Published on 12, July, 2020
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?
My job is close to my dream job anyway. I conduct scientific research using complex maths and computer simulations attempting to understand and manipulate the ageing process.
If I wasn't doing research what would I like to do? Game development maybe. Political campaigning although that's hard to turn into a career unless you can get elected. I love anime so it would be great to have a go at making one but I doubt I'd have the patience for that process. I used to want to do urban missionary type work, shoulder to shoulder with the most needy of the inner city, helping drug addicts, the homeless etc, I always promised myself if I ever made any real money in life, you know the kind big time film stars and CEOs make, that I'd start doing something about the state of my home town and its deprivation.
Peter said:doing something about the state of my home town and its deprivation
I share this attitude also, it appears more of us do than I thought but never doubted
Peter said:you know the kind big time film stars and CEOs make, that I'd start doing something about the state of my home town and its deprivation.
That would be a great thing to do but I think the job you already do sounds very interesting and important.
also, are you from Slough?
super cool. i mean really. i think you have just about made it to be elevated to my third 'hero' on here. such a wicked, meaningful, and important job. wish i had talent like that.