What is your dream job?

[Sansarya]

Because this forum looked lonely :)

Mine is Successful Yarn Shop Owner. :)

[Briana Dawson]

Breakfast Restaurant Owner.

[Phoenix Psaltery]

Breakfast Restaurant Owner.

Just breakfast?

I think I would have to say Film Producer, Record Producer, or Music Magazine Writer. Or maybe all three.

P2

[Circe Timtam]

Photojournalist.

[Brigid]

Proprietor of a Bed and Breakfast Inn

[Solanghe Sarlo]

Veterinarian (or) live in mgr of a resort in Belize or Fiji.

[Textured Surface]

Professional Ninja.

[Gabe Lippmann]

part-time yarn shop thug

[Sansarya]

part-time yarn shop thug

Knitters are armed, y'know ;)

http://www.madmuseum.org/~/media/SEE/archived%20exhibitions/radical%20lace/rad7.ashx

[Kristian]

Used bookstore and coffee shop owner.

[Northwest Portland]

Used coffee and bookstore owner.

[Kristian]

Eww.

[Northwest Portland]

Haha. Seriously though, my dream job is benevolent dictator of a small archipelago of technologically advanced self sustained artificial islands, dedicated to the advancement of humanity through science and ultimately, immortality for all who want it.

[Surreal]

One which pays my bills without destroying my mind or body.

[Briana Dawson]

Just breakfast?

I think I would have to say Film Producer, Record Producer, or Music Magazine Writer. Or maybe all three.

P2

The over head is lower, and Springfield, Illinois is really lacking in this area.

I make a slamming breakfast, vegetarian or non-vegetarian and have a special recipe for most things i make.

We already have over 15k in a 401k saved for it and plan on applying for bank loan sometime in 2011 once we have closer to 25k of our own money and we'll be using the house as collateral. :eek:

[Circe Timtam]

Used bookstore and coffee shop owner.

This is my second dream job...and far more realistic than my first.

[Briana Dawson]

One which pays my bills without destroying my mind or body.

This is a tough find.

[Circe Timtam]

The over head is lower, and Springfield, Illinois is really lacking in this area.

I make a slamming breakfast, vegetarian or non-vegetarian and have a special recipe for most things i make.

We already have over 15k in a 401k saved for it and plan on applying for bank loan sometime in 2011 once we have closer to 25k of our own money and we'll be using the house as collateral. :eek:

Rock. On.

:biggrin:

[Briana Dawson]

Haha. Seriously though, my dream job is benevolent dictator of a small archipelago of technologically advanced self sustained artificial islands, dedicated to the advancement of humanity through science and ultimately, immortality for all who want it.

i can haz home there?

[Eirik Haefnir]

My dream job would be self-sufficient farmer and craftsman. On an island completely off the grid. With no other humans within a 100 miles at the very least.

[Lily Joliat]

There's a guy in SF and he has a tv series and books out entitled Bay Area Backroads. He goes around and finds little towns and restaurants and sight sees, I don't know what job could be as pleasant.

[Siobhan Taylor]

Professional hedonist

[Sarah Nerd]

I've had different ideas through the years but they always revolve around me oning my own retail business. Just something that I could do and live comfortably and that my kids/mom/sister could do with me.

[Aimee Weber]

Sign me up for Idle "old money" aristocrat.

[Vivianne Draper]

For Sans:

http://www.sheepandwool.com/

[Kristian]

My dream job would be self-sufficient farmer and craftsman. On an island completely off the grid. With no other humans within a 100 miles at the very least.

This is an obvious choice for someone who enjoys Second Life and Internet Forums.

[Duke]

YouTube - Dancing Japanese Elvis impersonators

[Don Mill]

Pimp

:hug:

[Monna]

Mother Superior like anyone did not know that?

[Don Mill]

On a serious side: University Professor.

:hug:

[Eirik Haefnir]

This is an obvious choice for someone who enjoys Second Life and Internet Forums.

