If you could snap your fingers and change jobs, what would you choose?

[Fran Kubelik]

If you could skip the interview process, didn't have to worry about rolling over 401ks and changing health insurance and all the other considerations you have to keep in mind when making career changes...what would you choose to do? Would you stay in your current field? Would you go for something completely different?

[EstimatedProphet]

1. Is professional masturbator out of the question?

If it is, we're going to lose a lot of members here.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

3. ...

:rofl:

[Fran Kubelik]

7. Is that like a fluffer?

I don't think I would choose that job.

[EstimatedProphet]

18. Of course not, but apparently many people have

At least half of GD: P for example.

For you, I think you should write. You're a good writer.

[Fran Kubelik]

26. Well damn.

You know just what to say to a girl.

(And I am going to do some freelance writing. They are even going to pay me!!)

[DarkTirade]

55. If you lose a member while masturbating, you're doin' it wrong.

:shrug:

[La Lioness Priyanka]

2. i want to be a permanent grad student.

[Fran Kubelik]

6. That sounds good to me.

But you have a full time job on top of that, right? That's nuts. :)

[La Lioness Priyanka]

16. yes i do. the schoolwork is easy. the work its in inanity drives me nuts

[JVS]

61. That can be arranged.

Well actually, if you go over 7-8 years they might cut off funds and try to run you out. Gradschool, like coffee is for closers.

[PeaceNikki]

4. I'd be an executive chef

For sure.

You?

[Fran Kubelik]

5. I am in the middle of deciding this myself

I kind of snapped my fingers this week, and now I have to figure out what's next. :)

Sounds rash and irresponsible, but a lot of thought went into it. I know I am doing the right thing.

[PeaceNikki]

8. Oooh.

Best of luck to you. :hug:

[Fran Kubelik]

11. executive chef sounds pretty flipping awesome

let's open a restaurant together!!

[PeaceNikki]

31. Yay!! I'm in! I know at least one other DUer who'd be in, too.

:woohoo: :bounce:

[Chan790]

9. Major gifts development...

I love the work. I used to work in development but my organization was mostly grant-funded and I'm not a grantwriter...it's not my skill set, I'm ADHD and can't sit still for that long. Talking to people OTOH right up my alley and I'm one of those rare people who has zero discomfort asking people for money, even when we're talking about $10K+ or even $1M.

[drmeow]

88. There are a lot of opportunities

Have you check the Chronicle of Philanthropy or the Council on Foundations? http://www.cof.org/Network/jobdescriplist.cfm?navItemNumber=4113&o=l&dsc=
Depending on where you are located, you could actually start moving into this career if you're serious.

[guitar man]

10. I'd love to

be a trial lawyer...I think I missed my calling.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

12. cloud watcher

[Fran Kubelik]

14. Ooh - I think I am qualified for that!

[Tuesday Afternoon]

20. yeah...fun, too

[SacredCow]

13. I think I'd stay in the same general field....

but I wouldn't mind moving back to the university research side of things, rather than the corporate world. Things there seem to be a little more laid back.

[drmeow]

85. Not in Research I institutions

Not anymore. Cut throat, greedy, and the politics are something else!

[auntAgonist]

15. Well let's see. I'm half-snapped now

Got laid off on friday. If I truly could walk into any job it would be Funeral Director.

Right now I'm just trying not to panic and hoping for the best.

aA
kesha

[crimsonblue]

19. I'm sorry...

that's no fun... but think of it as a new beginning.. why not go back and take a couple of classes or whatnot? :hug:

[auntAgonist]

22. I'd love to but

finances dictate that I need to work. Education is a luxury and I can't afford that.

[crimsonblue]

27. as my grandpa says...

the best investment you can make is in yourself. Plus, these days it is a lot easier to get scholarships as non-trad students (sorry if the assumption about your age is wrong). And 2, it would be fun to take something you were interested in, no? but I understand the finances thing. Here's hoping that you land on your feetsies quickly! :toast:

[auntAgonist]

38. scholarships are great but they don't put food on the table.

I'm 51 so yes, I suppose a non trad student. Fun is what you have when the essentials are looked after.

school isn't an option.

[crimsonblue]

17. ha. you imply I have chosen already.

You'd be wrong. :evilgrin:

[Dora]

21. Magazine publisher, or star of stage and screen.

I'm flexible like that.

[flvegan]

23. Billionaire playboy.

[Fran Kubelik]

25. Well duh.

I've been checking the monster.com listing every day looking for said job listing. I think they are all taken.

[Ivan Sputnik]

24. millionaire poet

Or a film reviewer with no deadlines. Something like that.

[Oeditpus Rex]

28. Sports statistician/historian

And when I say "sports," I mean baseball. :)

[Fran Kubelik]

29. That sounds awesome

:hi:

[Oeditpus Rex]

34. It is if you're a geek

Did you know that in 1965, Sandy Koufax allowed an average of 5.7914 hits per nine innings and his post-game ritual consisted of soaking his arthritic left arm (sleeved in a cut-down inner tube) in a bucket of ice for the time it took him to drink three beers?

