Your realistic/non realistic DREAM job THREAD

[Shlade]

Basically what the title states! What is your realistic and non realistic dream job?

Realistic jobs:
Police
Corrections officer
Work for a high end parts distributing company

Non Realistic:
Become a mofuckin Jet fighter!
Work as a storyline developer for WWE (gay I know but I love WWE. No homo)


What are your dreams? What do you see yourself doing and what do you wish you could do?

Share peoples! Get them creative juices flowing!!

[Twin_Cam_Turbo]

I want Jon Olsson's job.

[Shlade]

I just want his car.

[corsvette]

I've allways wanted to be a car designer. I would also love to own a car dealership or two.

[Tomaz]

Realistic:

-Become a private jet pilot
-Corporate security
-Western Canada Sales Manager for my current company


Dreams:
-The most interesting man alive!!!
-Race car driver
-"Best Seller" Novelist
-Photojournalist for Top Gear Mag.
-Mercenary
-James Bond

[Kloubek]

Realistic: My current job. Sit on my ass all day, do nothing, and get paid for it.

Semi-Realistic: Own my own website which makes good coin.

Unrealistic: NHL player.

[Idratherbsidewayz]

Race Car Driver. If I could do one thing the rest of my life and get paid for it, it would be driving fast cars and competing all over the world.

GT, WRC, Australian V8...

EDIT: Realistic: O&G Slave

[derpderp]

Being in my early twenties I find it hard to think any job is truly "unrealistic", but I figure I can think of a few careers that would be pretty hard near impossible to obtain and are not realistic long-term goals.

Realistic:

Municipal Politician/MLA/MP
Lawyer
Unemployed

Unrealistic:

Prime Minister
Secretary-General of the United Nations
Chief Justice of Canada
Puisne Judge

What?:

God
King of the World
Rob Anders

[Mar]

Realistic: install custom car computer solutions into the highest of the high end vehicles. Well, maybe the lower of the high end would be more realistic.

Dream job: Mark Shuttleworth's job......start an internet security company, sell it for $3,500,000,000, then start up another company that produces one of the best operating systems ever released. Then give it away for free as a big fuck you to Microsoft.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Shuttleworth

[Mitsu3000gt]

Realistic: Not working at all, living off investments.

Unrealistic: Car tester/driver for a car magazine or major company like Ferrari, Lamborghini, Porsche, etc.

[wintonyk]

realistic: dietitian, private nutrition counselling (current job), researcher for GSSI (gatorade sport science institute)

unrealistic: anything that you need to be able to see colours properly (pilot, military, police, fire fighter, etc. )

[variance]

Originally posted by Mar
sell it for $3,500,000,000,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Shuttleworth

calling it $3,500,000,000 sounds pretty impressive, until you add that it is $3,500,000,000 in South African dollars (Rand), but still impressive nonetheless.

[Graham_A_M]

Originally posted by Mitsu3000gt
Realistic: Not working at all, living off investments.

Unrealistic: Car tester/driver for a car magazine or major company like Ferrari, Lamborghini, Porsche, etc.
This but for me
realistic: centerfold photographer, live off passive income from real estate investments, food/restaurant critic. English teacher over seas,

Unrealistic: Win a lotto and not work ever again.... very unrealistic since I dont buy lotto tickets. ;)

[Tomaz]

I just came up with another one:

Research and Development Testing for Durex or Trojan. :bigpimp:

[soiledunderwear]

Will always be: O&G slave

Dream: to be W. Brett Wilson

[sabad66]

Originally posted by Mar
Realistic: install custom car computer solutions into the highest of the high end vehicles. Well, maybe the lower of the high end would be more realistic.

Dream job: Mark Shuttleworth's job......start an internet security company, sell it for $3,500,000,000, then start up another company that produces one of the best operating systems ever released. Then give it away for free as a big fuck you to Microsoft.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Shuttleworth
3.5 bil? Then how come the wiki says he's only worth 225 mil?

Anyways, my ultimate goal is to become a senior manager, then ultimately an executive and/or sit on the Board at a big company.

Unrealistic:
QB for the Dallas Cowboys
TV Actor/Party animal (whatever it is that Charlie Sheen does lol)
Mayor/Premier/Prime Minister

[ExtraSlow]

Dream job:
Small engine/Boat repair shop, overlooking the water, somewhere on the sunshine coast.
Open 2 hours per day, 3-4 days a week.

Probably going to be an O&G slave forever though.

[nagooro]

Originally posted by sabad66

3.5 bil? Then how come the wiki says he's only worth 225 mil?


He sold it for 3.5 billion Rand (about US$ 575 million at the time). Rand is the currency in south africa.

