Name 2 people/professions you wish you could be

[z1ggy]

Edit: And don't be a typical ATOT dick about this. "Billionare playboy who bangs 10s everyday" is a cop out. I'm attempting to have a somewhat serious thread here.

I was just thinking on my drive to work today, how boring and mundane my life feels at times. Every now and then, I fantasize about having a totally different life. I think it's fun to imagine one's self as something new or different and play that out in their mind.

So, I've always been an athlete but just didn't have the genes or the size to make it pro. I managed to play D3, but that was the extent of things. Regardless, I think it would be awesome to be an NHL player. Hockey is my favorite sport to watch and play, which I have been for a long time. I think going out in front of a crowd, maybe being famous, and competing for a living would be great. Not such awesome job security I suppose, but it would make for some good stories to tell kids/grandkids some day.

I'd also love to be one of the guys who works for Car and Driver or Motor Trend. I watch a lot of their youtube videos. It seems unreal that some of these guys get to drive and write about some of the most expensive, luxurious or fast cars in the world. I just watched the 2013 best drivers car by MT and was so jealous of the two guys who drove the cars on the street. Granted, I highly doubt they make enough money to ever own one, I would be pretty happy just getting to drive cars like that for a living.

My current job is an engineer, working for a fairly large company making boats for the Navy.

 

[shortylickens]

I was just thinking on my drive to work today, how boring and mundane my life feels at times. Every now and then, I fantasize about having a totally different life. I think it's fun to imagine one's self as something new or different and play that out in their mind.

So, I've always been an athlete but just didn't have the genes or the size to make it pro. I managed to play D3, but that was the extent of things. Regardless, I think it would be awesome to be an NHL player. Hockey is my favorite sport to watch and play, which I have been for a long time. I think going out in front of a crowd, maybe being famous, and competing for a living would be great. Not such awesome job security I suppose, but it would make for some good stories to tell kids/grandkids some day.

I'd also love to be one of the guys who works for Car and Driver or Motor Trend. I watch a lot of their youtube videos. It seems unreal that some of these guys get to drive and write about some of the most expensive, luxurious or fast cars in the world. I just watched the 2013 best drivers car by MT and was so jealous of the two guys who drove the cars on the street. Granted, I highly doubt they make enough money to ever own one, I would be pretty happy just getting to drive cars like that for a living.

My current job is an engineer, working for a fairly large company making boats for the Navy.

Ingalls?

Or Bath?

 

[DigDog]

generic answer 1) job that makes you a'rough and ready tough guy who gets laid a lot

generic answer 2) job that makes you rich and makes you live mostly on corporate gear

 

[Red Storm]

Professional athlete and neurosurgeon. Neurosurgeon is a distant 2nd compared to pro athlete.

 

[z1ggy]

Ingalls?

Or Bath?

Neither.

 

[TXHokie]

A billionaire - that should cover the other three choices

 

[Scarpozzi]

A billionaire - that should cover the other three choices

Yeah....money is all you need....
Transcript from OfficeSpace:

Peter Gibbons: Lawrence, what would you do if you had a million dollars?
Lawrence: I'll tell you what I'd do, man; two chicks at the same time, man.
Peter Gibbons: That's it? If you had a million dollars, you'd do two chicks at the same time?
Lawrence: Damn straight. I always wanted to do that, man. And I think if I were a millionaire I could hook that up, too; 'cause chicks dig dudes with money.
Peter Gibbons: Well, not all chicks.
Lawrence: Well, the type of chicks that'd double up on a dude like me do.
Peter Gibbons: Good point.
Lawrence: Well, what about you now? What would you do?
Peter Gibbons: Besides two chicks at the same time?
Lawrence: Well, yeah.
Peter Gibbons: Nothing.
Lawrence: Nothing, huh?
Peter Gibbons: I would relax, I would sit on my ass all day, I would do nothing.
Lawrence: Well, you don't need a million dollars to do nothing, man. Take a look at my cousin. He's broke, don't do shit.



BTW....OP, I notice your trend on threads these days. I think we all question where we are in life and try to gauge our success. I'm guilty of peeking around Facebook to check up on old classmates and friends to see where I compare, success-wise. I think what's important is to be happy with your personal life outside of work and only use work as a means to make cash to do fun things and live... There aren't too many careers that make money that are fun or easy....unless you luck into some niche. Even professional athletes have very short careers, mostly.

For me, my career job hasn't made a lot of money, but I do make more than the national average...and work in a sector that's very stable with great benefits. I'm happy with that and I don't live too far beyond my means, though my expenses have risen drastically in the past 3 years due to family growth and house construction projects...

