before I can truly call myself an attorney!)

At age 41, I'm very proud of myself for going back to school, getting my BA and then starting law school at this advanced age. If I can do it, you can too - so DO IT!!!

I'd love to be a journalist for a newspaper or periodical.

GONE FISHING!

.:.

using papercrete. This product utilizes and recycles all kinds of paper, including magazines, which are put into a mixture of cement and water. The outcome is a lightweight, fire- and bugproof building material. We've seen videos on it, and are charged up to try it in real life. If we are successful, we wish to help a local co-op lending institution that is trying to build low income housing.

If it does work out, we'll have a new house on our land plus a Dances of Universal Peace hall and a place for a retreat/retirement center.


God willing, this will happen.

Hardipanel is a product made in Australia from wood powder and Portland cement. It is siding, and exceptional siding at that--the very best siding you can get, and priced competitively with vinyl. The difference between Hardipanel and papercrete is that Hardipanel is pressed, which increases its strength dramatically while making it thin enough to use as siding. (It also explains why Hardipanel is made in Australia--the only woods that will survive the pressing process grow in Australia.)

I like the papercrete idea. Let me make a slight suggestion to your dream: instead of just building houses for the poor, set up a papercrete block manufacturing plant. Sell most of the block you make to other liberals who will use them for homebuilding, then use the profits to build houses for the poor.

OK, i sell real estate, a job i like actually, but then again i used to be an accountant so real estate is like dream job compared to that. What i would really like is to have a coffee shop that sold actual coffee, you know black or with cream and sugar, no lattes or espresso's. I would have a couple of televsion sets tuned into the news i like to watch, BBC, Cspan and now and then Cnn. I would have newspapers from the the cities i have lived in and the ones i like to visit, i would serve some food, but only what i actually like to eat..ie donuts but not from krispy kreme, muffins but no poppyseeds and butter, not spread. I will call my shop the news cafe and i understand that not everyone likes what i like, but too bad, it's my store!

We had one in St. Paul for a while, some years ago, called "Motor Oil," that was very basic. No "Frappacrappos," just great coffee. Strong and black, thank you very much.

I've got a cheap counterbalance device for the cam I've shot some web stuff w/. So cool to do a dance w/ the subject matter. All I can say is when you see the behind the scenes from movies, it sure looks like a wonderfully well rounded job: physical, improvisational (to a varying degrees), got to get "in your zone" sort of work.

to do nothing

Sen. Rocky (D-Colorado)

I'll be the guy making the Republicans cry, so I'll be easy to pick out.

After that I hope that whoever is Prez in 2024 or 2028 will make me Sec. of State.

If I could without being thrown into the black hole, and everything I own confiscated, I'd exercise my green thumb growing experimenting with strains.
It's just a dream, but it's what I'd really love to do.

Good answer! Good answer! You already have a future customer my friend.

Although I'm probably too shy to be a director and I suck as a manager. Maybe a cinematographer or editor? I've also been teaching myself 3D animation for about 5 years and I think I'm ready to take the dive. I just don't know if I want to make it my job because I'd hate to get sick of it. I used to like programming, but it's been my job for so long that I hate it now.

No, seriously, I'm doing what I want for a living. And it's great.

apperantly they dont have unions too bad every industry should be unionized

The latter is easy to do, if I were the type... Wireless is not exactly the most secure medium...

and having access to health insurance...my dream job would be to work in a bookstore full time. I worked at a newsstand part time for a year and loved it. I quit only to be with my uncle every weekend while he was sick with AIDS.

I currently work for an HMO in the provider relations department.

:D

In either the Carribean or the South Pacific. Take an old Air Force or Coast Guard Duckbutt and convert it to a small island-hopping airliner.




Ahhhh.. Flying in paradise!

sort of exactly like I am, but more successful. I'm working on it.

I hope you have the success you're working for.

As for me, I've spent the better part of my 57 years trying to figure out what I want to be when I grow up. I have some abilities, but no real talent. Sigh....

It would be really cool to hunt for animals that may or may not exist, interview the local people about them, and write about my adventures.
Unfortunately, I think that I'd near a fair amount of money before I begin on one of my expeditions.

Sitting at the final table of the World Series of Poker with Phil Hellmuth, TJ Cloutier, Chris Ferguson, Dewey Tomko, Howard Lederer, Phil Ivey, Erik Seidel, Johnny Chan, Jennifer Harman, and me! Hopefully sitting next to Jennifer Harman.

I'm still young, and I'm playin to get better. In any case, that is without a doubt my dream job.

and raise bees, llamas and possible a shitake mushroom garden..

gave up on the idea of teaching when I found out what the pay was but the chef thing is only within the last 5 years or so.

I was looking into teaching when I was in between jobs for 11 months last year.

or win the lottery so I don't have to fucking work AT ALL ANYMORE!:evilgrin: :bounce:

Actually, as a single mama, I don't really have a choice in "following a dream", I have to have a secure, steady income no matter what. And I don't have the time or money for graduate school.

n/t

you know I'm just kidding!

I'm a writer, but if I could do it over again, I'd be a dancer. I love dancing. Ballet, jazz.

I'm an astrologer as well, and like to teach. Haven't decided if I want to get out and do it more often though. Mostly as a sideline.

Would like to keep writing as well, but more of my own stuff, not just the tech writing I do now.

Tried to make it happen, but sabotaged my success for a lot of different reasons. Now I'm older and wiser--wish I'd had some of that wisdom way back then.

Either a huge log house in the mountains in Colorado or a large beach house where I live now, in Florida. I love to cook (former professional chef) and even though it would be a lot of work, I know I would love it!

I have a good aesthetic sense, and natural feng shui powers!

I am in nursing school and I hope to work in postpartum care in maternal child health. Having a child under the best of circumstances ("easy" birth, supportive partner) is a hard enough adjustment, but many, many women (probably most perhaps) have difficulties in one way or another, but there they are- as mothers. Those first few days are important enough to effect lives forever. I have felt called for some time to be a person who can help in some way to provide necessary physical and medical care, yes, but to also, I hope, if I can still be idealistic enough, to help get many lives off to the best possible start. I had thought about going into nursing 10 years ago, but other things in life made that difficult. Then in the two years before I had my youngest child, I worked as a post partum doula, in which I was there to provide support for new moms in a less clinical way (primarily I provided much help to new moms with my extensive lactation knowledge as a layperson) and it was there I decided that I truly felt called for this in my life. :)

i'd make a great 'idle rich'. except i wouldn't be idle, i'd think of lots of great ways of self improvement and goofing off.

What a bully pulpit for doing good, expressing liberal opinions, and living large! :D

I don't want to work anymore, I never wanted to work to begin with. It must be nice to have absolutely no responsibility at all.

This seems to be a long lost skill. Wit is no longer displayed through our carefully selected words. Satire and reality have merged.

:)

I cannot imagine a better job than that.

decide...I guess I would be closest to the teaching thing; I do have a degree but would have to go back for a second degree and a teaching certificate; you can't get a tc for a psych BS in this state...

I'd love to do readings and join a slam tour or something...I'm working on the writing, but I doubt I'll ever see $$ in this profession! meanwhile I slave away on this PC...