What is your ideal occupation? Choose your destiny.

[captcalhoun]

Special Forces commando. i'd get to run around blowing shit up, calling in air strikes, riding around in helicopters and shooting people dead.

oh, okay, there's the concommitant risk of getting blown up, shot or otherwise killed, but it's got to better than my boring-ass life.

or script-writer for a big SF franchise. of my own creation.

 

[jamestyler]

Prostitute.

Cash or credit? I make dreams come true

Odd topic to come up. I'm currently looking for a new career as I intend to close a chapter of my life this year. The Navy seems a promising route as they've told me I'm officer material, which makes me feel good if not a bit old.

But yeah - I do voluntary care work when I can and considered going into nursing (which would recieve ridicule from my locker room buddies, but males are a minority in the profession, females the majority... good numbers to me ) or a career in the armed forces.

I was lucky enough to achieve some dreams and gain some goals I thought were unobtainable. I'm 25 and done everything I've wanted to do that can be considered superficial/ego stroking (aside from getting published again on a higher level, but I don't believe I have the talent) and I feel thats all out of my system and it's time to do something meaningful and honorable.

 

[Miss Chicken]

The career I probably would have liked the most is being a zoologist but I also think being a commercial pilot would have been cool as well.

 

[Danoz]

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

That's a rather good one...

 

[Kestra]

It's not really an occupation, but I'd love to be a philanthropist.

In terms of actual careers ... I always thought it would be fun to design sets for shows. Especially sci-fi shows. Or own a bookstore.

 

[TheBrew]

US Congressman.

 

[Emher]

This is a fun subject since I don't quite know what I want to be anymore. I was so dead set on working in the movie business when I went into the education I'm in that I'm now suprised to find out that I may not want to.

So perhaps simply my answer should be whatever job I think is fun and challenging on some level, but not so much that it becomes all I am (workoholism runs in the family), and pays enough for me to be able to drive my Camaro SS every day (and hopefully well enough so that I may be able to drive something else during the winter, otherwise I can take it), and also gives me the oppurtunity to take at least one or two good trips a year.

So I'll probably end up some kind of project worker like my dad, chainging jobs every few years and hopefully good enough at my job to not be without one for long. Rather not be it as technical as his have been though, I'm a pretty crappy engineer.



I have considered assassin at some points, lots of money and I get to release some anger.

 

[Venardhi]

Host of a travel show on a premium cable network where I can curse and have naked women in every episode.

 

[Emher]

Oooh oooh I got it! Host Top Gear!

 

[Sky]

I'm a photographer. If I already had a trust fund or a huge stash of money under my mattress, it would be the perfect, perfect job. Sadly, it rarely pays all of the bills.

 

[Crusher Disciple]

Prostitute.

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

Good point.

Changing mine to porn star.

 

[Ancalagon]

Diplomat.

I'm on the path. BS in Int. Poli. Econ. Just moved from Infantry to Psychological Operations. About to get six months of Russian. Army will pay for Grad school so in 3 years when I get out should have a Masters of Science of International Relations (Troy State offers it here)... So with Russian, German, a MSIR and being a Vet.... should be good.

 

[Venardhi]

Good point.

Changing mine to porn star.

Wanna be on my late night travel show?

 

[Gryffindorian]

I'd like to be a $1 million lottery winner (less government-imposed taxes) and just travel around the world.

 

[Crusher Disciple]

Good point.

Changing mine to porn star.

Wanna be on my late night travel show?

Yep.

This is great- I just got a new job and I'm already networking.

 

[Danoz]

Diplomat.

I'm on the path. BS in Int. Poli. Econ. Just moved from Infantry to Psychological Operations. About to get six months of Russian. Army will pay for Grad school so in 3 years when I get out should have a Masters of Science of International Relations (Troy State offers it here)... So with Russian, German, a MSIR and being a Vet.... should be good.

Have D.C. in your sights at all?

 

[indranee]

Peace Corps volunteer.

 

[Venardhi]

Good point.

Changing mine to porn star.

Wanna be on my late night travel show?

Yep.

This is great- I just got a new job and I'm already networking.

You'll have to audition of course. I demand only the best on my whirlwind adventures around the world.

 

[The Boy Who Cried Worf]

This question actually has a huge amount of resonance for me. I have suffered from social anxiety all my life. You might be shocked to learn that years of an anxiety disorder leaves you in a horrible vocational situation. So I am 39, supposedly quite intelligent with a college degree, and horribly under-employed. I really do have to think about a dream job and a more realistic job. Anyway on to the question.

1. Philosopher. I know technically this means University professor which I actually don't want to be. I have a great interest in epistemology and how people come to their beliefs and opinions. I'd love to do a research program along these lines.

2. Genre writer. I'd love to be one of those guys who writes D&D player books of sci-fi/fantasy novels.

3. Freelance writer. Obviously writer seems to be a reoccurring theme. I was once really quite good at it, but have grown rather out of practice over the years. Posting to the TrekBBS is step one back on that glorious path!

 

[Nobody]

Either a theater director at a non-profit theater, helping bring in plays, films, musical performances and speakers to help educate the surrounding area; or, a producer, helping people get their ideas on screen; or, a political director for the Democratic party at any level.

In the end, I want to do some sort of organizing that will help people. That and probably some writing on the side. I always enjoy it, even if it's just for my own entertainment. As for a job I hope to be doing sometime soon, I plan on being a Field Organizer when Obama runs again in 2012.


-nobody