What would you do if you could choose?

[jamieee]

1/ A world class surfer
2/ A singer

 

[sereneone4u]

A scientist
A writer
An attorney

A forth one would be a singer that also played several instruments.

 

[Aquila1]

I'd open a bakery.

Fridays will be cosplay/fetish wear day. I have this mental image of a gleaming glass show case, behind which stands a lovely young woman in a Victorian-influenced French Maid like costume. She's politely asking how she can help customers as I'm walking out from the back, a full tray of eclairs with spun-sugar falls that look floggers.

I'd love to host the local munch. Or the weekly bridge club. Whatever.

Someday... sooner then it was before.

That sounds absolutely delightful. You could be a purveyor of fine tarts and tasty morsels of all kinds. I'd shop there for sure

 

[rida]

0) independently wealthy

1) anything that has to do with shoes and gets me to spend time with shoes

2) lawyer

3) photographer/writer

 

[Homburg]

A lot of people want to be lawyers. Weird. Having dealt with many, many lawyers, it is all too often a singularly unglamorous position.

 

[rida]

A lot of people want to be lawyers. Weird. Having dealt with many, many lawyers, it is all too often a singularly unglamorous position.

I would want a degree in law but I don't think I would want to practice.

If it has to be your livelihood is going to be quite a miserable job indeed. But I guess it feels interesting and stimulating for definitions and word-obsessed types. And I wonder if there is a touch of wanting to know how to cover our own ass as WIITWD is on the fine line of legality at times.

 

[StrayKat]

I'd take a job driving a truck over sitting in a cubicle every day pounding on a keyboard.

My husband used to work as social worker in prison for 10 years, he quit and got a job as a truck driver, never looked back.
Actually what he said finally got him fed up was locking/unlocking the doors all the time. He got himself locked in the kitchen at home right in front of his surprised (ex) wife

Hes been persuading me to take truck driving course and come work with him for some time now. I might give it a try some day.

 

[sb2009]

I never have figured out what I want to do.

Lately, when we jokingly throw around ideas for when he retires from the military, some of them seem fun:

1. Open a Dave and Buster's type place - but he'd be playing the games all the time.
2. A sex toy store - but I feel like it would be so hard to fight all the city hall stuff just to sell vibes and lub LLOL
3. A used bookstore with coffee and nice tea. I'd go broke because I'd let everyone sit and read all day, drinking coffee and tea.

 

[Homburg]

My husband used to work as social worker in prison for 10 years, he quit and got a job as a truck driver, never looked back.
Actually what he said finally got him fed up was locking/unlocking the doors all the time. He got himself locked in the kitchen at home right in front of his surprised (ex) wife

Hes been persuading me to take truck driving course and come work with him for some time now. I might give it a try some day.

I actually didn't say that lightly. I deal with truckers all the time and they can be really interesting cats. And I drive all the bloody time in my job, so I know what it is like to have those miles of grey ribbon in front and more behind.

The core for me is that I just don't want to be tied to a desk. I would go mad.

 

[neci]

1. i would love to be a judge, but the years of law practice before you can actually have the experience to get there turn me off.
2. an art professor - working with young minds, sabbaticals spent traveling and painting... ahhhhhh.
3. sex toy designer with my own line of high end BDSM style comical slave-themed toys.

 

[sinnocence]

A race car driver.

 

[intothewoods]

A lot of people want to be lawyers. Weird. Having dealt with many, many lawyers, it is all too often a singularly unglamorous position.

How dare you, sir! I am the height of glamour.

A lot of people say that and mean trial lawyer.

I like what I do, but there are lawyer gigs I would never take.

If I could be anything:

(1) writer on a sitcom
(2) restaurant owner
(3) boutique owner

The last two would only be great if they were successful ventures, of course!

 

[Homburg]

How dare you, sir! I am the height of glamour.

You are, of course, a notable exception.

 

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[OzoneRed]

1. Strip club owner

2. Better yet, long-distance truck driver

3. Best of all, lottery winner

 

[PertPerth]

I have a long list of occupations - I talk about them often. One of my fantasies is being an obstetrician/gynecologist - so important, but not very glamorous.
Some others - owning a shoe shop, a fashion designer, a cleaner, a real estate agent, a builder .... a wife and mother.
I hope I get the chance and am brave enough to try a few of them.

 

[Homburg]

1. Strip club owner

2. Better yet, long-distance truck driver

3. Best of all, lottery winner

I read about a study that compared relative happiness levels of lottery winners to other people. They found that after 2-3 years, lottery winners were about as happy with their situation as people who'd been paraplegics and confined to wheelchairs due to accident.

 

[Noor]

sleep

travel

my kindred spirit

and other things in pursuit of my usual cravings of
chocolate, world peace and a silly man

(doesn't mean I can't do them all eventually anyway)

 

[CutieMouse]

For the first time in a long time, I can genuinely say I love what I do to the point I'm not sure I want to do anything else. But if I *had* to choose and money/capital were no issue:

1.) Vintage lingerie shop owner - half true vintage/half reproduction, corsetiere on staff, offering couture bridal trousseau work, bespoke undergarments/lingerie for cross dressers, champagne and fine chocolates, etc.

2.) Personal Assistant to a lover - ensuring their life ran smoothly, running the household, coordinating business engagements, taking care of all the details.

3.) Artisan bookbinder

 

[insert____here]

at the moment i am doin something i enjoy very much. and i am studying something else i immensly enjoy so that when this job ceases to make me happy i can move on. life is waaay to short to things that make me miserable for 10 hours a day.

 

[HottieMama]

Italian restaurant owner and chef. I want other people to experience the great food my grandmother taught me to make.

Rock Star

Pimp

 

[FurryFury]

Coordinator of a museum, school, ongoing events and festival in my art, all of which I'm in charge of.

Author and lecturer

Retired but also a coordinator of empty nest social groups

 

[BiBunny]

I thought of some others: owner of a horse rescue and live-in house slave.

 

[caela]

At the moment I love what I do. I'm currently a Surgical Technologist and there is nothing I can think of (job wise) that is really better than getting to spend my day standing over people that are sliced open.

Yes I'm weird.

If I could be anything else thought it'd probably be 1) a surgical nurse (actually thinking of going back to school for this) 2) a PAID novelist or 3) independently wealthy.

 

[Winemaster]

have been saying for years....

OH, I MAKE HOMEMADE WINE....AND say, "I would love to own a winery one day." I like the making of the wine and sharing it...I think many would benefit....I wouldn't do it to make money...for the love of wine!