*shrugs* It's impossible to come anywhere near that dream, living in an oppressive social-democratic capitalist system. SL at least lets me act like I live on an isolated island. ^_^

[Kristian]

*shrugs* It's impossible to come anywhere near that dream, living in an oppressive social-democratic capitalist system. SL at least lets me act like I live on an isolated island. ^_^

If only Ted Kazinsky had had SL! :clapping:

[Eirik Haefnir]

If only Ted Kazinsky had had SL!Let it be noted I wasn't the first to bring up Kaczinsky. After the drama that happened when I quoted Timothy on SLU, I decided to stop flounting my support of revolutionaries on SL forums. :P

[GradyE]

Used coffee and bookstore owner.

Printesa can prolly help you with that. :)

Sign me up for Idle "old money" aristocrat.

You and me both sister.

Mother Superior like anyone did not know that?

Don't jump the gun.

[GradyE]

Let it be noted I wasn't the first to bring up Kaczinsky. After the drama that happened when I quoted Timothy on SLU, I decided to stop flounting my support of revolutionaries on SL forums. :P


That word, I do not think it means what you think it means.

http://www.affordablehousinginstitute.org/blogs/us/Princess_inigo_montoya_small.jpg

*helpfully suggests flouncing or flaunting. :)

[Lewis Luminos]

I'd like to be paid for doing absolutely nothing.

Failing that, I'd settle for a job that involves visiting pubs and restaurants and sampling their food and drink, to make sure it's up to standard. :-D

[Eirik Haefnir]

Thanks for the correction, I didn't know the correct spelling of the word. It was just a typo in my third language. Shit happens.

Love the picture. :p

[Kristian]

I'd like to be paid for doing absolutely nothing.

The Zen Corporation!

[juanamanuel]

I want to be azis' stylist and makeup person

[Phoenix Psaltery]

Used bookstore and coffee shop owner.

I could go for that too.

My dream job would be self-sufficient farmer and craftsman. On an island completely off the grid. With no other humans within a 100 miles at the very least.

You're such a people person.

Professional hedonist

So you're living the dream, huh.

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[Eirik Haefnir]

You're such a people person.

Why thank you :tacklehug:

[HEX BLACKTHORNE]

BEING A BURRITO TESTER

[GradyE]

unpaid second level mod to a rolling clusterfuck ball of a board made up of spitters, griefers, h8trs, nuns, nazis, nekos, gorean nazi furs, fappers, boozers, Scotsmen, pollyannas, fashionistas, wankers, bikers, cookie monsters, pie molesters, queens, imaginary monarchs, list h8trs, drugabusers, cake users, glados idolators, and Mulch.

:)

[Phoenix Psaltery]

unpaid second level mod to a rolling clusterfuck ball of a board made up of spitters, griefers, h8trs, nuns, nazis, nekos, gorean nazi furs, fappers, boozers, Scotsmen, pollyannas, fashionistas, wankers, bikers, cookie monsters, pie molesters, queens, imaginary monarchs, list h8trs, drugabusers, cake users, glados idolators, and Mulch.

:)

So you, too, are living the dream? :p

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[GradyE]

Or nightmare. Sometimes it's hard to tell the difference. :p

[Siobhan OFlynn]

part-time yarn shop thug

I can see the thread title now:

"Motherfuck, I got banned from a freakin yarn shop" :(

[Sansarya]

I can see the thread title now:

"Motherfuck, I got banned from a freakin yarn shop" :(

:lol:

[Aimee Weber]

I think if they ever brought back that show Insomniac, I would take Dave Attell's job in a heartbeat.

[Cindy Claveau]

unpaid second level mod to a rolling clusterfuck ball of a board made up of spitters, griefers, h8trs, nuns, nazis, nekos, gorean nazi furs, fappers, boozers, Scotsmen, pollyannas, fashionistas, wankers, bikers, cookie monsters, pie molesters, queens, imaginary monarchs, list h8trs, drugabusers, cake users, glados idolators, and Mulch.

:)

Shit. I think I fit about 8 of those categories.

I'm sorry :nerd:

[Cindy Claveau]

I'm living my dream right now. I sleep late in the mornings, I play around at 3d graphics software, answer the phone in my pajamas and take naps in the afternoon.

And once a month people send me checks for real money!

