What would your dream job be?

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17 Aug 2007, 2:21 am

Forget about bills and money, if you could have any job you wanted what would it be? I'm sure most would rather not work if they didn't have to, but I'd like to hear what kind of job meets your interests and criteria. Also an explanation of your interests in that job would be nice too.

For me I would like to be a professor of historical linguistics, researching how language has changed over the past 4,000 years, what kind of changes occurs, the histories of the people who spoke them, their cultures and the events that shaped the languages into what they are now.

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17 Aug 2007, 2:27 am

i'd like to write songs for a living.

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17 Aug 2007, 2:50 am

Philosopher or Musician.

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17 Aug 2007, 4:40 am

Work in the feilds of astronomy or physisics or work for the DEC.

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17 Aug 2007, 4:50 am

Ideally I would be independently wealthy and not have to worry about work. However, as we're talking real world, I guess author

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17 Aug 2007, 10:21 am

For the last year I've been doing my dream job: A audit of the collection in a acedemic library. Now that Governor Christ has cut taxes and our budget, I'm being reassigned, hopefully with heavy emphasis on book repair, preservation and restoration.

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17 Aug 2007, 10:28 am

I would like to do nothing.

Quote:

Peter Gibbons: What would you do if you had a million dollars?
Lawrence: I'll tell you what I'd do, man: two chicks at the same time, man.
Peter Gibbons: That's it? If you had a million dollars, you'd do two chicks at the same time?
Lawrence: Damn straight. I always wanted to do that, man. And I think if I were a millionaire I could hook that up, too; 'cause chicks dig dudes with money.
Peter Gibbons: Well, not all chicks.
Lawrence: Well, the type of chicks that'd double up on a dude like me do.
Peter Gibbons: Good point.
Lawrence: Well, what about you now? what would you do?
Peter Gibbons: Besides two chicks at the same time?
Lawrence: Well, yeah.
Peter Gibbons: Nothing.
Lawrence: Nothing, huh?
Peter Gibbons: I would relax... I would sit on my ass all day... I would do nothing.
Lawrence: Well, you don't need a million dollars to do nothing, man. Take a look at my cousin: he's broke, don't do s**t.

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17 Aug 2007, 10:41 am

Working in the field of scientific research on a project relating to a specific illness and how to find a better treatment or a cure for it.

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17 Aug 2007, 11:13 am

I'd like to be a manga artist, because anime and manga are my obsessions and I love to draw.

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17 Aug 2007, 2:00 pm

Being a writer because I love to write or maybe working in a bookstore.

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17 Aug 2007, 7:39 pm

A full time job at the library, incorporating many of the responsiblities I currently perform, plus computer work. I would like to take library science courses and become a librarian. I could be the stereotypical "crazy cat lady librarian."

I would also write in my free time.

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17 Aug 2007, 7:51 pm

Many libraries offer some sort of tuition assistance. LCLCPL employees receive tuition reimbrusment for work-related classes. FSU employees can take any classes tuition-free.

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