Did anyone hear This American Life this weekend? In the opening piece, Ira Glass was talking to astronauts about how their "dream" job has a very different reality. Mostly they do admin stuff, attend meetings and plan space travel but less than half of them have actually been to space. And that's not likely to change in the coming years.
Got me to thinkin' what my dream job might be - believe it or not, it's not teaching Shakespeare to teens. =)
I think being a travel show host (like Ian Wright) would rule. Travel all over the world with the best things to do already planned for you. How cool would that be?
What's your dream job?
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Probably interpreting at the UN, or for immigration court. Great pay, even better hours!
To be a FragDoll. Well maybe not so much a FragDoll, but more a chick who gets payed to play games. I know it sounds juvenile and all of that, but seriously gaming is my passion.
Edited, Mar 24th 2008 6:50am by Katie
Edited, Mar 24th 2008 6:50am by Katie
/shrug. Astronaut.
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Dread Lörd Kaolian wrote:
/shrug. I love admin and meetings! Give me more planning and filing!
FTFY.
Haha!
What's bred in the bone will not out of the flesh.
Well for my other job I DO work for the government, irrefutably proving that there is something wrong with me.
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Tare wrote:
I think being a travel show host (like Ian Wright) would rule. Travel all over the world with the best things to do already planned for you. How cool would that be?
Otherwise I'd still like to be a hardcore field-geologist, which was the direction I was heading years ago before life side-tracked me.
Alma wrote:
I lost my post
Baron von tarv wrote:
Retired.
Alma wrote:
I lost my post
I like being a paralegal. Hours are pretty good, pay is pretty good. I just wish I could travel more. Met a paralegal that travels internationally probably one week out of every month to review client files, do due diligence and whatnot. I would love to do that.
Thumbelyna wrote:
I like being a paralegal. Hours are pretty good, pay is pretty good. I just wish I could travel more. Met a paralegal that travels internationally probably one week out of every month to review client files, do due diligence and whatnot. I would love to do that.
Maybe you should work more bankruptcy and money laundering cases. My sister in law and her para went to the Caymans for a week or so once. Not a bad gig.
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
I'd like to write best-selling memoirs about being a **** star in space.
Samira wrote:
Thumbelyna wrote:
I like being a paralegal. Hours are pretty good, pay is pretty good. I just wish I could travel more. Met a paralegal that travels internationally probably one week out of every month to review client files, do due diligence and whatnot. I would love to do that.
Maybe you should work more bankruptcy and money laundering cases. My sister in law and her para went to the Caymans for a week or so once. Not a bad gig.
I need to get into either an in-house legal department at a really large company or a large law firm. I was looking at Sony last year but didn't have enough IP experience, which is what I'm getting now. Meh, I'd be happy with a trip to San Francisco at this point, even if I got to drive to Los Angeles.
Costume designer.
I'd be happy as a ******* clam in a design studio ^^
I still need years and years more of practice before I can even think about it, and unfortunately the pay for clothing commissions and alterations in itself isn't enough to support me, so I'd have to work TWO jobs just to pay the bills . . .
Alternately, I'd like to be in a server room and get paid to watch blinky lights and surf the internet all day (or all night) in the meantime. To that end, instead of working a 2nd job, I'm studying for the CCNA exam. (Today's lesson was the horrors of subnetting and boolian algebra.)
I'd be happy as a ******* clam in a design studio ^^
I still need years and years more of practice before I can even think about it, and unfortunately the pay for clothing commissions and alterations in itself isn't enough to support me, so I'd have to work TWO jobs just to pay the bills . . .
Alternately, I'd like to be in a server room and get paid to watch blinky lights and surf the internet all day (or all night) in the meantime. To that end, instead of working a 2nd job, I'm studying for the CCNA exam. (Today's lesson was the horrors of subnetting and boolian algebra.)
Singdall wrote:
Alma wrote:
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Singdall wrote:
You get paid to play with kids all day in your pajamas.
You might be happier as a faded pop star. You could even have your own ranch, with an amusement park and everything.
Grandfather Barkingturtle wrote:
I'd like to write best-selling memoirs about being a **** star in space.
I'd like to be the pneumatic entertainment reporter assigned to cover your story for an entertainment magazine on basic cable.
Turin wrote:
Seriously, what the f*ck nature?
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Singdall wrote:
not mine. i keep it very clean and smelling fresh. i HATE that dirty locker room smell.
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Commander Annabella wrote:
Grandfather Barkingturtle wrote:
I'd like to write best-selling memoirs about being a **** star in space.
I'd like to be the pneumatic entertainment reporter
Is there a definition here I'm not aware of?
I suppose when you're talking about sex in deep space, there might need to be compressed air involved somehow...
trickybeck wrote:
Commander Annabella wrote:
Grandfather Barkingturtle wrote:
I'd like to write best-selling memoirs about being a **** star in space.
I'd like to be the pneumatic entertainment reporter
Is there a definition here I'm not aware of?
I suppose when you're talking about sex in deep space, there might need to be compressed air involved somehow...
You never read Brave New World, did you?
1: of, relating to, or using gas (as air or wind): a: moved or worked by air pressure b (1): adapted for holding or inflated with compressed air (2): having air-filled cavities 2: of or relating to the pneuma : spiritual3: having a well-proportioned feminine figure; especially : having a full bust
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
Beaten by Samira.
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Turin wrote:
Seriously, what the f*ck nature?
Wasn't on any of the dictionary sites I checked, of course.
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