:silly:

[Fran Kubelik]

67. are you sure?

I must be calculating wrong. I have 5.790884.

[Oeditpus Rex]

70. Yup

216 hits x 9 = 1,944

1,944 ÷ 335.67 innings = 5.7914022700866922870676557333095



:silly:

[Fran Kubelik]

71. OH!

I was using 335.7
Of course I should have realized they were rounding. ;)

[Oeditpus Rex]

74. If I were an überhauptsturmbannführergeek

I would've divided by 335.666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666...



:)

[KitchenWitch]

84. I think I would like to be the Official Scorekeeper!

:D

[Oeditpus Rex]

86. I'd love that job

If there were a minor league club near here, I'd campaign for it. Hell, I'd like to do it for the local Babe Ruth League, and put on a scorekeeping clinic for the team moms or whatever.

[Iggo]

30. Rock star.

[MrScorpio]

32. Travel show host

Yeah, baby!

[bertha katzenengel]

33. Forest ranger. n/t

[Oeditpus Rex]

37. Hey, how's it goin' with your guest?

How many times has he bumped his head on stuff? :D

[bertha katzenengel]

44. Oh, he's used to ducking.

He's a great guy. And he's got a win and two saves in 5 appearances (no losses, no blown saves).

:bounce:

[krispos42]

35. Mythbuster

Porn editor

Firearm tester/writer

Brush pilot

Police helicopter pilot

Part of the team that runs a "Warbird" and goes on national tours to airshows in old World War Two warplanes

[Jimbo S]

36. Male Gigolo

Never a dull moment.

[KitchenWitch]

39. Radio disc jockey

[Oeditpus Rex]

51. Nooooo!

Radio's a NASty business. :scared:

[MonkeyFunk]

40. door-to-door puppy tickler

or deck ballast on a yacht.

[PassingFair]

41. Marriage or addiction counselor.

I think I'd be good at it.

[DS1]

42. mafia finger snapper

[Guava Jelly]

43. I'd like to shovel pig shit

It would be a step up from my real job .:dunce:

[Juche]

45. Hmmm

Medical librarian

Billionaire philantropist who gives grant money to scientists working in nanotech, neurology, mental illness and biotechnology.

part time grad student

Someone who researches existing medical or scientific advances and brings them to the public's attention.

Something involved in Union organizing or fighting disease in the developing world.

[SPKrazy]

46. Meteorologist

study storms

[Fran Kubelik]

68. Ooh - that sounds fun.

Really. You should do that.

[baldguy]

47. A LION TAMER!

I've got my own hat.

[Bullwinkle925]

48. BE the POTUS. . .

if that is what it takes to get the rat bastard outta there!

[Kitty Herder]

49. I want to be a writer. But after years of not using that skill, I've lost my talent.

When I was in school, my teachers all the way from third-grade to college, praised my writing abilities. But I never wanted to do that as a career, because my mom, a newspaper editor, always told me being a writer was a good way to starve and go crazy at the same time.

Now, after years of disuse, I find that my writing just plain sucks ass. Even my grammar and spelling, which used be impeccable have gone to hell.

And of course, there's still that pesky need to make a decent living...

[CBHagman]

50. "You must not think so meanly of yourself."

Find out where I got that one from!

Seriously, though, you can still be a writer, even if you don't make a living at it. And I'll bet your writing is better than much of what I see out there...in fact, it looks as though there's proof that it's better.

[Kitty Herder]

52. Okay, I give.

I googled that phrase and found it in a book of modern Korean short stories and plays, but with no reference to which play or story it is in. At least not in English, and I don't speak Korean.

[CBHagman]

73. Okay, I'll talk.

I got the quotation slightly wrong, but it was in Emma Thompson's screenplay of Sense and Sensibility:

...do not think of yourself so meanly...



Good advice to a good character (I won't give that bit away). And it was a good screenplay, or at least the Academy thought so. ;-)

Anyway, I'm serious about the writing. Even if you do not make a living at it, even if you are critical of what you produce, you still have abilities and might want to pursue it. Besides, if actors, singers, and dancers all work on their art, why not writers?

Good luck, whatever path you take. :hi:

[Kitty Herder]

80. Thank you for your kind words.

You've been very encouraging.

[jakefrep]

53. Track photographer at Saratoga.

[eyesroll]

54. I did that two years ago!

I was tired of my job in trade publishing. There was no upward mobility (there was one other position between mine and the owner, and there were 10 people in the building more qualified than I to hold that position), and I had mentally checked out. The turning point was when my publisher was freaking out during a meeting: "HOW CAN WE CONVINCE THE ADVERTISERS THAT THIS IS IMPORTANT?!!?" "This" was a special advertising section. It dawned on me: "It's not important." If the entire trade-magazine industry ceased to exist, the world would keep turning. I wrote about cleaning, and tried to write from the point of view of being environmentally responsible and good gatekeepers of health and reasonable employers to low-skill workers...but at the end of the day, it was about filling the space between pages of vacuum ads.

