If you could have any JOB, what would it be?

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Posted: 3/27/2009 6:21:50 AM EDT

If you could wake up tomorrow morning and be magically tansferred into a completely different job, what would you want to do?

I mean a PAYING job that would support you––not porn reviewer, beer taster, or machine gun test driver.

I'm looking for some ideas, seriously.

Posted: 3/27/2009 6:22:26 AM EDT

[#1]

Cabinet and furniture maker. Like on New Yankee Workshop.

Posted: 3/27/2009 6:25:37 AM EDT

[#2]

Automotive journalist....or on the camera crew for the show Cops.

Posted: 3/27/2009 6:27:18 AM EDT

[#3]

Global arms dealer

Posted: 3/27/2009 6:27:19 AM EDT

[#4]

space shuttle door gunner.

raining death from above!

Posted: 3/27/2009 6:28:39 AM EDT

[#5]

I always dream of the day that vigilantes are payed by the local police department for dirty work... I don't think that will be happening in this day and age though

Posted: 3/27/2009 6:30:26 AM EDT

[#6]

+ 1

Posted: 3/27/2009 6:31:03 AM EDT

[#7]

I spent a couple of years on a high-end protective detail and really enjoyed it.

Posted: 3/27/2009 6:31:07 AM EDT

[#8]

CEO of...pfizer, Merck, something like that. just for a year or 2.

Posted: 3/27/2009 6:31:20 AM EDT

[#9]

Small business owner. Be your own boss.

A mundane as it might sound, I suspect that a dollar store might be a great business.

Posted: 3/27/2009 6:33:09 AM EDT

[#10]

Ammo manufacturer CEO/owner!

Posted: 3/27/2009 6:33:19 AM EDT

[#11]

Working for one of the big AR manufacturers in some way...

Posted: 3/27/2009 6:34:12 AM EDT

[#12]

Jack Bauer

Posted: 3/27/2009 6:36:17 AM EDT

[#13]

Quoted:
Working for one of the big AR manufacturers in some way...

Unless you own the place, you dont want to work there.

Posted: 3/27/2009 6:36:47 AM EDT

[#14]

Quoted:
Small business owner. Be your own boss.

A mundane as it might sound, I suspect that a dollar store might be a great business.

+1

I'm in the process of starting my own retail store.

Sure it's a lot of work and long hours, but if you like what you do...

Speed

Posted: 3/27/2009 6:37:09 AM EDT

[#15]

F-15 driver.

TXL

ETA: Would have been there from college, but 20-25 eyes and no needs at the time meant no waiver.

Posted: 3/27/2009 6:37:37 AM EDT

[#16]

Anything that compensated me fairly for the expertise and hard work I do that offered benefits.

Posted: 3/27/2009 6:38:12 AM EDT

[#17]

The ultimate "job" would be to have no job... have a big enough reserve of money so I could afford living and my hobbies.

That said, I've been busting my ass trying to sell my two screenplays. So, I guess that would be my pick, screenwriting.

Posted: 3/27/2009 6:39:20 AM EDT

[#18]

POTUS

Gee, you people are small-minded.

If you were President, you could probably get more done.

Posted: 3/27/2009 6:40:22 AM EDT

[#19]

Bounty hunter. Like boba fett style bounty hunter.

Posted: 3/27/2009 6:40:50 AM EDT

[#20]

Hugh Hefners replacement?

Posted: 3/27/2009 6:41:26 AM EDT

[#21]

any job?

i'd want to be as good a golfer as tiger woods..play golf most days, make upwards of a billion dollars a year, marry a swedish model, buy my own island, a yacht.. have homes in faraway places in case things get a little out of hand here....

Posted: 3/27/2009 6:42:13 AM EDT

[#22]

Computer security for Colt MFG. In hopes that it would lead to range time with toys

Posted: 3/27/2009 6:43:35 AM EDT

[#23]

Quoted:
POTUS

Gee, you people are small-minded.

If you were President, you could probably get more done.

Like Ernest Borgnine said :"I'm not looking to set the world on fire, just keep my balls warm"

Posted: 3/27/2009 6:44:09 AM EDT

[#24]

a journalist, sports news rep/announcer for college football or hockey, I would have to avoid basketball like the plague since I hate it. I have always enjoyed politics and legislation not sure if I would want to work in Washington though. probably just at a state level.

ETA i currently work as a paralegal in a small family law office. I would really like to just be a stay at home mom/wife, but that would not bring in any income.

Posted: 3/27/2009 6:46:02 AM EDT

[#25]

Astronaut or a food writer for a large magazine.

Posted: 3/27/2009 6:46:53 AM EDT

[#26]

Quoted:

If you could wake up tomorrow morning and be magically tansferred into a completely different job, what would you want to do?

