What would be your ideal job?

[Treacle Toes]

You still have time! If you anything like me there was never only one job I wanted to do so I think that's okay. Transferrable skills and experience are one thing, learning new skills are another. I am a bit of a forever student myself as i'm always looking out for courses I can do for development etc.

 

[iamwithnail]

Ideal job, I think, would be where I got to write and pontificate about things that interest me - not even necessarily publishing them, just writing them - so obviously that's how I got sucked into Academia for the time being, sounded like that's what I could do. Couldn't be further from the truth.

 

[Part 2]

What I was doing when this thread was started. The same job I have now except the place is being run into the fucking ground.

 

[fractionMan]

Librarian at The British Library.

trust me, it's not all that.

 

[StoneRoad]

My ideal job was probably the one I had at the start of the recent recession - I was in charge of the samples / trade literature / design standards library at firm of interior designers. (I sorted out some chaos - basically a pile of samples and a few files - which I then greatly expanded into a proper resource ......... ) Failing that something similar at a small consulting engineers would do ! (I'm a Librarian by professional training)

Currently - nothing special but trying to run the back office functions for a boss who really doesn't understand nor appreciates the range of things I actually do for the organisation (basically the boss is an egotistical technophobe).

 

[Dillinger4]

trust me, it's not all that.

That was years ago. I dont have an ideal job anymore.

 

[Cpatain Rbubish]

Bank Job

 

[not-bono-ever]

train driver

 

[DotCommunist]

sub ed at the New Statesman

 

[J Ed]

No job

 

[fractionMan]

That was years ago. I dont have an ideal job anymore.

Tons of cuts at the library at the moment.

On the plus side a mate of mine drives a library bus and loves it.

 

[iamwithnail]

Really? I'm in the BL all the time, the staff are all really nice, sad to hear that.

 

[fractionMan]

Really? I'm in the BL all the time, the staff are all really nice, sad to hear that.

Yup, they're a lovely bunch.

There's lots of voluntary exits/restructuring going on and people are not being replaced.

 

[tufty79]

I recently missed the deadline for a v part time (up to 1 day a week) job. The hours/location/duties all seemed OK, i has bizarrely relevant work experience, but it was the job title that drew me most to it - 'sessional condom packer'.

I would genuinely have loved to do that

 

[SpookyFrank]

Not so much a job I actually want to do, just something I want on a business card: Musical Director.

Mrs Frank and I have been thinking about opening our arts/music space so she can be Creative Director and I can be MD.

 

[likesfish]

Fighter pilot haiwian air national guard they have a yacht moored next to the runway
1000s of miles of sky to fly in with no threats or people to bomb come home jump in the motor boat for a spot of fishing perfect

It is hawiai so avoiding being murdered might be a problem