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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  • Over the years I have had several jobs which at the time were my dream jobs. I worked as a chef, I enjoyed that very much. I worked for Childline which I found rewarding in so many ways. I worked for the police in the late 80s and in to the 90s and was lucky enough to get to drive the vauxhall senator, very good car especially if you were in a hurry which we often were! Currently though I am a registered nurse with the NHS and I have to say this is my favourite job of all. It's a bit more stressful because of corona but I do still enjoy it. It's nice to make a difference, and as a nurse I get to do that every day.

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  • Over the years I have had several jobs which at the time were my dream jobs. I worked as a chef, I enjoyed that very much. I worked for Childline which I found rewarding in so many ways. I worked for the police in the late 80s and in to the 90s and was lucky enough to get to drive the vauxhall senator, very good car especially if you were in a hurry which we often were! Currently though I am a registered nurse with the NHS and I have to say this is my favourite job of all. It's a bit more stressful because of corona but I do still enjoy it. It's nice to make a difference, and as a nurse I get to do that every day.

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