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What is your ideal job?

  • 26-11-2009 11:34am
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,145 ✭✭✭


    I would love to be a photographer.....


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,443 ✭✭✭Fink Goddie


    WAG!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,115 ✭✭✭✭Nervous Wreck


    Musician/author.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 154 ✭✭morninwood


    banana ripener


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,813 ✭✭✭themadchef


    I suppose i'm one of the luck ones who can say i'm working in a job i love, with people i can depend on. Dream job? No, if you're working, you're doing exactly that, working. This job is a close to ideal as it gets for me.

    Also, for me it's not just the job, it's the people you work with. You can be deeply unhappy in a job that you actually like if your co workers are not very nice people.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 448 ✭✭jenny2hat


    Childrens dietician/nutritionist :)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 578 ✭✭✭Elba101


    themadchef wrote: »
    I suppose i'm one of the luck ones who can say i'm working in a job i love, with people i can depend on. Dream job? No, if you're working, you're doing exactly that, working. This job is a close to ideal as it gets for me.

    Also, for me it's not just the job, it's the people you work with. You can be deeply unhappy in a job that you actually like if your co workers are not very nice people.


    What do you do?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,443 ✭✭✭Fink Goddie


    Elba101 wrote: »
    What do you do?

    Think his name gives it away :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,385 ✭✭✭Jemmy


    Environmental Engineer, & continue my own part time photography work! :D


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,443 ✭✭✭Fink Goddie


    To be Rob Kearneys physiotherapist :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 19,183 ✭✭✭✭Will


    Still no clue. I like my current one ok but not something I wanna do for life.
    This weekend takin another step forward to see where my talents/interests are :)


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 458 ✭✭I_am_Jebus


    A State Trooper.

    More Particularly a Massachusetts State Trooper - Narcotics Division.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Race engineer for some form of globetrotting motorsport.

    I would have made a good GP too. I'm sorry I didn't appreciate that when I was younger.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 458 ✭✭I_am_Jebus


    Moonbaby wrote: »
    Race engineer for some form of globetrotting motorsport.

    I would have made a good GP too. I'm sorry I didn't appreciate that when I was younger.

    It's never too late.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,166 ✭✭✭Edgedinblue


    Tattoo artist


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 578 ✭✭✭Elba101


    Think his name gives it away :pac:

    I'm slow


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,883 ✭✭✭shellyboo


    Journalist! And I am one :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 458 ✭✭I_am_Jebus


    shellyboo wrote: »
    Journalist! And I am one :)

    ah lucky you, Living the dream. That's great


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,485 ✭✭✭✭Khannie


    I'd love to work for:

    1) The ESA (European Space Agency)
    2) The SETI institute (SETI uses real science to search for signs of intelligent life outside our solar system. i.e. it is not some "OMG, the UFO's are everywhere" load of bollix).
    3) A decent computer games company working on rendering engines or similar
    4) Run my own business. I have several ideas that I think could all be worthwhile, but financial stability is more important at the moment.
    5) If I were independently wealthy I'd love to devote myself full time to the Thai Boxing while I'm still young enough.
    6) If i were independently wealthy I'd contribute to / work on open source software. Would love to understand the linux kernel better and perhaps contribute to it.

    Holy sh*t I'm a total geek.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,883 ✭✭✭shellyboo


    I_am_Jebus wrote: »
    ah lucky you, Living the dream. That's great

    Ah not quite! But I'm on the right path :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,216 ✭✭✭✭monkeyfudge


    Monkey.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,385 ✭✭✭Jemmy


    Khannie wrote: »
    I'd love to work for:

    1) The ESA (European Space Agency)
    2) The SETI institute (SETI uses real science to search for signs of intelligent life outside our solar system. i.e. it is not some "OMG, the UFO's are everywhere" load of bollix).
    3) A decent computer games company working on rendering engines or similar
    4) Run my own business. I have several ideas that I think could all be worthwhile, but financial stability is more important at the moment.
    5) If I were independently wealthy I'd love to devote myself full time to the Thai Boxing while I'm still young enough.
    6) If i were independently wealthy I'd contribute to / work on open source software. Would love to understand the linux kernel better and perhaps contribute to it.

