[Closed] Best job in the world?

A writer. Living exactly where I do, but writing instead of running around like the proverbial chicken.

An artist. Live in the countryside painting country scenes on canvas and selling them online or in local galleries.

Not the Swedish womens beach volleyball team but a friends brother was masseuse to Angelina Jolie for about 14 months going all over the world. He met her on set of Tomb Raider when it was shooting in London and she thought he was good and took him with her. Don't think he got jiggy with her at all but not a bad gig to have.

I would say something like a pro MotoX rider in the States but having seen a few documentaries and talked to a trainer/mechanic at Thunder Valley a couple of weeks ago it is a brutal sport.

Laird Hamiliton seems to have a nice life, as does Joel Tudor.

I know a couple of bike guides, the money's not great, and like any job it has its moments of "Oh, FFS!" But as one recently pointed out, he lives in the mountains and is paid to have fun.

I think anything that takes up so little of my time and pays a huge amount would be good.
I met a helicopter pilot recently who did pleasure fights (we had one) he said that was his dream job and he loved it. I could see why. So that I think.

I was a deck chair attendant on Tenby beach for a summer. Open up about 9ish, hand out deck chairs, stack them up again, close up about 6ish. Occasionally repair a few deck chairs.

Not bad for a summer bumming about.

I wouldn't have missed my three years working in Afghanistan, infact I'd go back tomorrow if I could.

I used to be a photographer working with high speed cine cameras and we spent much of our time blowing things up. Let me tell you blowing things up never gets boring.:-)

Paramedic. For the uniform, you understand…

Rachel

Severn bridge attendants used to have a good deal. Sit there take peoples money and pocket it! 😉 Or so I've heard.

I'd like a trout fishery, lots of general fettling, mending fences, trimmng vegetation back, etc basically fannying about by a small lake.

I studied art at Uni and a few artist/ lecturers got paid to do 'research' ie make some work/ go travelling for a year or whatever. Truly money for eff all.

I've always yearned after self-employed carpentry and furniture design. However, a friend who followed this path (and turned out some stunning cherry veneer cabinets) said that he had to do too much site work to make it financially viable.

So we can all dream can’t we. So forgetting the money part for a while, what would be your ultimate dream job? What’s the best (jammiest) actual job you’ve ever heard someone have?

I was a bike guide for three years. Paid to ride bikes all over the globe. Certainly worse ways to [s]make a living[/s] earn a crust. 😉

Paramedic. For the uniform, you understand…

😆

A car mad friend of mine is living his dream currently; he got an engineering degree, then worked for IBM and trained as a CAD specialist. Left IBM to start his own business selling his CAD expertise & was pretty successful, eventually selling it to a much larger company. He was then head hunted by Ferrari F1, given a good contract and is living and working in Italy at their expense.

A friend of mine was the person on which the female Swedish masses' practiced.

On a yacht.

Oh, and they were mostly nude.

I am not making this up.

Batman.

It's the car. Chicks dig the car.

Jedi has is pretty sweet.

I'd also like to run a boat yard somewhere like Tazmania. Really though I'm sure any job gets boring after a while, I'd rather travel, eating good food and learning about interesting places, jobs are over-rated.

As it is I spend hours a day travelling into and out of London ... short term, it's just short-term!

One of my distant friends works as a dive instructor on Necker Island in the British Virgin Islands (the one owned by Richard Branson).

Her facebook feed is full of pictures like this:

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There are probably worse ways to make a living.

Heli ski guide in Alaska
Powder guide in Japan

Pro downhillers have quite a life. Hard work but amazing return for the top few.

If I won the lottery Id have a gentleman.
'Prep the bikes, we are going riding'
'Book the flights and wax the skis...'
'Take the motorhome, I'll meet you at Fort Bill'
'Sort tickets to Anaheim, we're going to watch the supercross'

I met someone who's school mate does this for his millionaire mate.

Currently really enjoying being a Dad to a 3 year old. Playing dens in the woods. Bike riding. Picnics at the bmx track. Train rides. Walks. It can be stressful and need a day job to make it pay. Not sure I could do it full time even if the money was right though!

