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If you could do anything profesionally - what would it be?

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  • #62
    Hank Scorpio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,631 ✭✭✭✭Hank Scorpio


    poker, i can beat up to 50nl online but never had the discipline to play higher or work at it. kinda sums it up since im posting here at 6 am.

    to excel at anything you need a clear head and total dedication, two things I solely lack


  • #63
    Thespoofer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,124 ✭✭✭Thespoofer


    A professional hippy/self survivalist...those guys really have it sussed.


  • #64
    Mars Bar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 32,684 ✭✭✭✭Mars Bar


    A pro soccer player or pro drummer.


  • #65
    Chance The Rapper
    Closed Accounts Posts: 494 ✭✭Chance The Rapper


    If I could sing a note or rap I'd like to do that. It must be unreal to walk out on stage to hundreds or thousands of people screaming your name


  • #66
    murray.eoghan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,826 ✭✭✭murray.eoghan


    Mars Bar wrote: »
    A pro soccer player or pro drummer.

    What kind of drumming ? I learnt the basics in a month. But my dream job is the one i have currently. I help around a wedding venue in west cork. E.g. Splitting wood,cleaning, and just general outside work


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  • #67
    Jawgap
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,296 ✭✭✭✭Jawgap


    Fighter pilot.......

    .......or Apache AH-40 pilot


  • #68
    creolebelle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 440 ✭✭creolebelle


    I'm in school so I can get my dream job of being a nurse but I would also love to be a housewife or an actress
    Housewife is more probable tho


  • #69
    Ninjini
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,137 ✭✭✭Ninjini


    Photography and archaeology have always been my dream career fields.

    But the eight year old me would say pro wrestler.


  • #70
    Celly Smunt
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    Design engineer.

    I'd love to mass produce a product knowing its used daily by millions


  • #71
    SouthTippBass
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,286 ✭✭✭SouthTippBass


    Back room casting couch guy.


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  • #72
    Curly Judge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,708 ✭✭✭Curly Judge


    Senior wardrobe assistant at the Folies Bergere?


  • #73
    764dak
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,863 ✭✭✭764dak


    A Pokémon Master


  • #74
    Bafucin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 642 ✭✭✭Bafucin


    Dear god I could go forever on this. I am studying and really questioning my chosen field. When I was just out of school I started a music degree but I quite a year before graduating and took various jobs and traveled. Then six years ago I started a Bachelor's Degree, Engineering then I did a M.Eng. I had the couple of yrs of a degree before under my belt and it affects your eligibility for the free fees scheme. You must reimburse what you owe and then I paid for the masters. I am supposed to be doing a PHD. I wondered should I just have taken a job as a programmer after the M.Eng and paid off the debt quit and done something like sound engineering. I work on gigs sometimes as a rigger or sound engineer and I am wondering if I can stick with what I am doing now for the rest of my life. I have personal and student loans to take care of. After a few years when I have paid them off I think I would prefer to do something more creative. I play music and I should have stuck with that but I went through a lot. I have met the most amazing people through engineering though. I may stick with it, I am at the point of having to make decisions and generally I am bad at that.

    Ultimate dream job= Guitar Rockstar! Obviously! :cool:


  • #75
    Resonator75
    Closed Accounts Posts: 258 ✭✭Resonator75


    Full time, self employed Electric Guitarist.

    Half way there, now, just surviving but once I get my grade 8 & teaching Diploma I should have a sufficent income to live my life style.

    Will not be rich at all but will be happy.

    39. Years and years in I.T, Bars, restaurants, building sites, slaughterhouses, fish factories. You name it. Being unemployed for a while made me realize the guitar is my one way out of it and its slowly starting to work out.

    As the Man Rust Cohle said:
    Life's barely long enough to get good at one thing. So be careful what you get good at


  • #76
    Resonator75
    Closed Accounts Posts: 258 ✭✭Resonator75


    Bafucin wrote: »
    Dear god I could go forever on this. I am studying and really questioning my chosen field. When I was just out of school I started a music degree but I quite a year before graduating and took various jobs and traveled. Then six years ago I started a Bachelor's Degree, Engineering then I did a M.Eng. I had the couple of yrs of a degree before under my belt and it affects your eligibility for the free fees scheme. You must reimburse what you owe and then I paid for the masters. I am supposed to be doing a PHD. I wondered should I just have taken a job as a programmer after the M.Eng and paid off the debt quit and done something like sound engineering. I work on gigs sometimes as a rigger or sound engineer and I am wondering if I can stick with what I am doing now for the rest of my life. I have personal and student loans to take care of. After a few years when I have paid them off I think I would prefer to do something more creative. I play music and I should have stuck with that but I went through a lot. I have met the most amazing people through engineering though. I may stick with it, I am at the point of having to make decisions and generally I am bad at that.

    Ultimate dream job= Guitar Rockstar! Obviously! :cool:

    Give Adamantium's video post (39) a watch.

    I thinkk George made it for you. Good Luck.


