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Mashimaro
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
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 Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2006 6:35 pm Post subject: What is your dream job and why aren't you doing it? |
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I'm interested in the reasons people don't follow their dreams.
There is also a small chance this thread might bring about some advice for people as to how to realise their dreams.
I'd like to be a diplomat or work in international trade.
I am saving money for further education that will lead to a job in one of these areas. I'm thinking of a masters in International Trade.
What is your dream job and why aren't you doing it? |
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elynnor
Joined: 08 Feb 2006
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laogaiguk
Joined: 06 Dec 2005
Location: somewhere in Korea
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| Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2006 9:44 pm Post subject: |
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| Honestly, my dream job would to be an astronaut, unfortunately my eyes immediately destroyed any chance. Even with laser surgery and 100% 20/20 vision, it wouldn't matter. Not that it would matter any more. I guess my next dream is to be an ambassador or an elementary school teacher, all of my ESL teaching helping me get there. |
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simone
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
Location: Now Mostly @ Home
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| Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2006 9:55 pm Post subject: |
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I think I'm actually doing it.
I mean, of course, I'd like to be running my own company by the time I'm fifty (you never get rich working for other people) but I'm working in the right field, at a company where I'm making a real difference.
Being in a Korean company is stressful, but hey, that's what keeps the job challenging. The work itself, I enjoy so much that it's almost TOO easy.
I thank teaching in Korea for helping me save money to get my MBA back home. Now I'm back here, on the path to my dream job, in a place I far prefer to Canada.
Yep, I'm as close to doing it as I expected to be at this point. Took almost a year post grad-school to find the right job, though. Stressful. |
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endofthewor1d
Joined: 01 Apr 2003
Location: the end of the wor1d.
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| Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2006 9:56 pm Post subject: |
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| my dream job is owning a bar here in korea. i'm currently putting money away for it every month. |
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ella
Joined: 17 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2006 10:53 pm Post subject: |
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| Writing. Part of my reason for teaching in Korea is to save up enough money to take off a few years to write. |
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otis
Joined: 02 Jun 2006
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| Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2006 11:02 pm Post subject: |
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My dream job is killing the whales.
But the Japanese wouldn't except me. |
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SPINOZA
Joined: 10 Jun 2005
Location: $eoul
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| Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2006 12:42 am Post subject: |
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Philosopher.
Too expensive to do a Ph.d and too lazy.
It'd be an exaggeration to say my current job is my dream job, but I do really like it. I sit on my arse half the time - good stuff. |
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otis
Joined: 02 Jun 2006
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| Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2006 12:44 am Post subject: |
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| SPINOZA wrote: |
Philosopher.
Too expensive to do a Ph.d and too lazy.
It'd be an exaggeration to say my current job is my dream job, but I do really like it. I sit on my arse half the time - good stuff. |
You're much too stupid to be a philosopher.
You're better as an English yob tipping over Volvos when your team bites the dust.
Now get on your knees and love me. |
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Corporal
Joined: 25 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2006 12:48 am Post subject: |
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| The words "dream" and "job" don't really go together, now do they? I have lots of ideas for dream vacations though. |
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Satori
Joined: 09 Dec 2005
Location: Above it all
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| Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2006 12:53 am Post subject: |
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| House music producer. I put about 5 hours a night towards that dream... |
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SPINOZA
Joined: 10 Jun 2005
Location: $eoul
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| Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2006 12:56 am Post subject: |
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| otis wrote: |
| SPINOZA wrote: |
Philosopher.
Too expensive to do a Ph.d and too lazy.
It'd be an exaggeration to say my current job is my dream job, but I do really like it. I sit on my arse half the time - good stuff. |
You're much too stupid to be a philosopher.
You're better as an English yob tipping over Volvos when your team bites the dust.
Now get on your knees and love me. |
(see bold)
True these days. My brain has turned to shlte. But I was pretty good a couple of years back and have a very good degree.
When you can write papers on Quine, Carnap (two excellent American philosophers) and Frege, get back to me. It's hardcore stuff.
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| The words "dream" and "job" don't really go together, now do they? |
That's what I meant to say but forgot. Very true. That's why I'm in Korea - me and my Church of Slack. |
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JLarter
Joined: 17 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2006 1:13 am Post subject: |
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| Footballer. Had trials for QPR when I was younger but the week before it, I got a boot in the head (I was a goalkeeper) and lost all confidence. Trials went *beep* up and so did the dream. |
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The Hierophant
Joined: 13 Sep 2005
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| Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2006 2:15 am Post subject: |
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| I have no dream job nor any burning ambitions. 'Day-by-day' has always been my attitude, and I'm a happy man for it. |
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PolyChronic Time Girl
Joined: 15 Dec 2004
Location: Korea Exited
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| Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2006 2:20 am Post subject: |
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I'll be honest: working as a teacher in a hagwon and being around annoying kids was very, very far from being my "dream" job.
However, I met my other dream in Korea and married him 
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