Awesome Jobs you wouldn't mind having
 

This is a thread for careers/jobs that might qualify as "dream jobs" but not necessarily jobs that you're aiming for/have. (like for me, I wouldn't write anything art-related as that is pretty much what I'm shooting for/my actual dream job) If that makes any sense at all.

Anyway, if doing art wasn't possible, I would love to be a professional musician. Not necessarily a rock star or anything, but professionally playing in an orchestra would be amazing. One of the biggest things I miss about high school is being able to play my instrument in the band. Playing on your own is all well and good, but it's only when you have all of the parts of a song does it start to really feel like a song.

I also think being an actress would be fun, whether a voice actress or live actress. I always liked to try out for plays and such in school, even though I never got any big roles, I think it would be something enjoyable.

So how about you guys?

Do they have to be possible?

Because Velociraptor Racing has always been my dream job

I'd love to be a voice actor, but I'm pretty sure that would be impossible, since my vocal range is pretty slim and I don't really have a voice that would rock the world. I mean, I could do a villain really well, but I'm not kidding myself in any way that I could break into the industry with absolutely no formal education in drama.

Short of that, I do have some games I'd like to maybe see made one day, which is more plausible, but in all likelihood, I'm not going to become a lead programmer anytime soon, either. Especially because parts of my ideas have been done before and I doubt my stories are going to win any prizes. What I really have to offer are ideas for game mechanics. Some of them actually stem FROM the stories, but there are likely just more solid proposals out there.

Barring even that, I do have some old stories that used to be super important to me. My priorities have recently shifted away from working on them, but to be able to finish one and have it not be crap would be great, and to publish it would be even better.

Totally a Game Tester.

Oooooooooooooh wait~ <3

I wouldn't mind being a voice actor, either. Apparently I have a voice for radio, providing a voice for some dude on tv can't be that much of a stretch. I am a bit of a monotone though, so who knows!

The only other thing I can really think of is a cop. It's actually kind of my backup plan in case teaching doesn't pan out, so we'll see how that goes. I'm not sure why, I've never been very aggressive or outgoing. But people change, I suppose.

Rub it in, jerk. :(

I would like to be paid for existing, but I think we're all in line for a job like that.

There was this old career aptitude test that asked what you would do if you had a million dollars.

My answer was always to write, paint, read, listen to music, play on the internet, garden, act, sing, and raise children. I can now add "baking" to that list.

Unfortunately, none of those answers adds up to a solid career, other than perhaps being an archive librarian who has kids, brings in baked goods every now and then, sings in church, acts in community theater, has an awesome garden, and creates some nice watercolors.

I'm going to add to the voice actor pile, with the extra info that it was my dream since before I was in school and learned the name Billy West from Ren and Stimpy. That cartoon made me want to work in cartoons, and voice acting, at the time, seemed like the thing I could have the most fun with. I dropped my dream when I learned in, like, middle school that there's almost no steady work for a VA. That was a really stupid thing to do, looking back. I almost have a useless degree that will cement my joblessness anyway; I may as well have gotten a similar degree while chasing a dream.

So, voice acting, specifically for cartoons. Or be born into more money than god; that's a good one for an aimless alcoholic.

Wound T-Rex's and Stegosaurs be the monster trucks of this world? 'Cause I'd be all over that.

At the moment I'd really like to be able to make pinatas professionally, but that might be more because of my recent activities and enjoyment of working with my hands than any real motivation for making pinatas. I'm fairly certain I'll end up behind a desk somewhere, so my dream job would have to be something where I'm decidedly not behind a desk. I like working with animals. With these thoughts in mind I'd have to say:

Veterinarian or Old fashioned blacksmith. Not the violent kind, the guy who made farm implements and shod horses back in the day. Maybe a farrier?

Oh, oh, I have another vague dream: I'd like to work in something where I can wear a t-shirt and still be taken seriously. I don't think there's anything like that, but, man, I don't like to wear stuff that isn't a t-shirt and jeans. I'm just a slob like that.

I'll throw my hat onto the voice actor pile. I think it would be awesome to voice some anime, watch my character on tv, go to conventions and all that.

Also, my dream job is to work for Marvel comics as an inker.

I'd love to work at Wizards of the Coast, making D&D stuff. Sadly, I haven't a clue how to actually DO that.

Or, it would be cool to get a job as an actor or something like that. Or a professional con-artist.

Space Delivery Guy, even if my boss ended up being my insane great-great-grand nephew.