[GradyE]

I can see the thread title now:

"Motherfuck, I got banned from a freakin yarn shop" :(

motherfuck I want my nose back!!! :notworthy:

[GradyE]

Shit. I think I fit about 8 of those categories.

I'm sorry :nerd:

Don't be, it just means your home now. :msbouncy::cozy:

[Siobhan Taylor]

So you're living the dream, huh.


For very unusual definitions of the term perhaps. My rl job is the kind that makes :suicide: look appealing.

[Beezle Warburton]

I'll put in dibs on the coffee shop owner.

Has to be in an old-ass building, though.

[Io Zeno]

Effete artist, living in Italy, pumping out crap and having everyone kiss my ass as a genius.

[Morgan Genna]

Forum administrator or charge nurse in a psycho ward.

[Mordos Yering]

Some ill-paid and verbally abused part-time builder, scripter, and product tester in some buggy-ass overhyped glorified chat program . . .

No . . . wait . . .

Supreme Overlord.

With lots of dancing womens.

[GradyE]

Forum administrator or charge nurse in a psycho ward.

There's a difference?

[Northwest Portland]

i can haz home there?

Definitely, though I may have to insist you work in the diplomatic corps... you seem uniquely suited to negotiation (take no prisoners comes to mind ;) )

[Menchor Barbosa]

Sign me up for Idle "old money" aristocrat.

You live in Caledon??

[lordfly digeridoo]

Successful artist.

[matt the cat]

My dream is to own a little bookshop, or an art shop.

[Gabe Lippmann]

I want to own a book rental shop after I retire from being a yarn shop thug.

[Aldbaran Galicia]

http://dummr.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/funny-pictures-corporate-fat-cat-is-keeping-the-bonus-sm.jpg

[Eirik Haefnir]

a book rental shop

A library?

[Ursula Cinquetti]

I actually would like to work in a library.

[Osprey Therian]

Time traveller.

[Phoenix Psaltery]

Time traveller.

I thought that was merely your hobby.

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[Richard Waveington]

Professional Ninja.

Pretty much this too.

[Gabe Lippmann]

A library?

Don't be silly. I will have value added and hand made book covers.

[Elric Anatine]

Run an Otaku Cafe complete with anime viewings, library of manga & doujinshi, karaoke rooms, cosplay wait staff (have neko night, Goth loli night, butler night, maid night etc.), themed cosplay contests, gaming events, sundry events and of course... an attached shoppe of selected manga, doujinshi and character goods (that will require me to visit Tokyo on a regular basis for shopping and stocking said shoppe and cafe).

[Sansarya]

Run an Otaku Cafe complete with anime viewings, library of manga & doujinshi, karaoke rooms, cosplay wait staff (have neko night, Goth loli night, butler night, maid night etc.), themed cosplay contests, gaming events, sundry events and of course... an attached shoppe of selected manga, doujinshi and character goods (that will require me to visit Tokyo on a regular basis for shopping and stocking said shoppe and cafe).

I have two teenage daughters who would be future customers. ;)

[Mulch]

quality assurance tester for the national institute of young buxom fluffers and asian masseuses

[Elric Anatine]

I have two teenage daughters who would be future customers. ;)

It's certainly become a very popular hobby over the years and apart from cons and clubs, not much available for the young to "older" Otaku. If I ever won the lottery, this is precisely what I would do. /me chuckles and mumbles something about being too much of a geek at heart

[Eggy]

Sign me up for Idle "old money" aristocrat.

I seem to recall having asked for your hand in marriage a large number of times already.

[Lucifer Baphomet]

Forum administrator or charge nurse in a psycho ward.

Done both.

[juanamanuel]

I actually would like to work in a library.

:D

[Jen]

travel artist. Go places, paint and draw, write a little, and move on.

...then go home to my self-sustained/partially underground/passive-active solar home and see how the chickens are doing.

Matt could come with or stay home at his whim. Valentine too.


...oh, and teaching when I wasn't doing that.

[Seven]

Writing sitcoms.

[kita_dawg]

I like Jen's job :p

oooo hire meeee!!!

Have no clue what I want to do, and have been thinking about it a LOT lately. My thoughts on it are to do jobs that are artistic, to keep my brain in that mode, but not in an area that will kill my art baby. Advertising certainly would, as anything that has me pumping standardized mindless crap out 24/7.

