Your dream or preferred occupation

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Besides the jobs or occupations you have had so far, which jobs or line of work would
you choose, if you could have them? Or just wishful thinking
I will start. a geologist in the Western states, working outdoors
Movie star in dramas. Or theatre.
Gynecologist maybe
Adviser to the President on higher education
 
Judging by my commitment to understanding medications and illness, it might be apparent I dreamed of a career in Medicine. Wasn't to be, though. At middle-age, as the technology blossomed, I realized Bio-Engineering would have been the thing! But, instead, I wound up working with machines, designing them, building, fixing.

At least I've never paid anyone to fix anything of ours that got busted! Ought to have saved a bundle of moolah, but did not. :(

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I was a wild land fire fighter for the forest service. Also worked in the lookout tower, and on the trail crew.

But I'm happy being what I am...a musician...not much money in it though....I just put some of my tunes in the WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO thread in the music section, to introduce myself.

Like one of my bumper stickers says...."I may be getting old, but I did get to see all the great bands." Not dead yet.
 
If I could know what I know now at 25...police officer or state trooper. A dream job now besides retired rock star...librarian. Or I'd be like Tia on Pitbulls and Parolees, that would weave the law enforcement thing in there and I'd be saving dogs too.
 
I've sat here and stared at the screen for a few minutes trying to figure out what I'd rather have done all my working life besides what I did and I can't think of a thing.
 
Ike, you are a lucky man, but I forget what you did before you retired, or maybe you never said. My husband also has spent his life doing what he wanted, carpentry and working on old cars.

My dream job would have been writing witty novels in a beautiful office with a big heavy door on it with 3 walls of bookshelfs and 1 wall of glass looking out on water and greenery.
 
I was a licensed embalmer and worked in the funeral business for 10 year before changing careers. My exposure to hundreds of autopsies during that time gave me a deep respect for pathology and interest in becoming a Pathologist.I went into Finance instead. Pathology would have required at least eight more years of college and I had a family to feed.
 
I believe it was Whoopi who said that working with the dead is surprisingly easy, they aren't going to complain...you can get rather creative.
 
My wife, then only 20 years old, accompanied by me, was required to provide positive identification of her dead Mother and Father, in the Cook County (Illinois) Morgue.

The experience, for me, was pretty nauseating, for her, I cannot even imagine. That experience convinced me that thinking of a Medical career was no longer such a great idea.
 
I had my dream jobs of teaching martial arts and being an OMD for most of my life, so I can't complain.

If the gods had been more generous I would like to have been an actor / stand-up comedian.

I went through phases in my life and actually held jobs in some of those phases - marine biology, research scientist, safety manager, chemist - but they never seemed to last, for whatever reason. I've owned several companies, done a lot of freelance work, worked as a bouncer several times ...

All in all, a colorful, varied life, not sorry for any of it, no regrets.

I now style myself as a gentleman of leisure, writing silly things on the 'Net. :eek:
 
fureverywhere said:
I believe it was Whoopi who said that working with the dead is surprisingly easy, they aren't going to complain...you can get rather creative.
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Lol! That's a good one, Fur. ;)

I'd like to be a hotel and restaurant reviewer in some tropical paradise.
 
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