What's your dream job???

[gumOnShoe]

I know this seems like one of those "Where do you see yourself in 5 years?" kind of deals, but now that I'm actually out looking for a job all of this matters so much more to me I guess.

For me, I want to do something where I can be both extremely creative, self motivated, and bring home a paycheck. I thought I would originally do that by programming, but I'm having second thoughts now that I've seen the industry and the industry hasn't been to keen on hiring me.

I find myself now just looking for some open position somewhere at a place that I can tolerate so that I can bring home a check and save, yet on the sidelines actually make something I enjoy making.

I'd love to go into board game or card game design and I've started taking steps to do so. And I'd probably say at this point that being a Writer or designing games for a living would be my dream job.

What's yours? What have you thought in the past? What's made you change your mind?

Also, for the record, I'd love to travel to the stars too and fight aliens and stuff, but I find that's much less plausible.

[SKS]

Professonal Poker player(1st choice)/Graphic Designer/Artist//Musician

[Sexylegs]

BBS Mod.

Lol.

But, on a serious note, I'd love to be a musician. I mean, I can sing, I'm just not really going anywhere with it at the moment. It's quite sad actually.

[Skulsta]

A porn star.

[HungarianSupermarket]

I'd love to be able to make money from my photography. That would be my dream. But the reality is that I will probably get into advertising or graphic design making stuff for companies I don't really care about.

[HandsomePete]

Eh... I dunno, I'm in my field at least. I'm close to my dream job, even if it is the smallest-time version of it, and I work insane hours. I'm a director now, but I could always stand to work in a bigger market.

[rendan]

well im thinking something like a police detective I am pretty logical

[SuspiciousPenguin]

DJ/Actor/Stand-up/Game designer

[ThoseSneakyFrench]

I would love to be able to build custom computers for a living. It would be a business, and I'd own my own workshop and a store. Really, I'd just want prevent people from getting ripped off by name brands.

But they call these things "Dream Jobs" for a reason.

[Jonners]

I'd love to be an audio engineer. I am taking steps to do so aswell, by taking music GCSE and music tech. and music A-level. I'm an average guitarist, drummer and singer, and I can use a bit of audio-editting software quite well.

I think what I'd like about it is meeting bands, listening to their music and then helping them along. You never know, some bands could become famous because of me, who wouldn't love that feeling? Unless they're crap of course... Plus, if I started my own band, I'd be able to help us get further too. Later in in the career, I could get to meet bigger bands, famous ones, and that'd be awesome.

The more I think about it, the better it seems. But I kinda know it won't be like that...

[gizmo12345]

i want to program and code video games. i love gaming and ive got hundreds of ideal game ideas. if not that, then at least a networking or I.T. guy

[DrClay]

I have many dream Jobs. I guess I could say, I would want a job where I can get paid for doing what I enjoy, but I enjoy so many things.
Acting
Animating
Designing
I tried website programming, (HTML and some other thing, not this fancy stuff :P) but I found it too stressful.

I also always wanted to teach Flash, but it doesn't seem likely for that. Right now I am hoping my college will hire me, even as just a lab assistant for flash and such, but I found out that they might be getting rid of the flash course.... and its a volunteer course (gain no credits)
*sigh*

[TJoyal]

Professional Wrestler

seriously

[Sonik-Team]

If you have a portfolio you could try aiming for indie game companies, or even work freelance as a website developer.
I'd love to be an anime reviewer because I'd work overtime for free, but realistically I want to work in robotics or Artificial Intelligence because they interest me greatly.

[Scarab]

At 6/30/09 09:31 AM, gumOnShoe wrote: I thought I would originally do that by programming, but I'm having second thoughts now that I've seen the industry and the industry hasn't been to keen on hiring me.

That actually sounds pretty familiar. A few years ago, I was looking forward to a career in computing. I was being pretty basic about it, so I wasn't sure what I could specialise in, but I could see myself being creative and having a satisfactory pay check. I grew up with computers and looking at the time we're living in, I thought it would be prety ideal.

Then I saw the industry, if only briefly. I realised I wasn't enjoying it as much as I thought, and as I started to study a bit more, I became more depressed about it as time passed. I concluded I was being naive before, so I figured I needed to clear that part of life up a little. What actually happened is not so much a long story; it's more... dull if anything.

Anyway, I'd still love to do something creative. I want to keep building on my knowledge while I can, simply so I can understand how things work and possible to cover up my intense lack of experience. I would love to be paid to write creatively, or maybe even to talk about social ideas, or whatever. I think it would be great to get involved with film too. I'm a film-lover, I have ideas. Who knows, maybe I can make something out of that.

I don't really see good things coming at the moment. I'm twitchy about university, and probably even more so about what's coming after it. I say "probably" because honestly, I'm still not thinking straight. I think what I get will be far from my "dream job(s)", but I've got a few years of being idealistic left.

On that note, I'd love to be a professional time traveller. I want to find out who Jack The Ripper was, stop John Lennon from being killed, and annoy various medieval rulers by pretending to be a ghost.

[TheThirdSix]

Graphic designer or musician.

[norcemastero]

nuclear scientist bitch!

[shackles1]

Dildo factory janitor.

[zach8thorn]

mine would be me sitting at the computer on newgrounds doing nothing and making money

[Cybersief]

At 6/30/09 09:31 AM, gumOnShoe wrote: What's yours? What have you thought in the past? What's made you change your mind?

I used to want to be a graphic designer or an artist or something like that, I used to draw like crazy as a kid, and I was fucking good, not to sound like a show-off but I'm talented in art, but now I'm more into music and I'd love to be a musician at the moment.

[VinnyXY]

Maybe a policeman or something.