So what do you WANT to do for a living???

[HEAVYHEART]

We have a thread here about what we do for a living. What do you wish you did for a living?

I'm a musician. But I wish I was a teacher. Obviously, it's not about pay since teachers get paid shit. I just wanna be a teacher so I can truly make a difference in people's lives. I know that sounds corny as hell but it's the truth. I wish I was a teacher.

How about you?

[Shell Beau]

1. I always wanted to be a veterinarian, but

I just don't have the stomach for it. Plus when it comes to animals, I am a big weenie!! I could never tell a pet owner that their little one is sick!!

[RebelOne]

4. When I was a kid, I wanted to be a veterinarian, also.

But I don't think I could bear having to euthanize an animal.

[Shell Beau]

6. Me either! Even though I know there are

certain times when that may be the best option, I don't think I could ever do it!

[HEAVYHEART]

9. Me too!

When i was a kid, I wanted to be a vet but yeah, screw putting them to sleep. Too sad.

[youthere]

39. I wanted to be a vet at one time...

until I realized that it takes more than loving animals...you have to love people too...not gonna' happen.

[flvegan]

2. President of the United States

Man, would I change some shit around.

[MissMillie]

3. restaurant critic

or a mattress tester.

or Professional Golfer.

[mopinko]

8. michal jackson, no not that one-

is a beer critic. HE has the world's best job. not only drinks the world's best beer every day, he can't pay for it. i've met him, he is a happy man.

[Trigger Hippie]

5. Librarian

or hobo. :)

[Mizmoon]

13. As a librarian

I'm not sure how I feel about your two choices :)

[Splatter Phoenix]

45. I want to be a librarian!

Tell me what it's like, from your perspective! There's only so much I can get from reading up on the job.

[mopinko]

7. always wanted a family business

maybe a pet shop, or a tavern. no real money, there, tho. better some high tech thing, which we have all the skills for, but my family is too dysfunctional.
i like teaching, too, but i do not have the paper, or the time to get it. can't stand the bureaucracy, either.

[Pretty_in_CodePink]

65. Might just want to leave out the family n/t

[mopinko]

78. too old and sick to do it alone. nt

[AlCzervik]

10. i want to have a coffee shop, nothing fancy but with a couch or 2

and a few tv sets, one set to cspan, one on the BBC and the other on espn, i will serve coffee and tea but nothing super fancy, no half caf double decafs at my place and no cell phones.

[eyesroll]

11. Constitutional scholar and lawyer...

So much mangling of it around here these days...

[jane_pippin]

22. Do it eyesroll...

You're doing a good job schoolin' me around here. (Really. I've enjoyed your last few posts in GD. Thanks for writing them.)

[jane_pippin]

12. I want to be a comedy writer, write books, or write/draw comic books

Are we sensing a theme here?

Writing is all I've ever wanted to do. I wish I could just work in a bookstore/record store (or something like that), make enough to live on & have insurance, and use my time to work on what I want to work on in a city I actually like. Is that really so much to ask? I don't think it is.

[pitohui]

14. why wish

it isn't like it's exactly difficult to become certified as a teacher, ppl prob. a lot less resourceful & gifted than you are do it every day

i wish for a living i could have just inherited my money, now that's a wish, since i have no control over the circumstances of my birth

if you have an achievable dream, seems to me, why not achieve it?

[HEAVYHEART]

16. Awww

Thanks for the encouragement. I am a 40 year old divorced parent of two kids and I'm busy working so I can feed them and pay the bills. There's no time for schooling right now. That's why it's a wish.

[elfrangel]

15. I want to be..

a Neonatal Nurse, RN.

Currently in school working toward my first degree to reach that. I will, hopefully, graduate in about 3 years with a RN.

[thefloyd]

17. Well

I would like Jon Stewarts gig or Lewis Black, Bill Maher. Maher goes over the line sometimes though.

Or a George Soros type. Making money and help fund the entire progressive movement

[AuntieM1957]

18. Supreme Court Justice

so I can overturn the elections of 2000 and 2004.

seriously.

[seemunkee]

19. Brewer

I would love to have a smal micro brewery.

[ernstbass]

20. Bed and breakfast for dogs

would be my dream job. I would offer a discount to anyone who adopted from a rescue organization. My real job is in a psych hosptial - I'm burnt out after 25 years.

[RetroLounge]

21. If I were younger and single with no kids

I'd hire on with a railroad...

RL

[Allenberg]

23. Either a state legislator

or a Congressman. I plan to start as a high school social studies teacher. :)

[LynzM]

24. Read a lot, and play outside

Sometimes in combination. Wander around Europe, exploring new cities. Expand my brain :)

[bridgit]

25. well, a way-back-when social studies teacher mentioned one day...

that the perfect job is to find what you really like doing & then find someone who would be willing to pay you for it; so i guess i need to find someone who'll pay me for lounging round the sun drenched riviera waft of peppermint schnapps & coconut butter, gambling frivolously @ monte carlo all night, getting toasted from within the sanctity of my spanish castle, skiing in cortina here & there, clothing, feeding & educating the unwashed masses while bringing peace to the world & inviting Heidi to my bavarian retreat for tea & chinese checkers :thumbsup:

[Bassic]

26. Well I work in my field of study

But I want to be a professional musician.

