Fun question! I fantasize about owning a small food speciality store in my town. I'm obsessed with baking/cooking and would love to have a small store to sell my cookies and soups, etc. My idol is Ina Garten! My DH promises me someday it'll happen, so we'll see...
But for now I'm in commerical real estate property management...so, no. I'm not currently doing my dream job
Interesting! This is kinda my own dream job. I'm a pastry chef and DH is a chef so I want a little store where I can make and sell cupcakes/pastries and he can sell his packaged pate's, terrines, cheddar biscuits, ect!
I hope our dreams come true!
Mmmm...cheddar biscuits! Would be a ton of work, but a total blast...don't you think? Hope your guys dream come true!!
Yes it will be a ton of work but at least it's fun work! Plus DH is a hard worker!
"Anyone can give up, it's the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that's true strength."
SAHM. But, if I had to pick a real paid job it would be to work for the special investigative unit within the company that I work for. Just like my BFPB. I am so envious of her job. My current job position does almost the opposite of what my dream job does.
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I love my job now but I dont call this my dream job! I want a job where I make the same amount of money I make when working two jobs. So for me my dream job is being a Physican Assistant. There is a possibility after I have kids maybe I will go back to school and do this. But we will see.
I want to work in a doctors office that has all the holidays off and the weekends!!!
I am a SAHM and I have no desire to go back to work. Zero.
But my H says I will need to go back to work when the last baby goes to school. Blah. He says I have a college degree and I need to use it. ::sigh:: But I don't wanna!!
What's weird is I never thought in a million years that I would want to be a SAHM, This wasn't apart of my life plan. But something changed when I had my DD. And now I wonder what the appeal to working ever was. LOL. I'll admit, I feel like less of a person because I have no desire to work.
I don't think you should feel like less of a person at all. Being a SAHM is a full time job and harder than most. It sounds like you just want time to cherish your babies and there's nothing wrong with that....
I agree! It is hard work to stay home, but it's not dreaded work But I just get a vibe that other people think it's vacation for me to stay at home. IDK, I might be overly sensitive about that since I will admit prior to being a SAHM, I thought it was a much easier job!
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I am a SAHM and I have no desire to go back to work. Zero.
But my H says I will need to go back to work when the last baby goes to school. Blah. He says I have a college degree and I need to use it. ::sigh:: But I don't wanna!!
What's weird is I never thought in a million years that I would want to be a SAHM, This wasn't apart of my life plan. But something changed when I had my DD. And now I wonder what the appeal to working ever was. LOL. I'll admit, I feel like less of a person because I have no desire to work.
Isn't it crazy how plans change after you have children? We're the opposite. I really wanted to be a SAHM, until I did it. I'd LOVE to just work part time, but being a full time SAHM just isn't for everyone, and now I know it isn't for me.
Indeed!
When my DD was younger, I thought it was harder to stay at home with her. There would often be days that I would have to hand her off to my H when he walked in through the door. Now those days are few and far between!
When is your LO b-day? My daughter was born on Dec 8 so our babies are close in age.
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There is a William Morris agency in Miami, however, EVERYONE who wants to be an agent HAS to start from the ground up. Meaning, you start in the mailroom at $400 per week. That would be tough - both for my bank account and for my ego - I'm not going to lie.
I'm exactly where you are! Staff nurse for 3 years and so ready for a change. Ideally, I would love legal nursing or risk management, but that means more education. Definitely exploring my options at this point!
I am a dance teacher and I love it but I can't wait to be a Mom!! I will stay home with the baby when s/he arrives (hopefully in October!) I might go back one or two nights a week to teach a few classes!
There is a William Morris agency in Miami, however, EVERYONE who wants to be an agent HAS to start from the ground up. Meaning, you start in the mailroom at $400 per week. That would be tough - both for my bank account and for my ego - I'm not going to lie.
That sounds like a great job! Too bad you have to start in the mail room I love proofreading/editing, so another of my dream jobs is to work for a publisher. I guess I have many dream jobs
My dream job is what I am doing now (a research scientist in the environmental field), BUT, I would love to only work part-time instead of full-time so that I could be a SAHM the other days. Part-time work and part-time SAHM sounds good to me! Wish I could afford it! We are seriously considering it when #2 comes along. DH would like me to be a full-time SAHM but I don't think that's in the cards (plus, I'm really passionate about my work!).
Working part time is really the best of both worlds! I'm 'career mom' Mon-Wed and then 'stay at home mom' Thurs-Fri. But now my company is pushing full time (with a promotion, so not bad) or no time...mean I'd be done. Ugh. I've been presented with this option before Christmas and I still have no idea what to do. I love being home with my son but I'm also, like you said, passionate about my work. I'm hoping they forgot about it and I'll just continue part time....ha!
