What is your ideal occupation? Choose your destiny.

[Triskelion]

That's weird I was just thinking about what I want my next business card to say.

I've been lots of stuff - two careers - one day job, one arts.

Day Job:
Hotels (oh just everything in a hotel), Retail, Middle Management, Psychology BA, ESL Teacher in Shanghai

Arts:
Professional: musician, muralist, sculptor, designer, signmaker
Amateur: Aikido, fiction writer.

For a while I had considered standup comedy but I've got no delivery and I'm slow-witted and I don't like attention. I considered video producing but for it's cost-prohibitive entry. Also I'm between nations, hard to settle down.

And I'm currently dabbling in fitness training as well as photography as my next step when I return to the US. So it's between wellness or arts; ideally something I can leverage into more productivity and profit than one man's output. Maybe the same old story: Obligatory, noncommittal day job and procrastinating in the arts. Burning off my treads at the starting line.

 

[Roger Wilco]

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.

Assuming that the skills to be good at it come with the job (because if I could do these things, I would be doing it already ), my ideal occupation would be something in sports; playing football, tennis or golf. Snooker pro would be alright too, because you can do that a lot longer than most other sports (if you consider snooker a sport).

Or professional poker player. I think that's a phantastic "job" if you're good enough at it.

 

[SmoothieX]

I'd buy 50 acres of land in northern VT or NH, run a maple syrup operation, and raise Labs.

 

[Jadzia]

Ideal occupation, I'd have liked to have been a professional model, but I am just not pretty enough

 

[RoJoHen]

I would own a gym.

 

[USS Triumphant]

(if you consider snooker a sport).

Personally, I consider anything you play at a table to be a game, rather than a sport. But it's mostly a semantical argument, and I won't look funny at anyone who calls it a sport.

Side note you might find interesting: Snooker has almost no following at all in the United States, save in the Ozark mountain region. Which happens to be where my dad's side of the family is from. And I gather he's quite good at it - I've seen him play it, but didn't really follow what was going on all that well. I find it boring and would rather play regular 8-ball or 9-ball, myself.

 

[K-Star]

Video game designer. I come up with the game idea, and the programmers write it.

 

[iguana_tonante]

I'm lucky enough to be already doing the job of my dreams, being an astrophysicist. That doesn't mean, obviously, that the reality of it is all dreams and fluffs... But I still love what I do.

Barred that, I would love to own a small bookshop or work in a library: knowledge is a source of pleasure to me. And if it doesn't work either, there is always room for a good Italian chef cook.

Ah, almost forgetting that: owning a martial arts dojo. Having been practicing jujutsu for a long time, I wouldn't mind doing it for a living!

 

[CorporalClegg]

Prostitute.

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

Good point.

Changing mine to porn star.

Why not be both? You could go work at the Bunny Ranch.

 

[jamestyler]

I would own a gym.

I've invested in one. It was not as fun as it first seemed - but it pays for itself, so it's a money saver

 

[Michael Chris]

Chief Justice of the United States and pastor of a church.

 

[Hugo Rune]

Detective Inspector of a Homicide & Serious Crime Squad

A long way to go, but I'm on the path....


Hugo - On the beat, on the streets

 

[Zulu Romeo]

Detective Inspector of a Homicide & Serious Crime Squad

A long way to go, but I'm on the path....


Hugo - On the beat, on the streets

Not wanting to go one higher and make DCI?

 

[Hugo Rune]

^^ Hehe, oh to be as legendary as the Genie

Yeah, but in the MET you really stop being a proper police officer when you hit DCI (or Uniformed Chief Inspector). It's all policy and politics and paperwork (generating new forms of) from that point on.

I've no interest in that - I want to lead teams of investigators to catch murderers. Not be the D/Superintendants whipping boy

General rule of thumb... you want to be a police officer applying policy then aim no higher than Inspector. If you want to create policy then aim to be a Chief Superintendant or higher. No-one AIMS to be a Chief Inspector. It's the lowest level of what's called the "Senior Management Team" and ALL the shit runs down on you. Statistically you're more likely to die on the job if you're a DCI/CI than in any other position. The stress is horrid. If you become a DCI/CI it's only because it's step number one on the path to at least Chief Superintendant (i.e. the guy/gal who is responsible for an entire borough of the MET, or similar) if not higher.

I want to solve crimes, not solve the budgetary issues of my department.

So Gene can keep his rank... I wanna be Sam!


Hugo - made up that statistic, but it's kinda true...

 

[An Officer]

^ If only the uniforms were as cute as the LAPD or Carabinieri... wasn't there some announcement ages ago to refit British police? I'm still waiting, very patiently...

 

[Hugo Rune]

^ If only the uniforms were as cute as the LAPD or Carabinieri... wasn't there some announcement ages ago to refit British police? I'm still waiting, very patiently...

Trust me, so are we...

The problem is that there is no, well, uniformity to the UK forces uniform. We all have different regulations based on what our Chief Constable thinks is appropriate. OUR Chief Constable, The Commisioner, is still waiting for design approvals to come through.

If I could vote I'd go for something like this: http://i.thisislondon.co.uk/i/pix/2009/02/police-uniform-415x539.jpg

Lightweight, practical and lacking in white shirts to ruin every shift... every standard, non specialised, uniformed police officer across the country should have the same outfit - one that is designed for each sex separately (the trousers in the MET are UNISEX!!!). But that kind of consistency would be almost unheard of. The Crime Reporting system for the MET is different from everyone elses....

And leave the helmet alone - I like it!!


Hugo - scratches a constant trouser itch, and re-adjusts his 99p shirt for the umpteenth time today

 

[jamestyler]

If I could vote I'd go for something like this: http://i.thisislondon.co.uk/i/pix/2009/02/police-uniform-415x539.jpg

I quite like that one, it's whats normally seen where I am and just seems far more practical, and the officers look more relaxed and approachable.

 

[Emher]

Prostitute.

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

Good point.

Changing mine to porn star.

Awesome news! Let me know when you start releasing stuff. Sadly not buff enough or I'd volunteer as a co-star.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

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

Good point.

Changing mine to porn star.

Awesome news! Let me know when you start releasing stuff. Sadly not buff enough or I'd volunteer as a co-star.

That never stopped Ron Jeremy.

 

[Emher]

Good point.

Changing mine to porn star.

Awesome news! Let me know when you start releasing stuff. Sadly not buff enough or I'd volunteer as a co-star.

That never stopped Ron Jeremy.

Ron's advantage is that he could have gone by the artist name "Frankencock" if he chose to. I, while definetly please with my size, could not make such a claim.