Dream Jobs

[ohnoaninfp]

I was wondering what INTPs consider to be their dream jobs? What kind of job would you love and what kind of job would you hate? I hated selling Cutco. I hated to sell overpriced products to people. I do love to sing. I would love to become a professional singer. I love music and I cannot live with out it. However being an art teacher seems kind of fun and reasonable.

[spirilis]

I really don't know. Maybe an automotive tuner, an electrical engineer... hmmm...

[crule81]

Idle rich/aristocracy

real job - offensive coordinator for an NFL team

[Claverhouse]

I've thought about it a lot; and basically, something that involves riding about on a horse and shouting orders at people.

Some sort of military gendarmerie. Alternatively I would like to be ( have been ) governor of an important city. One would be serving one's lord, and giving something back to the community.

I have hated every minute and every aspect of all the jobs I've ever done. ( This includes schooling ). Which is not the same thing as saying there are no interesting or worthwhile jobs. Just that I'm not ever going to get one that is either.

[ And no wonder, with that attitude ! Why can't you be optimistic and 'can-do' ? Why don't you get a grip, and go out there... blah... blah...blah... ]




Claverhouse :ph34r:

[CeSoirNoir]

I'd love to be a singer as well, music is a big part of me. I'd also like to be a clinical psychologist, a primatolgist...I'd love to do anything involving animals and the environment.

[MacGuffin]

Claverhouse's Lord. You may call me Lord Vader. ON YOUR KNEES!!!!!!!!!







Seriously, I'd like to be a writer - free from monetary considerations. Able to write about anything I want.

I would also like to go to medical school, without incurring medical school debt. I have enough from law school.

[INTrPosr]

I have referenced to the INTP.ORG website before. Those job titles in bold are projected to have specially high growth:

Careers Considered Most Likely To Be Enjoyed by INTP -

Pharmaceutical researcher
Biomedical engineer/researcher
Veterinarian
Intellectual property attorney
Legal mediator
Corporate financial attorney
Psychiatrist
Lawyer
Economist
Psychologist/psychoanalyst
Financial analyst
Architect
Investigator
Mathematician
Archaeologist
Historian
Philosopher
College teacher of advanced students
Researcher
Logician
College faculty administrator
Economist
Interpreter/translator
Information graphics designer
Photographer
Artist
Entertainer/dancer
Musician
Agent
Inventor
Systems Analyst/data base manager
Information services developer - computer programming
Network integration specialist (telecommunications)
Change management consultant
Financial planner
Investment banker
Management consultant: computer/information services, marketing, reorganization
Computer software developer
Computer programmer
Research and development specialist
Strategic planner
New Market or product conceptualizer

[jimkopelli]

Anything where I get paid large amounts of money and still have fun doing it. I'd settle for working as a stagehand with a good theater company... I've always liked working stage crew.

[Sam172]

Somewhere I can work with the environment or animals. Not really hands on mind you, more like planning etc....

The city can go and shove any work placements up its backside :)

[Birdsnest]

Jobs I would consider and think I might like are more male type jobs:
Architect
Chiropracter
Certified Massage Therapist (I am, but only practice on family).
Geologist
US Forest Service
Dispatch Communicator
Accountant (I am & have a BA degree in Business Admin-Accounting)
Tax Accountant (I did this for three seasons and loved it)
Statician
Artist or Photographer
Surveyor
Inspector
Auditor
Budget Analyst
Financial Analyst
Finance Manager (maybe)
Art/Layout Designer
Possibly Computer programmer or
Computer Analyst or one that puts together
the design of a database for a company (I am 5 classes short of degree in it).
Researcher
Inventor
Designer
Writer


Jobs that I could NEVER do are:
Anything where you have to mediate between people, or "perform" like:
Lawyer
Interpreter
Actor (can't stand being in spotlight)
Janitorial
Psychologist
Counselor
Fast food
Nurse (I could never draw blood or put a needle in someones arm, ever).
Doctor
Teacher
Blood or Medical Lab Technician
Anything medical dealing with blood, disease or germs
Manager
Telling anyone what to do (I hate this).

[BritainOphira]

I hate the thought of getting a real job, because I know I'll get overly stressed and bored with it all within a month. The only things that sound mildly interesting at this point are being either a troubadour or a poet (obviously I'm going for financial security...), though I'll probably eventually give in to the demands of society and become some sort of teacher.

[Hypnos]

I'm working up to a dream job (physicist; doing PhD now), but really I'd like to be independently wealthy and have enough cred to get access to where my intellect is taking me.

[jittus rye]

My dream job is writer as well, kind of suprised to see others with such thoughts, writing is such a sad profession from what I hear.

[Hunter]

Video game playtester...sit around and play games alld ay? Sign me up.

[Ckyzxr]

Part of what I do now would be one of my dream jobs but it happens to only be a small part.

Dream Jobs:

Manufacturing Business Owner
Manufacturing Process Improvement Consultant
Investment Systems Developer
FBI Detective (this would be tough for me, but I like the idea)
Professional Poker Player
Porn Star

[spirilis]

Part of what I do now would be one of my dream jobs but it happens to only be a small part.

Dream Jobs:

Manufacturing Business Owner
Manufacturing Process Improvement Consultant
Investment Systems Developer
FBI Detective (this would be tough for me, but I like the idea)
Professional Poker Player
Porn Star
So which one are you... the porn star? http://forums.maxima.org/images/smilies/tongue.gif

Haha, I'd love to be a porn star... that'd rock http://forums.maxima.org/images/smilies/chuckle.gif

[flan2dave]

Researcher, inventor, designer, scientist.

[Miss Padfoot]

I'm thinking maybe a musician of some sort. It would be cool to be an academic sort of musician... you know, professor at some college, composing in my free time, that sort of thing.

[KentOhio]

I'd like to design buildings, but can care less about the nuts and bolts of it (which wires go where, how many bolts are needed to secure the blah blah to the beam, what the zoning inspectors say, how the building codes go...) Just let me design the way the building looks on the outside. That's all I want.

[Avengardh]

Artist
Astrophysicist
Writer


~*Aven*~

[Arcael]

Computer Programming, Pharmaceutical development, Possibly a Senator, or even a Network Security Specialist :D

[Boozer]

Writer

Video Game Designer

Time Traveler :)

[libertarianjim]

Top-line left wing, Pittsburgh Penguins, 1990-1993.

Real: Political Science professor. Did it for two years and itching to get back.

[ohnoaninfp]

I have always thought about joining the airforce or army, but I don't think they would accept me. I would also want to be a civil war reenactor. That would be awesome! I also would like painting decals on vintage airplanes. How sweet would that be!?!?

[Groty]

I want to start my own business. Computer related, heavy into Marketing analyis. I want to create and sell a great product and make well paying jobs.

And hobby! Photography. Couldn't ever be a job. I want to be able to afford all of my dream equipment, and have the time to become proficient at it.

[PsiKik]

My worst job was as a clerk in a store. What I hated about it was the mindless drudgery and the having to interact with the public. The other staff where no fun either.

Currently I am a programmer and it is great, though I think being a park ranger or mountain gude would be really good.

[CloudofOlivia]

1. Fashion Designer
2. Traveling businesswoman(garment import/exporting business or jewelry)
3. Traveling Photographer

[int]

3. Traveling Photographer

Yep - Traveling Photographer/Writer for me.

Would you guys read a Travel Blog if I started one (not that I'm going anywhere soon :( )?

[Google Monster]

Physicist/Philosopher
Mix Martial Arts Fighter
Professional Poker Player
Business Owner

I want to be all and still feel it is possible. The first two must be done at a young age and the last two I am in no rush of doing.

[Hypnos]

Physicist/Philosopher
Mix Martial Arts Fighter
Professional Poker Player
Business Owner

I want to be all and still feel it is possible. The first two must be done at a young age and the last two I am in no rush of doing.
You stole my dreams! (s/poker/bridge/)

[Groty]

I'd love to travel around the Southeast, taking photographs of old towns and people. Then compile a book...

[Google Monster]

Don't remeber my dream this morning but i woke up in fear.

:ph34r:

[Lucas]

scientist--social and/or life sciences, advisor, something in eco-tourism, college professor, teach ESL(english as a second language) around the world.

[HeyBooU]

I would really like to either be a career student and just learn things forever or be able to ride my bike for the rest of my life and make a living off of it.

[greenintp]

Artist & Investigative Journalist

I was pursuing art in highschool (a lot of ability passed on from my dad) until my foster parents told me I could never make a living as an artist, because artist only make money after they die. Ignorant bastards; it turns out I couldn't make money doing anything anyway! At least I would have been happy with art. Now I just starve miserably.

[nobarcode]

Strategic planner
:devil:

[INTrPosr]

Strategic planner
:devil:

Me too. I am in a quandary right now, as to pursue something in mediation or go for Strategic Planning. I do wonder whether Employee Relations would provide the necessary skills.

[dbedsole]

Professional songwriter, abbot of a nondenominational cloister/monastery, novelist, preacher, full-time world traveler...

Nice to be here among fellows. I think it's interesting that there's so many scientists/mathematicians; I'm an artist and a writer, and have little to no interest in math, apart from its theoretical significance...although I basically like science and always did well in biology.

Cheers.

[lauriep]

My dream job? Never to have to have one. I would love to be able to pursue my interests without having to worry about how I am going to make money with them.

[Bluehaze]

My dream job? Never to have to have one. I would love to be able to pursue my interests without having to worry about how I am going to make money with them.

More along the line with lauriep, except the question was about having a job, so...

Me: "I don't feel like doing this anymore, I'm going to start doing that."
Boss: "Here is your infinitely large summed paycheck for doing whatever you feel like whenever you want."
Me: "Thanks ; )"

[shaytana]

I want to be the Chief Science Officer on an Interplanetary Exploration Spaceship that can go warp 9.

Hey, you did say dream job.

[Laeskis]

I want to work where I only have some index cards, a corkboard and a computer in my office...along with a nice overstuffed chair.
People write problems on the index cards, pin them to the corkboard and I ponder them in solitude until I find the answer.
And I want to be overpaid for it.


Maybe I'll just stick with the ambition of becoming a systems analyst.

[dziner]

The job that pays me for dreaming :)

I think I want to be a hacker.. :rolleyes:

[greenintp]

Veterinarian
Intellectual property attorney
Legal mediator
Psychiatrist
Lawyer
Economist
Psychologist/psychoanalyst
Financial analyst
Investigator
Philosopher
College teacher of advanced students
Researcher
Logician
Economist
Photographer
Artist
Inventor
Systems Analyst/data base manager
Information services developer - computer programming
Network integration specialist (telecommunications)
Change management consultant
Financial planner
Management consultant: computer/information services, marketing, reorganization
Computer software developer
Research and development specialist
Strategic planner
New Market or product conceptualizer
Public Relations Specialist
Writer

Yes all of them! :banana:

[Elizabeth B]

Some kind of a consulting business run in partnership someone you trust and get along with (maybe an ENTJ? Someone to do the marketing and other things along these lines) and a secretary to do all the SJ stuff, maybe ISFJ or ESFJ. You could set your own hours and work to solve a bunch of different problems in different industries. I have an Industrial Engineering degree, it can be used in a variety of different ways.

I know a guy, probably an INTJ, who set up something like this in the DC area...unfortunately, he was too successful (he did it all on his own) and didn't want to expand to hire people, so he had to quit. Evidently there was no way to stay small and still prosper in the field he was in, he was starting to annoy clients by having to say no to jobs.

Working at a think tank sounds interesting, although the reality of it might pale.

When I was in the Air Force, I had one job where my boss (ENXX, I wasn't into the MBTI as much then) recognized my need to work alone, my ability to solve problems, and my number crunching skills. It was great. He would feed me problems, and give me support when I needed with people who outranked me or when certain offices said "sorry, it isn't our job to give you that information." He also had a great sense of humor.

I met a financial officer in the Air Force (XNTX) who normally didn't enjoy his job that much, but found his dream job...he was deployed to Germany as a liason and problem solver for all the deployed finance officers in the field. He said he loved it, he described it as a new challenge every day. He was one of 2, the guy he worked with hated it, he said he was always dreading the phone calls, it was always another problem.

[jread]

- Video Game Designer

- Professional Fighter

- Model (this has got to be the easiest job there is)

[Architectonic]

I am starting to consider, reconsider and generally think about nanotechnology research.......

[moni]

i wanna be a member of Planet Express (from Futurama)... if that doesn't happen within my lifetime then... i want to work for square-enix or start my own video game company, making rpgs :whistle:

[trendal]

I want to be an electronics/appliance repairman.

a) less customer interaction required than most service industry jobs
b) involves electronics, which are fun stuff to play with
c) almost always something new to deal with each day

[Master O]

PGA Touring Pro...

[Madrigal]

Psychologist
Director
Bohemian travel-around-the-world photographer

I'm depressed. :(

Although I might get to do all of those if I tried. It would be nice to have a rich benefactor who would give me money, though, kinda like in 'Great Expectations'. :)

[eyebyte_atWork]

Psychologist
Director
Bohemian travel-around-the-world photographer

I'm depressed. :(

Although I might get to do all of those if I tried. It would be nice to have a rich benefactor who would give me money, though, kinda like in 'Great Expectations'. :)


If I ever win the lottery - I'll be your benefactor.


and with that I bid thee all a good night.

[Rajah]

Seriously, I'd like to be a writer - free from monetary considerations. Able to write about anything I want.

I would also like to go to medical school, without incurring medical school debt. I have enough from law school.Exactly what I would have written. Minus the whole medical school thing. Although if someone offered a free ride to med school, I'd take it, because why the hell not?

[joecancer]

Exactly what I would have written, too. What a shock.

Madrigal- what kind of director? movie director?

[lexiphanic]

Music performer, music producer, music teacher. All at once.

[sbw]

PGA Touring Pro...

tiger's caddy. or dick vitale. and I hate dick vitale for entirely non-jealous reasons.

Scott

[Madrigal]

Exactly what I would have written, too. What a shock.

Madrigal- what kind of director? movie director?

Yes. :)

Btw, your avatar is so disturbing... I have a thing with images that are half human/half animal, I can't explain it. They creep the hell out of me! :(

[Madrigal]

If I ever win the lottery - I'll be your benefactor.


and with that I bid thee all a good night.

Lol. Well I started the get rich quick thread after posting here.

[intper419]

My dream job is squirting piss out of a water pistol into the eyes of bank robbers, and then spewing.

[afton]

Hmm I dunno if this is "INTPish" but I don't mind being a nude photographer. ;P

[zhang_bob]

nude photographer ;P I could see an intp as a nude photographer they like to observe from a distance.

[Star]

Astronaut.

http://www.intpcentral.com/uploads/180px-Astronaut-EVA.jpg

*sigh*

[zhang_bob]

Artist - abstract like Kandinsky or Impressionism Monet, Renoir.
Writer -philosophy .
Novelist-something like Fyodor Dostoevsky,Leo Tolstoy.

[KBELL]

I'd like to design and fabricate my own line of bicycles.
or be a Criminal Profiler
or a Homocide investigator
or a Professor
or a Photographer
or a Counselor
or a Musician
or a Lawyer
or an Inventor
or an Archeologist

[afton]

Bikini waxer is pretty cool (I'll do it for free once in a while) :whistle:
http://www.theage.com.au/ffxImage/urlpicture_id_1046826540078_2003/03/07/08BRAZILIAN,0.jpg

[Refugee]

Video game playtester...sit around and play games alld ay? Sign me up.

I knew a guy who did that for EA Sports. 8 hours a day playing college football video games. He said the pay was pretty low.

[MasterMerk]

Freelance writer/journalist.

[Sammy]

Philosopher... that gets paid a lot... Challenging, very much so... I think I'll settle for religious leader of a cult instead; there is money in that, right? :whistle:

[eyebyte_atWork]

Philosopher... that gets paid a lot... Challenging, very much so... I think I'll settle for religious leader of a cult instead; there is money in that, right? :whistle:



I get it - Sammy the Bull - ha ha ha ha ha!

[krakt]

Anything where I get paid large amounts of cash for very little actual work...
lol

[DevRock]

nude photographer ;P I could see an intp as a nude photographer they like to observe from a distance.

I'd actually enjoy that very much. I like looking at it a lot, so why not create it?

Also, here's my list:
race car driver
heavy metal musician (pref guitar platyer - gave up that dream in college...still sad about it 14 years later...)
philosophy professor
author (of books, I've done reporting and do the Web, it's not the same, hopefully I can be patient enough to get this done some day)
luthier (maker of guitars)
automotive journalist - great perks, but I couldn't stand the politics of it all, so it will never happen
billionaire philathropist - I'd throw millions fighting conservatism

Honestly, though, my "dream" job would be something that actually inspired a long-term passion in me. Something that actually motivated me. I'm going back to my shrink this week because I'm in yet another job/life rut and I don't know what will motivate me. It's so fucking aggravating. Every job I have seems to make me unhappy, bored and miserable. The best jos I ever had was an IT guy for a small company. When I started, there were no rules. They didn't care what hours you kept as long as you got your work done. unlimited vacation. Great, fun people. Then, the internet bubble came, money poured in, they hired a bunch of suits who put into place to many rules, I got fired and the company nearly collapsed.

[afton]

I was wondering what INTPs consider to be their dream jobs?
Full-time bikini & wet t-shirt contest judge :)

[Architectonic]

Full-time bikini & wet t-shirt contest judge :)

That may well be the answer to 'I was wondering what all men consider to be their dream jobs'.

[distraction tactics]

-Spy
-Fighter Pilot
-Exploration geophysicist :whistle:
-Ski Instructor
-Astronaut
-Combat Diver
-Indiana Jones
-Viking

[jax0m]

My dream job as a child was to be an astronaut. I was actually pulled to be on some huge children's show (the equiv of Sesame Street or whatever) in the Dominican Republic one summer vacation year when I was visiting grandparents and interviewed on it... They were thrilled with me until the end of the interview when I was asked whether I would put the Dominican flag on the moon and I said no, I'd put the American flag up. Needless to say, show over. I still have the tape somewhere.

I was simply obsessed. Anything that had to do with the universe I voraciously devoured - Yet that interest waned with the onset of puberty and faded to maybe being a pilot (My father had a pilot's license).

My current dream job is definitely some sort of high-ranking diplomat. I'm going to probably try for a degree in International Studies, so.. you never know. I wasn't exactly born with those types of skills (tact), and it's probably why I'm so fascinated with it. Also, diplomats are right in the middle of political affairs most of the time and aren't necessarily pressured to take a side. They're mostly only communicators.

Other than that, an explorer of some type... A field scientist, or one working in some interesting R&D lab with an unlimited budget. Marine biologist. Someone who works with animals. I love to travel, so anything doing that. Something with a high degree of autonomy.

#1 Dream job: Mercenary/Secret agent for the government

[Zero Angel]

Whenever I read Dream next to ohnoaninfp its makes for some kind of wierd word association. :wub:

Anyways, mine are:

- Homocide investigator
- Researcher
- Musician (guitarist or drummer)
- Fighter Pilot
- Chief Information Officer
- Interface Designer
- Architect
- Photographer
- Game developer, Art or Design coordination

[jax0m]

Whenever I read Dream next to ohnoaninfp its makes for some kind of wierd word association. :wub:

Anyways, mine are:

- Homocide investigator

Homocide investigator? Is that like gay on gay crime? :D

[Zero Angel]

Homocide investigator? Is that like gay on gay crime? :D
:rofl:

You ever have those moments were your N is telling you that a word 'looks' wrong? Well I had like 10 of those moments when trying to spell that word, but logic said that the word hom-oh-cide mostly matched the 'o' letter, then N tugged at me again and T was all like 'STFU N, you dont know shit', and lo an behold I am wrong. :)

[sbw]

:rofl:

You ever have those moments were your N is telling you that a word 'looks' wrong? Well I had like 10 of those moments when trying to spell that word, but logic said that the word hom-oh-cide mostly matched the 'o' letter, then N tugged at me again and T was all like 'STFU N, you dont know shit', and lo an behold I am wrong. :)

I've never described it as "your N telling you" but that happens to me all the time.

Scott

[Darkness]

My list of Dreamjobs:

1) Be another Hugh Hefner
2) A great race car driver/legend
3) Plastic surgeon
4) Researcher
5) Photographer

* $Oil Tycoon$ with ties to Bush sounds good to me right about now...:p

[gloryhog]

so out of confusion i did a 'define: homocide' in google and it came up with a result. Apparently Wikipedia has a homocide entry that points to homicide...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homocide

and to stay on topic, my dream job is designing something myself, probably software, and it catching on in a big way and somehow i end up with loads of cash... is that job?

that's funny dream job is sort of like a paradox, one word is dream which to INTP is analogous to ecstasy, while the other is job, which implies working for money... so what's that ... mundane ecstasy?

money is just like a side effect of work, but society influences us to believe it's the end all be all of work, and life.

...

[Eileen]

Here's a non-INTP answer, but I figure it's okay since ohnoaninfp has been answering.

I'm currently getting used to my actual job (high school teacher) and even enjoying it sometimes. Someday it might be a dream job. It might be a dream job at a better school. I'm not sure.

Things that I think I could enjoy more or as much:

Cleric (Episcopal Church)
-College Campus Minister
-Hospital Chaplain (*This has REALLY started to appeal to me in the past few months)

College Professor
-Literature
-Religious Studies

Theologian

Social Worker
-Counselor
-Advocate for the mentally ill

Librarian (slight preference for Children's)

[afton]

I'm currently getting used to my actual job (high school teacher) and even enjoying it sometimes. Someday it might be a dream job. It might be a dream job at a better school. I'm not sure.

What do you mean by "better school"?



Things that I think I could enjoy more or as much:
Cleric (Episcopal Church)
-College Campus Minister
-Hospital Chaplain (*This has REALLY started to appeal to me in the past few months)
Becoming a minister I think is one of the hardest job in the world.



Social Worker
-Counselor
-Advocate for the mentally ill
The idea is appealing, but I think I'd be mentally exhausted.

[Eileen]

What do you mean by "better school"?

One where the administration strongly supports and communicates with its teachers, one where the faculty is more unified and purpose-driven... It would be nice if parents would also show an interest in their kids' educations and if students weren't rude, but I'd settle for a strong admin team.




Becoming a minister I think is one of the hardest job in the world.

Becoming or being? Either way, I'm sure it's difficult. However, I think that vocation plays to more of my strengths than weaknesses. Teaching plays to a lot of my weaknesses (like organizing paperwork).



The idea [of social work] is appealing, but I think I'd be mentally exhausted.

I agree, and the paperwork would suck. That's what would mentally exhaust me, more than the emotional stress. But I think I'd be good at the human(e) side of the job.

Sadly, social work is the lowest paid job with a masters degree.

[Serotonin]

I agree, and the paperwork would suck. That's what would mentally exhaust me, more than the emotional stress. But I think I'd be good at the human(e) side of the job.