A reasonable part of me would like to be a professional chef. Which is kinda strange considering that up until a few months ago I had no interest in any food I wasn't immediately eating, and I myself am a very light eater.

Frankly, if I could make a living off of writing, that would be good enough for me. However, that would also take talent, so I guess that's out.

That said, assuming I had a lick of talent, I think it would be fun to be a concept artist for movies/video games/whatever. I don't know why...it just seems like it would be fun to come up with a concept, then flesh it out until you finally see it in it's full glory.

Getting a job in film-making would be awesome.

I would also get a kick out of being a paranormal investigator.

I recently had to listen to a story/interview on NPR where Ryan McDonough, spokesman for a liquor company who appeared on their commercials and spent several years simply going to parties put on by the company on weekends and getting drunk and acting wild and going generally crazy in an attempt to increase sales of the liquor (he was called ____ Man, I forget what the liquor was). He said that he was having drinking problems and is now a recovering alcoholic, and is going to start doing commercials for Panasonic shavers because being near all that booze and partying is ruining his life.

It's hard to feel bad for him. I'd take his job any day, even if it led to liver failure. Actually, it's been made clear that he technically didn't have to get drunk to increase sales, just act crazy and wild like he was drunk, which was what he was doing up until quitting. I mean, talk about the dream job and he just quits it. It's really quite unfortunate he was an alcoholic, though I guess maybe the job made him into one...

...still hard to feel sorry.

Hmm, there are outlandish ones that would rock.
 

Mythbuster

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Or at least Dirty Jobs!

Get a job in academia. The sloppier dressers are usually the higher ups. Like seriously. At all universities I've worked anyway.

I'd like to be a rainbow painter. Because rainbows are cool and painting them would be awesome. Like that's all I would paint, all day.

Has King of all Cosmo's been taken yet. I totally dig those pants.

In all seriousness, I would like to be a successful writer and run my own Indie animation/comic studio.

Mercenary.
Bounty hunter.
Hitman assassin.

Any of those really.

No, sorry. I don't like to shoot feces out of a chicken.

I really want to say masked adventurer, but... well, non-fictional documentary film star would be pretty sweet as well. Getting paid to have people make movies about my life? Sign me up, and keep the camera rolling as I do so!

EDIT: Whoa, yeah. Mythbuster too. RT, you are forgiven for trapping me on TVtropes for 5 hours with your link in the CTDS thread.

webcomic author/artest...Easy work anyone can look it up i have many fantastic ideas and even with my artest block i would still produce more comics then GWTBW and VGcats

a conscious. Think about it. wouldn't it be funny to be the devil! or rewarding to be the angel? its a weird job but some one has to do it (and has been a lack of them lately)

computer technician. High in demand. Easy work (for me anyway). YOU CAN ASK YOUR PRICE! If you get to them faster!

The super smart tech guy in almost every comic book or action movie (they are never in danger and they get to play around with cool stuff!

OH and every nerds dream job. Video game developer! (i dont sleep anyways)

A few dream jobs come to my mind. The first thing that comes to my mind is engineering quantum computers. That would be pretty nifty. Another thing I'd like to do is video game AI development. Either of those jobs would I would love to have though they probably won't happen.

I'll probably end up as an engineer. An electrical engineer who designs computer chips is probably about what I'm aiming for right now. Pretty much anything dealing with advanced aspects of computers would be my cup of tea.

Hate to break it to you, but IIRC, we're already to the point where our computers are designed by other computers. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong about this. :sweatdrop

As for writing A.I., you wouldn't happen to have any knowledge of it quite yet, would you? It would be totally great to not have to fall back on cycling through a pattern for my current game projects, even PoC (although it would be appropriate). I've got all the other math worked out pretty well, but I know next to nothing about writing any kind of useful A.I. that doesn't rely on a pattern or simply randomizing actions. For my grid-based tactical battle project, I'd really like to make enemy units move and act intelligently, regardless of how much code it takes. For PoC, the A.I. would be less apparent, but it would be more satisfying to have it in a more intelligent form.

I believe that this is already my current job. I sit and I get paid. All I have to do is make sure that my existence is at a certain place at certain times during the week. Yes, I am a "security guard" of sorts in my own dormitory. Although, our formal title is "Desk Assistant".

As for my dream job? having enough money to live off the interest.

Well he mentioned quantum computing which is still totally under research. I know a few people working on it and I'm reasonably sure they are not computers.

That's what they want you to think! They're all really cyborgs sent back by Skynet to accelerate the advent of Judgement Day.

That seems unneccesarily complicated.