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?
Data input - working from home 2 or 3 days a week.
MrsG said:Data input
Same. I love typing and the feeling of "getting stuff done" so that would tick a few boxes for me. I'm not sure if I'd eventually get too bored but I guess if the actual data inputting varied then that would be okay and I could put my music on at the same time..... :-)
I also LOVE doing end user documentation. I think its due to having such a hard time explaining myself IRL that it is also like unpacking something, but with that it's unpacking concepts into an explanatory document.
I spent about 5 years where part of my job was data cleaning. Massive data sets so had to use code because Excel couldn't handle it. I really liked it! We used Stata then, but everyone now uses R.
Yeah that's the same for me. I'd love it.
Some parts of my jobs that I really enjoy its data cleaning. The client will give us a (virtual) skip full of documents (believing them to be all in order) and I have to take, as long as it takes, to get them into a coherent structure that fits into their systems. Its like playing a game of low stakes detective work.