Dream Jobs?

[zeldas_lullaby]

I want to have a job where I drive around with a siren and pull people over for running stop signs. No other police work, just ticketing people who think that stop signs don't apply to them (i.e., everyone in my neighborhood). That's my wicked fantasy.

In a more serious sense, my step-sister works in a huge art building with shops. The rent on some is low--as in, a few hundred dollars a month!!--and I had thought of renting out a shop near hers and selling my furniture. (I'm a woodworker.) I could even sell my self-published books there! (Why not? It's my shop!) The problem is that I'm not organized, and lately I've been putting my physical energy not into building bookshelves and other medium-sized pieces, but remodeling the kitchen. Also, I have a health condition that causes serious fatigue and I don't get much done in one day. I sleep a lot and have energy crashes a lot. Plus, I have difficulty interacting with people.

In the meantime, my lovely step-sister has offered to sell my wares in her shop, as well as a handful of my books.

[Miri Faye]

1. Author
2. Swim coach

[ALynnPowers]

I wish someone would pay me to drink soda. I want to be a soda tester.

[zeldas_lullaby]

I wish someone would pay me to drink soda. I want to be a soda tester.

When I was eleven, my older cousin and I went to a local theme park, Kentucky Kingdom. We took the Coke/Pepsi taste test.

My cousin made her choice, and the tester said, "You picked Pepsi!!! YAY!!"

Then I made my choice, and she said, "Oh. You picked Coke," in this really flat, depressed voice.

I still laugh every time I remember that.

[CataclysmicKnight]

Indie game developer - board and video games. If I could at least make enough to live on, it'd be awesome!

[zeldas_lullaby]

Indie game developer - board and video games. If I could at least make enough to live on, it'd be awesome!

Go for it!

[ALynnPowers]

I wish someone would pay me to drink soda. I want to be a soda tester.

When I was eleven, my older cousin and I went to a local theme park, Kentucky Kingdom. We took the Coke/Pepsi taste test.

My cousin made her choice, and the tester said, "You picked Pepsi!!! YAY!!"

Then I made my choice, and she said, "Oh. You picked Coke," in this really flat, depressed voice.

I still laugh every time I remember that.

Hahah! Yeah, because it was a Pepsi company doing research to promote Pepsi and you helped make their findings invalid.
That's funny. I did the same thing once with a phone survey. The questions were sooooo horrible and it was obvious what they wanted you to pick between two choices, so I intentionally picked the "bad" one.

[Christinar81]

A mattress tester!! Wouldn't it be awesome to be paid to sleep? Then the entire time you're awake you're off and can do whatever you want. That's my dream job.

[gracepine11]

Pretty much all you guys said.