Good luck..hope you're able to find out and do exactly what you want soon!
That sounds lovely! I wish I had that option. Anything in the environmental industry that is part time means working for a non-profit organization which is fine, but they're all waaaay down in the city and pay pennies, so it's not worth my time. I'd even take a recurring contract that had me working 9 months out of the year during the field season, and then having 3 months off.
I hope you can figure out what to do with your job situation. If they give you the ultimatum again, do you think you'd take the full-time position and just try it out for a while?
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I don't know if I would call it a "dream job", but I really love what I am doing right now. I'm a school psychologist working in a special school for high schoolers with severe behavioral disorders and a very low income elementary. I love the kids and staff members that I work with.
I also have the option of going part time once I have kids. That is an option that I hope to exercise. I would love to only work 3 or 4 days a week and be a SAHM the other days. I would not want to do it all the time, but part time would be perfect for me. It is HARD work being a SAHM! My friend is one and people do not even begin to give her enough credit for the job she does (including her husband who I want to smack once in a while...)
Quick funny story: My SAHM friend had surgery when her husband had a scheduled break from work and he had to take care of the kids and the house while she recovered. One day she was going over what needed to be done that morning (her usual routine) and he said "how do you expect me to do all that and watch the kids!?!" She was like "Umm, I do it every day...."
I have a few..I'd love to be a writer or editor (my job title right now is technical writer/editor, but the "technical" part is what makes it not my dream job - I'd rather write/edit novels or newspaper/magazine articles than BORING instruction manuals. I'd also love to be a wedding planner, actress (I swear if I could just lose 40 lbs I'd be on the A-list lol), photographer, or SAHM. And I'd really like to be an interior designer or someone who stages homes for sale.
Unfortunately, I don't think any of them will happen unless DH doubles his salary to make up for me having to drop down to an entry level position somewhere : Oh well, a girl can dream..
I'd love to open my own business. I've thought about event planning or possibly opening a bakery.... something that uses my creativity. But since I have such great insurance and retirement, I don't think that will ever happen!
I really wish I had an answer to this question. I've thought a lot about it over the past 9 months and and have discovered that I have no idea what I want to do...
Funny thing is I never thought I'd be in this situation. I never questioned my career path until after graduation. I graduated college with a degree in Accounting, have been working as a credit analyst since and have come to the conclusion that I do not fit with the field. My personality is way to bubbly, etc and I just don't fit well with other accountants. I'm great at my job, but I'm not happy.
AND with DH being military and the fact we move a lot, my career is taking a back seat until he figures out if he is going to make the military a career or eventually leave it... Soo, I'm in limbo.
I guess I get the nest 6 years (DH's commitment) to really figure out what I want to do.
I really wish I had an answer to this question. I've thought a lot about it over the past 9 months and and have discovered that I have no idea what I want to do...
Funny thing is I never thought I'd be in this situation. I never questioned my career path until after graduation. I graduated college with a degree in Accounting, have been working as a credit analyst since and have come to the conclusion that I do not fit with the field. My personality is way to bubbly, etc and I just don't fit well with other accountants. I'm great at my job, but I'm not happy.
AND with DH being military and the fact we move a lot, my career is taking a back seat until he figures out if he is going to make the military a career or eventually leave it... Soo, I'm in limbo.
I guess I get the nest 6 years (DH's commitment) to really figure out what I want to do.
This is me too. I feel like it gives me some time to see if I really can write a novel and make a career out of it. Right now DH is thinking he'll serve his commitment and then leave. I'm hoping by then if writing novels doesn't pan out I'll have a better idea of what I want to do.
i would have Samantha Brown's job - being a profesional traveler. How awesome would that be? I like my job right now but I would drop it in a heart beat if I got that offer
It would either be -- to own a horse farm where I breed and raise horses. Or be an author.
No plans, but one of these days I'll have a book in me, and I will write that book when it's ready to come out
And maybe someday life will give me the opportunity to go take some animal husbandry classes so at least I could work on a horse farm. I doubt I will ever own my own though. Acreage in this area is insanely expensive.
I find it interesting that so many women want to be SAHM or SAHHW (maybe I shouldn't be since this is, after all, TheBump). As much as I appreciate having the power to go out and thrive in a male-dominated industry, I realize that I am a lot more domestic than I thought. Maybe it is because my industry (construction) is still struggling and the past few years have taken a much greater toll than I realize. But, I really do yearn to be home and focus on more agrarian/artisan tasks (gardening, crafting, baking bread). I find that my mind these days focuses more on my home life than my work life and I am actually pretty good at being domestic (when I have time)!
