Dream job?

[02SE]

I wanted to fly fighter planes. Probably the result of the Top Gun movie on an impressionable High School kid. The recruiter told me I was too tall. Being 18 and naive, I believed him. I have since met many taller pilots...

At any rate, things have worked out okay overall.

 

[Greg]

... A job like Greg's would have been fun, when I was younger. I'm too old to try and get started in that field now.

I couldn't imagine working in an office 5 days a week... I'd probably kill myself. 😂 My office is my F550 and my shop is the RR track. Working outside has its ups and downs... mostly weather related. Hot Summers can suck and so can cold Winters, but I wouldn't trade it for a proper office indoors.

 

[Spork]

I've been doing system administration for 20+ years, every now and then I would love to drive to some remote tower and poke a server just to get out of the office. Times have changed and current job I don't even have access to the data center unless I'm escorted. Good or bad my job has become tell someone what I'm seeing and how to fix it, while waiting for them to get back from lunch or their afternoon nap.

 

[Kevin B.]

I've been doing system administration for 20+ years, every now and then I would love to drive to some remote tower and poke a server just to get out of the office. Times have changed and current job I don't even have access to the data center unless I'm escorted. Good or bad my job has become tell someone what I'm seeing and how to fix it, while waiting for them to get back from lunch or their afternoon nap.

Are you me? Telco, not sysad, but same same.

 

[kmboren]

Trust fund playboy

Winner, Winner.

 

[kmboren]

I really can't complain about being a RN. I am not rich but have more than I ever thought I would. I work 6 nights in a row and then have 8 days off in row. Only thing better would be more time off and less work making more money. You always spend what you male so 🤷. I really like Hickey dream job.

 

[Cody]

This. I've always said I'd be a very good rich person. I have the right eccentric tastes, enjoy fine wine, good food, and I'd have spectacular yachts and architecturally interesting beach houses and ski chalets.

You guys would love reading about my exploits. 😎

Personality wise, not much separates you from Dan Bilzarian

 

[Houndoc]

Picked my career as a 7 year old and never really considered anything else.
It has been a fantastic career so no regrets at all.
A second career in humanitarian project development occasionally crosses my mind. For now that stays as a hobby through Rotary.

 

[jeeper]

I’m mid career change now. Sorta by force, partially by choice. It’s definitely weird to be changing our lives completely at 40 years old.

That being said, I have never been able to pick something I would want to do if I could choose. I don’t know if it’s contentment or lack of imagination.

 

[frieed]

I couldn't imagine working in an office 5 days a week...

I been working from home since the start of Covid. I started my current job last July and have yet to meet anyone in person.
Mar. 2020 @DAA , @Kevin B. , and I did a trip from 3-corners to 4-corners. At the time my truck was about to roll over 100k miles.
Now in April of 2024 it has only gotten to 108k. I should probably use fuel stabilizer or at least ethanol-free.

 

[Kevin B.]

I spent 1 year in law school before realizing that I would probably be a mediocre lawyer (ie, hate my job AND not make all that much money), so I bounced out. I was accepted to the MBA program at the U, but chose to follow my passion into landscape architecture and environmental planning at USU.

In the 15 years since, I have worked for a couple of private equity groups, helped manage a large corporation, made some interesting real estate investments, and since January 2018 have run my own small landscape architecture practice.

I’m just about to turn 42, and have started to get that familiar itch for something new. I’ll always have my landscape design business to satisfy my creative urges, but I was looking for something with a bit of a lifestyle twist, that can tap into my background of business analysis and my training in environmental planning.

I found out there are firms that specialize in transacting large 5k-30k acre ranch properties. Hall and Hall, Mirr Ranch group, and others. Job description: drive around the west evaluating large properties, performing legal, financial, functional and aesthetic analyses to asses utility and value, spend enough time on the properties (camping, dirt bikes, snowmobiles) to really know it inside and out, and market the property to folks looking to find their dream ranch. Some of these ranches sell for 20-150M dollars, so there is money to be made as well.

So, this spring I picked up my real estate license and am starting in with a broker that specializes in these types of properties. Should be a fun new direction.

When you're filthy rich and selling billion dollar ranches to Hollywood stars, can I be your driver? I'll even wear the little hat.

