Many folks here are living out thier dream job, getting paid (maybe not what they are worth), to do what the love. So let's say you were not making signs, vehicle graphics, engraving, pinstriping or airbrushing, What are your Dream Careers???? Anything goes, Dream Big!!!!!
Here are my top 5 choices, in order...
1. Custom Motorcycle Builder 2. Top Fuel Driver 3. Hydroplane Driver 4. Pro Hockey Player 5. Fire Fighter on an Aircraft Carrier
Let's here yours, just for fun !!!! Posted by Bob Burns (Member # 268) on :
1. MARRYING A VERY RICH WIDDER-WOMAN ABOUT 85, WHO OWNS A harley AND A liquor store! 2. doin nuthin!
Posted by Terry Baird (Member # 3495) on :
1. Sculptor 2. Painter (fine arts) 3. Golf pro 4. Web designer 5. Art teacher
Posted by Bob Stephens (Member # 858) on :
Playboy photographer
Posted by Arvil Shep' Shepherd (Member # 2030) on :
Hot Rod Designer/Builder Custom Car Designer/Builder Photographer Sculpturer Artist Home Builder Electrician Plumber Small Mouth Bass Fisherman/Guide Custom Auto Painter
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Wait a minute,.... I do all these things now!!!!..maybe not the best...but good enough to get paid for doing them.....
My philosophy has always been."If you cannot afford to pay someone to do a particular thing.....then learn to do it yourself"...
Now where did I put that Gas Drilling Equipment ??????he he he he
Shep'
Posted by Mark Matyjakowski (Member # 294) on :
-Rock Star (not media star) -Tattoo Artist -Own a major club where cool bands play -Building anything with my hands -Junkie Posted by Bruce Bowers (Member # 892) on :
Well, Troy....
Hmmmmmmmmm.... Dream career? OK, I'll play...
1. Pro hockey player
2. Custom car designer
3. Minister
4. Club owner where cool bands play
5. Professional Letterhead
My apologies to Mark for #4. That just sounded too excellent, dude!
Back to reality...
Posted by Harris Kohen (Member # 2139) on :
1. Full time treasure hunter 2. NHRA Pro Stock car driver 3. Amazing blues guitar player (like SRV) 4. Fighter test pilot 5. International man of mystery...yeah baby, yeah!
Posted by Lee McKee (Member # 3533) on :
1. Sculptor 2. Pro Rugby Player (I played semi-pro for years) 3. Astronaut (I Ain't Scared) 4. Celtic Musician (bagpipes or drum) 5. Farmer (hydro-organic only) 5.1 A REAL Letterhead Resident These are not in any paticular order.. as I would do any or all at a minutes notice.
Posted by Si Allen (Member # 420) on :
Heheheheheee: 1. Test Pilot at a House of Ill Repute 2. Race Driver of anything that goes FAST! 3. Gourmet Chef 4. Professional Hunter
Posted by Glenn Taylor (Member # 162) on :
Dream career?
Heck, I'm living mine.
(It pays to have low expectations) Posted by Santo (Member # 411) on :
1. Deep Sea Charter Boat Capt. 2. Aqua-culture farmer 3. Brewmiester 4. Boat Builder 5. Blues slide guitarist
Posted by Ryan E Young (Member # 2325) on :
1 Belly Dancer 2 Racecar driver. {any kind just let me drive the Freakin wheels off it} 3 Custom Bike builder 4 Speed shop owner 5 Car show/racing promoter
Posted by Troy Haas (Member # 472) on :
Glennnnn, (he say's in that disapproving tone)
Your are suppose to list things other than what you do now.........LOL
One rule and Glenn breaks it...LOL
Posted by Lotti Prokott (Member # 2684) on :
You guys want to be WHAT? This post needs some female input. So here goes:
Reporter Photographer Writer Horse stable owner Artist (painter) Relief work coordinator for an organisation like Unicef, or World Vision Architect Landscaper (planing) Cartoonist and more
This is a fun post, thanks, Troy Posted by Cam Bortz (Member # 55) on :
1. Writer 2. History/Philosophy professor 3. Red Sox manager (well, maybe for a game or two) 4. Motorcycle builder
Posted by Kristie Byrnes (Member # 3510) on :
1. Be in a Rock Band 2. Professional Skier 3. Lighthouse Keeper 4. Veterinarian 5. Professional Wildlife Photographer
Posted by William Holohan (Member # 2514) on :
Easy one for me...
Any career/occupation that will guarantee that I never wake up with a white satin liner above me, and the smell of fresh sod around me.
Posted by George Perkins (Member # 156) on :
At my age it's kinda hard to do this "dream" stuff but anyways here goes.
1. professional dirt late model driver ( this one is doable, Freddy Smith is my age )
2. singer/songwriter
3. write a novel
4. roller coaster tester
5. charter boat captain
Troy, I really have to wonder about your choice on number five though. I was an aircraft fire fighter, albeit , on a helicopter carrier, not the most glamerous job in the world on a daily basis, that's for sure. Of course the potential for life threatening situations is always there.We didn't have to worry about all the arms that are about a CVA on our ship, we never carried any gunships and the method of fighting a fire on a helicopter at the time was to shove it overbord ( there loaded with magnesium, which is next to impossible to extinguish ) I'd suggest you go watch some films of the Forrestal fire, you might want to rethink choice number five.
