What's your dream job?
Friday, January 4th, 2008 - 8:44pm
Whether its in the video game industry or elsewhere, what is your dream job? How does it differ from your current job? How would you go about getting that dream job?
Working in the game industry pros / cons?
I am debating on college possibilities right now, so some cool dream job ideas would be great.
Your friendly neighbourhood hair splitting singularity.
Aperture scientist is my alter ego.
(I hate badies)
Dream occupation = lottery winner.
"History is'a made at night! Character is what you are in the dark!" - Lord John Whorfin
Well, after today, I'm certainly not applying for the storm drain cleaner job at the Public Works.
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Mythbuster.
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Mythbuster
Current TV Vanguard Journalist
Philanthropist
Stay at home dad
Early retired rich person
President or upper government
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I suspect I'd love working at Google, though I haven't yet had the guts to even apply.
Beyond that, running my own 'tech' company. There are a few people with whom I talk with and the ideas begin flowing ... but we have yet to move beyond that stage.
Looks like I picked a good day to be too busy to read Twitter. So much bitching, you'd think people forgot how to use the back button -- Certis
My dream job is not a job. Take this for what it's worth, but "Work to live, don't live to work." Every "dream" job has some sh*tacular portion to it. It just can't be avoided.
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I want to be Steve Zissou from The Life Aquatic.
Barring that I want to travel the world.
McChuck wrote:
Ditto.
Live-in disciple at a dojo.
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A professional screenwriter, or a game developer or an astronaut... More than likely, none of them will ever happen.
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Maybe you could be a stay at home first lady.
I want to spend the rest of my life talking and thinking about gaming...
Or mayhaps working on the story for a game, that would be radness.
Or a Rockette.
SalmonTorpedo!
I guess I don't buy into the philosophy that if you decide to have a career suddenly you're mindless drone being beat down by The Man. Yes even "dream" jobs have some sh*tacular portion to them, but so does everything in life that's worth pursuing- whether it be a career, relationship, or whatever. It's the folks that have real passion in their work that pushes mankind forward... otherwise we'd still be a bunch of damn dirty apes.
Oh and the dream job was work for NASA/JPL ....and I'm living the dream.... as yes there are sh*tacular portions, but I still dig it.
Damn man, you stole my dream job! I'm a software engineer at a big defense/aerospace company so I'm getting there..
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Wealthy Bachelor.
Or, failing that, high-powered investment banker. I missed the point when I read American Psycho.
Your poetry sucks.
Marry into money
Independently wealthy
Internet Superstar
A job
shihonage wrote:
PSN: BoogleGWJMy ultimate dream job (and I mean dream as in will never happen ever) is to be the CEO of a highly successful game developer that has a reputation among gamers the likes of which Blizzard, Rockstar, Harmonix, Epic etc. have.
In reality, I had my dream job once and it was running the Ottawa Geek Squad store with one of my best friends. Then Best Buy decided to kick me in the junk and yank that out from under me so a new higher-up could assert his power. My ultimate hope is that the new company I am starting up with that same friend will end up being that great.
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Standing in front of the High Nine and taking down the Man. That or selling my soul to a firm for big bucks.
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Moving into an Audio Engineering position for my company or doing voice work for our current games as well as future title releases.
"We are at war, and the enemies are...the publishers. No, they're not. It's not that easy. The enemies are mediocrity, laziness, and fear, and they exist in all of us." - Tim Schafer
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I'm taking my A+ pretty soon. So I can do that type of work while I go to school.
Your friendly neighbourhood hair splitting singularity.
Aperture scientist is my alter ego.
(I hate badies)
Voice actor.
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Having enough money not to have to work is the first thing that comes to my mind, but that's not fair or realistic(took a look at that link Shihonage, neat stuff but not for me yet).
I have a hard time with this question, so I'll just answer it with this. If I'm not happy doing what I'm doing now, time to try something else.
My next course of study would either be aviation or meteorology.
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As a 22-year old, in-and-out of college, drifteresque male, I honestly don't know what my dream job would be. I can say that working for ESPN in any capacity would probably suit me very well. Preferably writing about college basketball. Or even color commentary. I could be the next Dick Vitale...minus the grating voice, penchant for nonsensical psuedo-slang, and constant awkward shoulder touching.
You can't control the wind, but you can adjust your sails.
Fisherman
Voiceover work
All this science I don't understand. It's just my job five days a week.
Well I am halfway to my dream job.
Currently a Struggling Actor - I just need to get rid of that first part of my title, or find myself a sugar mama, and I will be living my dream.
I agree 100%
Money may be nice but it sure ain't worth wasting your life over. I am so much happier living poorer than when I was working a crap ass job for good pay.
"Can I have a job? I donut have much experiences, butt I always use an spellchecker spellchecker on my articles." - Sway
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I want to be Gaald. You live in Canada right?
Seriously though, I would like to be a professional musician.
Pilot
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