Dream jobs?

[Bret]

Ok a little escapism here and I'm not going to talk about dating or women troubles.

Anyway while I’m actually I’m pretty cool with my current gig as it’s the best job I’ve ever had, I'd like to know what everyones dream job would be?

That said some of my childhood choices would’ve been as follows:
Professional racecar driver or a fighter pilot like most pre pubescent boys. But I would’ve settled for being a famous actor (Steve McQueen or James Garner) who simply played racecar drivers or fighter pilots in the movies. Cool win-win situation either way.

But speaking of cool – taking a total step out of reality as a kid – I’d always wanted to be Super Spy Matt Helm (Dean Martin). Rat Pack persona meets 007 – with a martini in my hand and big bad blonds, brunettes & killer redheads knocking each other over to get at me. Oh wait I said this wasn’t going to involve women didn’t I? Oh well a guy can dream can’t he? /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/wink.gif

Anyway back to the hear & now:
I'd say if I wasn’t doing what I’m doing now – I think I’d settle for being an editor at large for an upper tier automotive publication. Test driving & writing about Super Cars & the latest cutting edge designs, as well as attending auto trade shows and motorsporting events all over the world.

So what about the rest of you?

 

[Steve]

Hmmmm, it would have to be painting, full-time.

By the way, Steve McQueen WAS a race car driver, drove Sprites on the factory team with Stirling Moss, among others. Did very well, and would have had a career had he not got his break as an actor.

 

[GregW]

That’s a tough one. Except for the long hours I have a pretty good job. I get to spend other people’s money to build things that don’t really need to do anything. They just have to look the part. I built this grill yesterday out of a large ketchup can; the legs are spoon handles.

 

[Bret]

Hmmmm, it would have to be painting, full-time.

By the way, Steve McQueen WAS a race car driver, drove Sprites on the factory team with Stirling Moss, among others. Did very well, and would have had a career had he not got his break as an actor.

Oh I knew Steve McQueen raced cars and he also raced motorcycles too (usually under an alas when he became famous /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/wink.gif ). Makes sense when you look at his acting career – how he did much of his own driving stunts (The Great Escape & Bullet etc).

I should also note that even James Garner (AKA Bret Maverick & Scott Aaron) had a race team himself. Off road mostly and I got to meet him once with his blue Chevelle 4x4 off road racer.

But come on guys & gals - what would you want to do if you could make a living doing anything your little heart desired? /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/wink.gif

 

[rick_ingram]

I'm employed in the profession that I wanted to do since 6th grade...pharmacy.

Pharmacy has changed a LOT in the 30 years that I've been a licensed pharmacist....not all of it good change....but I still enjoy it...and it has provided for me and my family very well.

Not sure what else I would do....the underground novelty business (undertaking) always intrigued me.....

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[terriphill]

MY first job out of college was Game warden (actually Wildlife officer) What a great job...I had a gun, a badge, a four wheel drive p/u truck, a four wheeler, and a boat. I drove around all day in the woods talking with people and being outside. It was an awesome job...pay was terrible and hours wre worse, but I loved it. Out all night chasing armed drunks in the middle of nowhere!
I left becuase its hours were too bizarre and we were trying to raise a family.
At present I am an 8th grade science teacher. I took this job temporarily 16 years ago. Its the second best job in the world. Great hours, reasonable pay and lots of time off to pursue my hobbies.
The funny thing...when I left the Game and Fish to go into teaching...they all asked me if I was scared! I told them that at least if I'm shot on the job...they know where to find me! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/crazyeyes.gif
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[Bret]

Ahh come on folks!?!?!

I refuse to believe that I’m the only person here who ever wanted to drive a Porsche 917 at 200 plus miles an hour down the Monson strait with his hair on fire, fly an F4 Phantom in full afterburner, pilot a space shuttle through the upper atmosphere at 27,000mph, be a firemen or a cop or simply walk down the read carpet waving to adoring fans at the Oscars.

Com’on folks? We’re all friends here – reach down deep & tell us what you’ve always dreamed of doing? /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/wink.gif

 

[weewillie]

professional rally driver or The Stig

 

[AngliaGT]

I'd think a job that was fun,get a company car(truck).
Work near home ,with occasional travel.
I'm actually looking for that job.

- Doug

 

[Sherlock]

Umm... Three guesses...

As an employee of a shop that makes metal product for roofing (sounds exciting doesn't it), I'd love to be able to ditch this job and go full-time photography and/or photojournalism, I'm angling myself towards that goal right now actually, just hard to say when exactly it will happen.

