I'm 37 but I feel 57 physically and about 12 mentally. I would like, one day, to be a professionally published writer. I would also like to be a producer, director and screen-writer. My stories are movies in my head and I wish to share them in a manner that allows others to experience what I see.
@Soodanim. That is a lot of stuff right there. I somehow felt inclined to respond. If you want to be an astrophysicist, you can. There are tonnes of free tutorials online to get you started in basic physics, you can work your way up from there. I personally hold the belief that life in itself has no meaning but that gives me the freedom to give it meaning myself, hence, I believe that I can be anything I want. The only thing you need is a strong motivation and a bit of stubborness.
Hey guys, As for me, I'm 22, and I plan on owning my own businesses. I'm strongly opposed to this concept of a "job." I don't want to work for someone, I want to work for myself. My ideal career would be doing exactly what I intend to do - working as a serial entrepreneur. I intend to start one business, establish it, then move onto the next, and keep going this. Right now I'm working with websites, eventually I'd like to open a bar, then launch a product (it's top secret), then maybe get into investing. Eventually I'd like to start a biotech company of some kind (once I'm a multi-billionaire. )
I am sixteen and would love to be rich and jobless so I could concentrate on my hobbies, such as reading, writing, drawing, gaming, and the like. I would hate for my hobbies to become ruined by dreary work, so honestly I would accept anything that makes the money flow. Except for teaching students; people are idiots.
I'm 46 and spent the last 20 plus years as a clinical therapist, salesman and father. I was fascinated to read through this thread and see such divergent lives, hopes and dreams. I have no ideal job to be honest. I'm on the crest of the hill of my life and starting to head down so I want to do something that is meaningful in the decades (hopefully) i have left. Still trying to figure out what that is, but I've been exploring writing as a creative outlet for leaving something behind in my life besides my children. I've discovered that whatever I choose to do it's the journey itself that gives my life meaning. As a lifelong reader, I'm now discovering the whole world behind what it means to be a writer. I've been learning, exploring and reading so much and it's been very cool. I'm not sure where it will take me, or if I have what it takes to create something really good. But for me, that's what would make me happy the most. To create something that would touch the lives of other people. What a cool and worthwhile thing to do. Sure, in an ideal world I would be paid to write, but for now I'll just focus on exploring the road to becoming a good writer and enjoy the ride.
I'm 42. Currently I own my own business and work more than any three other jobs I've had put together. (We're actually happy when production goes down!) Sadly, somewhere along the line, someone figured out I knew how to make a profit and life has been downhill from there. I would love to do anything that allowed me more time at home. I don't want to do something I love, turning it into work will literally make it a four letter word. Like Lester in American Beauty, I would be happiest with the least amount of responsibility. Let me be a pizza delivery driver or coffee barista, please!
I'll be 26 at the end of April (it took me a minute to remember my own age lol) I currently do have a dream job of mine as a jewelry artist, however I'm a small business owner who is getting nothing monetary wise from my business I make about 2 sells ever 3-4 months on average, so what I make goes right back into my business. *sigh* What pays the bills currently is my job working as a substitute teacher at the high school. I hope to eventually earn my masters degree in creative writing so I can teach college.
14. I would like to make writing a career, but I also am very involved in art and design and would love to make game design and development a career.
I'm 28 and I would love to be a full time writer and own a bookstore. I would also love to do anything involving animals or photography.
I am 23 and right now study full time at university, work part time as a web developer and write in my spare time as a hobby. I would love to write fantasy novels.
It would be a dream to be a published author or own a book shop. But I have to say, since Adam Richman gave it up, I'm reeeeeally fancying his role in MAN VS FOOD!! ...what a job! haha
21. I'd like to do anything involving books, really. I'd love to write, of course, but I'd like to edit, write for a magazine or do journalism. I've dabbled a bit in the latter and was surprised at how much I loved it. I've always been aiming towards grad school as I think I'd enjoy being a Creative Writing professor.
I'm 25. The ideal jobs would be novelist and honorary employee at some big corporation. I can't really write at home(damn procrastination), so I need to be somewhere else. I will not work for the corporation, and they will not pay me. I just need a desk in an area full of people who are actually working. This will guilt me into doing something productive.
I am 45 (shudders) and a teacher. I love my job. hate the red tape. My dream job... cliche, but... Astronaut.
Actually this one is easy, when I was flunking out of the faculty of business, I was refered to a guidance councellor. I took two test over five hundred questions each. One was a Personality type and one an Aptitude test to determine whether being an accountant was really the right choice. Both tests overlaped almost perfectly as it turned out accounting was near the bottom of both tests. #1 occupation...Priest, pastor etc. #2 Teacher #3 Artist/writer I'm 67 retired and became none of the above.. You probably want to know why. It's because I went back University as a mature student after I got layed off form my Job as a Shipper/Reciever. I was married and had two children and one more on the way.
36, and I'd run the ultimate nerd new/used book store/game store/cafe. We'd have a couple back rooms for rpg games, another room for WoW or other MMORPG games, comic books, shelves of beloved games (old and new), loads of artwork, and then lots and lots and lots of books of every age and genre. A cafe with space for live performances, book readings, and poetry jams. Daily story time (early for little kids, later one for grown-ups - why not?), teen book clubs, you name it. All the bookcases would be a hodge-podge, painted in fantastic colors. And we be open late.
I'm 39 and have worked in more industries I care to think of. Along the way I've been a waitress, telemarketer, admin assistant, legal assistant, florist, courier, nanny, retail salesperson, personnel manager, and even ran the insurance side of a brokerage firm (which left me with a list of titles, but not the pay to match), among other things. I discovered that I hated most of those jobs, and just did them because they paid the bills at the time. So a few years ago, I decided to scrap what everybody told me, and just focus on doing what I love. I do internet marketing to pay the bills (which is pretty fun), and am an herbalist (which doesn't pay any bills yet, but keeps my family and friends healthy and happy), and am working on finishing a novel that I am hoping will allow me to eventually work as a full time writer. That's my dream job.
I'm 25 and work as a paediatric occupational therapist. Its a great career but stressful. I have thought about med school, but if I had to make a job change I think I'd prefer something less stressful and less professional. I'd like to write comedy for tv... stressful still I'm sure, but just another kind of stress.
i am sixteen and three quarters and I'd love to possess a wicked multi million dollar making machine for a brain. Or simply, figure out J.k came up with hp. And do better.
