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[Squeaky]

What career would you pick if you could do anything you wanted? I'd love to train horses professionally, but I'm pretty sure that will never happen (thanks dad, for the mantra stuck in my head since I was a kid... it's not realistic, it's not realistic...).

[velogirl]

Funny you ask! Well, I'm doing the dream career right now -- I'm a cycling coach. But I have a hard time visualizing myself doing this in a decade or two. So, what would I do? I decided I'd be a florist! I love arranging flowers and I love working with my hands. Only down-side is standing on your feet all day. I guess that's why they make stools.

[short cut sally]

LANDSCAPING. My term means planting flowers, shrubs, trees, and seeding new lawns. Reality of my term. Mowing lawns. But I would enjoy just the same.

[mimitabby]

you know, i never figured it out. And at age 54, i don't think i ever will.

I like working with people, i like working with my hands, and I like to be alone too.

Guess I'll just retire and volunteer at the local highschool..

[7rider]

What career would you pick if you could do anything you wanted? I'd love to train horses professionally, but I'm pretty sure that will never happen (thanks dad, for the mantra stuck in my head since I was a kid... it's not realistic, it's not realistic...).

Independently wealthy philanthropist.

[Pax]

I've never been able to pick and just sort of fell into mental health counseling. If I could do any job though I'd be a farmer or own a bar in Key West.

[Haudlady]

Well, if I didn't have to worry about paying the mortgage...

I would be a weaver (I make hand-woven projects on a loom, but only as a hobby and for gifts - I would like to begin crafting for sale) who is also a cyclist and a horseback rider and driver. I would expand my farming activities. I would volunteer for the town Conservation Commission and the local SPCA, and work to coach low-income people with their budgeting and financial issues on a part-time basis.

In reality, I am all of those things already. The only thing I would change is that, although I love my job, I would rather do it 2 days a week (instead of full-time, which I am now) and do all the other stuff the rest of the time!!! Once I started thinking about it, I realized that I am pretty happy as I am!

Ah well. I'm 31 now... only 44 years or so until retirement.

(No, I didn't do the math incorrectly - I'm not expecting Social Security to take care of me, and as an employee at a non-profit I don't have any retirement benefits. Boy, do I miss that 401k with the matching dollars from when I was in banking!)

[snapdragen]

squeaky, are we sisters? We certainly appear to have the same dad....

I'd be a jewelry artist - metal work more than anything else.

Or else have a restaurant/bar.

[Bluetree]

I'd love to be an artist... and work with some of the finest racehorses in the world. Oh, wait. I am one!

Okay, then... I'd love to be an artist, work with racehorses AND make the same amount of money without having to work 60-80 hrs a week. (Still longing about that one... sigh.)

[bikerchick68]

oooh... and this careeer would make at least what I make now right?

OK... then I'd either be a landscape designer, or a ballroom dance instructor.

I love both!

[Bad JuJu]

*sap alert* I love the job I have, and I have the job I love--I just adore teaching. I love my students. The only thing that would make this job better would be...no grading!

That would give me more time for my other loves: cycling, writing, kayaking, reading, and wine-drinking.

[cherinyc]

my dream since I was 4....to be an actress. not a celebrity, I just love acting - and the stage and performing, so to get paid to do so (and be able to survive) would be awesome.

[light_sabe_r]

When I was in high school I had three dream careers

1: Scientist- Living it now. Medical research.
2: Cartoonist- Serialised for 1.5 years in a local anthology and gained recognition by my peers.
3: Japanese Teacher.

So there's only ONE dream career I haven't done yet. JAPANESE teacher... maybe for Primary school... Maybe that one can roll around until after I have kids...

[chickwhorips]

my dream: to never grow up! ok so its not a job or a career, but still i don't want to grow up!

though i would love to be a nutritionist. started going to school for that before i moved up here, but not there is no school to go to here. for some reason they won't let me do chemistry classes by myself. wonder why?

[Bikingmomof3]

I love my job. 17 years ago I would have loudly declared I would never be a SAHM, but now I know it was the wisest choice for me and my children. Finacially it is not good, but the rewards are more than I could have imagined.