What job would you choose to have if you could pick any?

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I am currently studying to be a professor. That job sounds pretty good to me: I research my special interest all day long, and when I have to talk, I get paid to talk about my special interest. How can you go wrong with that?

ASD consultant who works with teens & adults with ASD and their families

audio/video restoration tech.

Benevolent Dictator.

I would love to be an actress.

I would love to be an actress.

I returned to Uni at 40 to try to use my brains to finally accomplish something in my messed up life. I was determined to be an astrophysicist. I KNOW I could do something phenomenal, but the teaching methods at Uni just don't work for me. I have pretty much always been self taught anyway. I was never diagnosed, but this week while doing study participation to earn credit for psychology, I was told I may have asperger's. I chose psyc as an elective, it always interested me because I never could understand people. Now I finally get why.
I am graduating in June unless I flunk psyc, and now I wonder how I am going to get a job that I can do well without mentioning aspergers. I get the feeling it is better to not say it to prospective employers. Problem is that I am honest and hate lies. Being dishonest feels like playing a game when I don't understand the rules.
I have never understood the phrase 'team player'. Now I shall use the phrase 'neurotypical BS' to describe the phrase 'team player'.
I would like to write books that impact society the way that Jules Verne's books did. If I can't navigate my way up the ladder to being an astrophysicist, I can still put my ideas out there that way. Probably more fun to have the freedom of the 'fiction' banner to give me license to go nuts with it. Real physicists have to follow rules and calculate uncertainties. I am not good with uncertainties.

Astronomer, cosmologist, or astrophysicist researching dark matter, the evolution of galaxies, exoplanets

Owner of a commercial space company

Pharmacologist developing and researching psychoactives.

I wonder what we could do if a bunch of aspergers astrophysics nuts got together with telescope access and a team of neurotypical slaves to do the grunt work. I'll bet we could find the missing matter in the Universe. And figure out gravity. And how many Universes there are. And if its possible to get to another solar system and back in a lifetime.
I know I am an ideas machine. Anything is possible.

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it means he's pointing upwards at you [towards your post above his] in agreement.

Just imagine if all money wasted on everything that it is wasted on (war, politics, million dollar cars, vanity surgeries, god this would be a big list) was spent on space exploration, telescopes. Yeah, my world would do it. And I'd find someone to build me a Data to keep me company.