When I finished graduate school and decided not to go back for more education, I ran into a problem....I couldn't figure out what to do with all the time I seemed to have. I had been working full time and taking classes sometimes 3 nights a week for 7-8 years. My advice to you is to write down interests and take up hobbies. If you have extra money, look at taking flying lessons (not cheap, but very fun). Maybe try rock climbing, sky diving, wake boarding, snowboarding, skiing, yoga, etc...anything with a class. I started picking up hobbies after school and learned a lot of neat stuff.

I flew planes for a while, do snowboarding when I can, beekeeping, home brewing (very beneficial hobby), wood working, recreational boating, and have done a bunch of construction projects over the past few years...

Just look outside your career for stuff to keep you going and make long-term decisions on your finances to look out for your future self. Life goes too fast to change directions too much mid-stream. What may seem like opportunity for the sake of change can often leave you losing ground on finances or benefits (which can equate to finances when health care is concerned). If you're not totally unhappy in your career choice, stick it out if you're making decent coin and not too stressed.

 

[Kaido]

Name 2 people/professions you wish you could be

Professions?

1. Filmmaker
2. Ice cream taste tester (legit)

People?

1. Elon Musk
2. Steve Jobs

I'd love to be a filmmaker someday. Keeping the income steady (or hitting it big with a film) is fairly difficult statistically, so right now I'm chasing a steady paycheck (kids & all), but it's nice to have a dream! Ice cream taste-tester is more of a whimsical one, but ever since I saw an interview with that guy, I've thought it would be an awesome job for bragging rights :biggrin:

Elon is Tony Stark IRL...electric cars, solar homes, spaceships! Awesomesauce. Seems like a down-to-earth guy as well. As far as Jobs (RIP)...he was uptight, but his QC was amazing in terms of choosing what products to release & what not to release. Not everything was amazing (re: Apple mice), but some of the designs are magnificent (iMac, Mac Mini, iPhone, iPad, iPod, OS X, etc.).

 

[Gibsons]

Athlete, rock star.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

Steve Jobs

Dude, being dead ain't all that.

 

[JMapleton]

2nd the billionaire thing.

People who say they would be "bored" without a job are out of their mind. They have obviously been brainwashed by the corporate machine to be work horses. I could think of plenty of things to do with my time, PLENTY.

 

[z1ggy]

Yeah....money is all you need....



BTW....OP, I notice your trend on threads these days. I think we all question where we are in life and try to gauge our success. I'm guilty of peeking around Facebook to check up on old classmates and friends to see where I compare, success-wise. I think what's important is to be happy with your personal life outside of work and only use work as a means to make cash to do fun things and live... There aren't too many careers that make money that are fun or easy....unless you luck into some niche. Even professional athletes have very short careers, mostly.

For me, my career job hasn't made a lot of money, but I do make more than the national average...and work in a sector that's very stable with great benefits. I'm happy with that and I don't live too far beyond my means, though my expenses have risen drastically in the past 3 years due to family growth and house construction projects...

When I finished graduate school and decided not to go back for more education, I ran into a problem....I couldn't figure out what to do with all the time I seemed to have. I had been working full time and taking classes sometimes 3 nights a week for 7-8 years. My advice to you is to write down interests and take up hobbies. If you have extra money, look at taking flying lessons (not cheap, but very fun). Maybe try rock climbing, sky diving, wake boarding, snowboarding, skiing, yoga, etc...anything with a class. I started picking up hobbies after school and learned a lot of neat stuff.

I flew planes for a while, do snowboarding when I can, beekeeping, home brewing (very beneficial hobby), wood working, recreational boating, and have done a bunch of construction projects over the past few years...

Just look outside your career for stuff to keep you going and make long-term decisions on your finances to look out for your future self. Life goes too fast to change directions too much mid-stream. What may seem like opportunity for the sake of change can often leave you losing ground on finances or benefits (which can equate to finances when health care is concerned). If you're not totally unhappy in your career choice, stick it out if you're making decent coin and not too stressed.

Well the job move is because of relocating due to my gf getting a new job. It's not totally because I don't like my job- I do. But, it's not fulfilling in the least. I barely do engineering. I mainly do paper pushing and management type stuff, which I don't enjoy. I told my boss I want to do more research stuff and design work, but this company is so rigid.

Right now, it's tough to have many hobbies. I don't have tons of money and the money I do have, I need to save. My one current hobby is ice hockey. I play on average 1-2 times a week for a few teams. It's fun, I drink beers and play with my friends. Otherwise, I can't do much else. I work 45+ hours a week regularly, and I have a dog so I can't be away from home too often. I also don't have many friends and spend probably 90% of my time outside of work alone.