I took my LSAT, started law school...I'm currently procrastinating on finishing my paper...but what I've done in law so far has been a great fit. I actually like law school, so I don't mind having to do that before I can be a "real lawyer."

Is school (culinary, accounting, art, whatever) an option for you?

[DarkTirade]

56. I wouldn't want to so much 'change my career' as I'd want to 'start my own damn business'.

And as long as it's a business where I get to be somewhat creative and make stuff, I'm happy. :)

[Mojambo]

57. HAM Radio operator somewhere far, far, far away. n/t

[fizzgig]

58. travel writer

or something similar

[BarenakedLady]

59. Gallery owner.

[JVS]

60. Brewmaster

[MAGICBULLET]

62. either a

DJ (no reggaeton, no requests period!)

a sidewalk surfer

or an anthropologist

[KamaAina]

63. NOLA rebuilding czar

there was a rumor a while back that the utterly ineffectual "Kaiser Ed" Blakely might be on his way out, having yet to put very many cranes in the sky.

http://adrastos.blog-city.com/kaiser_ed_resigning.htm

Alas, nothing as yet...

edit: caps

[datasuspect]

64. Official Female Shaving Inspector

[nuxvomica]

65. Roseanne Barr's ass-scratcher

I heard it's the highest paying job in the entertainment business.

[Rhiannon12866]

97. You don't have the stomach for it...

:puke:

[LiberalEsto]

66. Published novelist

no... make that published bestselling novelist

[Deja Q]

69. Cootie roadkill off the highway scraper?

I'd really rather be a photojournalist...

[Lydia Leftcoast]

72. Travel writer or transportation czarina of the United States

:-)

[femmocrat]

75. Philanthropist.

I would love to have bushels of $$$ to give to good causes.

[Inchworm]

76. Research Librarian

:hi:

[jojo54]

77. President. Period. End of story.

I would love to be able to tell the lobbyists and big business to shove it us their asses and, take away all the tax breaks & loopholes for the rich.

[drmeow]

87. Make that dictator and you could do it

as President the rest of Washington would crucify you.

[jmowreader]

78. Makeup artist for movies, or paramedical esthetics

I've done a LOT of "street" makeup, some corrective work and some glamour, but I've never done any special effects stuff--which looks to be the most fun kind.

No retail sales (commission selling of this product in Fayetteville is a sure way to starve to death, and it's not MUCH easier in a lot of other places) or wedding (can you say "Bridezilla"?) work for me, thanks.

Now, paramedical esthetics is really cool--you show people how to camouflage wounds, scars and other superficial disfigurements so people don't get that "oh, look at that poor fucked-up person" attitude.

[TommyO]

79. A world renowned architect

known for producing livable, sustainable housing for low to middle income people.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

81. Artist/musician/actress.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

82. Professional meditator

[harmonicon]

83. I wouldn't change

.... except that I'm done here in another two years. I should also have a Doctorate when I'm done, so that's awesome. If weren't for that, I'd do this same nothing forever. I never imagined someone would pay to do whatever the fuck I want. It totally rules, and even makes doing the paperwork worth it. When I do have a to change, I hope I can get something else in this field, though it honestly isn't very likely - the jobs are few and far between.

Is traveling ponderer a job? I think I would like that. I want to go to the Faroe Islands, Greenland, Svalbard, etc., just to ponder.

[drmeow]

89. Disregarding training

I'd like to try being a pilot (maybe not commercial, though).

If I'm restricted to my skills and training - I would love to be a combination program officer/grants manager/project coordinator type person for a foundation that funds psychosocial research ... read grant applications, make recommendations to the board of directors, work with grantees on managing and running the projects, review progress reports, etc. The flip side of my current job coin, so to speak.

I think the job I am starting right now (yes, I just got a new job and am transitioning out of my current job gradually) is going to be fantastic ... all the stuff I like about my current job without the stuff I hate.

At first I really loved the work I was doing at my current job but my bosses have gotten so unreasonable, so ambitious, and so generally obnoxious that I can't even stand to go in every morning.

Of course, what'd I really like is to be independently wealthy and only work when I want to.

[Duer 157099]

90. I'd change Steve Jobs for the Biblical Job

Does that count?

I think it'd be nice for the Old Testament Job to get a fair shake finally, don't you think?

[Richard Steele]

91. Batman. nm

[Monk06]

92. News anchor Ron Burgundy. "Keep it real San Diego!"

[Callalily]

93. Dive Master somewhere

in the Caribbean.

[RetroLounge]

94. I would keep my 2 jobs, but swap the salaries.

Then quit the day job and work the bookstore full time.

:hi:

RL

[joneschick]

95. can I get back to you on that?

I'm giving my 2 weeks notice later this morning. Anyone want to bankroll an up and coming layette designer? I want to do hemp and sustainable, USA produced. :hi:

[Blue_Tires]

96. F1 Driver, please

[chromotone]

98. University professor...

Tenured university professor.