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Dream Jobs
You girls have got me thinking...what with talk about people going back to school and different career ideas (celebrants, pastry chefs, etc) - what's your dream job? Or if you do what you love NOW, what is that please? haha.
Of course this is coming from the girl who went and got a BA and MA in one field and then went and did a 180 career-wise and got a second Master's in an entirely different field. And I'm sitting at work this morning feeling so bored and unfulfilled in the field I've worked in for the past 10 years. (I'm a librarian in a corporate engineering firm).
I would secretly love to be a pastry chef. Or design jewelry. Or do something creative and artistic...maybe after DH and I have kids I can overhaul my life and pursue something I actually would feel excited to get up and do every morning.
Re: Dream Jobs
proud pagan
I'm afraid that I will be of no help. I'm a librarian, too, but I love it. I wonder if it's the setting that you're not crazy about? I think I would claw my eyes out if I had to work at an engineering firm (no offense to engineers; my mom was one, and one of my good friends is one now).
I work at a small university. I think I'd like working in most public libraries, too, though I never have. I do public services, interlibrary loan, and information literacy instruction, so even the routine stuff is never exactly the same. (One of our heavy ILL users is a prof who writes about the history of American sexuality... never a dull day when his orders arrive!)
You've heard what I've done, not what I've been through.
If you were in my shoes, you'd fall the first step."
I would like to work for a design firm that specializes in senior living design - assisted living facilities, nursing homes, dementia facilities. Or work with older adults to modify their homes so that they can age in place.
If I can't do that I want to own a dance studio or cupcake shop.
I think it really is my setting here. I spent 10 years in a public library and we were all very close as a staff and working in the same backroom. Now, I work on my own all day long...my coworkers are in different buildings and while most of the time I enjoy the peace of having my own office and getting things done mainly uninterrupted, it gets lonely and boring, too. I like going to meetings just to go have human interaction with my coworkers!!! It pays very well, though, and has great flexibility - both are the main reasons I stay. And most of the time I like my work - I just get annoyed with the corporate red tape and engineers can be...something else. ;-)
Ooooh, someone mentioned a cupcake shop. I love me some cupcakes...
I AM a pastry chef! HAHA! Seems like I have the dream job that 50% of you want... only it's not.
I LOVE what I do but I hate what I have to do at work. I do the majority of my "pastry chef" stuff on the side. At work I do monotonous baking and stupid grocery store looking sheet cakes. Ugh. Owning any kind of restaurant/bakery/etc. is super tough business and a real easy way to lose a whole lot of money REAL quick.
The field has become inundated with cupcake bakeries and anyone who's ever made a cake. It makes it difficult to get business sometimes because many "homemakers" charge a lot less than me. But you pay for what you get. I get most of my business by word of mouth but DH is working on a website for me! =D
A couple of my faves that I've done this year...
I'm a kindergarten teacher and I seriously love it. However, there are some other "possibilities" that I've thought about. I love weddings and loved planning mine. My younger sister is just starting college this year, but eventually she wants to own her own event planning business and then I can work for her - hehe
That'll be a while, though....and I could do it on the side. I also love books and I think I might like being a children's/young adult librarian. I'm just starting my blog and I think it would be cool to be a full-time blogger with tons of fans. I also love photography but I don't know a single thing about it....so that's just one of my pretend dreams. I just like looking at the pretty pictures, but I really wouldn't want to take them.
Oh, and Becky Bloomwood from the "Confessions of a Shopaholic" series was a personal shopper at Barney's in New York. Um hello dream job?