 

[Fritzo]

I share the OP's desire to be a car reviewer. I could see myself becoming an American Jeremy Clarkson

On the flipside, I've always regretting not becoming an astrophysicist. Back in the early 90's when I was in college, I was gearing up to make it my major, and I had every person I met saying "Why would you do that? It's a useless degree! You'll end up being a $10K a year part time teacher! You should do something with 'puters! Them 'puters is the future!"

So, instead of following my passion I followed other people's advice. Now astrophysicists are in very high demand by NASA and universities (average salary is around $100K), and I'm stuck in middle management doing incredibly dull and ultimately meaningless IT work. 90% of my day is copying and pasting numbers from one column to another.

Yeah...that's advancing humanity

 

[KeithTalent]

Thomas Keller. Very well respected chef, makes great food, and is not super famous so that it's annoying. Most people wold just walk right by him on the street.

Terrence Malick. Amazing director who can make whatever he wants and has actors lining up to work with him, yet again, is not super famous.

I like the idea of being really good at something and being respected for it, but still being able to retain a certain level of anonymity and normalcy in my life.

KT

 

[roguerower]

USMC Fighter Pilot - wanted to fly jets for the Marines since I was a kid. Couldn't because of my bad eyesight.
High-end offshore fishing charter captain

 

[amdhunter]

Forum Admin like Perknose.

 

[Imp]

Singer that makes enough to not have to live out of a van.

Otherwise, teacher for school-high.

Spent last 5 years in civil engineering, 95% as an over-educated tech and 5% in training. Definitely a thankless job, mostly paper pushing, recycled designs, and sticking to the status quo.

Think I'm going to make a run for the teacher thing. Unfortunately, I need 5 full credits (year's worth of courses) to add a teaching subject -- might need a few more courses to add a second.

 

[solsa]

Judge: It must be nice to do justice by punishing the guilty and exonerating the innocent.
Film maker: I've got lots of ideas for sci-fi movies.

 

[Mixolydian]

Meteorologist
Electronics designer (I guess that'd be an engineer)

 

[RossMAN]

People?

1. Elon Musk
2. Steve Jobs

Elon is Tony Stark IRL...electric cars, solar homes, spaceships! Awesomesauce. Seems like a down-to-earth guy as well. As far as Jobs (RIP)...he was uptight, but his QC was amazing in terms of choosing what products to release & what not to release. Not everything was amazing (re: Apple mice), but some of the designs are magnificent (iMac, Mac Mini, iPhone, iPad, iPod, OS X, etc.).

This, but replace Steve Jobs with a younger Richard Branson.

 

[Scarpozzi]

Well the job move is because of relocating due to my gf getting a new job. It's not totally because I don't like my job- I do. But, it's not fulfilling in the least. I barely do engineering. I mainly do paper pushing and management type stuff, which I don't enjoy. I told my boss I want to do more research stuff and design work, but this company is so rigid.

Right now, it's tough to have many hobbies. I don't have tons of money and the money I do have, I need to save. My one current hobby is ice hockey. I play on average 1-2 times a week for a few teams. It's fun, I drink beers and play with my friends. Otherwise, I can't do much else. I work 45+ hours a week regularly, and I have a dog so I can't be away from home too often. I also don't have many friends and spend probably 90% of my time outside of work alone.

If you're relocating for your gf, go ahead and buy the ring. If she's employed too, no need in wasting time and losing out on tax savings by joining up.

Good to have a team sport to play too. That's better than most of the things i listed, except for when no one is available on your schedule. It's good to have some solo hobbies too.

I totally get what you're saying about the boring side of work. Most of us deal with that, but it's wise to master the jobs that no one else wants. If you can do the work that everyone runs from, you'll always have a job and may have room for salary negotiation.

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

well respected session guitarist (Steve Cropper, for example)
Hyper-intellectual inventor/philanthropist like Elon Musk

 

[Sonikku]

1. Jedi
2. Sith

 

[z1ggy]

If you're relocating for your gf, go ahead and buy the ring. If she's employed too, no need in wasting time and losing out on tax savings by joining up.

Good to have a team sport to play too. That's better than most of the things i listed, except for when no one is available on your schedule. It's good to have some solo hobbies too.

I totally get what you're saying about the boring side of work. Most of us deal with that, but it's wise to master the jobs that no one else wants. If you can do the work that everyone runs from, you'll always have a job and may have room for salary negotiation.

I did- I had a sport bike. I sold it to pay off some debt like the responsible adult that I wish I didn't have to be

Well, this is paper pushing that I mainly do now. Any slug with half a brain could probably do this. Luckily, I still get paid an engineers salary to do it.

Also, there's a gym here at work that I use 5 days a week that saves me a lot of time which I do appreciate and will miss.

 

[Slew Foot]

MLB relief pitcher. Millions of bucks for sitting on my ass for 23.5 hours a day.