[Closed] If you could have any job...

dry stone walling has always appealed.

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can't hold a camera straight of focus it - want to be professional photographer, weddings, that sort of thing. Easy money!

Gigolo 8)

hmm, always liked using my hands...

Fluffer

Mythbuster.

International man of mystery 8)

No good asking me, hope someone has a brilliant idea I can steal before I go and get another contract doing the same shit in a different place.

I think I'd like forestry work, fresh air and big machinery. Maybe a lumberjack, I'd be OK 🙂

I loved my old job as a arborist (tree feller) and cutting grass on ride on mowers, tunes on shorts and sunglasses, awsome but alas it is seasonal so may be back in march!!!

There was a dream job a while back for a caretaker on a desert island nr oz great money family could stay free and u just looked after the island, some jammy student nabbed it, was in the paper im sure.

Atm my brother has a good job, working on the fracking in blackpool looking for shale gas, he drives a tracked bobcat and ****s about with huge drills all day.

i did try for the forestry commission grad scheme a couple of years ago, but when the interview round is a 1st come 1st serve basis and your laptop decides to die at 8.55am you're pretty ****ed!

not much fracking down here in bristol 🙁

was thinking of setting up as a shoe shiner in the center of town today, just while i wait for a 'proper' job.. could be a laugh.

Lake District Fell Top assessor
http://www.lakedistrict.gov.uk/aboutus/staff/whatdowedoexactly/fell-top-assessor

I like the idea os 'assessor' - it sounds liek you don't actually have to *do* anything just flit about vaguely.

"I assessed the top of that fell yesterday and noted that it was still there and I'm off to do that one over there today."

(note: I have not followed the link so have no idea what the actual job involves)

I gained my tickets when i worked for connaught, as they went into admin i was a (painter/foreman) then some of their contracts were bought by fountains who did motorway tree felling/grass cutting so i got tuped over and became a tree feller, then got a 6month contract with the local council, atm im in a stop gap doing spray booth instalation and commercial gas/air/water pipe fitting, its shite dirty and crap pay. A good job im looking into is working with naughty kids, minimal training, get paid to go mountainbiking,paintballing etc job satisfaction and good money as my failed attempts at being in the old bill wound me up.

wwaswas - that seems largely to be it...

[i] that seems largely to be it... [/i]

Sounds just my sort of thing 🙂

They assess the weather conditions for walkers and mtbers 😆

If I wasn't married, and didn't have a job already that I quite like, I would definitely be looking at private tutoring abroad. There's a job in the TES at the moment at £70,000 and a flat in Barcelona to coach a pupil for US college admission. I saw one last year that was offering £100,000 and a flat in NY! Oh, but the proviso was you had to be on-hand to tutor wherever the family was in the world- at their home in Verbier or Mustique as well as NY...tough life

bloody hell... not sure i'm smart enough for that!

Blacksmith.

Moderator, having the power to ban people who offend the majority, and take them out of society for a day, week or forever, and the moderators have respect from most unlike our politians who have none and dont deserve any.

Farrier or thatcher ( roof, not union busing mine shutter type) but ok there is a lot of training.

Police commissioner?

Farriers (horse shoers) make a really good living im sick of paying mine for the wifes horse, u have to have balls n be a bit of a lump like.

WTF would I want a job for?

[b]druidh[/b] - Member
WTF would I want a job for?

Cycling or sports photography, I bet it's not really that difficult either.

Google trekker, although I'd prefer to map the bike trails of the UK.

http://mashable.com/2012/06/12/google-street-view-hiking-trails/

[b]Air ambulance pilot [/b]- you get to do worthwhile job and fly a whirlybird - surely women would fall at your feet and men would cross the room just to shake your hand and you'd just reply - "it's nothing really, it's just a job."

AWESOME AWESOME AWESOME job.

only caveats, no lengthy/expensive training required. i.e no airline pilots/astronaughts etc, has to be uk based too.

I'd be Prince Harry.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7823812.stm

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Farrierering is not that glamerous. My cousin is one and the total rewards for the job is a bit shit to be fair. Out in all weathers, large risk of personal injury, hard work. The bloke that taught him said it was a young man's game and the went to teach it.

I'm really not sure what I'd like to be. Maybe some sort of uber-hacker, making gadgets and stuff. Either that or the boss of a private security company or something. At least the travel perks of the latter would be good.

[quote=willard ]Farrierering is not that glamerous. My cousin is one and the total rewards for the job is a bit shit to be fair. Out in all weathers, large risk of personal injury, hard work.
Meeting fit, young, jodhpur-clad ladies all day ...

want to be professional photographer, weddings, that sort of thing. Easy money!

Cycling or sports photography, I bet it's not really that difficult either.

What's stopping you then?

My job/jobs is/are pretty sweet. I don't earn a fortune but then I don't work that much either. I work for a charity running music workshops and organising festivals/events, and I'm a photographer -weddings that sort of thing. 😉

There was a picture a few years back of a guy who was tweaking J-Lo for a photo shoot, could be worse.

On a river tour in Dartmouth I think it was there was a story of a guy who was salaried to look after a wealthy persons boat on the river, essentially, running it up and checking it over once a month, earning about £35k, could be worse.

