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Dream job vs actual job.

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  • MaraDiaz
    MaraDiaz Posts: 4,604 Member
    World ruler. I'd settle for bestselling author and professional student while working my way up to world ruler.

    Presently unemployed.

    Guess I have a way to go.
  • BlueEyedDevil88
    BlueEyedDevil88 Posts: 17
    Current job- CNA/nursing student
    Dream job- Nurse
  • icyeyes317
    icyeyes317 Posts: 226 Member
    Actual job: Mom, also unemployed paramedic.

    Dream job: working on airplanes, which I did in the Air Force and LOVED. Now I fix people. =0)
  • waipepe
    waipepe Posts: 110 Member
    Actual Job: CFO
    Dream Job: Ski bum and traveler
  • LassoOfTruth
    LassoOfTruth Posts: 735 Member
    Actual Job: Personal Assistant/Office Manager

    Dream Job: Wife & Mother. <3
  • Proyecto_AN
    Proyecto_AN Posts: 387
    Dream (goal): Owner and CEO of a food export company
    Actual: Industrial Engineering Student / Professional Cook
  • Erin_goBrahScience
    Erin_goBrahScience Posts: 1,215 Member
    Dream Job: Casting Agent or Music Supervisor (for film or TV)
    Actual Job: Escrow Officer

    How did I come to have such and awesome career? Well I was working as an assistant teacher in special education, making less than $900.00 a month and living with my parents while I went to school. I had an overweight child who weighed close to 200 lbs (10 years old) attack me and the administration told me to "deal with it".

    So I went to my class that night (geology) and was crying to my lab partner that I needed a job. She told me her boss was hiring and I went in for an interview two days later...got the job...went back to the school and promptly resigned.

    It's been 9 years and countless job title add ons...and promotions...and I am still here.
  • ahartery9891
    ahartery9891 Posts: 139 Member
    Actual Job - AV Technician for a school

    Dream Job - Wedding videographer who owns a business all across Canada.

    Currently own my own wedding video business, have contracted videographers out a few times. Really hoping I can do more. Looking into slowing it down this year and get some schooling in, and work is giving us a ton of training. I'm on the way up!
  • toya316
    toya316 Posts: 137 Member
    Actual Job: Medical coding and Billing :sad: :grumble:

    Dream Job: Forensic Detective.... :bigsmile:
  • jeckalynne
    jeckalynne Posts: 102
    Real Job: Accounts Receivable/ Collections

    Dream Job:

    Funeral Director
    or
    Homicide Det. specializing in Hostage Negotiations
    or
    Writer
    or
    Director of a home/program for wayward teens
    or
    Director of various foundations

    Clearly I don't know what I want to do when I "grow up". I'm about to go back to school.
  • bcf7683
    bcf7683 Posts: 1,653 Member
    I'm doing my dream job. Well, I THOUGHT it was my dream job.... It still might be, if I find a new employer...
  • iorahkwano
    iorahkwano Posts: 709 Member
    Actual Job: None. I go to school full-time in a 2-year Kanien'kéha language program. I very OCCASIONALLY get photography jobs for birthdays or family reunions.

    Dream Job(s):
    (1) Join the Peace Corps and volunteer abroad. (Modest pay, but I love travel, helping & making a difference in the world!)
    (2) Work in a daycare as a Kanien'kéha language teacher (My native language is endangered)
    (3) Work in a daycare with children who have special needs
    (4) Sports photographer!

    I've pretty much got my feet wet in all those areas, I just need to take the next step to make it official or permanent.
  • trophywife24
    trophywife24 Posts: 1,472 Member
    My actual job is a stay at home mama.

    My dream job is a toss up between actress and embalmer.
  • iorahkwano
    iorahkwano Posts: 709 Member
    It seems like lots of people get stuck in desk jobs like customer service, office management, data/file organization, or feel like a puppet for corporate companies they don't really believe in. And then their dream jobs are completely different! Photography, professional cook, writers, travel blogger, event organizer, fun stuff. I always thought peopke who got stuck in the office punching in numbers & data just really liked math. I didn't know you want to be the same things I do!

    - Person who sucks at math and science, but has talenr in many of the "softer, artsier, lower-paying career fields."
  • ChecktheRhyme
    ChecktheRhyme Posts: 68 Member
    Teach English in Japan vs. I WORK AT GAMESTOP. *CRIES*
  • jeckalynne
    jeckalynne Posts: 102
    My actual job is a stay at home mama.

    My dream job is a toss up between actress and embalmer.

    HELL YES!
  • labyrinth84
    labyrinth84 Posts: 90
    My actual job : Jeweller

    My dream job: Forensic Mental Health.

    Currently studying to make this happen. After 10 years of looking at diamonds, I want mentally ill criminals!
  • JULIEdance
    JULIEdance Posts: 139 Member
    Dream job: Dancer

    Actual job: Office assistant / interpeter
  • plcowner
    plcowner Posts: 106 Member
    Dream job: play in the NFL

    Actual job: work for the government
  • plcowner
    plcowner Posts: 106 Member
    My actual job : Jeweller

    My dream job: Forensic Mental Health.

    Currently studying to make this happen. After 10 years of looking at diamonds, I want mentally ill criminals!

    Stay connected to this forum and you'll find the mentally ill ! :)
  • labyrinth84
    labyrinth84 Posts: 90
    My actual job : Jeweller

    My dream job: Forensic Mental Health.

    Currently studying to make this happen. After 10 years of looking at diamonds, I want mentally ill criminals!

    Stay connected to this forum and you'll find the mentally ill ! :)


    Haha. Indeed :)
  • penrbrown
    penrbrown Posts: 2,685 Member
    My actual job - Realtor's assistant by day, cashier by night.
    My dream job - Writer.

    I realized the writer dream was just that. A dream. Everyone wants to be a writer. Everyone is writing. The chances of me succeeding at that are NIL. So I gave up and I focused on just making money instead of worrying about doing what I love.
  • trophywife24
    trophywife24 Posts: 1,472 Member
    My actual job is a stay at home mama.

    My dream job is a toss up between actress and embalmer.

    HELL YES!

    I worked in a funeral home before we moved the summer before last and it was amazing. I loved every. single. second of it.
  • ValerieMartini2Olives
    ValerieMartini2Olives Posts: 3,024 Member
    Dream job: Owner of a tattoo shop

    Actual job: Rep for the company that distributes Red Baron/Freschetta/Tony's pizza. Got that job because I worked in a grocery store's frozen foods section and became friends with the sales rep at that store. He offered me a job. I like it a lot.
  • CassieReannan
    CassieReannan Posts: 1,479 Member
    Dream job: Registered nurse on a childrens ward
    Actual job: Working in a supermarket deli :grumble:
  • TheNewDodge
    TheNewDodge Posts: 607 Member
    Actual Job: I help companies pay as little tax as possible
    Dream Job: 3rd base for the Angels
  • bluefox9er
    bluefox9er Posts: 2,917 Member
    Dream Job: war photographer

    Actual job: being an *kitten* in a suit selling drugs to doctors
  • FootsoreRambler
    FootsoreRambler Posts: 80 Member
    Dream job: adventure scientist

    Actual job: semi-adventure scientist
  • Deanner03
    Deanner03 Posts: 371 Member
    Dream job: Nurse Practitioner

    Actual Job: Registered Nurse/Part time student. Working on obtaining that dream.
  • zCarsAndCaloriesz
    zCarsAndCaloriesz Posts: 348
    Currently waiting to go back to school.
    But my dream job would be a makeup artist or Chef.
    I've been teaching myself cooking things from home for months now.
    :)
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