Dream jobs

I understand that many of us do not have jobs, and I know that those who do (myself included here) struggle a lot with them. This got me wondering about what dream job(s) we can think of, or even hope to do one day. It may be inspiring and help some of us find something that allows forum users to get a job or get a better-suited job.

I will put down some thoughts to get the ball rolling. My main priority is to be away from an office or busy environment.

1) work from home permanently doing some kind of PAYE employment for salary certainty. this would ideally just be for 2-3 days a week. if money was not a constraint then I would not do this work at all, and I would do something more fun like a gardening job in the summer, maybe become a landscape garden designer, write novels and short stories professionally.

2) design board games 1-2 days a week.

3) volunteer at a charity in a non customer-facing role 1 day a week.

4) maybe a part-time bike mechanic and/or frame builder 1 day a week. i can't afford the training costs and time needed to get the qualifications to do these things now but maybe in the future.

A 'portfolio' career is my ideal because I can get bored doing the same thing and this also allows me to think in terms of escapes - when things get too much doing job X I can flee to safety with job Y. I think this mental trick would be very beneficial for me.

How about you?

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  • CB,

    Everything you have written is things I have thought of and would like to do.  Other thoughts on this subject are:

    1. Being a public speaker on mental health issues/autism.
    2. Anything to do with caring for animals except that I am allergic.
    3. Being a counsellor as long as I had support for any triggering topics.
    4. Organising and categorising things.  I LOVE filling things but often these types of jobs pull me in too many other directions so are too overwhelming.
    5. Artist/poet/musician.  I do all of these things but making them into a career would cause too much pressure for me to do it all perfectly.
    6. Phlebotomist.  I love getting blood taken and helping others but I'd have to retrain and then risk not being able to handle the people in any given working environment or the place itself (sensory wise).

    This has been a successful exercise for me because work is a trigger to making me feel tearful and self loathing because of my struggles to maintain jobs.....

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  • CB,

    Everything you have written is things I have thought of and would like to do.  Other thoughts on this subject are:

    1. Being a public speaker on mental health issues/autism.
    2. Anything to do with caring for animals except that I am allergic.
    3. Being a counsellor as long as I had support for any triggering topics.
    4. Organising and categorising things.  I LOVE filling things but often these types of jobs pull me in too many other directions so are too overwhelming.
    5. Artist/poet/musician.  I do all of these things but making them into a career would cause too much pressure for me to do it all perfectly.
    6. Phlebotomist.  I love getting blood taken and helping others but I'd have to retrain and then risk not being able to handle the people in any given working environment or the place itself (sensory wise).

    This has been a successful exercise for me because work is a trigger to making me feel tearful and self loathing because of my struggles to maintain jobs.....

Children
  • Anything to do with caring for animals except that I am allergic.

    is that all animals? just mammals, creatures with hair, what about fish, reptiles etc. if reptiles are OK I suppose you could combine 2 and 3 by being a counsellor specialising in helping politicians.