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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 !!!!
-------------------- Troy "Metalleg" Haas 626 Kingswood Dr Evansville,In 47715 Posts: 1100 | From: Evansville,Indiana, USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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1. Sculptor 2. Painter (fine arts) 3. Golf pro 4. Web designer 5. Art teacher
-------------------- Terry Baird Baird Signs 3484 West Lake Rd. Canandaigua, NY 14424 Posts: 790 | From: Canandaigua, New York | Registered: Dec 2002
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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'
-------------------- Arvil Shep' Shepherd Art by Shep' -------- " Those who dance are thought to be mad by those who cannot hear the music " Posts: 1281 | From: Mt Airy NC | Registered: Mar 2001
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My apologies to Mark for #4. That just sounded too excellent, dude!
Back to reality...
-------------------- Bruce Bowers
DrCAS Custom Lettering and Design Saint Cloud, Minnesota
"Things work out best for the people who make the best of the way things work out." - Art Linkletter Posts: 6451 | From: Saint Cloud, Minnesota | Registered: Jun 1999
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-------------------- Harris Kohen K-Man Pinstriping and Graphix Trenton, NJ "Showing the world that even I can strategically place the pigment where its got to go." Posts: 1739 | From: Trenton, NJ, USA | Registered: Jun 2001
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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!
-------------------- Dan Vanderknaap Atlantic Autographics Scoudouc NB Posts: 43 | From: Moncton,New Brunswick, Canada | Registered: Dec 1998
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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.
-------------------- Lee McKee McKee Studios Birmingham, Al Planet Earth (sometimes) Posts: 277 | From: Birmingham, Al | Registered: Jan 2003
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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
-------------------- Ryan Young Indocil Art & Design indocil@comporium.net 803-980-6765
I highjacked Letterville!! Winter Muster 2004 Posts: 904 | From: Rock Hill, SC | Registered: Sep 2001
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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
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1. Writer 2. History/Philosophy professor 3. Red Sox manager (well, maybe for a game or two) 4. Motorcycle builder
-------------------- "A wise man concerns himself with the truth, not with what people believe." - Aristotle
Cam Bortz Finest Kind Signs Pondside Iron works 256 S. Broad St. Pawcatuck, Ct. 06379 "Award winning Signs since 1988" Posts: 3051 | From: Pawcatuck,Connecticut USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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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.
-------------------- George Perkins Millington,TN. goatwell@bigriver.net
"I started out with nothing and still have most of it left"
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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!
-------------------- Tony Vickio The World Famous Vickio Signs 3364 Rt.329 Watkins Glen, NY 14891 t30v@vickiosigns.com 607-535-6241 http://www.vickiosigns.com Posts: 1063 | From: Watkins Glen, New York | Registered: Sep 2001
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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.
-------------------- --If you don't care where you are, you ain't lost.
Tony Potter Blind Mice and Company 3001 Bever Ave. SE Cedar Rapids, IA 52403 (319) 573-9001 www.blindmiceandcompany.com tonypotter@yahoo.com Posts: 209 | From: Cedar Rapids, IA | Registered: Nov 1999
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Or a coffee shop and play blues in the background and have the coolest murals on the walls. Posts: 3729 | From: Seattle | Registered: Sep 1999
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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
-------------------- Amy Brown Life Skills 101 Private Address Posts: 3502 | From: Lake Helen, FL, USA | Registered: Feb 2001
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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
-------------------- Steve Burke Cascades Inc NS Canada
If at first you don't succeed, skydiving isn't for you Posts: 359 | From: NS Canada | Registered: Jan 2002
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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
-------------------- John Lennig / Big Top Sign Arts 5668 Ewart Street, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada bigtopya@hotmail.com 604.451.0006 Posts: 2184 | From: Burnaby, British Columbia,Canada | Registered: Nov 2001
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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
-------------------- "Are we having fun yet?" Peter Schuttinga DZines Sign Studio 1617 Millstream rd Victoria BC V9B-6G4 Posts: 521 | From: Victoria BC | Registered: Mar 2002
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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.
-------------------- Jeff Ogden 8727 NE 68 Terr. Gainesville FL, 32609 Posts: 2138 | From: 8827 NE 68 Terr Gainesville Fl 32609 | Registered: Aug 2002
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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".
-------------------- Kathy Joiner River Road Graphics 41628 River Road Ponchatoula, La.70454
Old enough to know better...Too young to resist. Posts: 1891 | From: Ponchatoula, LA | Registered: Nov 2000
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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
-------------------- Ernie Balch Balch Signs 1045 Raymond Rd Malta, NY 518-885-9899 Posts: 405 | From: Malta, NY | Registered: Jan 2003
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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.
-------------------- Kimberly Zanetti Purcell www.amethystProductivity.com Folsom, CA email: Kimberly@AmethystProductivity.com
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