Does post-IPO owner of a successful startup count?

I keep thinking I'd like to build a startup, but my mind keeps throwing up obstacles.

I'd not mind being a children's tennis coach, but the money's not that great, and tennis parents.

Thestabilisers job sounds good to me too!.

Paid for trailbuilding would be good too, I don't mind a bit of hard manual.

Conservative Prime Minister

Whilst my dream job most certainly isn't being a teacher, I think it would revolve around some sort of education of others. One of the joys of being a parent is teaching my kids about the awesome (and not so awesome) stuff in the Universe. Sometimes they even look interested 🙂 Passing on knowledge is hugely rewarding so I'd try and build something round that...

I'd like to work for something like Wheels4Life. #fanboi
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I honestly really enjoyed the life of a scientist, for large parts of it. Good salary, plenty of travel, left to get on with what I wanted (no boss), intellectually stimulating, felt like I was making a difference, could cycle to work on or off road (occasionally, run through the forest).

But it was a smelly office block in a not very nice area, and the canteen food got a bit boring. And then the institute went to shit so I walked out.

Philanthropist - is that a job?

Otherwise writer, or some sort of elite consultant that can do a few weeks work every few months and bum around the rest of the time.

However - in terms of real jobs, one of my sister's friends (a real actual bloke who I've met many times) is one of the naturally jammy people. He had a job for a while working for a holiday company testing out hotels and venues in upmarket holiday spots - Carribean, Mauritius etc. Because the hotels knew he was coming, and wanted the business, they laid out every inch of red carpet they had - and they were posh places so had quite a lot.

He said it got too much after 6 months or so though. But fun whilst it lasted 🙂

Oooh, one of our neighbours used to sail yachts down to the med for wealthy boat enthusiasts who weren't enthusiastic enough to sail them themselves

My mate is living his dream at present. Started in January as mechanic for Joe Barnes (and so inherited the other dudes!) and has been bloody everywhere, all over Europe, chile, Argentina etc. Just set off yesterday for another 7 weeks in the Alps, then got a week off before 5 weeks in the states.

It's a lot of responsibility, not just bumming around, but he's a smart lad, and loves it.

Don't think he was loving driving the landship round the one lane M25 last night mind!. 😆

I'd like my own beach club on an island somewhere.

Bikes, sailing & scuba on my doorstep every day.

In the winter, we would retreat to the mountains.

I'd like to be an ambassador for Patagonia. Not in a Ferrero Rocher way but like this:

http://www.patagonia.com/us/ambassadors/surfing/liz-clark/71249

BBMF pilot would be a cool gig. Get paid to tootle around in Spitfires and Hurricanes on nice sunny days.

...but then I went to my first airshow last year and saw modern fastjets fly up close for the first time. Lift off, stick back, full burner, f... off into the blue yonder just like that. Can't believe that feeling ever gets old. Mind you, there's the small matter of possibly/probably needing to kill or be killed.

I'd love to have a skill that allowed me to live somewhere like the Alps but still earn a reasonable wage. I did winter and summer seasons a few years back, earning well below minimum wage working rubbish hours was not a long term solution.

I have a mate who makes one off pieces of furniture. Lives in the mountains year round and takes most of the winter off to ski.

Can't believe that feeling ever gets old. Mind you, there's the small matter of possibly/probably needing to kill or be killed.

— much like being a web developer, then… 8)

Rachel

Official state testicle kicker, with responsibility for Farage, Blair, Johnson and Gove.

I'm pretty sure that I could bring enthusiasm and imagination to that role.

I did 6 months mtb guiding in Colorado/Utah (hello ex-guests!) back in 2003. That was pretty much my dream job, apart from changeover day which was a looong day cleaning toilets etc.
Some people say don't make your hobby your job. I disagree, and you can always get a new hobby anyway.

I used to work in a yacht Chandlery as a sat job years ago. One of the other part timer's was just completing his archtecture degree / placement.

