What are your 4 dream jobs? Are you qualified for any of them?

[Catria]

1. MP (provincial or federal)
2. Science policy advisor/analyst
3. Professor (regardless of the presence of a graduate program)
4. Research scientist

[ron_swanson]

1. Dinosaur handler/trainer/hunter (been training my whole life)
2. Tenured faculty member at prestigious university in my field (after I finish my PhD and have a couple post-docs I'll make a push for this)
3. Researcher/analyst at Google or Bloomberg (not qualified for the position I'd like, but I'm sure I'd be able to work my way in)
4. Quantitative analyst and risk assessment at financial firm (I've turned down a couple jobs with financial firms so far)

[avflinsch]

4. Mom.  Not qualified yet, and as someone else said, I want the MRS first.  As with Dream Job #3, I'll get there (before I turn 900). 

 

Even with the MRS, nobody starts out as being qualified - it is entirely On The Job training.

[Teajessie]

1a. Lottery Winner   ->   I should try working on it. I suppose.

 

1b. Noam Chomsky. But smarter.    ->   Not in a million years    

 

2a. Speak at least 6 languages fluently. Seen Alias, anyone? 

 

2b. Child Language Acquisition/Linguistics Professor in South Korea   ->   Yeah. Well. Working on it.

 

3. EFL Teacher in South Korea   ->   Already Qualified.

 

4. ESL Teaching in the UK   ->   Would need the right MA.

 

5. EFL Teacher in France   ->   Actually sort of qualified for that.

[BNJ2017]

1. Travel show host- I have no idea how you go about doing this but maybe someday I will figure it out and be able to get paid to travel the world!

2. Speech-Language Pathologist in a rehabilitation facility's neuro department- making it happen!

3. National Geographic journalist

4. Surgeon- way under qualified and will never get there but it's nice to dream about

[psycgrad37]

1. Professor

2. Philanthropist or head of nonprofit organizations

3. Architect 

4. A combination between Ellen, Chelsea Handler, and Oprah

[Randomgal]

1. Professor or Researcher-this is the goal, so we'll see 

2. Translator- I know Spanish and French, but Im not fluent

3. Publisher- I think it would be a cool job, and I think the literature universe needs more multicultural representation, or maybe Im just reading the wrong books

4. Television host (a la John Stewart, Stephen Colbert, or John Oliver style)- A girl can dream, right? 

[quirkycase]

1. Literary translator - Not fluent in a language yet, but working on it.

2. Author (fiction) - I suppose I'm qualified, but I don't know about talented enough.

3. Researcher - Working on it.

4. Full-time companion to The Doctor - I feel totally qualified for this.

 

[Tairy]

Not fluent in a language yet, but working on it.

 

 

It's always tragic when a parent forgets to teach their child to speak so they grow up without a native language. You seem to have some command of English, at least.

[Elizabeth4now]

Big fancy lady boss sure, I am xD

[MaryGreen]

I have just one real dream job and hope it'll come true at the end of this year. I want to work as an interpreter and of course I understand that it's incredibly difficult to be placed on such a position without any serious work experience, but still I hope, maybe good resume would help me, I'm thinking of ordering one at http://craftresumes.com/or somewhere else, as it was always my problem to praise myself, maybe someone will do it better than me...

 At school I also dreamt about being a stewardess, an astronaut and also a chef, maybe some of that would be the back-up plan)

[Guest]

When I'm done with my Masters:

1. US Department of State- Intelligence Specialist OR Security Analyst for the Middle East

 

Potential dream job by ages 30-35:

2.CIA agent- Intelligence agent & language interpreter (Arabic, spanish)

3. Dealing with organized crime (cartels/drug lords,human traffickers, terrorist groups) I  guess this would more of a  Homeland Security/FBI agent.

 

If I went back in time to major in Aerospace Engineering or Computer Science:

4. An astronaut

5. Google

Edited June 28, 2015 by Guest

[ballerina18]

Cool idea for a topic.

 

Let's see...

 

1) Professional Kitesurfer (No skills whatsoever, but determined to make this a hobby one day)

2) Professional Photographer that travels the world (HA!)

3) Professional Ballerina (Nope. Heh)

4) Speech Language Pathologist (Specialist in feeding/swallowing disorders- Hence grad school)

 

4th one is attainable. =)

[ngogirl]

Joining the boat on this:

1. Mom = like the others not qualified, but someday!

2. Researcher for ICG or CFR Fellow

3. International Relations Professor

4. Save the World

5. Journalist in combat/conflict zone with assurances that I won't get raped, attacked, or tortured

6. Aid worker in ME with UN/Mercy Corps/IGO that pays really well

7. Policy Advisor to the State Department or President on MENA issues

sorry, I got greedy with the numbers, it did say DREAM job-didn't it?

