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What job would you be really good at?

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  • #92
    Sgt Hartman
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    I think that I would have made a pretty good surgeon if I studied hard enough. I love medicine/anatomy and I'm very exact in the way I do things in my current job.

    I also believe that I would make a really good chef but there's no way I would be able to handle the stress of being in a kitchen being shouted at by a tyrannical head chef though. I'm not motivated by arseholes shouting at me and I've left positions in the past because of it.

    I could have possibly made a good OPW guide at ancient monuments also. I would do my best to get across everything I know about the history and mythology attached to the monuments.


  • #93
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 13,712 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Sgt Hartman wrote: »
    I think that I would have made a pretty good surgeon if I studied hard enough. I love medicine/anatomy and I'm very exact in the way I do things in my current job.

    I also believe that I would make a really good chef but there's no way I would be able to handle the stress of being in a kitchen being shouted at by a tyrannical head chef though.
    But please, Mr. Hartman, take your scalpel to my vas deferens instead :eek:


  • #94
    Cee-Jay-Cee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,235 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    Long distance truck driver was always my dream job and still would be if I had the chance. I applied years ago for a trucking job in the US but never followed up on it after being offered an interview.

    I always loved the idea of driving a big truck and being on my own. I know it’s not that glamorous in this country and truck drivers will tell me that it’s not a good job with long lonely hours but it sounds ideal to me.


  • #95
    magic_murph
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    Assertiveness coach, I think.


  • #96
    Capt'n Midnight
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    magic_murph wrote: »
    Assertiveness coach, I think.
    You think ?


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  • #97
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,121 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Talking head/commentator in the media.
    The nation could do with hearing my opinion on whatever the topic of the day is.


  • #98
    higster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 913 ✭✭✭higster


    magic_murph wrote: »
    Assertiveness coach, I think.

    Brilliant!! :D;)


  • #99
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 94,897 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    I've got a hat. ... it lights up saying 'lion tamer' in great big neon letters, so that you can tame them after dark when they're less stroppy.


  • #100
    pgj2015
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    Id say I would be a good bailiff.


  • #101
    Ron Seal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27 ✭Ron Seal


    I have my Dream Job, it's what I always wanted to be, I love it and (pre Covid) loved going to work, I still do but not as much.
    As a wise man once said to me; "Find a job you love and you will never work a day in your life !".


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  • #102
    Sleepy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,544 ✭✭✭✭Sleepy


    If I'd had a careers guidance counsellor who knew his arse from his elbow, I'd probably be an architect now. Sadly I was well into my thirties before realising that a childhood spent obsessed with Lego, mechano and building dioramas etc had actually left me very suited to it. Sadly, with a family to support I couldn't afford to take seven years out to retrain and part of me suspects the clients would end up making me hate it.

    Like many of my generation being a good student meant my parents and teachers tried to teach me that the trades were something for the less academically minded and that I should go to university when life experience has taught me that I'm happiest working on something I can point to and say "I built that". I think I'd have been quite happy working as a cabinet-maker, plumber or electrician and the more academic side of my brain would have made me more than capable of doing my own accounts etc. to go out on my own.

    Give me a lotto win in the morning and I'd be buying old properties to renovate for my own enjoyment.


  • #103
    Lailah Shy Sunblock
    Posts: 0 ✭ Lailah Shy Sunblock


    Anything that involves is outdoor, involves labour and not dealing with people for approvals and pressure of meeting deadlines and no office politics. Basically the exact opposite of what I'm doing now.

    Did demolition of a house for a mate and loved it. Would happily swap the mouse for a sledge. Career status, progression and money motivation just does not really appeal to me. Making plans in the background to get off the mind numbing corporate ladder for good.

    I can stay here, go through the motions, earn good money but I realise I'll never excel and be proper successful at it because the interest is just not there.

    ** Exact same scenario as poster above me. Loved lego and mechanical things. Loved summers on the site with my father. Therefor the logical step from my Career Guidance councillor was to push me towards the financial services industry** A waste of time.


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