He came into work one morning, having spent the evening in the pub the night before chatting to the owners of one of the spectacularly large yachts in the marina.

In short he was asked to sail the yacht round the world over 5 years with his fiancee. The owners would fly out every couple of months for a few weeks with the yacht in a new location.

When the owner's were not on board, he was free to use the yacht as he liked, provided it got to the next rendevous.

That's it.

Time to take my chances with reincarnation*.

*no, not really

This is my dream job. Not sure I'm funny enough though. Maybe in person 😉

All these yacht dream jobs.

How did they get back into the workforce after the elites got tired of paying for them to do it or they got tired of the job and changed their minds?

^^ I did that for 13mths, nice job, not a lot of pay but you could use the boat as much/little as you needed and we used it for crew accom when racing the Melges. Been to some spanky places over the world following the big key regattas, seen lots of lovely people, stayed in some spectacular houses and locations and enjoyed it whilst it lasted.
If you know where to look jobs like this are around, not paid very well mind.

So I'd like Tony Blairs job, having ruined this country, taken us to war, belligerent in the extreme yet earns £'m spouting bullshit.
I can do that.

If you've ever been to the south of France on holiday, tune into the english speaking radio stations, literally ever other advert is for yatch crew. money is crap though, and you have to put up with the rich idiots who own them, who are relentlessly ****ish.

Steve Peat or Cedric Gracia 🙂

Thing is, what you [i]think[/i] would be your dream job often changes once you get that dream job.

In 2006 I left the UK to be the Operations Director and run the Mega Car company Koenisgsegg; to live the Dream I thought:
1) Move to Sweden;
2) Live by the sea and endless golden sand beaches;
3) Cycle to work every day;
4) Run a company making some of the most mad mega cars in the world;
5) Drive those cars on a daily basis;
6) Etc etc…..

Thing was after two years of doing that I resigned; because it wasn’t just a job it was a life, and quite honestly I didn’t want my life to be work!

So readjusted, kept items 1, 2 & 6, added a very good normally ish job, house, kids and now living the dream.

Of course not everything is simple and carefree (i.e. Instagram), but it’s not damn bad I must say.

For the record this was my favourite K'egg to drive:
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Sorry to say I wouldn't change my job for the world. Longhaul airline pilot, get to take my bike with me all over the world. This month I've ridden the Olympic RR course in Rio, and the Fuji foothills outside Tokyo. This weekend I'm popping down to the Alps for some mtb. Later in the month off to Buenos Aires for some steak & wine.

Jet lag is a PITA, but it ain't a bad gig.

I've mentioned it on here before, but I did spend a few years doing my (personal) dream job. Photographing impact assessments for wind farm companies. Always in remote parts of Scotland, the pay was beyond my wildest dreams, all expenses covered, climbing mountains all day with my dog.

These days I shoot weddings...

Dad of a girl I knew flew round the world on behalf of a holiday co making sure the resorts were up to snuff.

Best summer job I heard of was crew on the mega £££££ yachts. The rich and famous rarely do the full voyage on their boats, they have a crew sail them to the Bahamas, Monaco wherever and then stay on them.

This kid was just a cleaner/deckhand but sailed round the world on these mega boats, got paid for the privilege.

I like the idea of travel would it would have horrendous impact on my family

Something that would give me the same pay and job satisfaction, but just less hours so I could spend more time doing things with my family and for me - that would be ace

Some interesting replies.

Yacht jobs sound fun for a couple of weeks, but the high turnover of staff must tell you that it is a far from perfect job.

There are also some jobs which a fun for a couple of years, but not long-term (bike guides, dive instructor on an exotic island etc.).

And there are plenty of ways of getting paid to do sod all, but I know that gets boring very quickly.

I think my perfect job would be creative with fast turnaround projects. Maybe making stuff for films - props, vehicles, sets etc.

@the00 hence the caveat best summer job. I can't think of any student job I had that competes.

He did get to stay in the hotels in Monaco whilst moored there, went quad biking worth Colin Mcrae, go-karting with DC etc so had its perks but sure not a 52 week a year gig.

