What would be your ideal job if you could wave a magic wand and make it so?

[mouse4702]

Or maybe you are doing it?  Following on from a post on here about "finding your vocation", I wonder if any - or all - of us have found ours yet?

[saasher2012]

Yes I found mine in fairness I always had it but in the last year I have returned to it full time. My only regret is although I've been able to do quite a lot in a short space of time ,if I'd done it sooner I may have been able to do more.

[mouse4702]

It's good, though, that you had it, and have it.  May I ask what it is or is that being over-nosey?

[saasher2012]

lol.

[stroppy*cow]

I have always wanted to work as a marine biologist, studying whales, sharks and dolphins in the wild, and swimming with them.

Would have to be a really good magic wand as I can't even swim or stand up now. I never was a very good swimmer.

[mouse4702]

Aw Stroppy.  Come and have a holiday in Pembrokeshire.  You can go out in boats and see them, and we have two centres of the Field Studies Council where they do exactly that.

***Thinks Sam must be something glam or top secret and dangerous***

[wskneil]

I should have been a vet 😞 . I got  4 great A levels , loved science loved animals but for some reason never thought about being a vet, Ended up being a pharmacist and I hate it more with every year I do it.

Or a mechanic... never happier than when spinning spanners and up to my ears in grease.

[saasher2012]

I'm a stripper! LOL. I HASTEN TO ADD IM NOT! no offence to any strippers of course, creeps away before I dig a bigger hole,

[millielilac]

I loved my job ...I always wanted to be a teacher even as a child...

I gave up my job when I had my own children and was very happy being at home . When they started school I took some extra training and went into early years ( nursery ) ....I loved it even more ...it was the best job of all.

Eventually the paperwork took over ....too many ticklists , not enough time spent with the children .......not enough hours in the day ....it took over my life ...however I loved every minute of it and can truly say I had the best job in the world .....

[rose2008-2008]

I always wanted to be a vet but did not get the exams,,or i was not clever enough if im honest. My Niece became one and im proud of her.

Or i wanted to work with Animals,,,should of done really.

[saasher2012]

You still could Rose if it's really what you want to do make inquiries !

[*pixachu*]

I really don't know! I have so little ambition.... which is why I am doing what I do now, to try to get inspired. To get some motivation...

IS ALSO NOT A STRIPPER

[rose2008-2008]

Yes i think really im not brave enought to say im not really very motivated any more and have never been ambitious so to speak. Im always thinking i just want to get by and pay my bills thats the priority!!!. Yes maybe it is or it could be a cop out!!!. LOL

[petitecalicocat]

My dream job would have to include quilting , patchwork , sewing or fabric ,   not a fabric shop though or i'd never have any wages left 

I did once  do soft furnishing , curtains , upholstery etc & loved it until lugging the huge rolls of fabric became impossible due to illness .  

Is intrigued by Sam 's job now come on Sam tell us pleeese 🙂

[ilove2patch]

Doesn't Sam work with sheep & cows? Perhaps she is a vet?

[ed_blackadder_1]

I would loved to have been a ballet dancer, I adored dancing and met Margot Fonteyn when I was younger at a Royal Ballet summer school, sadly I was too small and my star didn't shine quite bright enough as she put it, which I now thinking back think was a lovely way of putting it but at 14 I was heartbroken.  I was told I would have a future doing something like the young generation or something like that, but it wasn't ballet.   My big regret in life but it wasn't to be.

[captainbovine]

I always wanted to be a dairy farmer's wife, and milk the cows. I have always had a love of cows.

mind you, I'd have cried my leg off when they had to go to market!! but then again......weee calves .... aawwww

I've been a nurse, PA (pain in the a*r*e my boss used to call me but he did say when he had to move down to Reading that he was losing his right arm losing me...which was lovely), ran a post office, and a host of other things. Apart from the nursing, I just couldn't seem to settle at a job.

I've been in this one 15yrs purely because I don't want responsibility anymore and it's handy.

ooooh.....but the coo's........

[saasher2012]

Aah Ed! That's so sad & sweet, give us a twirl& get up on your points?.

[ed_blackadder_1]

Gawd Sam, I would break my ankle if I tried to do that now.  The other thing I would like to have been is a linguist at the United Nations don't ask me why just fancied it.

That's why I work in a supermarket now, never mind I have had a good life none the less, have good friends and get to do most of the things I want to do, apart from going to Paris with the OH, he really doesn't want to go, I have been loads of times and would love to show him, but he has dug his heals in.

[ilove2patch]

If I had been clever enough & would have liked to be a pathologist or forensic scientist. I find the subject fascinating.