Dream job thread

[DREAM TEAM BUFF]

Be a moderator on BigFooty oh wait

 

[The Passenger]

Agree re the travel tv shows - would be fantastic to get paid to travel the world.

From what I have read they don't have it so sweet. Spend **** all time in each place and on the go the whole time.

Travel writer would be better.

 

[kanye_best]

I'm a bit of an amateur biologist. I love animals. I'd love to travel the world observing all different kinds of animals, insects, birds etc etc

 

[iluvparis]

Sporting journalist/critic.
They get paid (shitloads) to do what I like to do as recreation; talk smack about a variety of inane issues in their chosen sporting field.

This.

100k+ to be a sports blogger thanks.

 

[Holy Foley!]

I'd love to be a ruthless dictator.

 

[BotsMaster]

Be on Top Gear.

A lot of people have been on Top Gear so I don't think it's too hard other than living in the UK would be a good start.

 

[checkraiseulite]

this guy has a pretty sweet gig.

 

[Stratton_Gun]

Food critic wouldn't be bad. Go to heaps of restaurants, eat for free and then give some **** and bull rating to go with a puff article

 

[courtjester]

One of the Mythbusters guys. Or the new David Attenburgh.

 

[bkozican]

Wouldn't mine being a sports commentator

 

[Resting88]

This job:

http://jobs.netflix.com/jobs.php?id=NFX01466

 

[FootyJunkie]

Wouldn't mine being a sports commentator

"boy oh boy, wowee!"

 

[Dont be a lemon]

From what I have read they don't have it so sweet. Spend **** all time in each place and on the go the whole time.


Travel writer would be better.

Heard that's even shitter. No support staff, limited money for expenses, extreme deadlines forcing you to do bullshit reviews.

 

[DrKrieger]

Wouldn't mine being a sports commentator

You need to edit your own Wikipedia article to let people know you often speak without notes in order to start the ball rolling on that

 

[Sal_Paradise]

Yeah, another for travel writer I suppose. Maybe in the Dickens mould.

I'd like to move into the more antiquarian side of bookselling, but I can't see that happening any time soon, it kills me enough when I buy shitty books for stock that I want. I'd be hopeless if I was going to get beautiful old editions purely to sell on.

Do you own a store? Online?

 

[PP34]

Sporting journalist/critic.
They get paid (shitloads) to do what I like to do as recreation; talk smack about a variety of inane issues in their chosen sporting field.

I don't think it's that great to be honest. I'd love to be a writer on Grantland but on most other sites it's all about being a pest, getting information and being the first to break the story resulting in you looking like a tool, idiot or genius.

I guess the pay would be okay. I'd love to be a sports GM. Running my own team. How awesome. The only negative I can think of is that you end up viewing the team basically as a bunch of stats and so on. I doubt those who run teams/work the lists ever sit back and admire their work. They're always planning ahead.

 

[The Passenger]

Heard that's even shitter. No support staff, limited money for expenses, extreme deadlines forcing you to do bullshit reviews.

interesting. you're probably right.

 

[Hipster Doofus]

I don't think it's that great to be honest. I'd love to be a writer on Grantland but on most other sites it's all about being a pest, getting information and being the first to break the story resulting in you looking like a took, idiot or genius.

I guess the pay would be okay. I'd love to be a sports GM. Running my own team. How awesome. The only negative I can think of is that you end up viewing the team basically as a bunch of stats and so on. I doubt those who run teams/work the lists ever sit back and admire their work. They're always planning ahead.

Oooo yes a GM.
I'd take my Sactown to the top by securing some perimeter defenders and Taj Gibson

 

[Plugger35]

In no particular order

Rock star
Movie star
Sports star
Cricket commentator
Chancellor of Germany
David Hasselhoff

 

[pekay-norwest]

RAAF Pilot. These blokes have the life, and fly multi million dollar machines for a quid. Hard gig I know, plenty of continuous study and repetition to get your systems right, but I sit here from my office window and watch Hercs take off and fly around the Hawkesbury and wish I was doing the same. And that's only cargo airframes, imagine being a fighter pilot! Would be difficult walking around with a hard on all day though.

 

[the_interloper]

Rock star. You can be ugly and fat and still bang hotties, and you're expected to have a drug problem, winning!

 

[Nostradumbass]

Camera man shooting wildlife docos.

 

[Catfish Alley]

Camera man shooting Victoria Secret docos

 

[MarcusP2]

I'd like to move into the more antiquarian side of bookselling, but I can't see that happening any time soon, it kills me enough when I buy shitty books for stock that I want. I'd be hopeless if I was going to get beautiful old editions purely to sell on.

You got a bookstore mate? I wouldn't mind somewhere other than A&R/Dymocks to buy.

 

[Gough]

A mate of mine has a bricks and mortar secondhand shop and I sell my shitty paperbacks and the like through him, anything decent I put online for sale.