But, maybe in a perfect world, I could be a SAHM/architect? This would mean having my own practice, which means costly/extensive licensing exams, etc. But I can imagine a practice that would focus on "adaptive re-use" and "rural architecture" since those are areas that interest me.
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My dream job is what I am doing now (a research scientist in the environmental field), BUT, I would love to only work part-time instead of full-time so that I could be a SAHM the other days. Part-time work and part-time SAHM sounds good to me! Wish I could afford it! We are seriously considering it when #2 comes along. DH would like me to be a full-time SAHM but I don't think that's in the cards (plus, I'm really passionate about my work!).
Working part time is really the best of both worlds! I'm 'career mom' Mon-Wed and then 'stay at home mom' Thurs-Fri. But now my company is pushing full time (with a promotion, so not bad) or no time...mean I'd be done. Ugh. I've been presented with this option before Christmas and I still have no idea what to do. I love being home with my son but I'm also, like you said, passionate about my work. I'm hoping they forgot about it and I'll just continue part time....ha!
Good luck..hope you're able to find out and do exactly what you want soon!
That sounds lovely! I wish I had that option. Anything in the environmental industry that is part time means working for a non-profit organization which is fine, but they're all waaaay down in the city and pay pennies, so it's not worth my time. I'd even take a recurring contract that had me working 9 months out of the year during the field season, and then having 3 months off.
I hope you can figure out what to do with your job situation. If they give you the ultimatum again, do you think you'd take the full-time position and just try it out for a while?
Ah, I see what you mean...definitely not worth your time. Well, I hope some work/home balance happens for you at some point that IS worth it. The 9 months working, 3 months off sounds interesting! Especially if that 3 months was the summer time. I always find it harder to be in the office when I could be home with my son at the pool...
I really have NO idea what I'm going to do. This is very unlike me, as I'm normally quite quick to make big decisions. I'm hoping it just comes to me at some point. I would hate to accept the position, not enjoy it and then leave a few months later when they would have let someone else go to give me the promotion. It wouldn't feel right, you know? If I accept, it would be for at least a year...
Stay at home mom and wife. Never used to be, but now I dream of it:) But DH would have to get a much better paying job for this to ever happen.
This!
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It would either be -- to own a horse farm where I breed and raise horses. Or be an author.
No plans, but one of these days I'll have a book in me, and I will write that book when it's ready to come out
And maybe someday life will give me the opportunity to go take some animal husbandry classes so at least I could work on a horse farm. I doubt I will ever own my own though. Acreage in this area is insanely expensive.
I hear ya! I am in California and horses are part of my dream job too Maybe we can go in together so it's not as expensive?!?!
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I thought a kindergarten teacher (my current job) was my dream job. I do love it, but I don't think I will love it for 30 years. I have a strong focus on literacy and I am thinking more and more that I'd like to open my own tutoring business. My degree is in reading and I'd like to open a reading clinic for struggling readers (adults and children). It's a dream of mine and who knows if it will come true.
I worked for Estee' Lauder as a makeup artist and beauty consultant during college. That was a banging job! I loved it! So, I know if teaching/tutoring doesn't work out, I could go back to that and hopefully work my way up the corporate ladder.
With all this said, I also dream about staying home with my children until they are school aged. It probably won't happen, but this was about our "dream job", right?
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My dream is to be Giada de Laurentius - skinnt post-baby with huge boobs and a cooking show with a view of Malibu beach from my gigantic high end kitchen.
A girl can dream...
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I am a SAHM and I have no desire to go back to work. Zero.
But my H says I will need to go back to work when the last baby goes to school. Blah. He says I have a college degree and I need to use it. ::sigh:: But I don't wanna!!
What's weird is I never thought in a million years that I would want to be a SAHM, This wasn't apart of my life plan. But something changed when I had my DD. And now I wonder what the appeal to working ever was. LOL. I'll admit, I feel like less of a person because I have no desire to work.
I don't think you should feel like less of a person at all. Being a SAHM is a full time job and harder than most. It sounds like you just want time to cherish your babies and there's nothing wrong with that....
I agree! It is hard work to stay home, but it's not dreaded work But I just get a vibe that other people think it's vacation for me to stay at home. IDK, I might be overly sensitive about that since I will admit prior to being a SAHM, I thought it was a much easier job!
I am a SAHM and I have no desire to go back to work. Zero.
