Your Ideal Career

RighteousRob

Now when I say what is your ideal career I am not asking what is within your means. I know when I was younger I thought working the X-files as an FBI agent like Mulder would be awesome. Sadly reality has shattered those dreams of mine, and to avoid ending up in a rubber room in the psychiatric hospital I had to abandon my dreams of hunting down monsters and aliens. Still I think that would be an awesome job...

Anyways I guess my current dream job is to be an elite security consultant for computers. The type of guy that is paid to travel around the world and test the security installed on corporations offshore locations. While my schooling is preparing me for this I know it isn't very likely that I will ever become that good. There are kids half my age that can program circles around me. But still, I suppose I'm glad that I am able to at least pursue the job I want.

So what type of job would you really want? Maybe an astronaut? I think that would be pretty epic. I suppose we should try to keep this in the realm of reality. no space taxi-cab drivers, no headmaster at hogwarts (if only!) But don't limit it to what is within your means either.

Grey

A Queen. Of course, not the sort who waves her hand during major events and really has nothing to do with the influence of her 'queendom'. I'd love to be of the sort that ruled directly, decreeing laws and judging criminals. It's probably very old-fashioned, centuries so, but it's still a dream career.

Aerorobyn

My "dream career" changes very often - on average, once every month.

Right now, I would love to be in the entertainment industry - well-known and in the spotlight! An actress would be ideal, but I lets be realistic - that takes too much time and effort, so I would get bored with it if I didn't see immediate results of being a superstar.

Being as realistic as I can, my ideal career: I am my own boss (or, if not, very very minimal supervision), I am always sought after and receiving attention, people need me - they want me, I can travel a lot, I don't have to stay in one place for too long, it's fun and exciting - offers something new each day, I get to be around a lot of people and meet new people on a regular basis.

lateralus

What is Biophysics?

Outcode

I want to be a Jedi! but they aren't allowed to have wives... oh well I'll just go rogue and be a bounty hunter/jedi

Abuwabu

Aren't you already the queen of PC?


A fast jet pilot in the RAF was always a dream of mine - that would be fun, but really my dream career is to be retired with enough money so that I can sail the world, fly, spend time in the back-country, photograph, build boats, the list is endless.

Ventolin

Probably a full-time musician; disregarding the irregular salary and confidence deficiency.

I'd like to be a theorist or philosopher/writer also, although I'm not entirely sure what is required.

Essay

I'm torn between 1) Canadian/American diplomat to Brazil, or 2) Buddhist monk of the Theravada tradition.
Most likely result: 3) high school languages teacher or 4) social worker.

zwanglos

My ideal career is exactly what I'm working towards - a freelance translator of as many languages as possible :)

I want to be the guy that can just sit in a Starbucks all day while he whittles away at a giant document, translating it into a completely different language.

There would be difficult deadlines at times, to be sure, but I wouldn't actually have a boss, and nobody to really answer to. Just me and my dictionaries :D

DanseMacabre

My ideal career would be to write movie soundtracks to movies. I would have my own studio and get talented musicians in to perform my music ^_^ and then put it to film. Sigh. That would be amazing.

Either that, or a singer in a rock band that actually does well. I'm sick of everything on the radio sounding like the musical equivalent to lemon cordial, I want people to rediscover what real music is.

*fanatical smiling*