Sadly, social work is the lowest paid job with a masters degree.

My INTP mother is a social worker (and the most "senior" one in her team), and she has an INFJ colleague who she believes is her most competent colleague. I think INxxs are suited to social work since they need to be fantastic listeners and need to cope with the multitudes and complications that a socially dysfunctional person will inevitably bring.

Also, social work never gets boring and monotonous. Each case you have is unique and requires a different type of management and solution.

If you don't care about the money, then I'd say you'd be a fantastic social worker Eileen ;).

[Rhu]

My dream job would be to be something like a superhero, but really not at all.

I'd get to go to bed and sleep in whatever hours that I would want to, all the time. There wouldn't be an actual 'workplace' to go to. Mostly, I'd just sit around in my underwear for most of the day, eat some pretty good food, and stare at the phone.

The red phone that flashes rather than rings. You see, in this fantasy world where I could have my dream job, I also have a skill that is wholly unique. Whatever this mystery skill is, it isn't one where I am infallable. Every now and then I'll make a mistake, but that will only make me a more lovable recluse in the eyes of the fans who I mostly keep at an arm's length or more away. The task that only I can do poses a bit of a mental challenge, and I would usually have to sit with a pen and notebook for an hour after the governor, the president, the alien invaders, dieties, or what have you call. I would do all this at the almost glowing white kitchen table drinking black coffee out of another white mug.

I call my client back, and we chat a little. We have a genuine laugh over the little crisis I was supposed to solve, I get a deep and heartfelt thanks for doing whatever it is I do, and a huge wad of money that I'll never be able to spend. A great many people are made happy by this, including myself.

Then I go back to sitting around in my underwear. I scratch my butt, I belch. The gorgeous maid in the next room that keeps my large, shiny art deco apartment tries to stifle a giggle at hearing and seeing all of this transpire. I would look at her and shrug, flashing an innocent smile at her. She'd begin to approach me, her eyes expressing admiration, playfulness, and lustful desire.

I'd motion to her to take a seat, and I'd ask her when the last time she prayed was. She'd giggle again and let one of her sleeves slip off of her shoulder. Then I'd open up a bible and start reading to her from the Revelation. She'd become very uncomfortable and hit me over the head with crowbar that I inexplicably have in my kitchen.

I'll come to hours later, virtually uninjured, and sigh, "I'll have to get another maid," I'll say. "That was the fourth one this week." I'll carefully resituate my chastitity belt and go back to staring at the phone.

[afton]

My dream job would be to be something like a superhero, but really not at all.

I'd get to go to bed and sleep in whatever hours that I would want to, all the time. There wouldn't be an actual 'workplace' to go to. Mostly, I'd just sit around in my underwear for most of the day, eat some pretty good food, and stare at the phone.

The red phone that flashes rather than rings. You see, in this fantasy world where I could have my dream job, I also have a skill that is wholly unique. Whatever this mystery skill is, it isn't one where I am infallable. Every now and then I'll make a mistake, but that will only make me a more lovable recluse in the eyes of the fans who I mostly keep at an arm's length or more away. The task that only I can do poses a bit of a mental challenge, and I would usually have to sit with a pen and notebook for an hour after the governor, the president, the alien invaders, dieties, or what have you call. I would do all this at the almost glowing white kitchen table drinking black coffee out of another white mug.

I call my client back, and we chat a little. We have a genuine laugh over the little crisis I was supposed to solve, I get a deep and heartfelt thanks for doing whatever it is I do, and a huge wad of money that I'll never be able to spend. A great many people are made happy by this, including myself.

Then I go back to sitting around in my underwear. I scratch my butt, I belch. The gorgeous maid in the next room that keeps my large, shiny art deco apartment tries to stifle a giggle at hearing and seeing all of this transpire. I would look at her and shrug, flashing an innocent smile at her. She'd begin to approach me, her eyes expressing admiration, playfulness, and lustful desire.

