If money was no issue, what work would you do?

[Janey1987]

Stressful week at work!

I think I’d set up a little food business/buy a small cafe and do a ‘one meal feeds two’ idea where one person’s regular priced meal funds a second one for someone in need. Obvs wouldn’t be profitable so hence the ‘money not being an issue’

Charity work and ad-hoc low level 'good deed' type volunteering.

Walk dogs. Foster animals. Paint the school yard fences and volunteer to go in once a week to read with the kids. A shift a week in my local charity shop which always struggles for staff and at the local foodbank. Basically be useful and busy but not stressed. If money was no object I have no great desire to do anything particularly academic.

I would also apply to be a magistrate which I've wanted to do for a couple of years but just don't have the time for right now.

Activities coordinator for the elderly. I used to volunteer in a residential home and I miss it, I loved the residents so much. Unfortunately it just wouldn't pay the bills or mortgage.

Either that or a librarian.

My job, but part time, on a lower grade (less responsibility).

Author. I work full time and publish work on the side but would give it up in a heartbeat to write full time.

Go sailing, maybe in the Caribbean - smallish yacht with proper sails just mouching around the islands and reviewing the occassional sunset/sunrise.

I'd just do all the stuff I enjoy doing now, but I'd just CALL it work.

I’d have a Craft’n’Chatter Coffee’n’Cake shop. It would open at lunch time and stay open til 9pm. There would be a shop on the side selling crafting supplies and there would be machines that people could use (sewing machines etc) if they didn’t have their own. There would be free day workshops for beginners.
I just need the money and the premises!!

Travel writer/presenter.

I am lucky enough to love my job (manage a charity shop) but I just wish I could enjoy my days off/holidays without the constant calls and having to go in to cover - so maybe I would privately pay to have an assistant manager!

Novellist. Haven't given up on that but don't expect it to ever be my main job.

I'm doing this, but I got a loan from the government and I am doing degree (online) in the evenings whilst I'm still working my normal job full time.

It's exhausting but one day I'm hoping to do my dream job.
I'm in a corporate job now, retraining in a health field.

It's the same with people saying they'd 'own a cafe'

Reality is getting up at the crack of dawn, dealing with not always nice customers. Stressful when it gets busy, then deflated when it's quiet.
Most people would throw in a towel and not get up at 4-5am when it's pissing it down outside.

I'd work on film sets. Doing anything really - runner, extra, dogsbody - I'd just love to be a tiny part of that world.

Honesty you can do it. Govt loan and do a degree online, part time? I'm doing this now, it's hard and I have to save up annual leave to do uni placements. But it's my dream and I'm chipping away at it
I work full time as well.

Probably the same job, but I’d use the fact money is no object to staff it properly (NHS) so I could give the best level of care that I want to give, not the basic level of care I end up giving because there’s too many patients and not enough staff

I'm a care home manager. I would probably buy my own care home but staff it properly and pay my team what they deserve to be paid-and invest in it properly so all the clients had the right support and a nice physical environment etc. Basically what care homes should be but aren't as there isn't the funding anymore. I wouldn't manage it mind-just oversee from a luxury distance.

Other than that my other three dream jobs would be florist, driving instructor or mediator (the marital dispute kind)-just need the cash to allow me to stop work and train to do them!

It depends what you mean.

If I had Bezos/Gates money I would eradicate homelessness entirely worldwide. Probably using the Singapore model. I'd manage all the workers who made it work. Adequate soundproofing, lots of social stuff built in. It would be great.

If it's just enough money for me and mine, either my actual job, because I love it, or a shoe shop.

"I would also have a petting zoo attached with a train ride through the land"

From further up the thread, but has made me smile so much! I love mini-trains, running through the shrubbery on their mini-tracks at 5mph! Maybe I would volunteer to come and sell the tickets!

My own fantasy job is having an artisan ice-cream trailer at different events, parks and venues. I suspect the reality is very different to what I'm imagining!

I'd either do an MA, or have a book/craft shop with a cafe, or a chocolate shop.

Honesty you can do it. Govt loan and do a degree online, part time? I'm doing this now, it's hard and I have to save up annual leave to do uni placements. But it's my dream and I'm chipping away at it

It’s not just the undergraduate degree though-doing that and THEN the 3/4 year doctorate afterwards makes it a long, very elite, hard and expensive path!

@Shinyandnew1 yes I get it.
I wanted to do that but it's the 3-4 years post grad that stopped me. I would be 40 yo when I qualify. Instead I chose another option that involves a bachelor degree and just one year post grad; I am almost 2 years into my bachelor. I will be 38 when I fully qualify but I'm so glad I started.

I know it's hard and shit, but there are options