What is your ideal occupation? Choose your destiny.

[Danoz]

Whether you are currently a janitor, a web assistant or a supply manager... if you could pick your occupation out of a hat what would it be? There are some basic RULES to this thread.

1. Said occupation cannot produce an income of more than six figures
2. Occupation must be real, as in (somebody somewhere actually gets paid to do this).

I've decided, I think, that I would want to run a restaurant and brewpub in a small area of town somewhere in Northeast Ohio. I would continue to write on the side (maybe be a part-time professor) and raise huskies somewhere out in the open. Ideal occupation: brewpub manager and freelance writer.

 

[All Seeing Eye]

I'd want to run my own night club.

 

[John Clark]

Ideally, I'd like to fly for a living

 

[Zulu Romeo]

I'm already in my ideal job. It still doesn't pay higher than 6 figures. Heck, it barely pays five.

Heck, I'd always dreamed of working out in a dangerous Third World country and being paid nothing except my food, lodging and board... truly Frontier stuff.

But if I wasn't in my current job, I'd be an astrophysicist research fellow straight out of the Open University - always with my head in the stars...

 

[Danoz]

There are all great so far!

 

[backstept]

I'm so indecisive it would be anything from photography, sword smithing, carpentry, IT, pro sound tech, voiceovers, 3d graphics, writing,

I'm what some describe as a 'scanner'
I have an absurd amount of interests that it's impossible to do them all

 

[MeanJoePhaser]

Something that pays $999,999 a year.

 

[LitmusDragon]

Huge economic windfall leading to early retirement.

Any job I could envision doing would just be a means to an end- the money. Just give me the money and be done with it.

Even writing- which I'm fairly good at- I don't really enjoy doing. I'm happiest when I'm entertaining myself with things of no real consequence.

edit:
Oh sorry, I didn't read the rules before posting. If I must work, I think comedian, poker player, or musician.

 

[Data Holmes]

Director or something in making movies/tv...

 

[What's his face]

Governor General of Canada. It pays six figures and I get to sign bills into law, dissolve parliament, give speeches and sit on my ass the rest of the time.

Seriously, though, being a cabinet minister could be really fun and interesting, depending on the portfolio. I'm from Northern Ontario, so Minister of Indian and Northern Affairs, or Minister in charge of the Federal Economic Development Initiative for Northern Ontario (a federal grant program) would be up my alley.

 

[Mr. B]

I'd like to review luxury resorts for a travel magazine.... maybe do some freelance movie reviews on the side too.

 

[USS Triumphant]

I'd like to work on a farm growing something lucrative but legal, or I'd like to do carpentry work with a homebuilder. And I'd like to have the health and heartiness of body to make either easily feasible.

Or, POTUS. But not right now - maybe in 2017.

 

[Goji]

Ideally I'd like to have two. My main job would be either a translator, interpreter or language teacher using English/Japanese. I'd also like to be an author, but I don't really believe I could ever make enough doing that exclusively to sustain myself. In any case, I'm doing my best to get there.

 

[Niorah]

I'd actually like to be a History professor at either the University of Hawaii at Hilo or the Università degli Studi di Trento.

History because I'd love to share my love for it. University because I don't want to have anything to do with silly Primary/High School brats if I can avoid it, and Hilo or Trento because... well, they're both such beautiful places.

 

[Mallory]

I'm getting close to wrapping up a career as a software engineer. I survived (and thrived) from the days of punched cards and water-cooled IBM mainframes that took up entire rooms to the era when everyone has a PC at work and generally at home. And I've enjoyed the ride. So I think I chose right back in high school.

 

[Goliath]

I'd actually like to be a History professor at either the University of Hawaii at Hilo or the Università degli Studi di Trento.

History because I'd love to share my love for it. University because I don't want to have anything to do with silly Primary/High School brats if I can avoid it, and Hilo or Trento because... well, they're both such beautiful places.

Interesting. As a History professor, I'm already living part of your dream. And I can assure you, it's a good dream--even when you're teaching at a small Canadian university.

My own dream job is not all that different from the one I have now.

In my dreams, I have a research chair at a much larger and more prestigious university, where I don't have to teach--except perhaps for a graduate seminar, or two.

That, plus a substantial pay raise, would make my working life just about perfect.

 

[Hermiod]

Football manager. Yeah, at a decent club it probably pays more than six figures.

 

[Crusher Disciple]

Prostitute.

 

[USS Triumphant]

Prostitute.

Really? I'd think Porn Queen would be at least marginally safer, and just as fun.

 

[hellsgate]

I've always wanted to be a Private Investigator with my primary specialty in Adoption Birth-Parent Tracking, and secondary sub-specialties in family law & (internet-based) international government information access / retrieval resources.