[Lilyhoney]

27. I want to be a librarian.

I don't want to tell people what or how to think. I just want to point people in the direction to find their own answers. And I want to make sure that the resources to find the answers are available.

[tedoll78]

28. Play video games.

Seriously. I want to sit at home on my couch in front of my big-screen TV & test beta versions of video games. I have over 20 years of video gaming experience under my belt, so I think I could be considered "qualified" for such a job.

Developers: look me up! (especially if your name begins with an "N" and ends with an "intendo") :P

[Scoots]

50. Hell Yes!! I've been looking for ways to put my Atari 2600 and

Commodore 64 skills to use. I still kick ass at Combat and River Raid.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

29. To be a Banker

I've been very depressed lately because I never became a banker. It's been my lifelong dream to be a banker.

An innocent person who wanted nothing more out of life than to love, to be loved and to be a banker.

[miss_kitty]

30. A gardener

that's it. A gardener. Well paid, of course.

[xmas74]

31. I've been thinking about becoming a mortician

but the nearest school is almost 2 hours away and I can't afford to move right now. It only takes 2 years.

[youthere]

33. I thought about doing that at one time.

My family thought I was crazy. Someone has to do it, right?

[xmas74]

35. Exactly.

Job security too. People will always die and most prefer a human touch to a machine.
I figure if I treat both the dead and the living w/ respect I'll do just fine. I don't scare very easy and I love gore so it wouldn't gross me out.
My family and friends all think I'm a freak anyway. They'd want to know if I could get them any discounts.

[youthere]

32. I could handle being a towel girl for the Detroit Redwings...

or really any NHL team...doesn't HAVE to be the Redwings.

[OneGrassRoot]

47. LOL..............

me, too......:toast: I worked at the Hyatt in Pittsburgh years ago and when the hockey teams would come there for a game (most of the sports teams stayed at the Hyatt)...always dressed to the nines in their suits......*huge sighs*......I fell in lust over and over....*S*

Actually, when I was 3 my mom said I went around saying I wanted to be a "go-go" girl when I grow up.

Now that I'm 42, I want to be a full-fledged stripper......:bounce:


Maybe combining the towel girl with the stripper thing is the way to go......;-)

[youthere]

57. I think you may have stumbled on a new career field...

Stripping Towel Girl-a tough job, but someone has to stand in the locker room with all those naked sweaty hockey players.

[tallahasseedem]

62. Same here!!!

But it would have to be for the Flyers, Peter Forsberg....YUM!!!

[DanCa]

34. I want to be the legimate next jrr tolkien

to be a writter that can create a world like that either with fantasy or super hero characters would be my dream job.

[no name no slogan]

36. Musician/Writer full time

although it's alright as a part-time gig, too (mixed in with web development because it pays the bills). :)

[hfojvt]

37. I'd like to get paid

to post on DU and play Spider solitaire and do family history research.
Actually teachers make more money than I do. Plus they get most summers off.
I think it would be neat to work for the Democratic party. Obviously, I do volunteer work for them now, but I am not much of a people person or a salesman. I can write some and do statistics and financial work though.

[bliss_eternal]

63. You CAN get paid to do family history research.

Have you looked into genealogy? It seems some are making some decent money doing family history research for others and creating written, video or photo documentation of some sort...

Just a thought...

[hfojvt]

70. yeah, I already help lots of people for free

and get lots of free help too. I had a chance to have done this, but I am afraid it has passed. I used to own a trailer a mere forty minutes from Salt Lake City. That was way before the web though. I could have written one of those family history programs too. It is always easier to figure out what you coulda done looking back.

[bliss_eternal]

72. Oh, I see. You're already involved with the work...

I'm sorry that the opportunity has passed. :(

[skoppa]

38. For as long as I can remeber I've wanted to be doctor, but

since starting college I think I want to be a teacher now.

[kwassa]

40. It isn't all that hard to become a teacher

You just have to take the proper education courses for certification. You can teach music, too. In our area, around DC, school systems will pay all or some of the tuition to accomplish this at local colleges with teacher education programs.

And, you can teach in private schools without that certification.

[EstimatedProphet]

41. Write novels

so I'm doing it :)

[jobycom]

42. Write novels. Right now I do it for free!

[MN ChimpH8R]

43. Actually Oscar Wilde said it best

"I do nothing, but in a highly charming and decorative manner"

If I couldn't opt for that choice, law professor, wine writer or archaeologist studying ancient Egypt would be tops on my list.

[HughBeaumont]

44. Musician. Full time.

I can play several instruments and write songs. Sadly, the only money in rock music nowadays is made by ladder-climbers who wear suits and couldn't tell an e-bow from their elbow.

[sinkingfeeling]

46. I would like to be an artist. I paint some, do pottery, etc.

[Rambis]

48. Lloyd Dobler quote from Say Anything

I don't want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career. I don't want to sell anything bought or processed, or buy anything sold or processed, or process anything sold, bought, or processed, or repair anything sold, bought, or processed. You know, as a career, I don't want to do that.