  • #77
    Witchie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,597 ✭✭✭Witchie


    Maximus Alexander wrote: »
    Actor. Some of the most fun I ever had was performing on stage. I would love to act for a living, be it in theatre, TV or film. I only wish I'd realised it ten years ago.

    As a kid I always wanted to act and was quite good at it but reality kicked in and I went for more safe career choices. Now I am back doing amateur theatre and loving it. My 16 yr old son loves it too (we are currently working together on a play) and he just did an acting for screen boot camp at the weekend. I am encouraging him to go for it IF ITS WHAT HE WANTS but also encouraging him to look at other options. In the meantime getting him involved in amateur stuff for experience.

    If I could go back I would have followed the acting route or:
    Mountainsandh wrote: »
    Travel writer, or just writer (fiction).

    Or internet researcher. You're too lazy to find out about something ? I'll do it.

    Having dabbled a bit in football writing I would love to follow my writing dream still. I am currently studying digital marketing with the view of creating web content while travelling (when my youngest goes to college in 2 years). I would love to write books then too when my time becomes my own again. I have been "mammy" for 20 years and 2 more before I enter support mode rather than full time.
    Chance The Rapper wrote: »
    If I could sing a note or rap I'd like to do that. It must be unreal to walk out on stage to hundreds or thousands of people screaming your name

    I hear ya. I wish I could sing too. The likes of Beyonce or J-Lo getting a successful music and acting career makes me jealous.


  • #78
    discus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,049 ✭✭✭discus


    I want to be a War Photographer.

    Instead I got a degree, then joined the army instead for some reason. As soon as I finish next year I'm off. All I need/want is a Canon SLR and body armour.


  • #79
    shane9689
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,184 ✭✭✭shane9689


    Musician....and im working on it! im ****e though...but im still just about young so im gonna keep trying


  • #80
    failinis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,691 ✭✭✭failinis


    Illustrator/Artist or children's book writer.
    Doing foundation art this year then going to Uni so hopefully the dream will be realised.


  • #81
    Reoil
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,126 ✭✭✭Reoil


    discus wrote: »
    I want to be a War Photographer.

    Instead I got a degree, then joined the army instead for some reason. As soon as I finish next year I'm off. All I need/want is a Canon SLR and body armour.

    In reality, about €10,000 of camera gear.


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  • #82
    takamichinoku
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,110 ✭✭✭takamichinoku


    I don't think there's such a thing as a dream job, there's people who are raised in a manner which results in them effectively cultivating their interests toward a specific thing; between a mixture of being highly motivated, highly interested in their area and having whatever means are required to help them along their way, manage to hit some kind of sweet spot.


  • #83
    Ishmael
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,460 ✭✭✭Ishmael


    • Professional KiteSurfer / KiteBoarder
    • Inventor
    • Musician

    It's a pity that i pretty much suck at all three but working on it.


  • #84
    Wossack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,934 ✭✭✭Wossack


    dog handler with the gardai

    probably not have the stomach for it though, truth be told


  • #85
    Renegade Mechanic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,928 ✭✭✭Renegade Mechanic


    Binman.


  • #86
    takamichinoku
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,110 ✭✭✭takamichinoku


    When I was young, I wanted to be the guy who filled holes on the road, no clue why, maybe there's something Freudian about that.
    Also wanted to be a priest cos my relatives told me there was loads of money in it.
    Binman too, oddly enough...


  • #87
    Macavity.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,745 ✭✭✭Macavity.


    Pornstar.


  • #88
    discus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,049 ✭✭✭discus


    Reoil wrote: »
    In reality, about €10,000 of camera gear.

    Ok, that's affordable, I've saved a fair bit of that already.

    Your photos are awesome.


  • #89
    magicmushroom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 824 ✭✭✭magicmushroom


    I'd like to be a waitress.
    I know that sounds silly but I done it when I was younger and it was great fun - had some great laughs with the customers, got good tips, got free food, was on my feet all day so never had to watch my weight lol - if I could afford to have a job like that I would do it in a heartbeat!

    Instead I'm in a poxy job, listening to customers moan all day, sitting on my fat bum - it pays my bills though so I have no choice

    Another job that appeals to me is a florist, although again I'm sure it would be a minimum wage :(


  • #90
    The_Captain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,373 ✭✭✭The_Captain


    Doughnut Tester


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  • #91
    discus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,049 ✭✭✭discus


    magicmushroom wrote: »
    I'd like to be a waitress.
    I know that sounds silly but I done it when I was younger and it was great fun - had some great laughs with the customers, got good tips, got free food, was on my feet all day so never had to watch my weight lol - if I could afford to have a job like that I would do it in a heartbeat!

    Instead I'm in a poxy job, listening to customers moan all day, sitting on my fat bum - it pays my bills though so I have no choice

    Another job that appeals to me is a florist, although again I'm sure it would be a minimum wage :(

    It's so **** that society doesn't allow people to live in a simple, happy manner. I get hung up on things like this, my happiest days working were in a warehouse - constant banter, tons of hard work, regular customers... :o


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