I did 6 months mtb guiding in Colorado/Utah (hello ex-guests!) back in 2003. That was pretty much my dream job, apart from changeover day which was a looong day cleaning toilets etc.

Which company did you work for?

UKIP MEP. £80k a year and expenses. You never have to turn up, and when you do, you just have to spout a load of bollocks. Easy.

My wife's uncle offered me the "office" job for his Pottery (Pots, Urns) business in Barbados a few years ago. It seemed right up my street, 'puters, sales & customers and going home to a caribbean house.

But we'd have to sell up here to go (houses are the same price as the UK), wouldn't earn enough wages to come back very often at all let alone save for a UK property, couldn't save for the kids to go to Uni in the US / UK.

Shame really.

Whoa - are you saying I’d get bored of wearing a bright green jumpsuit all day and racing around in an ambulance? I don’t believe you…

Rachel

A friend has it pretty close, working as a Software Developer for Whistler and does guiding/coaching on the side. Regular job in a great location with benefits of a discounted lift pass! I guess the downside is living in a bubble but it seems a pretty good deal.

Dad of a girl I knew flew round the world on behalf of a holiday co making sure the resorts were up to snuff.

Personally, I'm quite taken with Obama's retirement plan. Selling t-shirts on Wailea beach sounds pretty damned awesome.

Getting kids riding bikes - loved seeing mine achieve it, enjoyed taking some of Jnrs mates to Hicks Lodge for the first time and seeing them have a blast on their first (admittedly beginner friendly) trail centre.

Hoping that the county Scouts cycle unit will take me up on my offer to help out, and then considering Bikeability instructor training.

Some jobs that look exotic are 99% hard work and hassle and a few minutes fun. I span cars around with Russ Swift in the early days which was a lot of time on the road for a few minutes in the limelight, which looks glamorous but in fact demands too much concentration to be fun. He loved it, I preferred a day job.

Junior is an ESF ski instructor which is pretty cool except when it's sleeting and he has a group of soggy miserable kids to jolly along. The red jacket is far cooler than a para-medic kit.

One of the jobs I enjoyed most paid the least. Camp site bod. Bumble around fixing things, organise a barby now and then, play games with kids once a week, socialise as much as you feel like, boss a thousand kms away, learn lots about life.

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I'm sat here at my desk at home, drinking tea and looking out the third floor window across the estuary to the Haldon hills.. Got some ace Brazillian drum n bass blaring out the speakers and I'm just having a fag break before returning to my easel..
I've got literally sod all money though 🙂

A lad I know has just spent the weekend DJing the VIP area for Beyonce's Wembley gigs.. that's gotta be quite a buzz

I'd really like to have some sort of festival related business

Shawn Colvin's bass player - when she tires of people like Michael Rhodes, that is.

In fact, any bass gigs where I had the opportunity to play in front of big audiences again would do - nothing beats it, IMHO.

I'd want to be a game developer.

Making games for children of all ages, make a game for myself that I will never ever get tired of playing. I can play with my spouse, my kids and they'll tell me, what a nice game.

Develop a game that will make me famous and really really rich.

My wife's oldest school friend runs a deep sea fishing charter business in Negril, Jamaica with her family which is quite a nice gig. They have 2 boats chartered pretty much solidly from September to March and also do a little diving as a sideline (he's a fully certified dive master). It's all catch, tag and release of sport fish too so that's good.

Dad. /thread closed.

@ mtbroutes

You must had guided me, then, as I did 2 years in a row with RMA.

While probably not the greatest job in the world a friend of rocket jr's works for a red brick in a team of prototype engine developers

They have an amazing workshop and make components/sub assemblies and run them up on prototype engines from the big guns

Getting something working at its best really appeals to me

I'd quite like to be a handyman on a little French campsite. Potter about, fix some stuff, enjoy the weather/food/wine.

Or repair clocks and watches (which is something I could learn to do now I suppose)

this:

I'd quite like to be a handyman on a little French campsite. Potter about, fix some stuff, enjoy the weather/food/wine

by the seaside (could double up as deckchair man too).