Fashion photographer would also not be the most horrible way to earn a living, bitumen I'm not sure I'd be able to cycle t work any longer, so maybe not.

A farmer, I know it's a lifestyle not a job as such, but still want it.

Failing that working for the forestry commission driving and forests and stuff would be fun.

What's stopping you then?

Benefits Bludger

i'll be looking back into forestry

also the outdoor equipment, adventure sport industry (where i almost am now).

i'd quite like to be the next ben fogle too (but without the dashing looks)

[quote=hungry monkey ]
i'd quite like to be the next ben fogle too (but without the dashing looks)
You'd have to learn how to fall off your road bike going uphill. 🙄

[i] the next ben fogle[/i]

I thought that was some sort of Scottish Mountain?

Dear Leader.

No training is needed because of the natural talent.

😆

Luckily i'm young and have my whole life ahead of me so I could sit and ponder about this if I wanted, but I already know.

I currently work for a printing firm running a 2 colour press, very boring and not very mentally taxing at all, but my retained fire brigade application is being processed this month and that's where my life lays.

Once I get in and have served full time for 8 or 12 years, there will be 100 years unbroken service in our family. Great granddad , granddad, dad and myself.

SAP implementation consultant

Wanted: Idiot to prove things are "Bombproof".

Me: Shall I test them for "Chris Proof".

Manufacturer: Yes.

Result: Best job, no fear, free stuff, private hospital.

Wish I knew. 44 now and still don't know what to do with myself.

I always quite fancied being a postman.
I am a metallurgist, which is pretty interesting most of the time.

already looked at fire service, no jobs going in avon and somerset 🙁

Would be 100% happy doing what i do now if it was 9-5, or at least with every weekend free and better evening shifts. I'm a tech op in a tv studio so there's no chance of normal hours! Video editing for promos etc would be fun as well.

Molecatcher or stick whittler

My official title would be National Shaman, but I would perform a number of important duties and be revered throughout the entire universe..

My father-in-law was a farrier. It's a tough job. Hard on the back and knees but damn interesting. He used to make damn good money too.

Fortunately I kinda love what i do for a job.

Tree surgeon. Climbing trees and chain saws.....!

i tried and tried to get trained as a farrier. love horses and girls in jodhpurs 😆
almost impossible to get an apprenticeship in it though so i became a sonemason instead. get to knock around in the countryside fixing up lovely old buildings 🙂 struggling to fill my working week at the mo though and it gets worse as the winter kicks in 🙁

Sancho - Member
SAP implementation consultant

Why would you want to implement SAP on anyone? Do you hate other people?

EDIT: Double post.

Air ambulance pilot - you get to do worthwhile job and fly a whirlybird - surely women would fall at your feet

If its while you're on duty its becuase they're terribly ill or critically injured - I'm not sure if that counts as "Wahay I'm in there!" 🙂

Probably same job as now but i'd like less hours and a lot more money.

Raf helicopter winchman would be fine....

Failing that, cameraman on Babestation...

Doffs cap to Bradley and his family

Air ambulance pilot - you get to do worthwhile job and fly a whirlybird - surely women would fall at your feet
If its while you're on duty its becuase they're terribly ill or critically injured - I'm not sure if that counts as "Wahay I'm in there!"

😀

village idiot.

I fancied being Capt Awesome but Baumgartner pipped me to it.

In the meantime I am lucky enough to love my job an awful lot so it will do for me til I work out a way to go faster towards earth than him.

Forestry appeals to me, as does renewable stuff. As for a job just for fun and not considering the money, I'd love to be a ski guide somewhere, or a mtb guide in California or Southern Spain.

only caveats, no lengthy/expensive training required. i.e no airline pilots/astronaughts etc, has to be uk based too.

so, jobs like working for an events company or a bike distributor etc

So that discounts doctors, PHD scientists etc etc then?

On a serious note I'd quite like to be a Medicines Sans Frontiers Biomedical Scientist.

I like to try being the guy who drives the gold carts around airports with that beeping noise, looks fun.

Demolitions expert/explosives engineer.

getting paid to blow shit up. booom.

seriously.

My ideal job would be pestering dull people who don't want to speak to you about where they are up to with things, then typing it all into a spreadsheet and sending to other people who won't look at it, interspersed with sitting in meetings of no interest or relevance. Half the projects would be shelved after 6-12 months and those that weren't, you would never actually see any results.

Sort of like a [waste of time] squared, but getting paid for it.

8)

bra fitter

not gross/stinky/rough birds tho.

need to build up my experience.. any takers? (see exceptions!)
🙂

I always wanted to be.. a lumberjack! Leaping from tree to tree as they float down the mighty rivers of British Columbia...

someones going to be along with a youtube for you in minute, purist!

hmm, demolitions sounds good... but i bet there's a lot less blowing up than you'd expect!

The people who you work with are as important as the job. A friend of mine got a job on Necker Island. Loads of money, Loads to do etc but he GM was huge cockpiece so he left.
Makes me think that working alone is the best way. Forestry Ranger for me; battered old landy, me and the dog.
Unfortunately I am caught in the trappings of earning a decent living. Making that step down in money would be too painful.