[TheRealTimHorton]

Realistic Job:
Stock Analyst/Broker
Portfolio Manager

Semi-realistic Dream Job:
Pit Trader at CME (Chicago Mercantile Exchange) and make 50k-100k / day
Portfolio Manager of over 10bil

Unrealistic Dream Job:
F1 Racer

[swak]

Realistic Job:
- Cycling Coach (current)
- Police Officer - or - some sort of law enforcement job

Semi-Realistic Job:
- Pro team bike racing coach

Unrealistic:
- Professional Bike Racer

[calgarygts]

Realistic: O&G slave

Semi realistic (depends on progression): O&G VP

Unrealistic: fastest man alive (100m)

[snoop101]

Realistic: Photographer (but im color blind :banghead: so maybe not to realistic)

K9 cop (again im color blind.. sigh)

Non-realistic: Investing to a point that all I do is talk on the phone to the peons below me to sell or buy while im drinking wine off the coast of spain in my yacht.

[prelude98h22]

Dream job:
Track taxi driver at the Nordschleife Nurburgring

[bitteeinbit]

Realistic jobs/goals:
-Floorhand/Roughneck :D (Gotta start somewhere right?)
-Landlord
-Import/export company owner

Unrealistic:
-Win the lotto (I don't buy lotto either, I've bought maybe 4-5 tickets in my life, but how I dream...)
-Nipple fluffer

[Pahnda]

What I'm working towards (realistic):
International (corporate) law attorney with some biglaw firm operating in Japan after graduating from Waseda or Keio. After getting that job, just progress through the ranks.

Unrealistic:
Above + sitting on the board as a creative director for a decent consumer electronics company.

Being Kim Jong-il's successor would be pretty awesome, too.

[kaput]

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[adam c]

realistic: probably be an IT bitch for life

unrealistic: multi-millionaire at home spending time with my little girl

[Sugarphreak]

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[JordanLotoski]

Originally posted by Tomaz
I just came up with another one:

Research and Development Testing for Durex or Trojan. :bigpimp:

:rofl: :rofl:

and nobody has said womans bicycle seat yet?

[JordanLotoski]

Originally posted by snoop101
Realistic: Photographer (but im color blind :banghead: so maybe not to realistic)

K9 cop (again im color blind.. sigh)

Non-realistic: Investing to a point that all I do is talk on the phone to the peons below me to sell or buy while im drinking wine off the coast of spain in my yacht.

hahaha, another good one

[adam c]

Originally posted by JordanLotoski


:rofl: :rofl:

and nobody has said womans bicycle seat yet?

chances are you'll get some woman with blue waffles

[JordanLotoski]

Originally posted by adam c


chances are you'll get some woman with blue waffles

:banghead:

[HiTempguy1]

Originally posted by Sugarphreak

Unrealistically:
-Rally car driver... preferably for Audi or Peugeot back in the Group B glory days



Not as unrealistic as you might think, as long as you have talent. Now, becoming a WRC factory driver? Unrealistic!

Reality- probably end up in some sort of management position if I play my cards right (related to engineering)

Dream- being a politician to clean up the system while racing on the side

[Sugarphreak]

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[bjstare]

Realistic: Be in upper management in the O&G industry (somewhere at or below the VP level)

Unrealistic: Definitely a car tester. Wouldn't want to be a professional racer because there would be far too much stress involved. I would bet it takes a large amount of fun out of the "job", as many other professional athletes have said in the past.


Originally posted by soiledunderwear
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Dream: to be W. Brett Wilson

Rich as balls, with a family that doesn't spend time with him, and always being preoccupied with work? Ya right.

I've been to his house a couple times and hung out with his daughter... not a family I would like to be a part of. My cousin was at Brett's 50th B-day and said he couldn't get off his phone the whole time (dealing with work)... sounds like fun to me. :rolleyes:

To have the money he's got though... that would be sick. :bigpimp:

EDIT: I should clarify, however, that if I wasn't a family-oriented guy, and my main motivation in life was career success, then yes; it would be unreal to be Brett Wilson.

[Tik-Tok]

Realistic: My current career actually, but with NORMAL working hours, and in a nicer climate.

Un-Realistic:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Imki6iuehr0/TH9KeWIUenI/AAAAAAAAAHU/1G6_puEktc4/s1600/The+Stig.jpg

[GingeRRRBeef]

In the summer of 2009, I told my girlfriend, now fiancée, that my dream is to run around with dogs all day and golf whenever I want.

Fast forward to 2011, I'm fortunate enough to have to opportunity to open my own dog daycare/training center and I work with a great rescue foundation.

Realistically, I never thought this would have been possible. I have a degree in CPSC and I used to be in oil & gas. Even a year ago, I thought this was pretty unrealistic.

However, I've always wanted to be a superstar in the NBA or make it big in Hollywood :D

[zipdoa]

Dream Career:

being part of a band that gigs glastonbury/MSG/reading festival etc.