[xmas74]

64. Great movie!

Think I'll put it in right now.

[Scoots]

49. I wanna piss off the Jesus freaks.

Not decent normal Christians, but the ones who show up at your door, or on TV and tell you that you're going to hell if you don't send money to fund their waterslide. And the uber-conservatives who believe that guns don't kill people, minorities, the liberal media, and capital gains taxes do. As far as I'm concerned, there is no higher calling than to piss in their Wheaties. Now, if I could just find a way get paid for it.......

[Left Is Write]

51. I would like to get paid for writing.

[XemaSab]

52. Get paid to bird...

I *almost* have it figured out, but I'd like a job that paid me to travel around the world and review birding sites. Hell, travelling around the US or California would also be fine. :)

[gmoney]

76. There she is...

Missed seeing you around... you're becoming a rare bird yourself!

Hope all is well... :hug:

[XemaSab]

80. I knowit

Still moving, had a fun trip to urgent care today, same-old-same-old.

How are you doing?

[mvd]

53. I'd love to review music for a living

But first, I'd like to be established in something else. I've heard that there's not much money in reviewing.

If I was, here are hints on how I'd be:

Most compatible opinions and best writing -

Steve Jones from USA Today (#1)
Tammy La Gorce from Amazon.com
Aiden Vaziri from San Francisco Chronicle
Jaan Uhelszki
Parke Puterbaugh

Good writing styles

Steven Thomas Erlewine (when he doesn't over-analyze)
Edna Gunderson
Ken Barnes
Brian Mansfield
Robert Christgau (witty, but I'm very inconsistently in agreement)
Tom Sinclair
Heather Phares (disagreed on the Emma Roberts, but see her good review of Eisley at allmusic.com)
Don McLeese

Bad reviewers

Rob Sheffield
Amy Phillips
Johnny Loftus
Jim DeRogatis
the whole Guardian and Pitchfork staff
David Browne
and more..

[tjdee]

54. Movie star...or, writer/director &pick the music in films. Or, movie star.

As I'm getting older (My age = about 52 in entertainment years), I can see I'm probably not going to be a movie star. But I'm increasingly good with that, as the director holds most of the power. I'd love to write screenplays and direct them...that seems like a hard nut to crack though. I have no idea how I would even begin with that, as I have no money, horrible credit, and can't do an indie sort of thing.

At the very least, I'd love to be the music supervisor (or whatever they're called?) who picks the music in the film, gets it together, tries to buy the rights, etc.

But I think I will always secretly dream of being a movie star. I was a pretty good actor, and it would have been great fun.

[KyndCulture]

55. I want to own a used bookstore...

Not a viable business unless you live in a bigger town than I do but this is what I've always wanted to do.

Maybe when I'm a little old kynd I'll get my wish.

[BamaGirl]

69. Me too

I figure when my hubby retires maybe.

[ghostsofgiants]

56. Filmmaker

Hopefully in the not-too-distant future.

[NewJeffCT]

58. As a 38 year old accountant

I have finally decided I don't want to be an accountant.

[Fox Mulder]

59. I want to investigate the paranormal.

Seriously. I don't care if it's for the FBI, CIA, AMA, TNA, etc. That's why this screen name I am using fits me well.

Too bad I picked geology as a major instead of psychology. :(

[tinfoilinfor2005]

60. Retire!

I've worked for forty two years, and I'm now ready to play! (well, a couple more years...)

[Joey Liberal]

61. I wanted to be a bartender on an island in the South Pacific

Mixing drinks at night and hanging out at the topless beaches by day........What a life.

[chknltl]

66. Own a successful seed exporting company.

Still a goal. I am a hippy so you figure out what kind of seeds.

[DebJ]

67. I've wanted to be a teacher for 30 years. I hope to return to

college full-time next fall. I'm half a century old.

Don't give up your dream.

[DebJ]

68. I've wanted to be a teacher for 30 years. I hope to return to

college full-time next fall. I'm half a century old.

Don't give up your dream.

[philosophie_en_rose]

71. Senator

with 59 colleagues straight from DU. The House of Reps would all be DUers too.

We'd rename freedom fries pommes des frites, impeach the entire Bush regime, and select a new president by elevating our speaker of the House... matcom. :P

[NMMNG]

73. I want to be a librarian

Hopefully I will be one within the next 5-6 years.

[Jamastiene]

74. Orphaned animal raiser. I've always wished that could be a job.

I love bottle feeding baby animals and taking care of them. It would be the ultimate job that I could do at home.

[Wapsie B]

75. Have a foundation

that searches for the most needy and does things like pay their medical bills or puts their kid through college. Kinda like a good samaritan foundation of sorts.

[Wcross]

77. Run a no-kill animal shelter.

If I had the financial resources to sustain myself and the shelter, thats what I would be doing right now.
I keep playing the lottery just in case!

[Saphire]

79. archaeologist

[Left_Winger]

81. I am a teacher and I am ready to retire

but, alas, I have ten more years to go.

[Joe Chi Minh]

82. Nancy Lopez' caddy.

She used to kiss her caddy, whe she won. I was a very innocent lad.