Beautiful Occupation

[subterranean]

Inspired by Travis's song


What do you consider as the most exicting job/occupation in this world?
An occupation you wish you could/already have...

A writer (esp thriller, sci-fi, adventure writer) is on top of my list,
A Musician is at the second place
and the last is a Biologist...esp Marine Biologist


Cheers

[amuse]

i think it would be totally cool to be a pirate, or failing that, a research scientist. i would like to see a small, sophisticated, perfect machine that could pick up someone's vibrations (sonar, as opposed to electrical currents), and compare any disparity anywhere in their bodies with the optimal tonal vibrations of health, thereby diagnosing, and ultimately (via sound) curing them of disease. :) this seemed like a wonderful idea but when i broached it to my anatomy instructor, i found out it wasn't new; they are working on something similar in the former soviet union. still...it would be so cool to heal and be paid to ask questions.

[baddad]

Anything in the Fine Arts. The power to make people 'feel' with only an artistically rendered representation of life, a sculpture, a painting, a story, a song..... the ability to give an everlasting new 'beauty' to the world.....wowzerrrrr!! That would be just too cool!!!!

[Isagel]

Secretly I always wanted to be a dancer.

[crisaor]

Writer. Master of the Universe. Whichever comes first. :p

[Nemerov]

Fiction editor

[Kiwi Shelf]

Journalist or book reviewer...

[ajoe]

My realistic dream job is a dentist. (My parents also have something to do with it, I gotta admit.)

But I always think it would be cool to be:
1) A farmer in the countryside who works with animals most of the day. (I'll ignore the part where she has to butcher some of the animals.)
2) A circus member who lives in a caravan. (I don't know where I should be getting the mail though.)
3) A detective who can solve everything a la Sherlock Holmes. (Too bad murders freak me out.)
4) A traveler like that boy in Pokemon who spends most of her time in the jungle. (Unfortunately, I'd most likely die when I meet a poisonous snake and/or a tiger/wolf/coyote/hyeena/etc.)

Geez, I hate the 21st century; it only wrecks my dreams.

[ajoe]

O ya, wait. A few realistic jobs I somewhat wish I could have but can't due to lack of talent/effort:

1) A writer (like everybody else in this forum ;)). But my last writing teacher left an impression on me that term papers are the most horrible thing that can happen to you in college. And my grammar was getting worse with each passing day in that class for some reason.
2) A manga artist. (Only that would require me to move to Japan and it would take awhile to learn all about Japanese culture before I could create a story that takes place in Japan.)
3) A guitarist/songwriter. (The only song I can play well is "Humpty Dumpty." No, wait, I lied, I can also play "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.")

Yea, I think that's all.

[Koa]

Journalist or book reviewer...

I'd second that I think... It used to be my dream to be a journalist...
Or music journalist, or sport journalist...

Or translator, it must be enormously satisfying but also incredibly hard. (and me is lazy...!)

[verybaddmom]

dream job?
working in a greenhouse with plants all day: growing, trimming, planting, feeding, talking.....etc
of course i considered once opening a greenhouse of my own, as i have a pretty green thumb. the problem is that i've seen owners get so wrapped up in the paperwork and details of administration that the staff ends up doing all the work and the owner never gets dirt under his/her fingernails. that's not for me at all
i guess second best would be investigative journalism. i started a research paper once on genetically modified foods and ended up writing this spectacular article on "MONSANTO": the big bad biotech company slowing taking over the world like cancer. i got so much out of telling people about it and making people aware. just because the average citizen doesnt know about it doesnt mean they shouldnt.

[Monica]

apart from short story writer :) photographer, astronomer or translator. the middle ones aren't possible because in photography you need to know some chemistry and in astronomy physics and I hate both those subjects.

[subterranean]

O ya, wait. A few realistic jobs I somewhat wish I could have but can't due to lack of talent/effort:

2) A manga artist. (Only that would require me to move to Japan and it would take awhile to learn all about Japanese culture before I could create a story that takes place in Japan.)


Yea, I think that's all.


a manga artist..? what is that?
I think a Kabuki player is also somewhat interesting...


i guess second best would be investigative journalism. i started a research paper once on genetically modified foods and ended up writing this spectacular article on "MONSANTO": the big bad biotech company slowing taking over the world like cancer. i got so much out of telling people about it and making people aware. just because the average citizen doesnt know about it doesnt mean they shouldnt.

I think many farmers in India and latin america somewhat already aware about this Monsanto monster..anyway..an investigative journalist sounds cool..a secret agent in its own way...

Cheers

[subterranean]

Writer. Master of the Universe. Whichever comes first. :p

sounds powerfull enough, but all of my life i never had the passion to be a master of anything,,well beside a taichi master..