I have had trouble trying to express such a job in words, and the closest job I have thought about is one that has been in the back of my mind for a while. Cake decorating (ironic about our convo, huh Sans? :p), but not just writing 'happy birthday' on birthday cakes. Somewhere with high end cakes, that requires me to think closely about the limited tools and materials at my disposal and make it happen. It is a challenge, a good kind for me. There is a definite goal at the end (which my art tends to lack, a major reason I have so much trouble starting/ finishing pieces...) and the path to that goal is pretty much up to me. The limitations of the tools and materials keep me on path, so I can't wander too far... but I think it allows me to wander far enough to satisfy day to day artistic craving, and certainly keep me thinking.

I just want to make enough for a small place on some land. Enough room for me to have a studio (like a 3 car garage is a perfect size) to do my own art and to live cozy with mai boi (but not too cozy... we would drive each other mad!). Animals always bring out the happy muse side of me too, which is why I need some land. A few horses, some dogs, a pot-bellied pig for the lulz, and a poo-flinging monkey for personal homeland security XD

okies, I am done now...

*scurries*

[Elora Lunasea]

Writing sitcoms.

I don't think that is so farfetched an idea, from what I've read from you thus far. Please, just write kindly of us when you do :goose:

[flavian]

Pope

[Phoenix Psaltery]

Animals always bring out the happy muse side of me too, which is why I need some land. A few horses, some dogs, a pot-bellied pig for the lulz, and a poo-flinging monkey for personal homeland security XD

But you already have Mulch.

:lol:

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[Monna]

Nun working on the FOod Network show.

[Sacralita Kurelek]

Dictator or archeology, which everyone I fall into. Used to want to be a geneticist, but was sick of getting crap for it.

[Kristian]

Trophy Husband.

[io Kukulcan]

matador

[Shagazm]

PRESIDENT of a fan club

[Lexxi]

cat, but then, I already am

[Textured Surface]

hmm... seriously? Probably a race bike test driver.

[Imnotgoing Sideways]

Knowing how it works and finding a billion ways to break it. (^_^)

... AKA Test Engineer. I love my toys. It's not a good week unless I've started at least one electrical fire. =^-^=

[kita_dawg]

Funny this thread got bumped when it did, cause I was just thinking about it and talking to Mulch about a dream job I forgot to mention.

I actually did mention it to Kendra too... probably only once... but I would love to do voice acting. I really enjoyed my bout in speech and debate team in high school... and I was pretty good at it :) I consistently performed better in the individual events that involved speeches than the actual debate events (though I never did badly in any event). Learning to recite things and make speeches was a very similar process to how I imagine voice acting to be. You have to be able to say something 10 distinct different ways, and be able to consistently say it those ways over and over.

Essentially, it is a job I would enjoy doing and I know I could become really good at. It also would be a way of living I could deal with. I would be independently contracted for work, work my ass off for a week, make enough to live off of for at least a month. That leaves plenty of time to work on whatever art project my little heart desires at the time. Sounds like a great life to me :)

So... anyone have any connections/ info on how to get started in voice acting? How do I put together a portfolio/ samples, who do I send them to, etc?

[Sarah Nerd]

My latest probably unreachable dream is to own and operate my own 2nd hand store.

[Bunnie]

That would totally rock Sarah. We used to have this totally amazing thrift store down the street that had all kinds of treasures. We used to go in there weekly just to browse, and we always came out with something.

It recently closed because of the economy. Now its an uppity gallery of some sort. We were bummed :(

[Susanne Pascale]

Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court...but wait!! I HATE Federal cases. OK, Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court.

Second choice - Romance novelist.

Third choice, and I actually had a shot at once but walked away, showgirl in an all drag revue.

Sooz

[Circe Timtam]

Anything that involves me being far, far away from everyone for the next 3 months?

Sorry, ueber stressed, nearing my breaking point and wanting to tear my hair out. Don't mind me.

[Forest]

Anything that involves me being far, far away from everyone for the next 3 months?

Sorry, ueber stressed, nearing my breaking point and wanting to tear my hair out. Don't mind me.

:hug: