Assuming you are not currently involved in your "dream job"...

[LauraGB]

What do you want to be when you grow up?

I would like to be a food and wine critic and eat and drink my way around the world (and have people - gasp! - PAY me for my opinion!).

Or, I would like to be a scholar of the history world religions. But I would like enough money stashed so that that would be all I had to do; sit in my large office with cherry wood panels on the walls that aren't covered in oodles of dusty old books, piles of papers on the floor next to my lovely overstuffed leather couches (can you almost smell the old cigar smoke from days gone by?), and read or study (or whatever scholarly historians do).

What would you do (again, assuming you are not already doing it ;))?

[elegantlion]

I want to write novels. I'll be the little ecentric lady walking around with a pad of paper and a sharpened pencil behind her ear. Ocasionally I say aloud, "Aha!" and scribble some revelation on the paper. If I am out of paper, then a napkin, gum wrapper, or Wal-mart receipt will do. Then I will go home and type on my laptop. A dog at my feet, cat on the table, and the smell of coffee in the background. :D

[Happy]

What would you do (again, assuming you are not already doing it ;))?

In my fantasy life, I raise and train Arabian horses. In real life, I break when I fall, so I don't ride many young horses any more. :tongue_smilie:

Like elegantlion, I want to write. Fiction and non-fiction. I've already become the weird lady mumbling to herself with a notebook in hand. I'm published in magazines and working on both a novel and a non-fiction book. My homeschool journey ends next year (yikes!) when my youngest graduates. I'm looking forward to what's next.

[cin]

Honestly, I am doing my dream job. I dreamt about being a mom for 12 years. And I was trained as a teacher, so homeschooling was the natural choice.

My second choice would be a forensics specialist. Not sure if I would want to be a F. Anthropologist, but something in CSI/forensics field. Honestly, I would love to work at the Body Farm. http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/news/2005/11/69705

I've always been fascinated with crime and medicine, so if I was young again, I would go in that direction. The local college offers a BS in forensics, but I just can't justify spending the $$ on a frivolous adventure.

[starlashine]

Traveling singer/songwriter. This is what I was working on getting into when I had my son. So in 12 years or so, I hope to be cruising the country in a VW bus, playing coffee houses and small clubs, camping or sleeping in the bus, with a notebook and a favorite pen in hand. Oh yeah, and my favorite guitar, of course.:001_smile:

[CactusPair]

I'd like to be a research librarian in a large urban, academic library or law library.

Or a Medical Examiner, like Quincy.

I like to find stuff out.

[sdWTMer]

Or a Medical Examiner, like Quincy.

I LOVED Quincy M.E. as a kiddo! He was the man! ;)

He was the original CSI, was he not? :D

[Angela in TN]

My second choice would be a forensics specialist. Not sure if I would want to be a F. Anthropologist, but something in CSI/forensics field. Honestly, I would love to work at the Body Farm. http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/news/2005/11/69705



This is what I'd love to do as well and I live in town with the body farm. I watch enough CSI right now shouldn't that qualify me for a job already?!:D

I'd also love to have some kind of job that I could use my love of English (especially Tudor) history without being a teacher. :confused:

[JennifersLost]

I wish I could get a job handing books out to people for free - just popping into their lives, scanning their situations and saying, "OH! Have I got the book for you!" And then disappearing again.

If I'm ever old, rich and alone, I'm gonna totally do that. And I'll wear a funky dress while I do.

For now, I'm working on getting published so I can really pretend to be a writer.

[E_Edgerton]

An ex-pat living in London writing an amazing novel. A film or music critic. A travel writer. A cartographer. A sailor. A photographer most recently. Oh, had different plans for my life...none of them included a husband/family....now, as a home tutor, I have the husband, but can't wait for the family! Funny!:)