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A doctor of midwifery that runs a birth center/midwifery training school in a country that desperately needs well trained midwives. Possibly in the Middle East.
I fully intend to fulfill this dream someday.
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@.twist.: That's my job... it's not like it is on TV.
BUT it's still my realistic dream job.
I have to say for a more fantasy dream job, I'd love to host a travel show. Or Amazing Race if Phil ever gives it up.
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I have always dreamt of being a horse trainer, Monty Roberts style.
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Ha, dentist/orthodontist or crafter.
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A famous (i.e. not starving) artist!
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I'd be a doula/birth photographer and an author. I'd use my doula experiences as a springboard for writing either a memoir or a fiction piece. And I'd do my writing on a typewriter.
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A senior travel buyer for Europe and New Zealand.
Or a highly paid and perked travel blogger OR a philanthropist.
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@autumnlove: Ooh... I'd love to be the next Martha Stewart
@Rainbow Sprinkles: You play the piano too don't you? I am totally imagining you making music like Sarah McLachlan. I have no idea if that is your style though!
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@Meow: what do you do? More importantly, what skill(s) did you have to develop to work in your field/ spefic job?
While not my dream job, I wouldn't cut it as a musician. I am tone def. There's no two ways about it. Even in HS when anyone and everyone was allowed to join chorus, my music teacher told me to lip synch so I wouldn't throw other people off. My piano teacher tried her best to teach me different techniques to count the beats in a song and follow along. A friend of mine is a music producer and even with all his fancy equipment including auto tune I still sounded horrible. I still made a the final cut of a mix tape- speaking and giggling on an interlude.
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I would love to own a web store that sold my beautiful watercolor paintings.
Unfortunately, I'm not creative and I can't paint.. so, theres that.
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@MrsTiz: hahahahahaha! As if the painting part is important right?
Can I just be a Woman of Leisure? Like old school British aristocrat? Old money and lots of it so I can ride my horses (I'd have two) and not have to spend my days cleaning up after the kids, just being with them.
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If money/skills don't matter, I would love to be a food blogger or travel with Andrew Zimmern for some bizzare food! I also would like to work at an animal shelter.
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@prettylizy: Umm, in your dream job would you need a co-worker? I'm a fantastic lounger.
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I'd be a talk show host, a la Ellen Degeneres, just looks so fun to be yourself, talk to people, dance, do silly stunts and also help people along the way. I might have more then one host with me but it wouldn't be like the view where we just sat around and blabbed......
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@MrsTiz: you're hired!
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@prettylizy: yeah, I want that job too. I'd be excellent at it.
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I would want to be a crafty DIY blogger. But since I can't write, explain things well, or finish projects, I don't think it would work out well. Also, I want to be able to make enough money to travel a lot, so that's another roadblock.
Basically, I want to make a lot of money to sit and home and do crafty things all day.
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I would love to be a writer for a soap opera. It's one of my guilty pleasures.
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If you had asked me when I was a little younger, I would have said actor, either in movies or on Broadway. But now that I've learned what I really like, it would be something with food. I would really love to be a recipe tester like something from America's Test Kitchen. I'm fascinated by food science and how to make a recipe better. I would love to just cook all sorts of things and have someone else pick up the bill for the ingredients.
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My dream job would be sitting on Pinterest all day, in the DIY section, and have unlimited access to Joann Fabric/Michaels and make anything and everything that I wanted all day. Then sell it online to make money!
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@Mrs. Lemon-Lime: No! I haven't. Sounds very interesting though! I'm haven't had a lot of time to put into my true crime hobby these days.
@beaker: HAH. I think that would be very accurate for me actually...
@Sapphiresun: WOAH! That is so awesome! I'm sure it's not quite so glamorous and probably less moments of eureka! "OMG! LIGHTBULB! WE KNOW THE BAD GUY & HIS LOCATION & HIS VICTIMS & HIS MOTHER'S, MOM'S MAIDEN'S NAME!" Is it a lot more like a regular desk job?
@looch: Do you write any fanfiction? I mean, that could really fill the need to do that if you don't already?!
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I would be an interior decorator! I didn't study this in college because at the time at least I knew it was an oversaturated highly competitive field
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@.twist.: I don't know what that is!?!?!
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I would manage a Habitat for Humanity kind of thing for the homeless. I love the idea of the 100k homes campaign, and would LOVE to work with it. http://100khomes.org/
Now, I just need it to pay enough to support me
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@looch: ooooooh. well, fanfiction are usually websites dedicated to a certain niche (for you that might be your fav soap) and it's full of people who want to write for soap operas. So, you'd go there and write and share your stories with others like you.