 

[hippyscientist]

1. Olympic team sports biomechanist (swimming or gymnastics...or anything)

2. NFL team sports biomechanist

3. Marine biologist

4. Military rehabilitation scientist

5. Just generally preventing injuries and shortening the rehab time for athletes, military, police, firefighters etc

6. Adventurer - I'd love to do this full time. Sail around the world, climb mountains, surf unknown breaks, hike continents...just need some means of funding it all!

I'm on my way to getting the qualifications for the biomechanics & sports injury stuff. In the UK at least, you have to be a researcher/lecturer and do consultancy work for sports teams as there's not the funds for them to take on Sports Medicine staff full time that aren't medical doctors. Hoping this might change within the next decade! Theoretically I'm qualified to be an adventurer, just need the finances!

[rainbowpink]

Currently about to start a Ph.D. in Linguistics

1. Linguist or professor/researcher in whatever I'm interested in

2. Science writer and/or novelist

3. An artist/designer of some sort (I especially like drawing and photography)

4. Internet entrepreneur (not qualified at all)

5. Singer-songwriter (I have some background in music, but nope, not qualified at all here)

6. Video game designer or composer for video games... whatever. I just want to do something with video games, even going back to #1 above, researching it.

Edited September 9, 2015 by rainbowpink

[juilletmercredi]

4. Full-time companion to The Doctor - I feel totally qualified for this.

I change my answer to this.

[Need Coffee in an IV]

My dream jobs have changed so many times but this is where I'm at right now!

Being best friends with Larry David/be on TV shows like Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm.

Having a lot of land and rescue all the dogs. 

A director for a museum 

Director of a Non-Profit focusing on community outreach/education of scientific research

I originally wanted to be a speleologist (cave geologist) but my eyes hurt too much when looking into microscopes, so I'll be a spokesperson for science!

[ilovelab]

1: Replace Jon Snow/Dany as Azor Ahai with Dawn as my lightbringer and rid the world of white walkers

2: Rule my own country ( That's a job right?)

3: Replace Chery/Carol/Crystaal/Carrina as the new secretary on Archer (who wouldn't want to rage Outlaw Country and have a pet ocelot)

4: Have a TV show on HGTV like Samanta Brown (is that her name) where all I do is travel the world critiquing resorts and their amenities. 

5: Get my PhD/MBA, sell my soul, and then go work for a bio-pharmaceutical and make a lot of $$$$$

At this point I'm only qualified for #3. I can answer phones and take messages. 

 

[eternallyephemeral]

1. Management consultant or organizational development consultant (working on the qualifications)

2. Executive coach (also working on the qualifications)

3. Part time teacher, writer, and mom all at once (preparing for the first, not really prepared for the other two)

4. CEO (not qualified, but people rarely are, right?)

[Paper Moon]

1. Nigel Thornberry ----just traveling around the world and making documentaries about my travels (I've traveled a lot and I'm working on making a audition video for Pilot Guides/Glibe Trekker and I made YouTube videos in college, so that's sufficient and my Nigel Thornberry impression is spot on. I'm also working on growing a fabulous ginger mustache)

2. Full time companion to the doctor ---(copying somebody else's answer here, but it's such a good answer!)

3. Author ----(I guess I'm qualified for this since I'm writing a novel and I'm about 50-60 pages in. I like my novel so far and I'd read it, so maybe some others would too?)

4. Actor ---(I've been acting for more than 20 years, but I'm not sure I could put up with the nonsense and terriblly boring roles for women... That's why I want to be an actor and not an actress).

5. Foreign Servicr Officer (diplomat) I'm actually really qualified for this job. I speak a lot of languages and have lived and worked in other cultures (and am doing so now, actually). I kind of work in diplomacy now in a lot of ways, when o think about it.  I actually took the test and passed, but I didn't pass the essay portion, probably because I was a college student and just taking the test for practice. I didn't take the essays very seriously and I didn't even have a BA at the time, which makes it harder (though not impossible) to get the job.

6.  Forest Ranger. I worked at a nature reserve, so I could probably get this job.

7. Working for an NGO helping people. 

8. A professor

9. National geographic explorer

[spectastic]

New dream job.. cameraman for travel show... or something that broadcasts on nature channel.. oh yeeesssssss

[spectastic]

I want to be the character Sean Penn plays in that one movie starring ben stiller where he goes. Da ice... she moves like eh wooman..

[AnniKatt]

1. Certified Medical Illustrator (Ultimate goal)

2. Scientific Illustrator (More generalized--in case I bomb my certification exam the day that comes)

3. Cat Sanctuary owner (A girl can dream, right?)

4. ...idk. I guess being a mom?

[The Shade King]

1. Dean or Provost

2. College Professor

3. Pro Wrestler 

4. Consultant