A friend of my brothers is a model and in a band.

He basically shags models and singers.

A friend of my brothers is a model and in a band.

He basically shags models and singers.

Prime Minister.
You get to screw models and singers and brickies and miners and office workers and lots of other types of people.
60 million of them.
All at once.

Something almost other worldly like Astronaut or F1 driver still appeals of course, sadly decades past the tiny sliver of opportunity to be one.

I didn't know what I wanted to be until I was in my early 30s really, one of my only regrets in life is that I was told I was lazy school and wasting everyone’s time, really I was bored, I sit very high on the ADD scale.

I would have really loved to be a Medical Doctor, I know it's not a pathway to riches, but that's never really bothered me, I'm usually more stressed when I have money than when I don't, and I know it's long hours and hard work, but I'd rather that than boredom. I worked in a call centre once, I knew it was time to leave when I started to develop an involuntary twitch and having the same recurring dream about zombies slowly walking toward me, whenever they reached my bed they'd open their mouths as wide as they could and the noise the phones used to make would come out of them loud enough to make me jump - the worst part is in that dream, I never thought I was dreaming.

Sadly for me, I think, well I hope I could have been a pretty decent doctor, I work well under pressure and high speed, but it was the years of cramming in all that info, no way I would have had the attention span for it.

I worked in Sydney during the Olympics, collecting hire cars from the airport and hotel, cleaning them and delivering them to the next customers – 14 hour days, 40c heat and exhausting – loved it. Best job ever.

I would have really loved to be a Medical Doctor, I know it's not a pathway to riches

I'm not sure about that - one of the wealthiest people I know is a surgeon, and the GPs I'm friends with aren't doing too badly either... I'd need all that money to persuade me to do it though, definitely not my idea of a dream job.

Some of the most fun I've had at work has been kitchen and bar jobs. I sometimes think I'd be pretty happy going back to that.

Mythbuster.
Astronaut.

In practical terms if I lost my current job through minor health issues I'd take the insurance payout, clear my mortgage, and try to get a job guiding mountain bike tours somewhere warm and scenic.

Astronaut in the 2100s, when we have enough technology to really start reaching out and touching the stars - or an 18th century privateer or a silk road trader at the height of the Mongolian empire. The worlds too ****ing small.

Because

[b] We're the middle children of history, man.[/b] No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our great war is a spiritual war. Our great depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars, but we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off.

There's not much place for easily bored, curious risk taking chancers anymore. Everyone dies at some point, at least living in those eras could be an assault on my senses before I died an untimely death due to air pressure loss, cannon fire splinters or the bubonic plague. I would have been better off in the days when biology was more about being an exploring naturalist, instead of losing my mind in a sterile office.

I was Via Ferrata guide in the Dolomites for a summer. I'd happily do that for the rest of my life.

I have a very 'exciting' job in the Big Smoke managing costly and complicated IT projects.

I wish I had followed my heart rather than my head when I was younger.

I'd love to be a bespoke furniture designer/maker.

Probably a volcanologist or a landscape photographer, or maybe a volcano photographer

.... or a mythbuster

Reckon a job as a journo for a hobby mag, be it bikes, super cars, travel, cuisine etc, would be pretty sweet.

Freelance of course, after getting bored of being a stay at home lottery winning millionaire

On a serious note, a photographic ethnographer or something.

I'd quite like to be paid to take a camera and remove myself as far away from westerners as possible, Mongolia, deepest rural parts of China etc, Papua New Guinea, the Congo etc

Or work for MSF in a field hospital.

On the grass is greener on the other side thoughts, I had a pretty good deal working for a Bike Manufacturer. I was in Software Support and Development, cost price bikes, reasonable salary, I wasn't working directly with bikes so my hobby wasn't my job and I could ride at lunch! But the reality was the work was repetitive, boring, didn't challenge me at all and I could see myself being unemployable if I stuck at it.

I'm glad I left but it was good for a few years.