Actually, funny story about this... This past summer I was at a small tractor show in rural Alberta and I was there taking photos with my dSLR camera. The lady standing next to me asked me if I was a journalist, she runs the smalltown newspaper there and was taking photos with a tiny little camera, she said her little camera was good enough quality for their small paper. She told me (and my journalist friend with me) that she was looking for people, I'm still certain that if I applied today she would probably hire me on the spot, haven't taken her up on the offer yet if at all.

 

[Steve_S]

I wouldn't want to race cars for a living. When you turn a hobby into a job, you lose what you first loved about it. Besides, I'd hate for my wife to worry every time I went to work.

 

[70herald]

I wouldn't want to race cars for a living. When you turn a hobby into a job, you lose what you first loved about it.

Oh Yeah! exactly the reason I would never turn any of my hobbies into a full time job! Work on my Triumph for hours on end great fun. If I had to do it for someone else's car and be responsible for a time clock it could get tiring real quick.

I am also happily employed in a job which I have really loved for the last 11 years, a combination of engineering / physics / management. Every few years a new assignment or position withing the company has come up so there has always been an opportunity to learn and do something new. The best two years were spent working on a research project designing and building a prototype of a critical part for a miniature free electron laser. (they are normally the size of a very large room, ours was hand held) We worked very hard but what a fantastic feeling to come home at night knowing you have discovered something which no one else has ever figured out. One major patent came out of our part of the project. The rest of our inventions were put into public domain by legal. To bad funding was cut for that project.
Unfortunately in a few months the factory I work in is closing down (it is ancient in the industry) and I will be transferring to a new factory. In the old factory engineering was very small highly autonomous group, in the new factory everything is huge and very little autonomy for any individual engineers. To top it off, my 5 minute drive to work will become a 1 hour drive. Just a bit apprehensive to say the least!

 

[Brooklands]

I would either want to be a full-time auto racing photo journalist covering Formula 1, other open wheel racing, and sports car road races, or else I would want to host a travel show getting to go to the best hotels and restaurants and sight-seeing on someone else's dime.

 

[JamesWilson]

... I'd like to know what everyones dream job would be?

I'm pretty happy in my job now (University lecturing), though I kind of accidentally got into it and decided I liked it. I think even a "dream" job would have its downsides at times.

I think my dream "job" would be to retire... /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/devilgrin.gif

More time and a little money to do the things I'd want to do and to travel a little- renting a house of flat for 1-3 months in various places: Spend the first six months seeing the UK... a summer in Scandanavia, autumn in Germany & France, then winter in the southern US, back to Italy and Greece for the next spring and summer, then to the antipodes Oz & Kiwi country for the winter and the South Seas... If I like a place I could stay longer, if not, onwards to something new....

 

[Baz]

I wanted to play footie for the Villa, or fight the the Treens from Venus just like Dan Dare.

 

[Brooklands]

I think my dream "job" would be to retire... /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/devilgrin.gif

Actually that IS my current job, and I have no desire to ever leave it. It is much better than my old job, which I loved for the first 30 of my 32 years there. And I even got to try the photographer job for the Easton Express back in the early years of the Schaefer 500 at Pocono, but found I did not really have the eye or the equipment to be good enough at that. I wish that had worked out, but all is great now.

 

[weewillie]

Dan Dare.

The pilot of the future, now there's a name from the past.

 

[NutmegCT]

The dream job? What I'm doing now. Working as an early 19th century farmer at Old Sturbridge Village (www.osv.org) in Massachusetts.

Plowing and harrowing with oxen in the spring, growing an heirloom vegetable garden and mowing hay in the summer, harvesting crops and pressing apples in the fall, repairing fences and drinking mulled cider in the winter. And speaking with visitors from every corner of the world.

Oops - forgot - I had to spend 35 years doing something else (teaching) first.

Tom

 

[GregW]

Sounds like your TR3 is the most modern thing you own, well except for the computer you obviously use to visit here. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/thumbsup.gif

 

[anthony7777]

Bret, can i give two examples? first choice would be a surgeon, dont know why but i always took fast to anything involved with medicine,(not just recreationally) have or had very steady hands i.e. while attending taxidermy school in Arizona that's what my instructors called me "the surgeon" for my ability to take things apart and sew them back together with no trace of insision, i always had the stomach for it, and enjoyed doing so, perhaps this talent would not have translated into the surgical field but i would have liked to help people that needed special surgery specialty kids, second choice.. an artist, at one time i could have gone to any of the n.y. art schools with a "full ride" loved to draw paint sculpt, that's why "sideach" is my hero, id once or twice mentioned on our forum that his work affected me in a personal way. - funny how the winds of life dont always blow in the direction one might want to go.