I mean a PAYING job that would support you––not porn reviewer, beer taster, or machine gun test driver.

I'm looking for some ideas, seriously.

I will take these from my dreams at night.

1. Transformed with fresh new talents?
A. Any date in history? = Mammoth hunter.
B. Present? = Fighter Pilot.

2. Transformed with my current talents?
A. Any date in history? = American Explorer early 1800s.
B. Present? = Pickup truck restorer, 1800s to 1970s trucks.

Posted: 3/27/2009 6:47:21 AM EDT

[#27]

Playboy Magazines, senior Photgrapher....

Posted: 3/27/2009 6:47:47 AM EDT

[#28]

First choice: Astronaut

Second choice: Weapons and accessories designer (and I would be damned good at it, too!).

Posted: 3/27/2009 6:48:18 AM EDT

[#29]

Quoted:

Quoted:

If you could wake up tomorrow morning and be magically tansferred into a completely different job, what would you want to do?

I mean a PAYING job that would support you––not porn reviewer, beer taster, or machine gun test driver.

I'm looking for some ideas, seriously.

I will take these from my dreams at night.

1. Transformed with fresh new talents?
A. Any date in history? = Mammoth hunter.
B. Present? = Fighter Pilot.

2. Transformed with my current talents?
A. Any date in history? = American Explorer early 1800s.
B. Present? = Pickup truck restorer, 1800s to 1970s trucks.

+ an eight on it's side about being a mammoth hunter.

Posted: 3/27/2009 6:48:55 AM EDT

[#30]

Id love to own my own small Gunsmithing operation, turning out one-of-a-kind pieces, maybe selling a designe every now and then.

Posted: 3/27/2009 6:48:57 AM EDT

[#31]

Quoted:
Small business owner. Be your own boss.

A mundane as it might sound, I suspect that a dollar store might be a great business.

how about a MADE IN THE USA doller store, doller store, but ALL merchandise is made in the USA, no chines BS...

Posted: 3/27/2009 6:49:09 AM EDT

[#32]

American Airlines Pilot

Posted: 3/27/2009 6:49:36 AM EDT

[#33]

I'd like a job testing things to destruction.

Posted: 3/27/2009 6:49:39 AM EDT

[#34]

sorry RIF..

I would like to be a college literature professor..

Posted: 3/27/2009 6:51:39 AM EDT

[#35]

My job

ETA: Or an archaeologist

Posted: 3/27/2009 6:52:48 AM EDT

[#36]

EMS or border patrol helicopter pilot.

Posted: 3/27/2009 6:53:27 AM EDT

[#37]

Something in forensics or some kind of police investigation work might be cool.

Maybe an intelligence analyst or some other behind-the-scenes job in national security.

Or maybe a high-end food producer like a distiller, or a cheesemaker, or a prime beef aging facility or something like that. (A family-run business, not a giant corporation.)

Posted: 3/27/2009 6:55:09 AM EDT

[#38]

Quoted:

Astronaut or a food writer for a large magazine.

Speaking of which, how did your chili turn out?

Posted: 3/27/2009 6:55:33 AM EDT

[#39]

Security manager in an exotic country on a tropical island.

Oh. Wait!

Posted: 3/27/2009 7:02:04 AM EDT

[#40]

I want to be Dog the Bounty Hunter

Posted: 3/27/2009 7:03:12 AM EDT

[#41]

Quoted:
I'd like a job testing things to destruction.

I have a friend who's a engineer who specializes in doing failure mode analysis on structures. It's possible one of the coolest jobs anyone I know has.

Posted: 3/27/2009 7:06:51 AM EDT

[#42]

Blow ––-

Posted: 3/27/2009 7:06:51 AM EDT

[#43]

i'd like to be Chip Foose. to have that drawing talent coupled with the tools to create sick custom cars would be very fulfulling, even if you didn't get paid that much.

Posted: 3/27/2009 7:08:35 AM EDT

[#44]

Police officer.

ETA: Fighter pilot would be a very close second.

Posted: 3/27/2009 7:16:22 AM EDT

[#45]

Flouresant light bulb smashing technician

Posted: 3/27/2009 7:17:37 AM EDT

[#46]

If my body could handle it... probably a custom woodworker. Fancy stuff like cabinets and furniture. I'd do that after serving as an officer in the US Air Force (which I can't do for medical reasons).

Office work? Since college, I've wanted to be the brand manager for an automobile or motorcycle company.

While I'd probably have some fun being a gun dealer, I don't think there's a ton of money in that.

And in all seriousness, I think being a U.S. Senator would be interesting. I want to be the first senator on "Meet The Press" to use the word "douchebaggery."