Top Ten Dream Jobs
A good friend has interviewed for a Country Director position with the Peace Corps. If hired, she and her family will be packing up and moving to an as-yet unknown location to manage the Peace Corps program in her assigned country. She’s fabulously qualified for this specialized Federal job and I look forward to visiting her, especially if she ends up in Jamaica, Thailand, Fiji, or Madagascar.
Her possible move prompts me to think about dream jobs. Staying away from a few sophomoric hormone-induced fantasies (we all have a few of those, right?), here’s my top ten list:
1. Professional sleeper. You might not make a lot of money, but opportunities actually do exist. And maybe you could combine this gig with some of the others on the list and actually make a living.
2. Rock star. Sleep late. Travel. Play music. Be adored.
3. Taster. What’s your pleasure? Taste wine, chocolate, beer for a living or extra cash. Or become an ice cream scientist paid to develop new flavors.
4. Surfing Instructor. They’re hiring in Sydney, Australia! (I’ve never surfed, but I could learn!)
5. Island CareTaker. Your employer owns multiple houses and they need someone to help care for their tropical vacation home year-round.
6. Personal Hairdresser or Make-up Artist for celebrities like Oprah or Michelle Obama. Or how about becoming a personal chef for the rich and famous? Sweet!
7. Food Critic. I’d love to get paid to eat and write like Washington Post food critic Tom Sietsema.
8. Vacationer. Like a mystery shopper but ten times better: Travel to exotic locations and upscale resorts to report on your experience!
9. Honeymoon Tester. Recently in the news; talk about a job with benefits! Get paid to test out the most romantic wedding and honeymoon destinations around the world for six months. I bet I could talk my spouse into that one.
You may notice many items on the list involve being paid to be hedonistic (eat, sleep, drink, honeymoon) and aren’t very likely to occur. But there’s also a more practical emphasis on travel, and if you’re truly interested in international jobs, check out Anita Santiago’s recent post: The International Job Search – Tips and Resources. You may also notice that I work in HR but didn’t include any human resources jobs; that is true, I acknowledge, but I will also point out that CareerBuilder has a long list of great sounding HR positions in Hawaii!
Okay, nine great dream jobs behind us. One more to go. Number ten? Drum roll, please….
10. Blogger. Here’s a list of the top ten highest paid bloggers from Madconomist, all making $250,000 and up. I don’t know about you but I wouldn’t require that much dough to happily blog away as my primary gig.
So there you go: Top Ten Dream Jobs. What sweet career opportunities are in your Top Ten?
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I don’t think I would want to be a professional sleeper, as I will be doing that when I’m dead. The personal hairdresser could suck a little too especially if you had to work for Charlie Sheen or some other nut job. I kind of like the vacationer or the honeymoon tester. Travel while getting paid. I wonder if you need to take a new wife with you each time.
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Thanks for making me (and my family) laugh with the “new wife” comment!
Food critic would definitely be in my top ten of dream jobs. It’s crazy how they are paid for making comments on food that they like or don’t like. Like in the movie Ratatouille, restaurants who receive bad feedback would lose a star. Food critics have nothing to lose, and have much to gain, especially fame, money, weight and angry chefs.
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