what would your dream career be?

[prettyhorses]

If you had to be really specific, what would your dream career be?

I have a fantasy of sitting in my plant room in my big glass house overlooking the beach on my laptop working while I help people to redesign their lives to get the perfect balance between lifestyle, finances, family, career etc. I couldn't think of anything more rewarding than making people feel so excited because they feel their dream life is a reality. I would have no idea how to go about this myself. Any pointers?

what would your dream career be?

[PainterInPeril]

An artist/sculptor!🎨🖌️ I'm not sure if I could make a living from this but I would love to take it up professionally. When I'm feeling better I'll start researching it.

[PoulePouletteEternellement]

The famous quote from 'The Towers of Trebizond' by Rose Macaulay pretty much sums up my history:

'I too follow professions, but at some distance behind, and seldom catch up with them.'

I've been involved with each of my top three professions - and have no idea how to finish this sentence ...

[icebearforpresident]

Astronaut 👩‍🚀. The prospect of going back to the moon and on to Mars is so exciting and it’s going to be happening soon - NASA are aiming to be back on the moon by 2024).

In reality though I don’t have a head for maths or science and have type 1 diabetes so it won’t happen unless nasa get REALLY desperate, it won’t be happening.

[SimonJT]

@Daftasabroom

Another ex pro sports international here, a champagne lifestyle on a beer income. Loved it but it's not family friendly, wouldn't pay a mortgage, and I got too old and too injured.

I'd like to have been an architect of sustainable and passive homes.

Hey sports buddy.

Do you still compete at all?

[Mylittlesandwich]

I would love to be a midwife. It's something I've been interested in for years. I've decided to do something about it and have plans in place to go back to uni at the end of next year.

[MirandaWestsNewBFF]

@Popsy321 is there an MLM which offers life coaching? I have heard people say this before but never come across one.

I know anyone can set up as a life coach and you don’t have to be accredited. Maybe that’s why?

I got into career coaching because I used to work in corporate HR as a talent manager. We used career coaching to help people’s careers develop, and I tried it out myself, got interested and ended up getting accredited and striking out for myself.

[MirandaWestsNewBFF]

The one I’ve got.

I’m an independent career coach, helping people who want to make massive career changes and I LOVE IT. It’s a brilliant feeling when you’re working with someone to turn their pipe dreams into real plans and watching them get there too. I was working with a client today who had a day job in higher education- horribly stressful and also unfulfilling for her. She’s now working through the plan we made to make a career from writing and teaching yoga and she is so much happier.

Happy to talk more about what I do if you’re interested - just drop me a PM.

[Whoateallthestuffingballs]

I love my current job in many ways, but I'd really like to work for myself again.

I have just started studying for an IT qualification that will take five to six years. I am hoping in nine years' time (I'll be 47), when our mortgage drops considerably, that I'll be able to do my current work, plus something more IT-related as a freelancer, so I could try to work more flexibly.

I'd also love to pick up some painting commissions at that point, but I wouldn't want that to be my sole revenue stream, as I know many full-time artists have to spend a lot of time teaching and marketing to be able to earn a living and I'm pretty sure I'd struggle with the pressure if that was my only means of support.

[NeedCoffeeToSurvive]

Geneticist

[Lofu]

I want to name paint colours.

I will lie on a couch in a conservatory office by the sea, and people will bring me swatches. I'll look at them very intently then shout out something inspired like 'penguin tears!'

Everyone applauds. I get paid millions.

[tigerbear]

@Elderflower14 damn right!! 😍

[GypsyLee]

What is MLM?

[Popsy321]

@umpteennamechanges

I'm in mine now.

I help other women figure out what they want to do with their life and then make it a reality.

I get all kinds of jobs coming up. Most tend to go towards having different income streams (like a portfolio career).

Some examples:

• Ethical bee keeper and part time marketing consultant
• Swim school, mediator and magistrate
• Sales coach, coach for aspiring music artists and part time bid manager
• Hypnotherapist
• Antique dealer, crafter and part time marketing consultant for small, quirky, women led businesses
• Potter

MLM life coach then.

[GypsyLee]

[quote FitYeDaeinYeMadRadge]@GypsyLee, are your studies more traditional or of modern day? Are there major differences in the culture nowadays or are there still elements of the old traditions which must be adhered to?

Must be fascinating to research, years back I remember seeing a traditional painted van pulled by a gorgeous Vanner, I often wonder what happened to the older generation who preferred the simpler life.

I find the some of the programmes on telly a bit sneery, perhaps the same with all walks of life, they concentrate on the individuals who make ‘good/car crash viewing.[/quote]
Hi, not to derail this thread. I have quite a long thread in AMA I'm a gypsiologist"
I spend a long time researching a both past and present, and love learning about the migration.
It was providing a good income as we set the story to music and it travelled the UK until all the venues closed.
No income now, really.

[Missushbb]

@speakout

I love what I do.

Working in a creative field, from home, self employed, well paid.
Lots of time for yoga, forest walks, tea breaks.
Can't imagine doing anything else.

This sounds good? What do you do?

[WhatAreWordsWorth]

Dancer/choreographer.

I always wonder how life would’ve turned out if I’d pursued it. I took the sensible route, did a degree and got a full time job instead. I regret it, fleetingly. Although my chosen path did lead me to my wonderful DH, which is something that I never regret, not for one second.

[Liverbird77]

Absolute dream would be to work with Larry David writing comedy and to also be a voiceover artist, specifically on a cartoon like South Park.

[Mummydoctor]

I love my job as a GP but I’d rather be an interior designer!

[Iamthewombat]

I would like to have been a city trader. I was too chicken to try when I graduated: I was clever enough but put off by having to live in London and work with abrasive posh city types who at that time (early nineties) wouldn’t have been kind to a northern woman from a comp!

I’m now an accountant, and very senior, but I still wish that I’d given it a go. Not for the money, particularly, but for the buzz and excitement.

[PersonaNonGarter]

Theatre Director.

Nearly did it. Glad I didn’t but I know I would have loved it.

[Thesagacontinues]

I want to work in NYC with the hustle and bustle of the city. Taxis and restaurants and shops everywhere. Im so bored of WFH alone in the country.

[Daftasabroom]

Another ex pro sports international here, a champagne lifestyle on a beer income. Loved it but it's not family friendly, wouldn't pay a mortgage, and I got too old and too injured.

I'd like to have been an architect of sustainable and passive homes.

[sneakysnoopysniper]

Ive has a number of careers - civil servant, librarian, academic and many many part time jobs of various kinds from working in a chip shop to being a film extra.

Whenever I worked for a large corporation I always wanted to run my own lifestyle business. By "lifestyle" I meant something that generated enough income for me to get by comfortably but did not require me to work so hard that it took all my time and energy. Im not interested in being a millionaire and that level of responsibility.

I always wanted to be an antiques dealer.

I retired from employed work in 2004 and I now in my 70s run an online business selling antiques and vintage.

Sometimes dreams can be made to come true.

[WankPuffins]

Writing for television.

[PolloDePrimavera]

In a TV wardrobe dept.