Whats your dream day job?

[Mr_T]

My dream job when I grow up is to be a sports journalist. I've come to the realisation that I'm not good enough to be a tour pro or any of that and seeming as Im not bad at English I think it's where I wanna go. I'm aware of the fact that there would be a lot of deadlines to meet but I honestly can't think of anything better than being paid to go and watch sport and then give your opinion in the form of a report

 

[Piece]

I'd like to win enough money to retire and not have a day job! Then I can play golf every other day.

If I had to have a job, Tour golfer please!

 

[bladeplayer]

Body paint artist for sports illustrated.. failing that id like to run / own good sportshop , top quality gear at affordable prices employing people who know what they are talking about

 

[alnecosse]

Natalie Gullbis's caddie

 

[HotDogAssassin]

My dream job would first involve winning BIG on the lottery, then I would have a number of businesses (Golf Course, Ale Brewery, Racing Team, Rugby Club) which I would then operate for the love not for the profit.

I don't believe that any job can be counted as a dream, if you are reliant on continuing to reach targets in order to maintain lifestyle. Yes, I'd love to be a F1 or WSB racer, but imagine the pressure they are under if they are not winning. The money helps though I'm sure. Gary Speed is a case in point, as a welsh footballer he was pretty much at the top of the tree but obviously not all good.

 

[connor]

Always wanted to be a fighter piolet/red arrow but as I don't have 20/20 vision that was down the pan from about 2years old haha

Failing that like someone else has said always fancied a nightclub but not a tacky local one I'm talking big super club in Ibiza

 

[bluewolf]

Marine Biologist... Studying reef degredation and the effect on pelagic life that rely on them.. Or a property investor...

 

[Tiger]

You're all going to laugh at me. I live what I do but if I could have any job it would either be as a writer or a teacher. I'd love to write novels or film scripts...lots of ideas no time to get them down. The teaching thing is to try and inspire young people and also for the school holidays it would be great to have them off with the kids when they get older. Easily pleased me.

 

[SyR]

I wanted to be an Apache helicopter pilot but my eyesight wasn't quite good enough. I'd happily go back to being a green keeper but my dream would be to build and run a driving range. The ones around here are very poorly designed (in my opinion).

 

[richart]

I would love to be a writer as well Tiger, but because I read so much I would always have doubts about plagiarism.:mmm:

Wouldn't mind managing a golf club. Hopefully with my financial background it should at least break even.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

I seem to share a few common aspirations. Writer - ideally in a sports publication (aim for GM first and then woerk down the food chain). If not then a tour caddy, owner of a golf club. Years ago I use to do some train spotting as a kid and always wanted to drive one of the big Deltics out of Kings Cross. Once they went any diesel would have done

 

[Captain_Black]

I have never been out of work since I was 16 years old.
I have no ambition to do anything else (I think I have done enough already)

I would be quite happy to just retire & play golf.

 

[G1BB0]

my dream job would be manager of Liverpool Football Club

 

[Tiger]

my dream job would be manager of Liverpool Football Club

I take it you are an Everton fan then because with you at the helm it'd not be long till they plummeted into obscurity

 

[Tiger]

I take it you are an Everton fan then because with you at the helm it'd not be long till they plummeted into obscurity

Actually come to think of it, G1bbo is your name Kenny Dalglish?

 

[Tiger]

I would love to be a writer as well Tiger, but because I read so much I would always have doubts about plagiarism.:mmm:

Plagiarism doesn't exist when you leave education. After school/university it's called taking inspiration.... A lot of people have said that writing is really based on life experience, which is why so many of the successful ones are an older breed. My 40th birthday present to myself is going to be to pick up one of my ideas, write the novel and try and get it published. Until then, it's all about the golf!!!!

 

[Monty_Brown]

Lots of people saying that writer or journalist is their dream job.

I've been a journo for 13 years now, and have to say I want to do something else! The grass is always greener

Seriously though, it depends on what you're writing about and for whom. Sports journalism which I did for a while as a stand-in sports editor, is good fun. You report the facts and then have a bit of licence to comment on them.

News reporting though, is hard graft. In the modern era, you are told the angle they want on the story BEFORE going out to dig around. So much journalism now is sadly about twisting a story to fit the agenda of the owner/proprietor.

Magazines are great: nobody ever started a magazine on a subject they hated. They are generally written by and for people who are enthusiasts for the subject.


Oh, and the money and hours are crap. It's so compeittive that wages are kept artifically low. After doing a degree and then paying to put myself through my NCTJ journalism course, I got my first reporting job for the princely sum of £10,000, about 10 years ago. I doubt it's got much past £12,000 even now.

I have effectively seen my pay fall every year for 5 years now. And that's while winning awards, improving reader satisfaction figures, and increasing circulation. There is NO money in publishing at the moment. Massive redundancies across the major newspaper and magazine firms. Sad but true.

But don't let me put anyone off!

 

[Iaing]

An astronaut.
But it would have to be on an interesting mission. Like to Mars or somewhere. No repairing satellites or the space station for me! That would be too much like the day job.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Lots of people saying that writer or journalist is their dream job.

I've been a journo for 13 years now, and have to say I want to do something else! The grass is always greener

Seriously though, it depends on what you're writing about and for whom. Sports journalism which I did for a while as a stand-in sports editor, is good fun. You report the facts and then have a bit of licence to comment on them.

News reporting though, is hard graft. In the modern era, you are told the angle they want on the story BEFORE going out to dig around. So much journalism now is sadly about twisting a story to fit the agenda of the owner/proprietor.

Magazines are great: nobody ever started a magazine on a subject they hated. They are generally written by and for people who are enthusiasts for the subject.


Oh, and the money and hours are crap. It's so compeittive that wages are kept artifically low. After doing a degree and then paying to put myself through my NCTJ journalism course, I got my first reporting job for the princely sum of £10,000, about 10 years ago. I doubt it's got much past £12,000 even now.

I have effectively seen my pay fall every year for 5 years now. And that's while winning awards, improving reader satisfaction figures, and increasing circulation. There is NO money in publishing at the moment. Massive redundancies across the major newspaper and magazine firms. Sad but true.

But don't let me put anyone off!

My mum use to work near Fleet Street in the halcyon days when being a journalist at a big daily paper still meant something good. I always use to wonder exactly what went on behind the walls and I definitely wanted to be a journo for a long while. In the end my skills were limited and I didn't have the academic nous or the inclination to study A levels and beyond so the NCTJ seemed a long way off

I agree about magazines and being set up by those in love with the topic. I was a big fan of the football fanzines when they exploded onto the scene and put a few pieces in for my local teams which was good. Not sure i'd like to be a newspaper journo these days. At local rag level it seems a lot of hard work for little return and village fetes, and other small fry bread and butter stories isn't going to showcase the talents that lie within.

Like many others I would like to think I have a book inside me but again topic, ability and a market to punt it at are difficult areas to get spot on and to be honest I'm naturally lazy and prefer to be playing golf or working on my swing. Maybe one day. Interesting to hear your views though

 

[Foxholer]

A really good Civil Engineer.

at Driector Level where its not all work and no play, but where you make lots of money and get to play golf at all the local midweek opens.

Phil

My late father-ex-law was one of those.

He described one of his toughest days once as 'working from 4:30 until 11:30'. In fact he drove from Cornwall to Sunningdale for 2 rounds, lunch and a couple of gins with a Sales guy, then back to Cornwall!