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whats your dream job?

  • 01-10-2013 11:25AM
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,189 ✭✭✭


    And why aren't you doing it?

    Mine reason for not becoming an airline pilot was the lack of money (or at least the fear of debt and/or failure)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,779 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    drdeadlift wrote: »
    And why aren't you doing it?

    Mine reason for not becoming an airline pilot was the lack of money (or at least the fear of debt and/or failure)

    What makes you think I'm not doing it?

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,189 ✭✭✭drdeadlift


    What makes you think I'm not doing it?

    Maybe the thread isnt for you.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 23,646 ✭✭✭✭qo2cj1dsne8y4k


    Professional bed tester


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,563 ✭✭✭dd972


    A Premiership Footballer / Rock Star / Russell Brand



    then I woke up :mad:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,204 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    I want to do Jeremy Clarkson's job during the day, and A.A. Gill's in the evening. :cool:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,779 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    drdeadlift wrote: »
    Maybe the thread isnt for you.

    It's Ah - thread is for EVERYbody!

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,671 ✭✭✭BraziliaNZ


    Paedophile catcher


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,189 ✭✭✭drdeadlift


    It's Ah - thread is for EVERYbody!

    But you of course have a dream job.You dont sound too content tho


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 15,676 ✭✭✭✭herisson


    A curator in a museum. Didn't get the grade I needed in my undergrad so I'm doing my second choice.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,706 ✭✭✭sadie06


    I'm a singer, and without a doubt, my dream job would have been to make a living from performing my own material.

    There are many reasons I'm not doing it. Firstly, I suffer ridiculously with stage fright. It never gets any easier for me, and it's just not worth it.

    Secondly, I really don't have the stamina for the touring lifestyle. I've done a little of it (not as a front woman), and I nearly keeled over from tiredness.

    Lastly, and probably the main reason, when I was "discovered" by a few labels many years ago, they all got the jitters and "undiscovered" me when push came to shove. Maybe they sensed all of the above! :)


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,901 ✭✭✭Howard Juneau


    Pro surfer
    I've always wanted to be called "The Big Kahuna" brah


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,844 ✭✭✭Honey-ec


    Proofreader/copy editor. Indulging my inner grammar Nazi and getting paid for it? Bliss.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,349 ✭✭✭✭starlit


    Something to do with I.T :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,779 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    drdeadlift wrote: »
    But you of course have a dream job.You dont sound too content tho

    What makes you think I am doing my dream job...?! :D

    I should clarify: I have two part time jobs - one's a pain in the ass (call center donkey) the other is quiet enjoyable (sports statistician/online scoreboard operator).

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,787 ✭✭✭hallo dare


    Porn star.:D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,901 ✭✭✭Howard Juneau


    hallo dare wrote: »
    Porn star.:D

    You'd make a great "fluffer"


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,318 ✭✭✭✭Menas


    I used to play a lot of video games and then got a job testing them. I thought it would be feckin brilliant- my dream job.
    It wasn't. Boring as fck. I lasted 2 weeks.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,967 ✭✭✭✭Zulu


    Either an artist or a vet.
    Because there's no money in one, and I couldn't get 6billion points in the leaving for the other.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,787 ✭✭✭hallo dare


    You'd make a great "fluffer"

    Funny, i don't remember working with you. :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,901 ✭✭✭Howard Juneau


    hallo dare wrote: »
    Funny, i don't remember working with you. :D

    You never looked me in the face, only ever looked me in the eye..
    :)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,060 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Boards.ie moderator.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,564 ✭✭✭✭whiskeyman


    I sure as hell aren't going to mention the 'jobs' I do in my dreams here.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,901 ✭✭✭Howard Juneau


    My dream job would be about 14" long & block the loo in Coppers


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,111 ✭✭✭RikkFlair


    A simpleton priest on a strange island who likes rollerblading and never has to say mass.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,425 ✭✭✭MonstaMash


    Beer taster :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,251 ✭✭✭Ray Palmer


    I used to play a lot of video games and then got a job testing them. I thought it would be feckin brilliant- my dream job.
    It wasn't. Boring as fck. I lasted 2 weeks.

    I met a friend's kid saying how they would love this. Told him the harsh reality and how he would hate it. He didn't believe me and got a job testing video games. He hated it but wouldn't admit it to me or his dad, we thought this was really funny.

    4 months on he just cracked and left. He now works in financial software but some of the people he worked with are still there and he slags them off over their cráp jobs. The pay is terrible in games development mostly because people think it will be fun and they can be easily replaced. Getting a video game free is not a make up for the 15-20k pay loss.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,981 ✭✭✭Caliden


    Professional millionaire.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,204 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    I used to play a lot of video games and then got a job testing them. I thought it would be feckin brilliant- my dream job.
    It wasn't. Boring as fck. I lasted 2 weeks.

    As usual Mr. Mark Twain has the right of it: "Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do." :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,923 ✭✭✭Wossack


    carpenter, joiner, furniture maker etc


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


    Twisted fire starter.


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