 

[johngottfredson]

When you're filthy rich and selling billion dollar ranches to Hollywood stars, can I be your driver? I'll even wear the little hat.

Best I can do is you riding shotgun. In the little hat.

 

[cruiseroutfit]

I still enjoy my job(s), but I often think I should have/do just one job so I could do it better or with higher efficiency.

Book recommendation that has given me great perspective ans inspired much thought.

 

[nnnnnate]

My job pays the bills. I get very little satisfaction from it, if any at all. It does allow my to do other things that bring enjoyment and purpose to my life. Work has been more difficult lately. I found out the sister contract to mine isn’t being renewed so our program is losing 15 sysadmins which cover 30+ sites.

If I had the chance to change careers (again) I’d probably change them every few months. Right now I’m pretty interested in trees and would love to learn pruning and tree felling skills. I’m a big fat guy though so I probably wouldn’t last long.

 

[Corban_White]

You already know my opinion, but Lineman. I definitely recommend you look into some kind of apprenticeship/trade school with job placement. Maxton has been on quite a few field trips to different colleges/trade schools this year. He really liked this one https://prescott.erau.edu/. Then yesterday he went to

and he said that one was his favorite. They had factory supported motorcycle programs as well.

I'm with @nnnnnate, if I didn't have bills and family responsibilities, etc. I would love to follow a different job path every 6-12 months. I'd love to learn all sorts of new careers/industries like crane operator, heavy equipment operator, tower climbing, pipeline welding, etc. I have a little experience with most of this kind of work, and I know they aren't something I want to make a career out of, but they would be fun to do for a while. But at the moment I am pretty attached to steady good pay and a reliable work schedule/home time.

I'm probably 60/40 field/office at my current job and I love it. Even when I'm in the office, more than half of the time is spent fixing stuff for people so I don't end up doing a ton of paperwork. There are several trade schools/technical colleges in Washington County. You should go take a tour or 2.

Although, some times working outside has some drawbacks. I took this picture yesterday.



Thank goodness for good air conditioning! 😁

I took this picture a few minutes earlier though, so it all balances out.

 

[Stephen]

Then yesterday he went to

and he said that one was his favorite. They had factory supported motorcycle programs as well.

One of my best friends went to UTI 20+ years ago and became an Audi Master Tech. He really enjoyed it. He's an auto shop teacher now and has a really good relationship with UTI and sends probably 10 graduating seniors down there each year. Its a great career option that I sometimes wish I had taken.

 

[TRD270]

One of my best friends went to UTI 20+ years ago and became an Audi Master Tech. He really enjoyed it. He's an auto shop teacher now and has a really good relationship with UTI and sends probably 10 graduating seniors down there each year. Its a great career option that I sometimes wish I had taken.

I joined the military to pay for a tech school. Was looking at UTI or Wyotech. Wanted to be a heavy deeeezel mechanic. As fate would have it I jacked up my back in airborne school. Exited the military, went to school for 2 semesters, where at the old age of 22 my back told me I wasn’t doing that for a career.

 

[Stephen]

There are lots of careers that I wish I had pursued: aeronautical engineer, aircraft mechanic, water law, architecture, etc. etc.
But here at 41, I kinda like that I have a job that pays pretty well, has great benefits, and most importantly; that I clock out every day at 5 and rarely work after hours. Is it intellectually stimulating work? Not really. Is it going to make me rich? No, but it will afford me a decent retirement in 25ish years. I've worked in enough high stress jobs and had enough shitty bosses that having a pretty easy gig with good bennies that affords me plenty of time with my wife and kids feels a bit like a dream job to me right now.

 

[Skylinerider]

Among the careers I wish I could have, being in somewhat of a transition point as well like some of you, I wish I could make a living from my photography, but not a lot of people want to pay for that work unless it's cheap ass pics of their family. I have wanted to get back into land use as well, but the BLM is full of hippy shitheads and the Forest Service is the same way now. I wouldn't mind doing IT stuff like I've been doing for the last 10 years, but it isn't a passion.

 

[Johnny Quest]

My dream job would be one of those “paid to just be alive” deals; also, it wouldn’t be a job