[simon]

Oh the options of employment are endless: toy tester where I can expertly decapitate barbie and put her and Ken through various mutilations, goat herding where I can sell goat cheese on ebay from my cave in the alps, or theres always expert knife thrower or becoming the first woman to turn into an octopus. And of course the major of Greek and Roman studies is bound to help me in any of these various arenas.

But practically speaking my future probably holds dishwashing in the back of a greasy resteraunt where I spend dull moments turning forks and spoons into enemy submarines or else having the job of plant waterer around the city like the mexican immigrants and getting to hold up traffic and shoot long streams of water at cars passing by.

Anythings possible, I beleive you could become the master of the universe Crisaor, but if that time does come, will you place me on an island filled with books and goats and knives?

[baddad]

If Crisaor or anyone else becomes "Master of The Universe', I would like to be forgotten, a mote of dust merrily blown along the winds of existence and with little to answer for, happy in my wayward travels and travales, unseen and therefore seemingly unimportant to the god, and more likely safe from devastating whims...

[simon]

But whims add fun and laughter to life, your asking for death.

[Taliesin]

I'd really like to write and/or compose for living. But I should have some other job too, in case (this has probably the probability of 99%) it does not make any money. And what that other job shall be- I do not know. If I had better nerves, then maybe a journalist, who writes articles (a columnist?) But then my imagination gives me this situation when tomorrow is the deadline and I cannot think of anything to write. Brrrr.

Oh, yes and there is a Chinese (?) proverb: "If you want to be happy for a day, get drunk. If you want to be happy for some weeks, marry. But if you want to be happy for your whole life, become a gardener."

But you don't get paid for gardening, so it would be more like a hobby.

[crisaor]

Anythings possible, I beleive you could become the master of the universe Crisaor, but if that time does come, will you place me on an island filled with books and goats and knives?
Sure. But you'd have to ask nicely. :p

If Crisaor or anyone else becomes "Master of The Universe', I would like to be forgotten, a mote of dust merrily blown along the winds of existence and with little to answer for, happy in my wayward travels and travales, unseen and therefore seemingly unimportant to the god, and more likely safe from devastating whims...
Like simon said, it seems you're asking for an unliving experience. Considering what little we know of that, your wish might be granted after all, who knows?

[baddad]

LOL......asking for death? Interesting interpretation I'm sure, but what I'm asking is to avoid dominance of a force blind to everything but its own ambition............or maybe I did not make that too clear the first time..............

[Koa]

But you don't get paid for gardening, so it would be more like a hobby.

Taliesin, I think gardening exists as a job, I think I've even heard about a school for that... I mean I guess that there are people that want a cool garden and pay someone for it... Oh and big public gardens too...

[poehee99]

if i were to win the lotery i'd just be in university until the day i die.
just doing research and discussing your findings, maybe even a scientific breakthrough of some sort.

[Koa]

good point pohee!!! i'd be a student all my life if i could!!!

[verybaddmom]

Taliesin, I think gardening exists as a job, I think I've even heard about a school for that... I mean I guess that there are people that want a cool garden and pay someone for it... Oh and big public gardens too...

yes there are careers to be made from gardening. the diploma is called "horticultural science" and/or "landscape design"
there are many more, but that's what i took, along with "integrated pest management"
frankly, there is NO money in this trade, unless you are in the right neck of the woods. where i was living after i completed it (in the rocky mountains, literally) i couldnt find a job with that certification to save my soul.
and as i posted above, more often than not, when you open a greenhouse yourself, you end up so absorbed in the admin end of things that you rarely ever get dirt under your nails.
that was not what i wanted out of that career. i need more fulfillment than that.

[Pickles]

My idea of a dream job?
Well I have no idea how I'd make it pay but I'd like to train all day,
be massaged by attractive yet girthy women. Eat , sleep, wake up and do it again.


Of course I'd have to work in interesting things to learn and recreational reading into the schedule.

The ideal is problematic for me.

[seeker]

I do not know what the dream job would be, but do have a dream I am pursueing.

I want to be a dental hygenist in the United States, preferably on a coast with a nice place to surf. I will save up money and every summer i will go to wither the Dominican Republic, Guatemala or Costa Rica to work with the missionaries there to help improve their standards of living and to catch some waves.

Eventually I hope to retire to one of these countries and shape surfboards and sell them for cheap or give them away to the kids there. So i guess my dream job would be shaping surfboards and helping undderprivilaged kids. That is what I am aiming for.

†
pura vida

[simon]

Sad how money is the key to your dreams. No matter how you look at it money must be made first, then used in order to persue the dream, be it helping underprivledged kids or shaping surfboards. Money as Eliza Minelle sings, "makes the world go round".