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Mass_Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-27-04 04:37 PM
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What's your dream job?
Edited on Sat Mar-27-04 04:38 PM by Mass_Liberal
Mine is professional poker player. That's prob. because I haven't tried it yet. I've heard that poker is no fun when it's just a job.


What's your dream job?
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Narf Donating Member (302 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-27-04 04:42 PM
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1. Female porn star talent scout?
Maybe do a little auditioning of the actresses on the side?
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Mass_Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-27-04 04:49 PM
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6. heheheheh
good one.
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carols Donating Member (694 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-27-04 04:42 PM
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2. Having my own plant nursery
Digging in the dirst and watchin' the plants grow :-) Yup - that's Heaven.
Carol
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Bertha Venation Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-27-04 04:42 PM
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3. something outside
Damn near anything outside. I wouldn't mind being a National Park Service ranger. I'd try to get posted in the Great Smoky Mountain National Park, or the Grand Canyon, or -- hell, I'll take anywhere. Just get me OUTSIDE!
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Endangered Specie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-27-04 04:44 PM
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4. Supreme Court Justice, or, porn webmaster... big leap in dignity heh?
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MarianJack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-27-04 04:51 PM
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7. After Selection 2000...
...the answer in 5/9ths of the cases is yes!

My wife and I are tired of having someone else control our "incomes", so we're striking out on our own. The only alternative is continued financial destitution and the need to rely on grants and loans to pay for our son's college and on McDonald's or walmart for our retirement. No Thank You!
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amazona Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-27-04 04:57 PM
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12. not to be a wet blanket
Edited on Sat Mar-27-04 04:58 PM by amazona
...but for most folks striking out on their own is the fast track to lifelong poverty. I know whereof I speak -- self-employed 20-plus years, connected to lots of self-employeds. Most never break five figures annual income. A great many actually lose money. And, when you reach your forties, good luck getting health insurance.

Turn back now, it's a dead end. I wish I had known what the future held when I started down this path. There is only room for self-employeds to make decent incomes in a healthy, usually growing economy.

Many things my self-employed friends used to do such as medical transcriptionists are dead because of outsourcing.

I hope you have better luck but I sure wouldn't bet my child's future on it.

There is a reason jobs with large corporations are valued, and it isn't because of the managers' warmth, charm, or personality.
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mac1000a Donating Member (141 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-27-04 09:38 PM
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18. You and Clarence Thomas
will get along juuuussst fine.
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MarianJack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 07:09 AM
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30. Exactly...
Edited on Mon Mar-29-04 07:11 AM by MarianJack
...what is the point of that insult? I see nothing in my desire for my wife and I to have our own business that would connect me to that sexual harrassing slime!

The 5/9th remark is an insult to those 5 "justices" who installed this misadministration! You know, as in their lack of dignity for their votes!
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ayeshahaqqiqa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-27-04 04:48 PM
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5. Personal assistant to Sam Waterston
I'm into helping people and working for causes, and so is he: check out my sig line below and you'll see why I find him inspiring.
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MarianJack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-27-04 04:54 PM
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9. Ever Since High School...
...when I saw a T.V. production of "The Glass Menagerie" (spelling?),
Sam Waterston has been one of my favorite actors and favorite people in the celebrity ranks. Great Quote.
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TheFarseer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-27-04 04:52 PM
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8. Doing play-by-play for the Kansas City Royals
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maveric Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-27-04 04:56 PM
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10. A curator at the Baseball Hall of Fame.
I encounter nocturnal emissions dreaming about that.
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Nikia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-27-04 04:56 PM
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11. I had a difficult time with this question
during my psych evaluation for my potential new job. I didn't name a specific profession. I said that I liked to solve problems and see my solutions implimented.
I would actually like to be a cryptozoologist or a track coach or a professional writer.
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AspenRose Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-27-04 04:59 PM
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13. Employment Law Attorney
Having my own company, consulting other companies on ADA, FMLA, AA/EEO, and training for workplace mediation.

I'll be 36 next month, so in a lot of ways, I feel quite old to be even entertaining the thought. The average age at UNM School of Law is 25.
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Nikia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-27-04 05:10 PM
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15. I have occasionally thought about law
And this is the branch of law that I'd like to be in. We don't have the money for me to go to law school and both sets of grandparents think that lawyers are evil. Becoming a lawyer would be like if I had a white supremicist Fundie family and I announced that I would be going to Canada (or San Francisco) to marry my black girlfriend. I'm not kidding.
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unblock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-27-04 05:04 PM
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14. sleep lab technician
not my favorite job, but it is a dream job....
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mikebl Donating Member (99 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-27-04 05:14 PM
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16. what could be better???
Lifeguard in Vegas
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flamingyouth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-27-04 05:14 PM
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17. Reading books in the sun
Who's paying for that nowadays? :shrug:
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The Lone Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-27-04 09:40 PM
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19. Archaeologist
Just digging in dirt and guessing how old those bones are, no one cares and no one gets hurt.
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bigwillq Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-27-04 09:43 PM
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20. I kinda of sorta have it
I am a sports writer. I have always dreamed of being a writer. However, I want to go beyond sports possibly work at Entertainment Weekly or at a mag/newspaper where I could write opinion pieces. I would also like to be a screenwriter. But writing in any form will do.
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Cleita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-27-04 09:47 PM
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21. I had a friend once who was a Mathematician.
He is a Dean now at a prestigous university. He always said the only think worthwhile in his life was his work. His personal life really sucked, I have to admit. But he is the only person I knew who loved his work. Even if it is something you love and are trained for, usually there is the mundane aspect that goes with the territory. But I guess that's why we need vacations.
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-27-04 09:49 PM
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22. I'd quite sure I'd make a great detective
I just don't like many cops.
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loftycity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-27-04 11:51 PM
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23. Exploring Spiritual Phenomena around the World...
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-27-04 11:52 PM
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24. A blow one. (nt)
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POed_Ex_Repub Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-27-04 11:57 PM
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26. Ah... u want to chase hurricanes, tornadoes?
;)
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POed_Ex_Repub Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-27-04 11:56 PM
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25. Writing Software and books for no one in particular
Basically take on the projects I want without either performance pressure or deadline pressure. But I'm bet that's everyone's right?
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area51 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-28-04 12:11 AM
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27. Research
I like looking for solutions to problems.
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camero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-28-04 12:13 AM
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28. Gigolo
:evilgrin:
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FloridaJudy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-28-04 12:15 AM
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29. School Nurse at Hogwart's n/t
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