    Holy sh*t I'm a total geek.

    You'd be a busy man with all that! :p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,339 ✭✭✭How Strange


    Running a lodge style guest house somewhere in the country, not necessarily Ireland. Maybe Connemara, West Cork, South Kerry, Donegal or in France. I'd offer hiking, kayaking trips etc which the OH would run as a separate business.

    Oh I can dream :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 192 ✭✭Mr Yellow


    POLITICIAN (genuine & uncorrupted mind you) who could sort out this f**ked up country once & for all

    OR a pro motorcyclist...Rossi get used to looking at my back :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    Organ grinder.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,216 ✭✭✭✭monkeyfudge


    stovelid wrote: »
    Organ grinder.

    Awesome! We can go into business together!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,551 ✭✭✭panda100


    My ultimate dream job would be working at governmental level runnning campaigns for young people with mental health issues. Im very slowly working myself in that direction.

    Oh and I would love to be an actress.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,150 ✭✭✭✭Malari


    Mr Yellow wrote: »
    POLITICIAN (genuine & uncorrupted mind you) who could sort out this f**ked up country once & for all

    OR a pro motorcyclist...Rossi get used to looking at my back :D

    Cause you're always being lapped by him? :p

    Those are two diverse jobs. I was the same though. Thought I'd want to work in environmental/ecological arena, but as it turns out i just liked it as a hobby. Now I work in IT and I love it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,178 ✭✭✭✭NothingMan


    Top gear presenter, Wouldn't care about show quality though as long as I got to drive mad expensive cars and crash all the cheap ones in a game of car football i'd be happy.

    Realistically i'd love to open up a relaxed atmosphere venue bar in Dublin city. I'd love to have a stage set up constantly with stock equipment where acts could just get up and play without too much hassle. Lots of comfortable seating, cheap pool table and a reasonable priced pint. I'd work the bars on the quiter nights and hire some actual barmen for when it's busy! Dress code would be anything as long as you don't look like an arsehole, and by that I mean tracksuits and skinny jeans on guys!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,802 ✭✭✭beks101


    Best selling novelist / investigative journalist / documentary presenter...

    But I'd settle for the novelist part! I work in broadcast so I guess I'm not exactly in the wrong field

    But sometimes I think being a solicitor or accountant would be a better idea...


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  • Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 10,446 Mod ✭✭✭✭xzanti


    I'd love to be a Make-up artist.. did a course a few years back but never really followed it, it's too hard to get into and a friend of mine who's at it years is finding it near impossible to get work these days..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,739 ✭✭✭✭minidazzler


    What I would be good at: Psychologist. Maybe I will some day, who knows.

    What I would like to do: Actor, proper actor, either West-end, Broadway or Hollywood. None of this Irish film industry ****e.

    What I would love to do: Military. Too bad about these old eyes huh.

    Also some other thing's I would be good at.
    Writing really crap Mills and Boon books because I can write erotic literature surprizingly well :P.

    Security work, proper security. Though I am too lazy to get a PSA licence! :(

    Running my own company....I have Idea's they just haven't been put into motion yet.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,150 ✭✭✭✭Malari


    Also some other thing's I would be good at.
    Writing really crap Mills and Boon books because I can write erotic literature surprizingly well :P.

    :eek:

    Anything published? :p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,739 ✭✭✭✭minidazzler


    Malari wrote: »
    :eek:

    Anything published? :p

    No, no it's not. :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 610 ✭✭✭nialo


    love to be in a ski instructor during the winter and diving instructor during the summer, to live between the slopes and the sea, half and half!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,590 ✭✭✭Pigwidgeon


    My dream one was to be a radiographer, then to specialise in either MRI's or ultrasounds, I even got accepted to do it in Scotland this year, but after killing myself for the leaving I didn't get the grades to get in there or here.
    I'd also love to do music photography.

