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Re: What is your dream job ?

Post by WiseOne » Fri Jan 23, 2015 9:54 pm

madbean wrote: Cooking and cleaning house and otherwise playing "Mister Mom" while my younger wife continues to work.

Expecting this dream to come true when I retire in 23 months and 5 days.
Congrats in advance!  You'll have to let us know when you take the plunge.
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Re: What is your dream job ?

Post by MachineGhost » Sat Jan 24, 2015 4:43 pm

MangoMan wrote: What? No one wants to be a porn star?  ;D
The reality is not like the uber fantasy shown on the screen.  It's on demand, rote work.  None to little feeling.  Barely above prostitution (not that I have any experience with that!).
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Re: What is your dream job ?

Post by MachineGhost » Sat Jan 24, 2015 8:28 pm

MangoMan wrote: Yep. But probably 95% of the working world has a job that to them seems on demand and rote with no feeling. So if you gotta have a rote, on demand existence, it may as well be having sex. Unless of course, you can score that gig as the beer taste-tester.  8)
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Re: What is your dream job ?

Post by MachineGhost » Fri Jan 30, 2015 4:55 pm

I now think MangoMan secretly wants to be a porn star instead of a dentist.  ;)

[quote=http://www.paulgraham.com/work.html]It seemed curious that the same task could be painful to one person and pleasant to another, but I didn't realize at the time what this imbalance implied, because I wasn't looking for it. I didn't realize how hard it can be to decide what you should work on, and that you sometimes have to figure it out from subtle clues, like a detective solving a case in a mystery novel. So I bet it would help a lot of people to ask themselves about this explicitly. What seems like work to other people that doesn't seem like work to you?[/quote]
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Re: What is your dream job ?

Post by Tyler » Fri Jan 30, 2015 5:54 pm

MachineGhost wrote: Don't turn a hobby into a job.  It ruins it.
+1.  Turning a hobby into a job will be fun for a while.  Just be prepared for the moment when you inevitably start looking for new hobbies to escape from the dream job.

I've had the good fortune to work at a lot of fun places in an interesting industry.  I've come to the conclusion that there's no such thing as a dream job -- even the most amazing sounding job in theory always has tradeoffs.  Following my passion in product design eventually led me to what I would have considered my dream job had I seen a sneak preview in school, but in retrospect seeing how the sausage is made also kinda burned me out on my passion.

That's not all bad, though.  I find the idea that one should only have one hobby or passion in life to be quite limiting. 
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Post by Coffee » Sat Jan 31, 2015 12:06 am

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Re: What is your dream job ?

Post by Kriegsspiel » Sat Jan 31, 2015 5:57 am

I don't think female porn stars need fluffers, but if they do, I'm all over it! I don't think I'd like being an actual porn star because, if I'm being honest, I don't even like to piss in a urinal with some dude standing next to me.
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Kriegsspiel wrote: I don't think I'd like being an actual porn star because, if I'm being honest, I don't even like to piss in a urinal with some dude standing next to me.
Don't worry, I hear you only have to do that for German porn.  ;)
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Re: What is your dream job ?

Post by MachineGhost » Sat Jan 31, 2015 7:45 pm

Kriegsspiel wrote: I don't think female porn stars need fluffers, but if they do, I'm all over it! I don't think I'd like being an actual porn star because, if I'm being honest, I don't even like to piss in a urinal with some dude standing next to me.
I don't piss in urinals at all but this new feminazation trend in Europe to get men to sit down to pee is where I cross the line.
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Re: What is your dream job ?

Post by Pointedstick » Sat Jan 31, 2015 7:54 pm

MachineGhost wrote:
Kriegsspiel wrote: I don't think female porn stars need fluffers, but if they do, I'm all over it! I don't think I'd like being an actual porn star because, if I'm being honest, I don't even like to piss in a urinal with some dude standing next to me.
I don't piss in urinals at all but this new feminazation trend in Europe to get men to sit down to pee is where I cross the line.
In the name of equality, I propose that men get periods and women commit vastly more crimes.
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Re: What is your dream job ?

Post by frugal » Sun Feb 01, 2015 12:15 pm

I am Searching for Online job with above average income :

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Any ideas?

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Re: What is your dream job ?

Post by frugal » Mon Mar 02, 2015 3:45 pm

dualstow wrote: Photobucket.
what is that?
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Re: What is your dream job ?

Post by dualstow » Mon Mar 02, 2015 5:12 pm

frugal wrote:
dualstow wrote: Photobucket.
what is that?
It's just an image hosting site.  I thought you could use it since you ran into a hotlink issue above.
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Re: What is your dream job ?

Post by Tortoise » Mon Mar 02, 2015 9:31 pm

My dream job would be to be a college lecturer who earns about as much as I currently make as an engineer. Which isn't going to happen in the existing world.

No grant proposals, no publish-or-perish... just lecturing and creating educational software to supplement the lectures and help the students visualize the relevant concepts. Forty hours a week on average and no pressure to "produce" anything other than students who finish the course feeling confident that they've mastered the material and want to learn more about it. That would be my dream job.
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