If you could change your career right now and
you could be anything without limitations
what would your dream job be?

If I could make money at it without dealing with the government; farming.

Retiree.

Veterinarian

No change needed, already there.

Plumber.

Done here but would do it all over again if I was 23.

There’s an opening for a rapper now in chicago. Is yu ne good

Retired 14 years ago. I liked what I did at the time,

I'd love to own about a 50 unit crematorium about now.

I'll resist the urge though.

I'll pay to run your gas line and spot you a couple three four 10K gallon tanks, lit em up RBB!

Hell, neighbor has a damn good old 555 Ford back-hoe for sale, i'll bring that sombitch down too ; ]

I always wanted to be a pilot, but not big commercial. That didn't happen.

Saying that, I switched careers at 40 yrs of age and went into NDE (industrial inspection, mostly radiography) in the local refinery and nuke plant. 20 years later I still really like my job. It pays very well, has great benefits and most the guys I work with are good guys. Just hit 60 last week. Get asked all the time when I am going to retire but I still like my job so putting in a couple more years will be easy, maybe longer.

A hooker.

Working for a National Park or Coast Guard on the great lakes.

I'd want to be outside in an idyllic location

My career advice to my kids has been figure out where you want to live and then figure out how to live there. I just lived wherever the job has been and have wanted to be somewhere else my entire life.

If I could turn the clock back I'd go to medical school. At the time I couldn't afford even undergraduate college, but knowing what I know now I'd find a way.

However, if I were a young person today there's no way I would want to be a doctor. Or a cop, but that's another matter. The world has changed.

Paul

I've often thought that myself, dunno if I could deal with "cat-ladies" daily though.........

Teaching kids how to fish.

Real Estate Investor when I retire. Seen enough Dolts making money at it and they are not even good.

I recently saw an article about the suicide rate among veterinarians. That profession experiences stresses that most people aren't aware of.

Paul

There is an app for that !

You’re soooo there already Paul.

LOL

😎

More then Dentists?

Prairie Dog eradication service...😎

I don't know about comparisons of specialties, but the suicide rate among all kinds of doctors is pretty high.

Quality Control /Taste Tester for a strip club...………………….

Yeah, Dentists are always down in the mouth.

Our daughter finished dental school a couple months ago. Now she's starting a residency to get into specialized field.

Bush Pilot

I'd be a rancher in Colorado high country, and run hunting camps.

Full time health consultations.
I need the inventory to provide nutritional supplements that have been effective remedies for brain damage, severe neck, back injuries, arthritis, sleep, and all types of challenges. That's going to take more capital than I originally estimated.

I've read how so many people here are suffering and I want to help provide information and the nutrients that the body requires for recovery.

Good looking women shouldnt live as unhappy as many do. They have the wherewithall to have fun every day.

They have half the worlds money and sit on all the good stuff.

Ivanka Trumps husband.

Game Warden in Nevada. Give me a 4x4 truck that I don't have to maintain and some firearms and go drive around the Nevada outback, interacting with sportsmen and women. That's what I do in my freetime somewhat. Pay me for it.

I’d want to do several things, starting with live-delivery ground fish commercial fisherman in Oregon. Use rod and reel with a live tank.




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Teenage gynecological anesthesiologist

numb numb numb...numb

Outside industrial sales for a Fortune 500 company. Grossly overpaid for the least amount of education, low stress and the company picks up the tab for everything.

Sock Puppet

Or a garden gnome.

The highest "earn" part of farming is the government part. I'm not sure you could actually farm anymore without the subsidy part of it. Corn is the same price per bushel as when I was a kid, tractors ain't. But I do understand your point, wish I could do it without the government also.

been a pharmacist for 33 years. Was a bi-vo missions minister then pastor for 20+ years.

If I could do it over again, I'd love to be a Biblical archeologist

That's today...... I rotate between that and sheepherder, chef, specialty woodworker, full-time military special forces.

I have a lot of different interests.

Same thing.

This is my 16th year in private practice......glad I chose the surgical specialty I did. I don't envy my colleagues that have no option but to be employed by hospital systems. Things have changed dramatically in the 24 years since I started residency.

I have the creeper van. We could make house calls.

😂😎

adult entertainment

A “Sporting Man” like Doc Holliday without TB of course.

People would be dying to meet you!

Funny but almost every male medical student wants to be a gynecologist until they do the clinical rotation. You don't wanna know......although I like the parameters you added hahahaaaaaaaaa.

I think there may be an opening for a city fire marshal in Beirut Lebanon.

Freshwater marine construction or tugboat operator. Something that would get and keep me on the Great Lakes waterways.

