Creating your own ideal job/ occupation

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Hmm, shepherd -- that's not a bad idea; thanks for that suggestion!

I see you also clean houses self-employed; yes, that's what I've been doing. It's great when nobody is home, but can be torture when a full family is in the house and somebody wants to use every room you try to start on.

Realistically the job I would probably end up with is either doing R&D ( in some form of engineering or physics ) or writing software. R&D I love and is what I am hoping for but writing software I have kind of started to loathe after years of study. It's not writing the algorithms I hate, but it's the whole culture and work ethics. There is just far too much bureaucracy, regulations and bossing around which makes me hate the job. Problems I would solve within a day from home would take me a week in office simply because everything has to have a schematic, overly complex documentation, has to be re-written several times over, require at least two meetings, constantly have to explain superiors what I am doing, constantly get bothered by colleagues, etc.

My dream is starting my own design company. I'm great at tinkering with embedded systems, little electronics and creating new designs or products so hopefully that is something I can do in the future. I have come up with some things many years before but that have now sold millions under someone else ( i.e. I came up with a electronic blueprint of a wifi light bulb which I actually made long before something likewise was put on kickstarter ). But my biggest issue in this is that while I have very interesting and realistic ideas and I can make them into reality, I just can't make them happen in large scale. I just don't know how to meet the people or create the social network that can make things like investment, large scale production or marketing happen. The social aspect is a real obstacle, just as it is always.

Another interest I have is writing educational science books for schools. I can write very well and create interesting page designs. I can draw simple cartoons and I'm skilled at sciences. But yet again it's not the issue of the actual writing, the issue is getting my work out in the world. Getting an investment and getting production down, fighting against big publishers who have very mediocre books but a large marketing budget and sale deals with schools. I just can't overcome the social aspect of it all.

I chose "organizing things" but it would have been more accurate if I could have chosen a combination of "learning lots and lots about anything I find very interesting" and "organizing" because my ideal job would be organizing all the info on the topic I am learning about!

Animals please!

Oh yes, I hate cleaning around people!
My coolest Jobs are the empty holiday houses after everybody has left.
Then I don't need to talk and can think whatever I want.
And it pays well when you are self-employed, because nobody want's to do it.
Shepherd wasn't for me, because of that fatty sheep and dog smell all the time.
And also you have to be able to kill (sick) animals if necessary.
Although I can do it, it's not exactly something that I like doing regularly.
But bee hives smell really nice, and I love the buzzing sounds, they are so soothing,
I sometimes get very sleepy at work.