What's your dream job

My dream job is no job.

-- Gary, East TX -- The longest journey begins with a single step.

Gary coming from you i believe you mate lol

-- cut it saw it scrap it

Having no job sounds fine but after a while you realize that you have to do something. I retired 5 years ago and I tried it for about 6 months but when the grandbabies started coming 4 years ago I realized that I enjoyed being around them. I have had opportunities to go to back to work but somehow playing with 4 year olds seems to take precedent. I don’t recommend it for the pay but the intrinsic benefits are well worth the effort. I can honestly say I am living my dream job right now.

-- With God's help all things are possible- even woodworking. Woodworking is not just a hobby, it is an (expletive deleted) expensive hobby.

My wife and I have always said that if we hit the lottery we’d open up a bed and breakfast in the country. That would pretty much entail everything I like to do. Cooking, grilling, building things, remodeling etc…

-- A King, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A Father can do neither. -Marlene Dietrich

i would love to be a famous woodworker in a huge like 2000 square foot shop that is stacked with ever single woodworking tool know to man (hand and power tools) plus a couple hundred board feet of most woods in the world in a 600 square foot shed out behind my shop. i know its a pretty crazy dream but its a dream isn’t it!

Crazy dreams can come true if you want them to.
JJ

-- JJ...... I guess you could say I'm a 54 year old "juniorjock". — Make things with wood.

I’ll have some of what Maloof is having.

-- Jarrod, Taos, NM http://jzmurphree.wordpress.com/

Professional firefighter (I’m workin’ on it.)

-- Check out my new website! http://www.blakeweberwoodworking.com

dream job? lottery winner…

-- making sawdust....

I wouldn’t have said this in when I was still in High School, in fact, if someone would have told me I would be teaching teenagers for a living, I probably would have told them they were smoking crack. However, I love teaching high school. Don’t get me wrong, I like Teenage’s idea of a great shop with a ton of time without the fame, but life is good right now with the job I have.

I guess outside of teaching, working alone in a shop, drawing stuff up on a computer, or just plain getting paid to learn would be my other dream jobs.

Dream job…hmmmm; let’s see, job = work. work = effort which = tired…I like Gary’s answer the best. Now if you want to talk about play….Put me down in my shop on a cool spring day any time.

-- JJohn

I am leaning towards a professional fishing rod holder. I like the lottery winner mentioned above: I keep trying but never pass the test. Until I can be one of these, then I guess I’ll settle for anything that accomplishes nothing!

-- Brian, Lebanon PA, If you aren’t having fun doing it, find something else to do.

I deam of replacing Hugh Hefner but still having a woodshop to rest up.

-- WOOD/DON (...one has the right to ones opinion but not the right to ones own facts...)

product testing snowboards and gear. that would be sweeet.also the hef job could be cool.

-- Roper - Master of sawdust-

Learning enough about Windsor Chairmaiking to eventually teach classes.

-- Fred.... Poconos, PA ---- Chairwright in the making ----

Retired – which I am. Getting my shop set up and building cabinets because I want to, not because I have to. If I want to build some cabinets for extra money I can. If I want to go bow hunting or take a break I can. Just work when I want to work. No dead lines or due dates unless I set them. Enjoy the grand kids and the extra time with the wife.

-- Mc Bridge Cabinets, Iowa

Blake I wish you luck with the firefighting. I have been a Paramedic / FF for 20 years. I have enjoyyed it greatly but am paying for now. Bad knees, back, nuerous burns and other injuries are staring to bother me also. I would not have changed a thing but am having to consider a career change now. The only problem is I don’t know what I want to be when I grow up.

-- Pyromedic602, free wood is always good wood

I have my dream job. After 22 years in the Navy and another 20 working with state prison systems and senior citizens programs I finally retired. Since retirement I have learned a little woodcarving, a little leather work and a little woodworking all of which I enjoy. But I read voraciously and fish whenever I can. All in all life is full and I am enjoying it.

-- Growing older but not up!

My dream job is any interesting job that I have the financial flexibility to walk away from whenever I’d like. I think I’d get sick of anything after awhile, but would love to try some things for a few years at a time. Furniture maker, trim carpenter, electrician, baker, mechanic, barista are some that come to mind. So many things to learn, so little time.

Judge at the Miss Nude World pageant.

-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"

is there a open seat charlie?? : )

runngt

-- It seem's I just make scrap wood and saw dust most of the time !

A combination of Bob Foos on Overhaulin’, and of course——Norm .

Basicly I just want enough $’s to have “my” people build the toys I can dream up without having to worry about making a profit, with enough time to play with them all.

-- http://www.grandprairiewoodworks.com http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=6453794

I would have to agree with Scott Bryan, I have a 6 year old grandson and he is the one and only owner of my heart so I guess that would be my answer, of course watching him and relearning our world through the eyes of a 6 year old could never be a “job” so therefore I never did answer the question LOL! Grandkids Rock!!!

-- Allison, Northeastern Ca. Remember, Amateurs built the Ark. Professionals built the Titanic!