To ask what your dream career is?

[TheJoxter]

I’ve never known what I want to be ‘when I grow up’

Now I’m grown up and I still don’t know!

AIBU to ask you to tell me what your dream career is? (And hopefully inspire me!)

I'll join the queue for full time novelist... My dream is to have a little shed in a beautiful garden where I can sit and write the books I love to write and people actually read them... As it is I'm doing a job I hate while my beloved life's works languish at 564,977 in the Amazon chart. I think most creative pursuits are sadly not viable as actual jobs so deciding what I wanted to do for a living at 40 has been bitter sweet!

@suitepea. That's my dream job too. Would love to do something like that

Or chef! But the hours seem hell.

Rugby player, I only manage to be semi-pro and the pay wasn’t enough to not work.

Social worker/therapist.

I’m doing my dream job. And it genuinely is a dream come true. Pinch myself every day that I get to get up and go do this for a living!

Havent RTFT but I bet there’s a few Librarian because it must be lovely to work in peace and look at books all day.

Seriously, I’m a Librarian and it’s nothing like people imagine and it is really really hard work.

I’d love to write a book one day so author would be my dream career but It would have to be as author who makes decent money. You only need one good idea though.

A karate expert and butt kicking shiny haired spy obs.

In the real world a speech therapist.

A professional powerlifter. I only discovered it as a hobby a couple of years ago and only started training more seriously in the last 6 months but I would love to be able to train and compete as a career.

I, too, wish that I had joined the police.

I’m an accountant. I like it, I am good at it and I earn more than most police officers (except Cressida Dick and chief constables). I still wish that I had joined the police though.

I wanted to be a Dr when I was girl, missed the boat though, I was academically capable but lazy.....ended up working dull office jobs for large house builders, the Local Authority and shitty call centres.
I now have a very niche non-clinical forensic mental health role that's interesting but 20 years of mental health work is taking it's toll. I have a sideline wedding/celebraion cake business that is my therapy and allows my artistic side to flourish..I would love to do this full time but it's competitive and hard work. I also home board dogs which I love, I have a couple of blind rescue dogs that I rehomed and they love the extra doggie company. I'm looking to expand into more boarding and dog walking whilst decreasing the hours in my full time job.

an astronaut first woman on Mars & colonist (but I need all my family to come as well & that might be an issue )

Chocolatier

Interior designer

Script writer

A researcher in a natural science where I get to travel the world (if I didn't have children) or in psychology or neuropsychology (should have stayed on after BSc and done a masters degree, nevermind)

ItIsWhatItIsInnit I am actually trying to get in to what you do for a living as I'm a data analyst and want to broaden my horizons. I have bought online courses on the theory and programming languages, but have not had time to do them. I wonder what we would all achieve if it wasn't for our day jobs and our kids!

I would love to be an artist living in a remote seaside cottage somewhere creating things from driftwood or having a huge room where you can just throw paint at stuff . Sadly I dont have any artistic ability whatsoever. Or option 2, historian. Or option 3 travel writer.

@360eyes, nice! I actually started my new job last week and (fingers crossed) am enjoying it so far :)

I used to be a statistician in the pharma industry but it is mind-numbingly dull and very regulated, whereas my job now (different industry completely) seems to be a lot more interesting with a lot more creative freedom of how to approach things. Good luck! I'm the same with sewing - I've paid for online courses but then never get round to them...

I find evening classes are good, as once you're there you get really into it. Maybe try those for programming?

Deep sea explorer and go hunt for prehistoric monsters at the bottom of the sea.

Or police. I settled for police

Dog rescued or professional dog cuddler

Obviously it would be fabulously well paid and I would have someone else pick up all the poop.

Imagine spending the day walking and cuddling dogs all day! Bliss!

1960s glamorous international Jewel thief with a catsuit and an entourage of eccentric villains.

I would like to be a stage manager in the theatre (plays rather than musicals please). I didn't realise until I was too old though, so I'll have to stick to just going to the theatre a lot.

Midwife... and I just retrained, qualified and due to start my 1st registered midwife job next month :D So dream job become a reality!

You probably aren’t ‘too old’ ShinyMe - though drama school training would (at any age) require a good deal of energy and probably some expense if you want a professional career.

You’d need to start with some amateur work anyway, just to get on to a decent degree/postgrad course. Have you actually tried stage-managing?

Firefighter

I have always wanted to be a funeral director

Artist
Conservation biologist
Clothes designer
Travel writer

I'd like to be a microbiologist.

I'm actually a nurse.

@pumpkinpie2016
Can I ask how old you are? I'm a detective and worked my way up from PC. Could you become a special constable first see how you like it? (Volunteer officer but with all the same powers as a regular PC)

For me, I'd love to join the mounted division but my force don't have one and it's almost impossible to get into!