What is your dream job?

[hatredisnotavalue]

I want to thank all of you for your incredible response last night regarding what your worst job was. Tonight the question is what your dream job would be.

You are given a $100,000 loan to start up your own business or use the money to get you started in your new job. So if you are a writer, you got two years to finish the novel. Or invest in a business. What would you do to fulfil your life's dream?

[Deja Q]

1. photojournalist

[skygazer]

2. Riding stable

Offering boarding and riding lessons. With a summer camp program for disadvantaged kids to get away from their problems for a while and spend some time with beautiful animals and learn about how nice it can be to care for them and be cared for in return.

[Rising Phoenix]

3. artist

[Meatwad]

4. The Supreme Potentate of the World.

Kidding.

My dream job is to be a geologist of somesort, whether it be a glacial geologist or a volcanologist or a seismologist.

[southlandshari]

5. DU Moderator.

PAID DU Moderator!

:D

[BlueIris]

17. Hee. I hope you're serious. Skinner, hook shari up!

:-)

[RandomKoolzip]

6. I'd like to have Rocco Siffredi's job, but barring that.....

I'd give the world to be a professional drummer for a successful rock band.

Oh, and I didn't post in the other thread, but my worst job was when I was a janitor of a Canal Villere supermarket in New Orleans. That really sucked.

[MrScorpio]

15. If you need a Franco Roccaforte to help tag team the ladies, call me up

I'm down

[ZombieNixon]

7. Actually, I'd like to sit there and get paid oodles for doing nothing...

but we can't all be Republican members of Congress, so I figure, what the hell?

Actually, I'd like to start my own software company, and I have $1000 to do it on. From then on, make life comfortable for myself and my family, and then run for public office.

[JohnnyBoots]

8. To be the Dem's answer to Rove.

[deadparrot]

9. Owning and operating a vineyard in Tuscany. nt

[pitohui]

21. with $100K? er, good luck, dude

i read one hundred thousand not ten million!

[deadparrot]

28. Whoops, sorry.

Didn't catch that part. :)

Just read the title of the post.

[Scooter24]

10. I actually like my business now

I plan events, meetings, and parties for companies and individuals. Though that $100,000 would be useful, I'd probably spend it on software, computers, web site design, and maybe revamp my home office. The rest on marketing and maybe some fancy business cards :) And maybe a hot personal secretary. lol

If I had to start all over- I'd probably start my own PR firm. I'm bitchy enough to make it in the biz.

[BobMorr]

11. Job in conservation

Maybe stationed in a national park. Wake up in the morning to a peaceful environment. Go for my morning rounds at various sites. Stop along the way to admire the wildlife and natures beauty. A slower paced lifestyle. Less pollutants to worry about. Possibly do some fishing, catch and release, on a river or lake after work. Enjoy the clear night sky filled with stars.

[Jamastiene]

12. First, I would buy a good camera. Next, I'd take a little

trip into the woods and zoom in on the animals and scenery. Next, I'd create a portfolio of some of the best shots I took. After that, I would shop it around or start my own magazine for amateur wildlife photographers. The main theme of the magazine would be pictures taken of wildlife, scenery, and anything interesting with a short description. I'd get permission from the best amateur photographers and create a cd-rom and a web site to sell the cd-rom full of pictures. The profits from that would be split among the different photographers and a portion would go to animal/wildlife charities.

I don't know if that would be enough to make it successful though. I guess I'd have to advertise a lot too.

[MrScorpio]

13. DJ on the Euro-Circuit

Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Manchester, London, Paris, Marseille, Ibiza, Barcelona, Prague, Budapest, Rome, Copenhagen and Berlin


And that's the first week

[Scooter24]

25. what would your DJ name be?

lol...I'm actually looking forward to seeing Ferry Corsten next week. :)

Ibiza rocks too...If you make it there, may I have a VIP pass?

[MrScorpio]

27. DJ MrScorpio

No Doubt

[leftofthedial]

14. sleeping

[BlueIris]

16. Novel.

I'm trying to finish my manuscript, but it's slow going. That's rough, I know it's what I'm supposed to be doing with my life. It would be a lot easier if I wasn't also staring down destitution while desperately looking for full-time work. And after getting the first one out of the way, I have four more ideas I'd like to write up and share with the world. So, yeah, at this stage, 100K = BlueIris pursuing Stressful Writing Career.

[hyphenate]

18. Working on my photo/poetry/essay book

My novel at least got finished, but I never finished the rewrite. At least the "coffee table" book would be more expressive.

[pitohui]

19. do nothing as long as the $100K held out

my ego is not that weak that i need to waste the money pretending to be productive

$100K is not going to produce yr novel & get it out there where anyone will read it, nor is it enough to launch a real business that will provide income for any length of time

so you're just wasting the money to please society

why do that

take the cash, kick back, enjoy

[Wapsie B]

20. Professional Storytelling.

That fulfills a number of needs; travel, work in a creative setting, receive recognition for what I do among other things.

[jmm]

22. One of my cousins stole my childhood dream job

He gets paid to build stuff with Lego.

[Left Is Write]

23. Published writer.

[philosophie_en_rose]

24. $100,000 wouldn't pay my student loans.

;)

[achtung_circus]

26. Pay off my debt

from my last dream job.

[Deja Q]

30. Was your last dream job in IT?

[achtung_circus]

36. Naw,

woodworking, running an artisan store, making stuff, breathing sawdust.

But it was dependent on the tourist trade and 2003 was the summer from hell, forest fires, high Canadian dollar, resulting in reduced American traffic, SARS.

It broke me.

[anarch]

29. Beer Enjoyer

But I guess if I had to pick something that actually exists, I'd like to maybe own and run a small campground, by a lake, and maybe have a little cafe/grill kind of restaurant on the premises. And then during the off-season, somebody could pay me to go hiking or something...oops, back to total fantasy-land there!

When I was a kid, I wanted more than anything to be a pilot. I guess that would still be pretty cool with me....

[BlueIris]

32. BWAH! That's hysterical.

:-)

[SocratesInSpirit]

31. Definitely publish my novel

and write the other one that is swimming in my brain right now. That would be heavenly...my dream career is published author. Will get there someday. Right now am holding down a day job and writing at night.

[GOPisEvil]

33. Black & White Photographer/Photo Essayist

[smoogatz]

34. Distillery Inspector.

I actually met a guy in the Scottish Highlands who had this job. He drove around the countryside inspecting distilleries--which involved a bit of taste-testing, apparently. He stayed in nice inns and B&Bs, and drove a government car. After work, he'd go out to the pubs. Not bad work, as work goes.

[Ksec]

35. President of the United States of America

dream big . thats just the way I roll

[BlueIris]

37. Ya know, I almost posted that.

But the truth is--I'll help someone else take that job. But I would never want it myself, not anymore. That's a one way ticket to insanity/serious health problems/mega stress and hellish guilt right there.

[dhinojosa]

39. I'm doing it....

self employed programmer ;) Oh and president too. Why the hell not.

[brentspeak]

38. Start up the next New York Times

[RetroLounge]

40. Helping Prostitutes with their model trains

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RL