But my H says I will need to go back to work when the last baby goes to school. Blah. He says I have a college degree and I need to use it. ::sigh:: But I don't wanna!!
What's weird is I never thought in a million years that I would want to be a SAHM, This wasn't apart of my life plan. But something changed when I had my DD. And now I wonder what the appeal to working ever was. LOL. I'll admit, I feel like less of a person because I have no desire to work.
I don't think you should feel like less of a person at all. Being a SAHM is a full time job and harder than most. It sounds like you just want time to cherish your babies and there's nothing wrong with that....
I agree! It is hard work to stay home, but it's not dreaded work But I just get a vibe that other people think it's vacation for me to stay at home. IDK, I might be overly sensitive about that since I will admit prior to being a SAHM, I thought it was a much easier job!
BTW, that baby of yours in your siggy is just adorable! Every time I see that pic, I want to reach through the screen and squeeze her!!
Re: GTKY - What's your dream job?
Yes it will be a ton of work but at least it's fun work! Plus DH is a hard worker!
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SAHM. But, if I had to pick a real paid job it would be to work for the special investigative unit within the company that I work for. Just like my BFPB. I am so envious of her job. My current job position does almost the opposite of what my dream job does.
I love my job now but I dont call this my dream job! I want a job where I make the same amount of money I make when working two jobs. So for me my dream job is being a Physican Assistant. There is a possibility after I have kids maybe I will go back to school and do this. But we will see.
I want to work in a doctors office that has all the holidays off and the weekends!!!
I agree! It is hard work to stay home, but it's not dreaded work
But I just get a vibe that other people think it's vacation for me to stay at home. IDK, I might be overly sensitive about that since I will admit prior to being a SAHM, I thought it was a much easier job!
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Indeed!
When my DD was younger, I thought it was harder to stay at home with her. There would often be days that I would have to hand her off to my H when he walked in through the door. Now those days are few and far between!
When is your LO b-day? My daughter was born on Dec 8 so our babies are close in age.
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Literary agent.
There is a William Morris agency in Miami, however, EVERYONE who wants to be an agent HAS to start from the ground up. Meaning, you start in the mailroom at $400 per week. That would be tough - both for my bank account and for my ego - I'm not going to lie.
I am a dance teacher and I love it but I can't wait to be a Mom!! I will stay home with the baby when s/he arrives (hopefully in October!) I might go back one or two nights a week to teach a few classes!
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That sounds like a great job! Too bad you have to start in the mail room
I love proofreading/editing, so another of my dream jobs is to work for a publisher. I guess I have many dream jobs 
TTC #2
That sounds lovely! I wish I had that option. Anything in the environmental industry that is part time means working for a non-profit organization which is fine, but they're all waaaay down in the city and pay pennies, so it's not worth my time. I'd even take a recurring contract that had me working 9 months out of the year during the field season, and then having 3 months off.
I hope you can figure out what to do with your job situation. If they give you the ultimatum again, do you think you'd take the full-time position and just try it out for a while?
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I don't know if I would call it a "dream job", but I really love what I am doing right now. I'm a school psychologist working in a special school for high schoolers with severe behavioral disorders and a very low income elementary. I love the kids and staff members that I work with.
I also have the option of going part time once I have kids. That is an option that I hope to exercise. I would love to only work 3 or 4 days a week and be a SAHM the other days. I would not want to do it all the time, but part time would be perfect for me. It is HARD work being a SAHM! My friend is one and people do not even begin to give her enough credit for the job she does (including her husband who I want to smack once in a while...)
Quick funny story: My SAHM friend had surgery when her husband had a scheduled break from work and he had to take care of the kids and the house while she recovered. One day she was going over what needed to be done that morning (her usual routine) and he said "how do you expect me to do all that and watch the kids!?!" She was like "Umm, I do it every day...."
I have a few..I'd love to be a writer or editor (my job title right now is technical writer/editor, but the "technical" part is what makes it not my dream job - I'd rather write/edit novels or newspaper/magazine articles than BORING instruction manuals. I'd also love to be a wedding planner, actress (I swear if I could just lose 40 lbs I'd be on the A-list lol), photographer, or SAHM. And I'd really like to be an interior designer or someone who stages homes for sale.
Unfortunately, I don't think any of them will happen unless DH doubles his salary to make up for me having to drop down to an entry level position somewhere : Oh well, a girl can dream..
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Trying for #1 since May 2010 l DX ~ Unexplained Infertility June 2011
IUI #1&2 = BFN; IUI #3 = BFP, m/c @ 6 weeks
November '11 ~ IVF#1 ~ ER 11/18 (29R, 17F) ~ 5dt of one beautiful blast on 11/23 = BFP!!
