Dream job vs actual job.

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  • RoboLikes
    RoboLikes Posts: 519 Member
    Actual job: Purchasing/ Operations
    Dream Job: Own and operate my own little specialty bakeshop
  • ajohn252
    ajohn252 Posts: 158
    I'm currently in university pursuing my dream job!
    I figured I'd be miserable doing anything else so I decided to go
    for a career in archaeology the love of my life :)
  • Perisylpha
    Perisylpha Posts: 139
    Actual Job: Customer Assistant in Grocery Retail

    Dream Job: Zoo Keeper or no job required Millionaire
  • alyson820
    alyson820 Posts: 448 Member
    actual job: program director for a pediatric oncology camp (it's volunteer though!)
    dream job: nurse (next year, baby!), but I love my job now and won't be giving it up
  • norabeth
    norabeth Posts: 176 Member
    Actual job - I am a dental hygienist. I enjoy it most days. Hate it other days.

    Dream job - have my own cooking show. :drinker: :happy: I love to cook but do not want the long hours and low pay of a chef.
  • megsmom2
    megsmom2 Posts: 2,362 Member
    Actual job,.prep supervisor/cook at a restaurant.
    dream job...don't know anymore. Bookstore cafe owner would suit me, but retired sounds damnable good most days.
  • sandylion
    sandylion Posts: 451 Member
    Dream job: Setting up health clinics and working with grass-roots organizations in Africa to promote health and wellness and increase the well being of the people there.

    Actual job: Registered nurse working in the community. Gaining experience so I can work toward my dream job. This job is pretty awesome too!
  • SueGremlin
    SueGremlin Posts: 1,066 Member
    Your posts about jobs are depressing me! I feel like a loser. I work at a fast food place 2 days a week and front desk at a hotel on weekends. My dream job would be to work with dolphins... but won't happen.
    Why not?
  • SueGremlin
    SueGremlin Posts: 1,066 Member
    Current job: Veterinary parasitologist
    Dream job: Chef. If I won the lottery, I would go to culinary school the second the first check was deposited.
  • ElizaGeorge
    ElizaGeorge Posts: 140 Member
    Actual Job: Makeup Artist
    Dream Job: Celebrity Makeup Artist ;)
  • mariagabriella
    mariagabriella Posts: 267 Member
    actual: recreational officer / social work student
    dream: I thought my dream job was to be a social worker... I'm thinking it may actually be police officer. hmmm.
  • interceptor311
    interceptor311 Posts: 980 Member
    I got my dream job :-)

    Used to watch CHiPs with my grandmother and my grandfather was a police officer. thats where it started.
  • collinj8
    collinj8 Posts: 98 Member
    Actual: IT
    Dream: I want to kick the three Amigos out of the booth on Monday Night Football and show them there is more to talk about then, how this weeks QB is the best QB in the NFL.
  • Erisad
    Erisad Posts: 1,580
    Actual job: Unemployed.
    Dream job: Writing and editing for a publication. Although at this point, it'll be a dream come true if I get a job at all. :(
  • 1985Andy
    1985Andy Posts: 161 Member
    Dream job: Professional footballer

    Actual job: Sales and Marketing Director
  • Nerple
    Nerple Posts: 1,291 Member
    Actual Job: Civil Engineer/Project Manager/Site Construction Engineer
    Dream Job: Same as above with a bit more design involved, or a High Class Ecort reviewer for Zagat's
  • Titanuim
    Titanuim Posts: 331 Member
    Actual Job: Land Manger
    Dream Job: Property Developer or Semi retired and PIlates teacher.
  • the_journeyman
    the_journeyman Posts: 1,877 Member
    Current job: Computer Skills teacher, middle school. School bus driver, soccer & Track coach.

    Dream: Live in the islands, write books and learn to play my guitar.

    JM
  • EmCarroll1990
    EmCarroll1990 Posts: 2,832 Member
    Actual job: Receptionist. Dream Job: Vet.

    I love animals and love helping people. It's a win win.
  • Lithriel
    Lithriel Posts: 9
    Dream job: Illustrator and Concept Artist
    Actual job: Illustrator and Concept Artist

    Whohoo! Sometimes you just got to reach out there and grab it for yourself. I made the switch under a year ago and I'm never looking back!
  • scs143
    scs143 Posts: 2,190 Member
    I am a lawyer- which was my dream job for a long time and 10 years later, I want to own a bed and breakfast. I love everything about them and every time we stay at one, I basically cross examine the owner about what it takes to start one. I think eventually we will when our kids are older.
  • FrenchMob
    FrenchMob Posts: 1,167 Member
    Actual job: Senior project manager for a renewable energy company.

    Dream Job: Beach bum.
  • Il_DaniD_lI
    Il_DaniD_lI Posts: 1,593 Member
    My dream job is to be a stay at home mom, but it's not a realistic option at this time. I am a working mom, I work for Alberta Justice doing skip-tracing.
  • LovingLisa2012
    LovingLisa2012 Posts: 775 Member
    current - house wife

    soon - any job (cashier likely , fingers crossed)

    dream job - pharmacy tech (maybe pharmacist) - school starts in August for tech, if I like it, I will return later to become a pharmacist
  • 10acity
    10acity Posts: 798 Member
    Actual job: college admissions
    Dream job: trophy wife


    Jokes. Writer.
  • jennifermcornett
    jennifermcornett Posts: 159 Member
    Dream: singer
    Actual: Spanish teacher
    I have a captive audience whenever I feel like singing to an audience, so I pretty much get to do my dream job. I just don't get paid for it with anything but compliments. :)
  • fteale
    fteale Posts: 5,310 Member
    I don't have a dream job. There are things I would love to do, but none of them come under the title job, I don't think. I would love to be back singing opera again, but somehow do it part time so I get to see my children.

    And I love being a student, as I am now. I would really like to be a historian. I love research, I love hanging around in archives, and I love getting to read and call it work. It is what I hope to do, I just have to keep on at what I am doing and be good at it. And suck up to the right people. And pursuade someone to pay me.

    I would hate to be employed. I have only ever worked freelance and I like it that way.
  • deadstarsunburn
    deadstarsunburn Posts: 1,337 Member
    Actual job: IT Assistant
    Dream job (after college): IT Project Manager & owning a business to help people with special needs. Or to be a stay at home mom and work from home doing IT project managery things.

    Never really liked IT until I was transferred from the QA department to here, now I really enjoy it.
  • justbecause2014
    justbecause2014 Posts: 371 Member
    Dream job, Child Crisis Counselor

    Actual Job, subway! haha

    I'm working toward my dream job though! :)
  • mslack01
    mslack01 Posts: 823 Member
    Your posts about jobs are depressing me! I feel like a loser. I work at a fast food place 2 days a week and front desk at a hotel on weekends. My dream job would be to work with dolphins... but won't happen.

    Speaking from personal experience, you can do anything you set your mind to do! All you have to do is set the goal and work toward it. You are only 21. If you want to work with dolphins it isn't too late to go back to school. Even if you have to do it between your jobs. And if you don't have the money, take out a loan.

    I was 33, married, and had a 5 year old child when I decided to go back to school to get my Bachelor's degree. We were up to our ears in debt, but I took out loans and my husband watched my daughter while I took classes at night. I missed some time with my daughter but I don't think it hurt her too much. She seems to be pretty well-adjusted at 13. Has life been perfect since? No. I ended up divorced, but I love my job and I make great money doing it. :) So don't say you can't, cause you can.

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