A lotto winner

I'd come out of retirement to be a Formula 1 driver.

Sure there is.

I turned down a Congressional appointment to the Naval Academy when I was 18. Have kicked myself ever since. A Naval officer would have been a great career.

Minister, a good one.

I might have to, a furloughed airline pilot and who knows when things will turn around. Could be years

Not nearly on the same level, but about 19 years ago, I was approached by a guy with a major utility company. After confirming that I was licensed, he said the utility company was looking for someone like me and was willing to skip the right applicant over the usual entry level position (meter reader) and into a 2nd level tech position.

I turned it down and later found out that he was the union steward. If I had taken the job, I would be less than 10 years from a good retirement, rather than being 51 years old with no retirement at this time.

My daughter is a Vet. Has her own clinic and loves it (except for the euthanasia situations).

Ha !! I don't have a dream job,but I have one I don't want a do over...

At 49, I’m learning to be a pilot. Don’t know what it may lead to but I have the time & money now to do it.

After learning the cost of putting 4 kids through college while having a challenging and fun career I probably wouldn't change much. However, spending a life as a govt. hunter or mountain/ hunting guide has always seemed perfect to me. Making a living outdoors w/ out dealing w/ people would be awesome.



mike r

military / fishing guide offshore.

Defense attorney.

X2

A verse popped into my mind right after reading your post Wabigoon.

I tried to recall what book that was in, but couldn't.
I grabbed my Bible and opened it up and and guess what happened? No leafing through the books or scanning for it.
The Lord had me to open to the exact page and led my.eyes immediately to the exact verse that came to mind.

"This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work."

I Timothy 3:1

Wouldn't change anything.

How about a Genie, I keep all the wishes.

Retired 9 yrs now......

suits me fine

Endodontist if it wasn’t for all the school necessary.

Priest.

bwaaaaaaahahahaha.

some days you're on it.

Family history in the Adirondack resorts?

Game Warden.

My family legacy is law enforcement and the outdoors, but my love of technology took me down the public safety/911 path.

It is recession proof, and pays very well in the public sector, so no regrets...

But I'd take a 50% salary reduction to nail poaching azzhats to the post at this point in my life.

Seven years in retirement is the best job I've ever had. Get to hunt, fish, swap guns and do whatever else I like to do on my time schedule. Not punching a time clock nor dealing with rush hour traffic and winter driving suits me just fine.

No f'ing idea.

Piano player in a high dollar whore house. I always wanted to be able to play music, and the scenery would just top it off.

An over the road truck driver. The way trucking was in the 70’s; not now.

Bronnie Ware spent part of her career as an end of life nurse, providing palliative care to people at the end of their lives. She wrote a book about it, ‘The Top Five Regrets of the Dying - A Life Transformed by the Dearly Departing.’ She found that among dying men, their 2nd to the top regret was “I wish I hadn’t worked so hard.” She said this response came from every single male patient that she cared for. They missed their children’s youth and their partner’s companionship. All of the men she cared for deeply regretted spending so much of their lives on the treadmill of a work existence.
And the number 1 regret was “I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life other’s expected of me.”

Marine Biologist, I already have the degree, no jobs available. I took a job with a Federal Environmental Agency as an investigator, great job, paid good with pension. I don't carry and have investigated a target who was convicted of double manslaughter and several organized crime family members, it has gotten sporty at times! Haven't gotten hurt yet, I retire in 5 months!

Pretty much the same as I was able to do and especially with students - highly rewarding internally and professionally if not so much financially. But, second time around would hope to be smart enough to not invest time and effort trying to give leadership for the occasional unctuous, self-centered quasi-academics who think that their navels are the center of the universe.

Cool.

I am kind of enjoying what I am doing now.

Should add that I changed jobs some months ago as I was bored with what I was doing.

Beav's van.......

My career was very good and fulfilling; however the setting makes a big difference in lifestyle. My setting was a couple of small hospitals, then several, some of the coverage all by myself and then with a small group.

Call-back is the issue and I missed more of my kids growing up, evening time than I would choose to do now.

Contrast that with working in a big tertiary care hospital with anesthesia staff of, say twenty or more, so there is less frequency of call and more help on a daily basis.

Some of these kinds of things are not realized while you are in the midst of them and only realized in retrospect decades later. I have apologized to my two daughters.

I'd like to be retired and get a check for just having a heartbeat every month.......Oh wait, I am....

I worked all my life to be able to do what I am doing right now. I would say I was successful.

Med school.

I think we could find some customers for the 50 unit crematorium in the DC area when the time comes rockinbbar. I would some stacking.