Posted by Tony Vickio (Member # 2265) on :
Lots of interesting "stuff" out there! For me: 1. Race car driver (did it for 12 years and am still alive!) 2. Flying (pilot) anybody out there fly F16s.......would kill for a ride!!! 3. GOLF!! (if I live to be a 100, I may be able to shoot my age!)
Shep, email me on what you have for street rods! I will send photos (before and after) of the '51 Chevy Sedan Delivery (Camaro frame, 350 motor) I built...............then totaled! I am now restoring a 1965 Corvette "Fuelie" Coupe. Owned the car for 35 years! Two years in the making, trying to get it ready for this summer. It is the 50th anneversary of the Corvette this uear. The Vintage Weekend at Watkins Glen is featuring Corvettes this September!
George, I ran dirt late models up here in the north east. While I was working at Talladega Speedway in Alabama, I met Freddy Smith, also one of my dirt track heros!
Posted by Robert Richards (Member # 3244) on :
Have enough time & money to 1. Do what I want 2. When I want 3. Where I want
Posted by Tony Potter (Member # 1199) on :
I would like to own me a little restaurant on northern gulf coast fla or somewhere the like, that i can get up, put on my flip flops, shorts, leave shirt unbuttoned, go out and water the flower (cactus maybe) garden. Go into work around noon to see that things are going ok.. eat me some of my good food. Take care of some business, have dinner with my little girl that evening and then listen to some nice band playing some good sounding tunes.
That would be heaven to me.
Hmmmm..... Odd how theres not a companion in this story... lol... i guess im going to have to work on that one... heh. That would definitely make thing all the better if I could do the above and have someone to share it with that wanted same.
Posted by cheryl nordby (Member # 1100) on :
I always wanted to own a garden nursery.
Or a coffee shop and play blues in the background and have the coolest murals on the walls. Posted by Don Hulsey (Member # 128) on :
According to the "rule", I'm not allowed to play.
Posted by Amy Brown (Member # 1963) on :
1. Stay-at-home mom with enough money to enjoy the job (guess I'd have to win the lotto) 2. NASCAR Driver (for a team with money) 3. Gourmet Chef (someone else to do the dishes) 4. Custom fabricator of Street Rods &/or Motorcycles (Sorry Lotti, guess I'm not much on female influences!) 5. Anything that helps others and makes them happy! 6. Fighter Pilot
Posted by Steve Burke (Member # 2674) on :
I would own a coffee shop that sold only cheesecakes for food and out back would be a studio for bands to practice/record in. That way I would have my days AND evenings covered. My wife makes AWESOME cheesecake and I love to sip coffee while playing my gee-tar.
I would roll the profits from this operation into a topless car-wash, though. har har
Posted by John Lennig (Member # 2455) on :
Well, I've been pondering this one for a few days....
Part owner of a Micro Brew Pub,(NO factory beer allowed, only "our" taps, and a revolving "visitors" tap, for funly variety)
This Pub would have a studio attached(tenuously) where I would create "Flying Biscuit" Quality signs, real & imagined.
I would be sponsored by a cool bike company, doing the bike festival/race circuit, as a proponent of "healthy fun on a bike means a healthy life, full of fun(and sometimes, fractures!!)
Oh yeah, I would put in regular/irregular shifts in the kitchen at the Pub, serving up the kinds of foods I love to make and eat.
OK, so this is a long ramble, all I know how to do, lol! Basically, it boils down to:
Paint Signs that I want to.
Ride Bikes.
Make food I like, and others hopefully will to.
Help create Great Brews that I like & others will to.
All this takes place with my great wife, Lyn,(doing her thing) and lotsa visiting Letterheads, BikeHeads, MicroHeads passing by.
Oh hell, What a business plan this is gonna be!
John Lennig / SignRider
Posted by Terry Whynott (Member # 1622) on :
John, can I come work for you? I don't ride bikes but I love the micro brewery idea! And then get to still make fun signs too...whoohooo Posted by VICTORGEORGIOU (Member # 474) on :
It's not exactly a career, but if I were swimming in money, I would go to Russia and take a ride in their fighter aircraft. Vic G
Posted by Peter Schuttinga (Member # 2821) on :
saw a great post a while ago, some great links, so my first choice is 1. (airbrush)body painter 2. (airbrush)body paint remover 3. life gaurd at some swanki beach resort somewhere tropical 4. one of those tv travel guides who go all over the world 5. beach bum
Posted by Jeff Ogden (Member # 3184) on :
A dream job for me would be to own a camp with cabins and camping areas...open it up to any and all musicians...make it a songwriters camp, with a recording studio........maybe have some festivals there a couple of times a year.... have a dining hall with a chef, nature trails, swimming.Get John Deaton to make some signs.....