Beta #1 9dp5dt = 116, P4 = 28 ~ Beta #2 13dp5dt = 700 ~ Beta #3 20dp5dt = 9500, P4 = 26
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FET #1 - October '13 - c/p l FET #2 - December '13 - cancelled
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~ More testing - hysteroscopy, endometrial biopsy & more b/w - all normal / negative~
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**TEAM GREEN!**
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I really wish I had an answer to this question. I've thought a lot about it over the past 9 months and and have discovered that I have no idea what I want to do...
Funny thing is I never thought I'd be in this situation. I never questioned my career path until after graduation. I graduated college with a degree in Accounting, have been working as a credit analyst since and have come to the conclusion that I do not fit with the field. My personality is way to bubbly, etc and I just don't fit well with other accountants. I'm great at my job, but I'm not happy.
AND with DH being military and the fact we move a lot, my career is taking a back seat until he figures out if he is going to make the military a career or eventually leave it... Soo, I'm in limbo.
I guess I get the nest 6 years (DH's commitment) to really figure out what I want to do.
This is me too. I feel like it gives me some time to see if I really can write a novel and make a career out of it. Right now DH is thinking he'll serve his commitment and then leave. I'm hoping by then if writing novels doesn't pan out I'll have a better idea of what I want to do.
It would either be -- to own a horse farm where I breed and raise horses. Or be an author.
No plans, but one of these days I'll have a book in me, and I will write that book when it's ready to come out
And maybe someday life will give me the opportunity to go take some animal husbandry classes so at least I could work on a horse farm. I doubt I will ever own my own though. Acreage in this area is insanely expensive.
I find it interesting that so many women want to be SAHM or SAHHW (maybe I shouldn't be since this is, after all, TheBump). As much as I appreciate having the power to go out and thrive in a male-dominated industry, I realize that I am a lot more domestic than I thought. Maybe it is because my industry (construction) is still struggling and the past few years have taken a much greater toll than I realize. But, I really do yearn to be home and focus on more agrarian/artisan tasks (gardening, crafting, baking bread). I find that my mind these days focuses more on my home life than my work life and I am actually pretty good at being domestic (when I have time)!
But, maybe in a perfect world, I could be a SAHM/architect? This would mean having my own practice, which means costly/extensive licensing exams, etc. But I can imagine a practice that would focus on "adaptive re-use" and "rural architecture" since those are areas that interest me.
Ah, I see what you mean...definitely not worth your time. Well, I hope some work/home balance happens for you at some point that IS worth it. The 9 months working, 3 months off sounds interesting! Especially if that 3 months was the summer time. I always find it harder to be in the office when I could be home with my son at the pool...
I really have NO idea what I'm going to do. This is very unlike me, as I'm normally quite quick to make big decisions. I'm hoping it just comes to me at some point. I would hate to accept the position, not enjoy it and then leave a few months later when they would have let someone else go to give me the promotion. It wouldn't feel right, you know? If I accept, it would be for at least a year...
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I hear ya! I am in California and horses are part of my dream job too
Maybe we can go in together so it's not as expensive?!?! 
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1. Roadie for Dave Matthews Band. . .just kidding. But not really.
I thought a kindergarten teacher (my current job) was my dream job. I do love it, but I don't think I will love it for 30 years. I have a strong focus on literacy and I am thinking more and more that I'd like to open my own tutoring business. My degree is in reading and I'd like to open a reading clinic for struggling readers (adults and children). It's a dream of mine and who knows if it will come true.
I worked for Estee' Lauder as a makeup artist and beauty consultant during college. That was a banging job! I loved it! So, I know if teaching/tutoring doesn't work out, I could go back to that and hopefully work my way up the corporate ladder.
With all this said, I also dream about staying home with my children until they are school aged. It probably won't happen, but this was about our "dream job", right?
My dream is to be Giada de Laurentius - skinnt post-baby with huge boobs and a cooking show with a view of Malibu beach from my gigantic high end kitchen.
A girl can dream...
BTW, that baby of yours in your siggy is just adorable! Every time I see that pic, I want to reach through the screen and squeeze her!!
SAHM + writer.
In a more realistic "dream" world, I'd love to get a PhD and teach college pedagogy classes.
I've thought about this quite a bit, and I've narrowed it down to a few possibilities...
1. Desigining my own collection of gift wrapping supplies out of a small boutique in NYC where I can wrap packages professionally.
2. Ransom note handwriting analyst for the CIA
3. Starbucks taste tester
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