What is your Dream Job?

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Translating books- by myself, at home.

I like what rhubarb said. I could do that. But what I really think would be great would be if I could be a copy editor of all the newspapers around here because they let too many spelling errors go unchecked. Then when you read the paper all you concentrate on is how bad the spelling is in the paper and wonder who let that through!

Hey... Lots of would be writers on here. Has anyone here actually written anything and submitted it?

My dream job (that luckily I am taking steps to have ) is to run a heritage breed conservatory farm in Oregon. It would be all the things I love, animals, quiet, gardening, time to craft and read and I would only have to deal with people when I felt like it because I would be on the outskirts of town. ahhhh, the life........

How many want to be writers, working alone in a nominal ivory tower! Me too, by the way... Otherwise, I've done my dream job, and hope to return to it soon, as I'm moving to another town and a clean break seems appropriate. What was it? Truck driving! Think about it... you spend most of the day with just the radio for company, doing something you know and love, to the best of your considerable ability. When you do have to interact with others it's usually brief, and in many cases they are glad to see you arrive. Being greeted with a smile is worth such a lot! There is of course a downside. Employers usually undervalue and underpay you for your experience; unless you are very lucky you will be virtually living in your truck, hardly ever seeing home; the general public will regard you as a nuisance at best and you are rather at the mercy of the weather. But look on the bright side: working outside means you will develop infection resistance that the office types can only dream of! I was lucky too: I hardly ever had to spend a night away from home. Then on my way to work one morning my car was rear-ended -- by a neighbour! -- and the resulting whiplash injury forced me out of the cab for a while. But now I feel ready to return...

I want to own a farm of all heritage breed livestock (those are farm animals that are going extinct due to factory farming) I'm actually looking at land in Oregon and moving up to start doing that some time in the spring.

I'd love to work for NASA or have something do to with Space... hopefully I will, I'm looking at getting into astrophysics or astrobiology preforably. I guess I'll see soon when I get university offers.

I'd love to be the majority shareholder of a large M.I.S. (management information systems) firm. Something that brings in lots of money so that I can follow my scholastic pursuits as a hobby. (Specifically work on a doctorate in Econometrics.)

My dream job is being a director. Or being associated with the movie buisiness.

I second that motion.

Job, that's a tough one.

If someone wanted to pay me to hike deep into the wilderness, go fishing, and take photographs, even write about it, that would be my dream job. I suppose I'm pursuing it in as much as I rarely do much else, but haven't gotten paid yet... perhaps one day.

i kinda always wanted to be on Oprah. or be Oprah, have her job kinda.

@ Berta

Write her a letter! We aspies could use the publicity Oprah could give us.
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It's my dream job to study the extra-terrestial, in the broadest sense of the meaning. Though I'm in med-school I'm considering on doing physics on the side as of next year, which could lead me there someday.

But I also want to be great in science, math, biology in music.......and crazy enough I'm willing to spend a great time of my life trying to achieve this.

Counting waves on the beach.

I already have it;
am a class A registered member of the International Longshoremen and Warehouse Union.

You don't even understand.


or i would like to be king of the world. If i was then i would make everybody be mormans. Only i am not a morman, but mormans are the nicest most consistent people i have ever met. Except whe they show up at your dorr. i guess i'd do away with that part.

This is what I do. It is a pretty ideal job; almost all my communication with clients is by e-mail, and I love the actual translation work. The down side is the administrative work that comes along with it (and the occasional chaotic customer that doesn't pay or changes deadlines on you or similar). But all in all, it's been nearly perfect.

That said, I will probably stop translating in the next year or two, as the thrill is wearing off and the proportion of difficult clients is going up.


One of my favorite writers ever is a Mormon: Orson Scott Card.