To ask what your ideal job would be

[tryingtobethebestican]

I started another post saying I'm unhappy with my job and was just thinking what job I'd love to do in an ideal world. One thing would be to own a lovely little gift shop just selling cards and pretty things with a seating area serving tea, coffee and cakes, sandwiches etc. How about you?

I would have a seaside bed and breakfast. Somewhere all year round like Whitby. I've worked in plenty of hotels and b and b and like it, but it would be good to do it for myself!

Anything where I meet other people and get to talk! Rather than the, admittedly well paid, job that I do now that bores the pants off me. Single mother though, getting zero child maintenance so the pay outweighs all at the moment. Hope I am still young enough to do something exciting when I no longer have to support the children!

Ooh good thread! I’d love to be a full time photographer, a wedding planner or property developer... maybe one day

I would love to be a counsellor. I wanted to be a journalist, but stuff happened and I never went to uni. Lately I have become interested in mental health treatment (have a history of ocd, anxiety and eating disorders) and would like to go into that field. I'd still like to write though.

A mattress tester or/and restaurant reviewer.
Can you tell my hobbies are sleeping and eating?

Lady of Leisure.

Or, I’d like to own a hip coffee shop in Camden. Maybe one like in Ellen - remember her coffee/book shop?

I was having fantasies today about owning a B&B in an 'istoric property, where I can fill bookshelves with books about the history in question and generally swan around. I would employ at decent pay someone else to change the beds, because in this fantasy life I don't have to make any actual money, and I would also employ someone else to cook as I'm a useless cook. I would have an attractive dog, or two, and all the menus would have to include exhortations not to slip scraps to the dogs as they are so friendly and adorable.

< sigh >

My passion is wild life, rhinos being my favourite, because of the alarming numbers being poached for there horn, I would love to be partbof an anti poaching team, although it's very dangerous!

Or a wild life get based in Botswana

I'd have an animal rescue reservation, where (in my fantasy) I could provide all the poor abused animals a happy loved retirement :)
(Obviously I would also have to have won a huge Euromillions lotto and have lots of wealthy supporters!)

Oooh, Adrian and Still, often in my fantasies my 'istoric B&B is close to a good zoo (one of the responsible ones, like Chester or Jersey) where I can volunteer on my off-days to chop up fruit for the lemurs.

Property developer and/or have my own wedding dress shop.

Florist for people getting married with wildly enormous budgets.

Side gig as a hugely in demand artist.

I'd love to open a sandwich shop!

To own and run a cat cafe. Any job involving cats tbh would be my dream job 😻

I would love to be/ have been a dancer in a contemporary dance company, touring the UK and abroad.

Professional musician in an orchestra.

A tea and cake tester

A couch potato, long hours preferred

Either:

• reading audiobooks aloud

Or

• a Take a Break or Chat journalist. I can’t imagine that ever being boring!

I'd be happy to be paid the wage I am now (working full time in a thankless job) to be a SAHM.

I'm very lucky that I'm doing mine already: Special Needs Teacher.

Absolutely adore my job, am so passionate about it and the children I support. It's not without it's challenges and it's absolutely exhausting but to watch their progress, however small, makes my heart burst!

The job I'd like is the person who picks the music for telly, films and ads. Or running a cattery.

No chance of either, sadly.

I'd be the senior writer for a travel blog about NYC, based in NYC, with a retreat in Upper State NY.

Elvis's backing singer

Chester Zoo recently advertised for a "Head Keeper of Giraffes"

Gutted I'm an accountant with no animal management qualifications

Nevertheless, if I could be paid to sleep, I would snap that up in a heartbeat!