i_t_man

OK, I did a search, didn't see this topic so apologies if it's been done.

What career would you really like to be doing but for whatever reason will probably never be realized?

For me, I always fancied myself an airline pilot but wore glasses all my life and that limited how far I could go. But now there's laser surgery and the FAA doesn't care if you wear glasses, however, I have a family and starting over just isn't an option.

What's your story? Always wanted to join the circus but you're an office manager instead? What do you really want to be doing?

Averett

Oh man, anything other than my job. I'm a secretary, and most days I do nothing. Nothing at all.

I'd love to raise race horses. I think that would be incredible.

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Darkblack

#1 job would be video game tester!
#2 job would be forest ranger/border patrol
#3 job would be politician
#4 Teacher
#5 job would be Porno star
#51/2 photographer (of porno stars)

more fire

graphic designer would be the ill shit.

Hash_Browns

I love my job, just think I might have went into it head on a bit early! I'm a Mom and that to me is an awsome job!

As for what else I would like to be doing:

I would love to be a photographer..after learning how to make use of a camera like some of the folks over on the photography forum. Awsome pics!

I would also like to be some kind of graphics artist. Learn photoshop and quark and maybe get into advertising creating ads.

I have also always wanted to be a teacher, because I thought it would be great to mold the minds of tomorrow, but now that I am a Mom and have gone through school myself...I think that kids are better left to mold their own minds...seems to accomplish a lot more for them...and I don't think I could settle for book teaching either. So maybe run a non-profit place for kids to learn about things but in their own ways....be able to provide monitored areas of study and be able to offer whatever help I can for them to accomplish something...does this make any sense?? Hope you get what I mean!

So yeah..that's what I would love to be doing...but I will concentrate on my own family for now! Who knows...one day!

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tinytim

I think i'd like to be doing anything that only required me to work 6 months out of the year. Six months of work, then six months of play... mmmmmmmmmm

We don't have a lot of time on this earth! We weren't meant to spend it this way. Human beings were not meant to sit in little cubicles staring at computer screens all day... filling out useless forms... and listening to eight different bosses drone on about mission statements.

phredgreen

personally, i'd be a recording engineer, or a live engineer... something in broadcasting... it's alwasy intrigued me, but my fucking career counsellors back in high school steered me in the wrong direction and now i'm stuck in a rut. i live a block from the school that would open up all of these possibilities, but i can't afford it. what a waste.

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bugdog

1) Photojournalist
2) Dog rancher (kennel or no kill shelter)
3) Actual sysadmin, instead of 'just' help desk (at least this one is possible)

Snoogans

I like working with ventilation, but if I had to choose soemthing else it would probably be:

Carpenter
Builder
Electrician

or somehow make a living by building Harleys and cars for myself

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Cynthetiq

philanthropist...

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neoinoakleys

Definitely Porn Star...
Photographer for Playboy or Penthouse or the like...
Maybe just independantly wealthy....

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Splice

Have a cool job like Brooke Burke on E! Man, traveling the world and going to exotic places AND getting paid to do it all!

jimk

i think i want to teach high school when i grow up.

kinda stuck now, though. 2 kids, wife, mortgage. it's not so bad - as soon as i hit the lotto i'll get my teaching certificate & chuck the current job!

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homerhop

driving a tank, boy would I love to get my hands on one of them

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rogue49

1. Physicist
2. Artist
3. Musician
4. Psychologist
5. Mommy...I want to be an Astronaut.

clifclav

I'd like to be the guy that fluffs the female porno stars.

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Grouper

Charter Boat Captain.

peacy

I like my current job... BUT if I had the chance I'd work in the automotive industry. Doing for ex. embedded system design. Or something similar...

bernadette

a princess

or maybe better yet... just the daughter of some filty rich parents

i'd settle for being the winning lotto winner

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viveleroi0

seriously... I wish I could be NOC. Maybe in Pargue or some foreign city.

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DEI37

Simple. I'd be racing. I wish so bad that I had the time and money to do so.

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psykosis

Selling ultrahighline exotics (Bugatti, Ferrari Enzo, Lamborghini, Pagani, Maybach, RR, Bentley, Koenigsegg, Vector, McLaren).

I'd also like to own a Lexus/Acura/Infiniti/Porsche dealership.

If I couldn't have those jobs, which i am working towards, I would apply to be Bill Gates' "Official Money Spender"...

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Rowan

My two choices:
~Dog psychiatrist to the movie stars in Beverly Hills

~Female version of Howard Stern!

sexymama

I'm very luck -- I love my career choice. I'm a teacher.

However, the district I'm currently with has me teaching Kindergarten and being a reading specialist. I'd MUCH rather teach middle school!

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etla

Serious: Eco housing developer. Strawbale, superinsulated, recycleable, low footprint, custom homes.

Jokingly? I'd like to have Michael Baroni's Job:

"Finding Penthouse-owned pictures required some hands-on investigative work. I had to be familiar with the entire Penthouse-catalog of photos and models, and I proactively surfed the Net in search of kidnapped images." -- Penthouse Copyright lawyer Michael L. Baroni.

I mean come on, who wouldn't like their job description to include hours of surfing. The only down side would be all the "tubgirl" and goats.ex sites you'd be forced to peruse as well.

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mml

I'd like to be a city manager - always thought I 'd go into politics - probably on the local level, but I just don't want to run for office. It's too intrusive and you have to make to many promises you probably won't be able to keep. But as a city manager you can effect real change and help improve the lives of people on a daily basis. If teaching paid better, that would interest me.

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vermin

I'd rather be:

1. Helicopter Pilot
or
2. Marine Corps Sniper
or
3. Use a sattelite death ray to blackmail the superpowers

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bundy

i really want to be an astronaut, or an astronomer, or cosmologist... or something like that.

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zenmaster10665

Professional Musician....I hope it will work out someday...

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World's King

A Hit Man for the Mob.

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FlorentinoAriza

write travelguides

make movies

work for a NGO in either asia or latin america. nothing beats the rush of helping people.

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Othello

1. Police Officer <----- gonna actually try for it
2. Egyptologyst <----- Would love to go go Egypt and discover the next big find.

hfw01

An Artist, I love my painting, but I don't think I could raise a family with it.

Spidey

I get my buzz from helping people, well most people. I love to hear people's life problems and help them solve them, so psychology is probably where i'm heading

onodrim

Well, when I was younger, I wanted to be someone like Indinan Jones, but seeing as how I'm a female and there is no Temple of Doom, that probably won't be happeneing anytime soon.

My career that I'm studying right now however, is performance, so I'm pretty much already trying to do what I love.

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docbungle

Novelist & movie director/actor

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God of Thunder

A drummer for a rock band!!







or the towel boy for an all-girls school

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KeyserSoze

To be totally honest I would rather work with children who have been abused and miss treated by their own parents.

I would like to take their fear away and let them know that they can be themselves without getting the shit beat out of them.

I would like them to know it's ok to ask dumb questions, because there is no such thing coming from a child.

I want to give them a hug when they are scared, and let them know everything will be ok.

I would like them to know that just because their parents are pieces of shits, not all adults treat children badly or hit them because they are just there.

Most of all I want to help them lose their inhibitions and fear of the unknown, to grow, explore and follow their dreams that they can do ANYTHING they want in this world as long as they just try.

Yea......thats what I wish I could do

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platypus

Running a winery...in Australia.

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Leviathan[NCV]

Porn star.

Yeah I'm still delusioned about how awesome it would be...