    At the moment though, all I know is I want to get involved in a job that's caring and deals with people. I'd go crazy at a desk job.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,115 ✭✭✭✭Nervous Wreck


    Running a lodge style guest house somewhere in the country, not necessarily Ireland. Maybe Connemara, West Cork, South Kerry, Donegal or in France. I'd offer hiking, kayaking trips etc which the OH would run as a separate business.

    Oh I can dream :)


    I love hearing when people have dreams like this. It's amazing to me that, no matter how many people want to get rich and famous etc, there's always people who wanna do things that actually matter to people on a personal level. It amazes me that, for every job that could be conceived of in the world, there's someone who wants to do it. From bin-man to politician, door-to-door salesman to actor, child psychologist to secondary school teacher. The diversity of people's personalities is immeasurable sometimes.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,713 ✭✭✭✭Novella


    Also some other thing's I would be good at.
    Writing really crap Mills and Boon books because I can write erotic literature surprizingly well :P.

    You're lying! :p
    Please don't kill me.


    I'd like to be an obstetrician!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,054 ✭✭✭✭Professey Chin


    Ninja but in reality I have the grace of a cabbage


    Besides that ive no idea......computers work for the moment


  • Hosted Moderators Posts: 13,425 ✭✭✭✭Ginny


    Forensic pathologist or forensic anthropologist
    Would have loved in some sort way with the Body Farm in the states in the labs.

    TBH I loved working in Neuroscience research, hopefully eventually I can go back at some stage.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,584 ✭✭✭✭Creamy Goodness


    for where i am now in my life i have my ideal job.

    my dream job would by to work in IT security and or computer forensics, use my skills to bring those mother fudging paedo's down.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,954 ✭✭✭✭Larianne


    Studying to finally get to do my dream job.... :) If it doesn't live up to my expectations.. I'd like to get paid to dance all day. That'd be cool.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,095 ✭✭✭✭omb0wyn5ehpij9


    I don't really have an ideal job, but I would love to be a rugby coach


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 30,731 ✭✭✭✭princess-lala


    Im doing it :D Im a hairdresser and love it :) Always said Id have my own salon and now I have it and can honestly say Ive never been happier :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,879 ✭✭✭Kya1976


    I love what I'm doing atm, dog trainer, Wouldn't wanna do anything else really.:)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,217 ✭✭✭pookie82


    To be Rob Kearneys physiotherapist :D

    Or Taylor Lautner's masseuse ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,850 ✭✭✭FouxDaFaFa


    That's a good question!

    I change my mind every day about what I want to do. I'll probably end being a writer of some kind, don't know in what field though.

    Occasionally I get an urge to do something random like work in a prison as a warden and kick some criminal ass. I think it's the batons that do it for me...:p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,739 ✭✭✭✭minidazzler


    FouxDaFaFa wrote: »

    Occasionally I get an urge to do something random like work in a prison as a warden and kick some criminal ass. I think it's the batons that do it for me...:p

    Yeah, you aren't allowed hurt them, and most wardens just wouldn't anyway unless they were attacked. Keep life simple for themselves!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,850 ✭✭✭FouxDaFaFa


    Yeah, you aren't allowed hurt them, and most wardens just wouldn't anyway unless they were attacked. Keep life simple for themselves!

    You've just crushed my dreams.:(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,477 ✭✭✭✭Raze_them_all


    FouxDaFaFa wrote: »
    That's a good question!

    I change my mind every day about what I want to do. I'll probably end being a writer of some kind, don't know in what field though.

    Occasionally I get an urge to do something random like work in a prison as a warden and kick some criminal ass. I think it's the batons that do it for me...:p
    Prison officers don't walk around with batons, they have to be issued and thats only when something serious kicks off with multiple people.

    I think it's happened twice in the last 10 years.


    Me?
    Body piercer.

    But that ain't going to happen so I'll take pe teacher


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,390 ✭✭✭Stench Blossoms


    IT support - but on site support. Hate dealing with people over the phone/email.


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