For example, Harry Potter has a HUGE fanfiction following. Websites dedicated to people who want to expand the world of J.K. Rowling and write their own adventures in the HP world.
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@sunny: I do play piano!
I picture myself being a badass singer and piano player and songwriter (like, someone who is known for actually being an artist, not just a pretty face with autotune), but I also want to be able to dance choreographed routines on stage and wear really awesome outfits.
But, I guess Norah Jones type music is probably more realistic for me since I can't dance.
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Ugh, i don't even know. I'm so burnt out on trying to manage my *real* career, I haven't put any thoughts into a fantasy career
@meow, one of the very limited occurrences at my job, yet super cool aspects is when we get feedback from military pilots on the products we make. Every once in awhile, they make an appearance to thank us in person or talk to us about what capabilities they want
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@ellewoods84: I have a friends who does this. She works for Hollyscoop and Maria Menounos is her boss. Sometimes it looks fun, but she works a TON.
And I'd work for Pixar. Toy Story literally changed my life as an 11 year old. I wanted to be an animator for years after that and the longing to be a part of it is still there.
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@BananaPancakes: I know someone who works at Dreamworks on animated films and she gets to go to the premieres!
@Rainbow Sprinkles: I would love to dance too except I also can't dance. Beyonce or Britney circa 1999 with the vocal chops of Mariah.
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@.twist.: That's what I started out wanting to do! Damn you, Silence of the Lambs (I have read that book so many times...)! I ended up figuring out that psychology was not for me (couldn't emotionally distance myself from my patients), so I changed career paths before I got my Ph.D.
@Sapphiresun: I know it's not like it is on tv, but I wish I could have done it.
My dream job would be forensic anthropologist. I went on to field school in Portugal and we spent a month excavating a 5,000 year old tomb and then 2 weeks in the lab analyzing bones. My first trowel full of dirt had a tooth in it. I also pieced together an infant skull, which was heartbreaking but amazing all at the same time. Over the years of excavating that tomb, they've individuated 127 individual human beings, and put together some fairly complete skeletons (the tomb had been raided at some point (scavenged / grave robbers), then a barn had been built over it, so the first skeletons unearthed were rabbit and bovine). Bones have always fascinated me, so I geeked out on that dig.
I don't have the finances to go back and do an undergrad major in osteology and years of field school and undergrad research in order to get into one of the few (maybe 5 now?) forensic anthro / osteo Ph.D. programs. I tried after that dig, but the answer was always the same - "you're smart, you have great psych education, research experience and publications, but we have so many candidates that are a better match because they majored in / researched / published in the field". I'll always have that dig, though!
Picture below is what some of the crushed bones we recovered looked like. We cleaned them in the lab and worked to piece them back together, like a jigsaw puzzle. The second picture is of the tomb itself, a "dolmen", just outside of Loures, Portugal. And the third picture is combing through the sifter looking for teeth and small bone fragments, plus any other goodies (idols / figurines, stone tools, etc.).
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@ballerinabee: Woah! Thank you for sharing that. That is seriously awesome! I am not nearly smart enough to do those things.
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@sunny: Dude. That's like the best pop start combination ever!
@ballerinabee: Wow. I am completely fascinated.
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I would love to be a psychologist and work with adolescents and young adults.
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@Meow: Yes! Yes it does. Thanks for sharing.
Your story is quite motivating.
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@.twist.: Haha, no. Pretty much every case that's ever on TV like that where there's a Sherlock Holmes style murder mystery would be the case of a lifetime for someone in my position. What I actually do is pretty software based from existing psychological theory at this point, so lots of sitting in my cubicle looking at maps and databases, then sometimes making predictions. Which is pretty cool when you get it right, but my files are often more like auto thefts or commercial B&Es than crime of the century serial killers.
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I'd be a back-up dancer / singer for Tina Turner - love me some Proud Mary!!
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I would love to work for Disney and be an imagineer. Design the rides and all the other things in the parks or the resorts. They keep it super top secret. My friend's husband does it and it just sounds awesome!
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@sorrycharlie: @daniellemybelle: high five! I'm 7 months from graduating and becoming a sonographer!
And that's my dream *actual job*. However, if it was really anything I ever wanted, I'd be a SAHM with an awesome crafty blog, be able to be at all my kids school things, and still be put together and a fabulous wife.
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@BabyMats: that would be an awesome dream job. DHs cousin is an imagineer and we love going to the parks with him and hearing all the little secrets. He LOVES his job.
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