Realistic Career:

Doing what I do now and eventually becoming a finance manager. making low-to-mid six figures would be nice.

[Sugarphreak]

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[bitteeinbit]

Originally posted by Sugarphreak


Ah yes... the bare minimum income on which to raise kids!
:eek: :eek: :eek:

[max_boost]

Realistic: Doing what I'm doing now.

Unrealistic: Winning lotto max and traveling the world.

[Graham_A_M]

Originally posted by Sugarphreak


Ah yes... the bare minimum income on which to raise kids!

Vasectomy's FTW. I cant imagine pulling in that kind of coin, and just scraping by thanks to a few kids.
Then again my bro's friend does just that.... and not surprisingly he absolutely hates his life.


Another dream job would be to be on the Top Gear show, even just as the stig or in any regard.
Like someone said earlier, to be Brent Wilson would be one helluva gig.
I just wish I was 1/10 as good at numbers as he is.
:(

[Cos]

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[Sugarphreak]

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[CUG]

Dream:
see: Californication, only I'd actually work and not fuck 16 year old chicks.

[zipdoa]

Originally posted by Sugarphreak


Ah yes... the bare minimum income on which to raise kids!

Fuck kids, I'll stick with a Malamute. I heard raising a child to 18yrs of age works out to be the cost of a 911 Turbo.

[HiTempguy1]

Originally posted by zipdoa


Fuck kids, I'll stick with a Malamute. I heard raising a child to 18yrs of age works out to be the cost of a 911 Turbo.

220k not including college, HUZZAH! Of course, there is a discount the more you have ;)

[89coupe]

A dream job would be the host and test driver for Top Gear.

[Skyline_Addict]

Realistic:

what I do now, advancing on that
Getting into O+G

Realistic Dream:

Living off investments

Dream:

Professional Soccer Player, FC Barcelona starting 11
Race Car Driver, F1, JGTC, rally, etc.

[Sugarphreak]

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[vice1986]

Realistic:

Something with computers (hardware)
Accounting (what I do now)

Unrealistic:

Publish one worded movie reviews and get paid very well for it

Just plain stupid:

Captain of the Enterprise (on applicable TV show/movie)

[DJ Lazy]

Realistic:

- Move into a management position at my current Logistics job.
- Go back to school for a degree in Turf Care and become the Superintendent of a Golf Course.

Unrealistic:

- Become an Astronomer/Astrophysicist and work at the Mauna Kea Observatory in Hawaii.
- F1 Driver, hell even sweeping the floors at the Mclaren Technology Center would be awesome.
- Play on the PGA tour.

[AndyL]

realistic
lease/owner op at current play (erm job)

little more distant future - self employed hermit on ~20 acres off grid a-frame, with a 20,000sq ft heated quonset to 'work' in, be it rv repairs, rebuilding cars, fab work (steel/composites)

unrealistic - canadas first F35 driver :thumbsup: - too tall and they dont like my knees at the medical... :banghead:

[Billy_Billions]

Realistic:

Pretty much what I do now with a small number of employees (film maker, editor, motion designer)

Unrealistic:

Wildly successful multimillionaire Canadian film maker

[bitteeinbit]

Originally posted by Sugarphreak


You havn't been keeping up have you ;)

http://forums.beyond.ca/showthread.php?s=&postid=3627279#post3627279

Haha maybe not, but you guys seem to be all from out West (Alb+BC) where costs are significantly higher than Montreal. I actually sold my car, so a metro pass costs 41$/month, gets me anywhere I want and is quick and reliable. Though house prices here have doubled in the past 8 years or so, you can still find places in the city for 300 000$, which sounds like the average price for a place in the countryside out west. In the countryside or suburbs you can still find places for 150 000-250 000$ which isn't that bad. Then again, our wages are also a lot lower than those who live in Alb or B.C. If you make 90k before taxes here, you're higher middle-class for sure, borderline high class.

Either way, I'm definitely not looking forward to the financial implications of kids! I know my two siblings and I have definitely been a huge burden on my folks... They don't own a home and haven't had a car since I was 6 or so. I doubt they have many savings either but they helped put my sister and myself through University and are in the process of doing it for my brother. We certainly owe them a lot...
Just imagine: back in the days it was possible for a sole breadwinner to afford everything for the family.

[Sugarphreak]

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[mugensix]

Realistic: GET a well paying job in the NDT/ NDE field.
O&G basically...

Unrealistic: a male escort working all over the world being able to fuck the hottest pusssssies, and get paid =D

[Marsh]

Realistic: current job

Semi-realistic: living off retirements, travelling the world (would like to drive from London to Shanghai one day)

Unrealistic: Pro Footballer for FC Barcelona/Real Madrid, win a world cup one day with Canada (if they ever made it!)

Be a Bo Jackson type athlete, multiple sports (baseball/Soccer)