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What is your dream job ?

Post by frugal » Thu Jan 22, 2015 3:48 am

Hello,

I would like to know what is you prefered job or part-time that at the same time allows you to earn money.

Looking forward to read you.

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Post by lordmetroid » Thu Jan 22, 2015 12:13 pm

I had my dream job for the last four years as an in house production artist. It was fun and I learned a lot of useful and interesting skills, know-how and the ins and outs of the industry I worked in. Towards the end it started to get boring as there were less and less new things I needed to do.

I am now emplyeed in another dream job as an embedded system developer, programming and learning new interesting skills and know-how and the ins and outs of the industry I work in.

I am a very happy person.
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Post by Mountaineer » Thu Jan 22, 2015 1:13 pm

frugal wrote: Hello,

I would like to know what is you prefered job or part-time that at the same time allows you to earn money.

Looking forward to read you.

Regards!
For me, it is one in which I continue to learn and do new things, have the freedom to perform the job as I see fit (and know that I am responsible for and will reap the consequences thereof, good or bad, depending on how well I performed per agreed upon expectations) and have respectful and ethical coworkers, subordinates, and managers.  I was fortunate to work in a large company where this was the case, most of the time.

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Post by Libertarian666 » Thu Jan 22, 2015 1:25 pm

Working on my own software project that I create and own from start to finish.
That's my "side job" right now; if it turns out to be salable, then it may be my full-time job one of these days pretty soon.
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Post by Pet Hog » Thu Jan 22, 2015 2:38 pm

My dream job would be one where every ounce of effort I put into it would benefit me materially, physically, and spiritually, not just (or maybe even not at all) financially.  Ultimately, that means complete self-sufficiency and financial independence.  I would love to use permaculture techniques to live off the land, harvesting rainwater and sunlight to grow my own food.  Not quite homesteading, not quite farming.  Unfortunately, as a complete city slicker, I have developed few of the skills required for such a life, but we're talking about a dream job, right?

In the meantime, I'll just continue my dreary day job as a porn star.
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Post by WiseOne » Thu Jan 22, 2015 3:46 pm

I'd say my current job, minus the following:

- Administrators with high school diplomas who tell me I have to ask their permission to do anything more complicated than go to the bathroom.
- The endless array of federal regulations (Obamacare-related, HIPAA, etc) and medicolegal necessities
- The endless stream of "nastygrams" ("fill out this form/take this online course by next week or we will fire you!" kind of letters)
- The "Lake Wobegon" RVU system for evaluating job performance (deep pay cuts threatened for anyone who isn't above national average in amount billed/earned)
- The ability to work from home on occasion instead of having to put in "face time"

And a few nice things like a common work area for me & collaborators & students.

In other words, aside from a few minor annoyances I really do have one of the world's most awesome jobs...I count myself very lucky.
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Re: What is your dream job ?

Post by madbean » Fri Jan 23, 2015 8:42 am

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.
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Post by dualstow » Fri Jan 23, 2015 9:11 am

Good luck, madbean, I hope it comes true!

My dream job would probably be Tyler's job, industrial design, but for that I would need my dream brain. With that, I'd probably try everything out there: forest service, gas station attendant, etc., just to see what it feels like. And, I've got a friend from college who did just that.
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Post by Ad Orientem » Fri Jan 23, 2015 3:22 pm

Vice-President of the United States -$230k per annum + free housing and transportation for attending the occasional funeral.
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Post by Pointedstick » Fri Jan 23, 2015 4:20 pm

Ad Orientem wrote: Vice-President of the United States -$230k per annum + free housing and transportation for attending the occasional funeral.
And no real work to do, either! ::)
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Post by Mountaineer » Fri Jan 23, 2015 4:26 pm

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Ad Orientem wrote: Vice-President of the United States -$230k per annum + free housing and transportation for attending the occasional funeral.
And no real work to do, either! ::)
Would you sell your soul for the "privilege" of butt kissing?  Reminds me of the most trusted position in the King Henry VIII court - the Royal Butt Wiper (number 2 in the link).  http://listverse.com/2009/09/24/top-10- ... n-history/

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Post by Ad Orientem » Fri Jan 23, 2015 4:42 pm

Mountaineer wrote:
Pointedstick wrote:
Ad Orientem wrote: Vice-President of the United States -$230k per annum + free housing and transportation for attending the occasional funeral.
And no real work to do, either! ::)
Would you sell your soul for the "privilege" of butt kissing?  Reminds me of the most trusted position in the King Henry VIII court - the Royal Butt Wiper (number 2 in the link).  http://listverse.com/2009/09/24/top-10- ... n-history/

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The Vice Presidency does not strike me as a sell your soul kinda job, because you aren't really expected to do anything. Actually there really isn't much you CAN do. Or to put it in the context of my preferred form of government, think of it as being the second son of the King.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Post by frugal » Mon Mar 02, 2015 3:45 pm

dualstow wrote: Photobucket.
what is that?
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