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    edited December 2024 in Chit-Chat
    what is your actual job and what would be your dream job? and what led you to either?

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    • Posts: 49,213 Member
      I'm doing my dream job and actual job.

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      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.
    • Posts: 175 Member
      My dream job is to be a race car driver. :)

      My actual job..... (currently) stay at home mom who works seasonally (We run a firework stand). I also plan to go back to being a substitue teacher for the 2012-2013 school year. (Pre-k-12)
    • Posts: 462 Member
      what is your actual job and what would be your dream job? and what led you to either?

      Actual job: teacher
      Dream job THEN: USED to be actress; however, I know I am touching lives, futures, etc. I will never have the gads of money that some people feel make them rich. I, however, am much richer because of the rewards that teaching gives me. My students teach me SO much every day.
      Dream job NOW: teacher!

      What led me to teaching ... When I was in fourth grade, I observed an 8th grader making fun of a special needs student to the point of bringing this child to tears. I vowed right then and there that I would be a champion for special needs children. I even married a fellow special educator! I was able to teach for 17 years as a special educator and was even chosen as our state's teacher of the year because of my love and passion for my students. I am still a teacher but am now a public school Montessori teacher so that I am able to combine all of my degrees together to still teach special needs children but keep them in their homeroom instead of having to pull them away from their peers. My class has 8 first, 8 second and 8 third graders. I have two autistic children, two learning disabled children and one mildly mentally handicapped child. I also have gifted and talented students as well as the "average" learner. They ALL teach each other in so many different ways. My students will always have my heart! :flowerforyou: Whew! Sorry for the length but it's hard for me to not talk about my dream job!
    • Posts: 307 Member
      I'm a political agent and I love my job :-)
    • Posts: 144
      I work in the restaurant industry but would LOVE to do some sort of proffesional scuba diver used to search for items or people or sea animals!!!
    • Posts: 1,004 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.


      I know Shamu, I'll put in a good word.
    • Posts: 363 Member
      Dream job - quilt designer.

      Actual job - data entry at an insurance company.
    • Posts: 178 Member
      my actual job full time stay at home single mom

      my dream job: starting off with being a back up singer for shows in Branson Mo, then be discovered in Nashville TN be a christian recording artist.
    • Posts: 19
      Actual job: Receptionist
      Dream job: Retired
    • Posts: 1,522 Member
      I am currently a supervisor for a deli kitchen. my dream job is to be a midwife. it's a means to an end, this job is paying for school so i can become a midwife.
    • Posts: 218
      Dream job: professional singer
      Actual (hopeful) job: nurse.
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      Actual job: Hotel room attendant (fancy way of saying cleaner....)
      Dream job: Property developer/photo-therapist/interior designer/Events organiser

      I still have a year left of uni though so hopefully I'll land one of the dream jobs :)
    • Posts: 33
      Actual job: writer.

      Dream job: writer. ^_^
    • Posts: 209 Member
      Actual Job: Paramedic

      Dream Job: The kind of Paramedic you see on TV - hahahahaha... oh wait - they don't exist!!
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      Dream Job - To work in the kitchen of a food magazine such as Donna Hay and make ALL the recipes for photo shoots etcof the food they publish:-)
      Actual Job - Full-time Mum
    • Posts: 3,499 Member
      Current Job - Co-manager of a bank insurance advisor team
      Dream Job - Lawyer practising in litigation

      I put my career on hold when I had my daughter and then life just took off running and I had to focus on making sure the bills were paid.

      I may never get to my dream job, but my actual job isn't something that fills me with a lot of misery, I enjoy it, I enjoy the people I manage and I enjoy the challenges.

      So I'll take that blessing and run.
    • Posts: 258 Member
      Actual Job : Freelance graphic designer

      Dream job : The woman on Celebrity Apprentice who sits at the front desk and does nothing. I bet she makes so much money to do that. I want her job. Hahahaha
    • Posts: 528 Member
      Dream job: writer!

      Actual job: Professional freelance writer. Lovin' it!

      My husband also has his dream job, college professor; he has lots of students who want to be writers. He tells them, "My wife is a writer. She makes good money now, but she spent 10 years making starvation wages before it built into a real career. You have to be prepared for 10 years of hard work for no real return."

      What led me here? Stress. I had a consulting job. I hated consulting. My husband said, "You need a hobby. Why don't you write something?" So I wrote something. And sold it. And wrote something else, and sold it. And wrote something else and sold that. And kept doing that until I had enough work to quit my other jobs. And then got a little lucky and landed some good contracts.

      It's a job, and it has its ups and downs, but I wouldn't trade it.
    • Posts: 461 Member
      Actual job(s) - part time sales associate, part time dental recpetionist
      Dream job - Registered Dietitian (I'm working on it!)
    • Posts: 123 Member
      Actual Job :Bank Teller *blah*

      Dream Job: Financial Planner/ Financial Educator

      I'm a teller so that I can get experience in banking. When I finish my degree, I plan to move on up!
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      dream job:singer
      actual job:unemployed
    • Posts: 608 Member
      Actual job: making videogames

      Dream job: making videogames

      I am very lucky. (Well, luck + lots of sweat and tears.)
    • Posts: 15 Member
      Dream job: Music/alternative lifestyle journalist.
      Actual job: Supermarket checkout monkey.

      They're not even vaguely similar, I'm working on it.
    • Posts: 206
      they say be careful what you ask for, you may get it.

      I went to culinary school and became a chef.

      I was so good, I got promoted to general manager....

      haven't cooked much since!!!
    • Posts: 186 Member
      Actual job: Management. blugh

      Dream job: I went to college and majored in everything. I can't decide. I want to do a little bit of this and a little bit of that. I'm 33 and I still don't know what I want to be when I grow up. It would be nice to be independently wealthy and just follow my hobbies.
    • Posts: 1,314 Member
      I have my dream job. I'm a writer.

      I'd love to own a holiday cottage, as well. Doubt I'll ever have the money for that. :tongue:
    • Posts: 1,314 Member
      Actual job(s) - part time sales associate, part time dental recpetionist
      Dream job - Registered Dietitian (I'm working on it!)

      For some reason, I read your dream job as 'retired dietitian'. I thought you were just being REAALLLLY specific about HOW you didn't want to work.
    • Posts: 186 Member

      For some reason, I read your dream job as 'retired dietitian'. I thought you were just being REAALLLLY specific about HOW you didn't want to work.

      For some reason that made me snort. :laugh:
    • Posts: 14
      Actual job - Coroner
      Dream job - Coroner as seen on TV... Much more glamorous and exciting!
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