Second choice would be a medical career (Paramedic), followed by songwriter,sign inspector(boy could I have fun with THAT one!), or maybe just be a full-time grandpa, get paid by the hug. Posted by Kathy Joiner (Member # 1814) on :
Give me the easy life. I want to be a derelict! I would move down the Tangipahoa River back to my old camp which was 9 miles by boat from the landing.
I would hunt, fish, crab, and shrimp for food. I would use my food stamps at a crooked grocer to buy my beer. The welfare check should cover the light bill, my cell phone, and gas for my boat.
If I were to get sick or need a dentist Medicaid would give me much better care than afforded by those who are on insurance plans at work.
Oh yes, I could also collect a little extra check because it wouldn't be too difficult to proove I'm a little "OFF". Posted by E. Balch (Member # 3545) on :
This is a hard one,
If I knew what I wanted to do (when I grow up) Then I'd be obligated to go off an do it.
I enjoy building things more than anything else so, I think I'd like a self cleaning shop full of metal and woodworking tools that would put themselves away. I'd have an unlimited supply of metal and other parts to fabricate hotrods or rebuild bikes. If I decided to build a catapult no problem, the only decision is how big.
Also, I wouldn't have to mow grass or plow snow or cut firewood anymore. A steady temperature of 60 degrees would be nice too. I'd just putter around in my shop and talk to my dog for company.
ernie
Posted by Steve Burke (Member # 2674) on :
notice how many include a reference to playing music???
Posted by Ryan E Young (Member # 2325) on :
I noticed more car and bike builders.
Posted by Mark Smith (Member # 298) on :
OK, here goes:
1. Modern Dancer 2. Performance Artist 3. Sculptor (clay) 4. Fine art photographer 5. Travel writer
Posted by Kimberly Zanetti (Member # 2546) on :
Tony - You wrote that you wanted to have a little restaurant, go in a round noon and still get to have dinner with your little girl. What are you serving - late afternoon snacks?
Anybody who wrote Gourmet Chef had better change that to Celebrity Chef so you can be the kind who drops by once in a while and cooks rather than the 12-14 hours a day a regular chef works. That's why I changed my mind about becoming one - the hours suck!
Oh yea, my dream job - Bestselling Novelist. I'd like the satisfaction of having a well-written novel and have the fame without getting recognized.
Posted by Dawn Ellis (Member # 3529) on :
This is fun . . . .
Posted by Dawn Ellis (Member # 3529) on :
Oooops I pressed the wrong button. 1. Travel the world scubadiving and taking incredible underwater photographs. 2. Purchase millions of acres of land and set them aside as permanent wetlands. 3. Hang out with that British art forger who still has his paintings hanging in some of the world's best museums. What the heck, if the experts can't tell the difference -- it's discretionary money, not some little old lady's pension.
Posted by Tony Potter (Member # 1199) on :
Heh Kimberly,
I grew up calling what most call 'supper' = 'dinner'. Heh, lunch is at noonish... dinner/supper is later in the day.
I have been corrected on that many times.. haha as well as for some of my other slang terms that I got from being raised in the hills and mountains of Tennessee.
I just know that I DON'T like the cold here in Iowa, much less if it were worse somewhere else. Heh, but sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do .
And yeah, I love good food, but agree that to be head chef... ack... no way and no dish washing here.
Posted by Corey Wine (Member # 1640) on :
Looks like you're well on your way Mark M. ( ncie work on yer site) Hey, for hard sign making music, ya gotta get into System of a Down!!!!!
Posted by Lotti Prokott (Member # 2684) on :
Hey, Tony Potter, your company name made me curious. Great stuff on your website. Posted by Corey Wine (Member # 1640) on :
How 'bout this.......
A gourmet coffee shop / (slash) smoke shop carrying cigars to rolling papers. ALl that and give it a German appeal.
I'll call it...
**BONGENKOFF**(get the double meaning -cough[smoke], eh? or COFFee
I can see THE SIGN now.
Posted by Mark Matyjakowski (Member # 294) on :
Hey Corey I'm way ahead of ya on the System of a Down thing.
Your other post reminded me ... when I used to live a few towns over there was this plaza on the corner of Buffalo Rd. and Union St. I thought it would be cool to open a cigar/liquor store there called Buffalo Union Smoke & Spirit ... had a logo in my head with a ritzy, monical wearing, cane carrying type buffalo
Posted by Stephen Deveau (Member # 1305) on :
My Dream job is to do Gold Prospecting and own claims. Wait Now, I do that already!!!!
OK. find the Pot of Gold at the end of the Rainbow! I am finding enough to kept out of trouble!
Win on the lotto and buy an island that is known in history to have buried Treasure on it...
Yep! That's the next step!
Oh! Dreams aren't they nice to work too!
Happy Dreams Everyone.
Posted by John Cordova (Member # 220) on :
1. Fine artist 2. Custom car designer/builder 3. Hugh Hefner protoge 4. Special effects makeup artist 5. Bazillionaire with enough $$$ to share with all my family & friends so they can do what they want without the worry of not meeting monthly payments. 6. OK, one more. Did I mention the Hugh Hefner Playboy thing?
Posted by Nevman (Member # 332) on :
Sailboat Charter Captain with a paid off boat, full, competant crew and a keg of Rum.
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This is fun . . . .