I'd motion to her to take a seat, and I'd ask her when the last time she prayed was. She'd giggle again and let one of her sleeves slip off of her shoulder. Then I'd open up a bible and start reading to her from the Revelation. She'd become very uncomfortable and hit me over the head with crowbar that I inexplicably have in my kitchen.

I'll come to hours later, virtually uninjured, and sigh, "I'll have to get another maid," I'll say. "That was the fourth one this week." I'll carefully resituate my chastitity belt and go back to staring at the phone.
Man, that was pretty good :-D Are you starting a novel?

[Rhu]

Man, that was pretty good :-D Are you starting a novel?
I don't have the patience to write a novel--or maybe my fingers are just too slow. And, really... I'd have to completely change my writing style every ten pages to keep the reader from falling asleep or predicting what will happen next.

So... no. I'd be a terrible writer. Though you, afton... You've got talent! Your public demands a 100 page manifesto on fetal breast implants! You've already done most of the prewriting and research for this paper. You could say the solution used in the fetal implants should probably be breast milk, so a child can learn to feed off of itself! And besides, you are never too young to know you look beautiful!! I can see it running as a special section in all the major newspapers now...

We should all go with what we love. I love sitting around in my underwear and giving potentially bad advice. That's what I need to make a career of. Writing just wouldn't be for me.

[afton]

I don't have the patience to write a novel--or maybe my fingers are just too slow. And, really... I'd have to completely change my writing style every ten pages to keep the reader from falling asleep or predicting what will happen next.

We should all go with what we love. I love sitting around in my underwear and giving potentially bad advice. That's what I need to make a career of. Writing just wouldn't be for me.
Eh, what're you talking about? That's good enough for me.
(at least I laughed) :-D
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[Sir Isaac Lime]

jobs seem to be the blockage to dreams for me. i'd like to have a source of income thats flexible to my actual need and doesn't depend on any sort of established career. then i could work on the things i actually dream about (writing, inventing, travelling, thinking) completly independant of whether or not i'm getting paid for it.

[Kilby]

The job I get in 5-6 years.

[Hustler]

I would like to be a professional Thread Necromancer.

[Biff_Loman]

Whenever I see the title of this thread, it strikes me as another form of sex, along the same lines as a blow- or hand job.

[Xenophon]

My dream job is to be a research manager at a large company. Basically it would work like this (I don't know if this job actually exists.) I would be in charge of medium sized group of research scientists. It would be my job to direct the research and manage a team of researchers. I would sort of be a jack of all trades who would help each researcher with their problems and tie their specific work into a greater whole. I would like it to be for a fairly largish company so I don't have to worry about administrative bullshit, and I would always have the resources needed to do a good job.

However, I would have to be high enough that I could go down to marketing and smack some sense into them, whenever they tried to do something outrageous.

Basically I want to be a professor, but I want to be paid more, and have better resources. And I want to be more focussed on producing something physical, than doing super theoretical work.

[MSpitterman]

Can I name people instead of dream jobs????

George Soros
Jim Rogers
That's it!

[tnkgrl32]

My dream job would look like this:

40%: Provide ideas to other people on how to solve all the "big problems" of the world, after thoroughly researching on the internet. Mind you, I wouldn't actually DO anything w/ my ideas - that's for someone else... ;-)

40%: Environmental Researcher - I'd splash around in some streams, take a few measurements, give all the tedious work to someone else, make some inferences, and then magically get published :-)

20%: Fun and random art stuff - like music or photography or something - just to clear my head.

[apple]

My dream job would look like this:

40%: Provide ideas to other people on how to solve all the "big problems" of the world, after thoroughly researching on the internet. Mind you, I wouldn't actually DO anything w/ my ideas - that's for someone else... ;-)

40%: Environmental Researcher - I'd splash around in some streams, take a few measurements, give all the tedious work to someone else, make some inferences, and then magically get published :-)

20%: Fun and random art stuff - like music or photography or something - just to clear my head.

So you wanna be a venture capitalist?

[fresh]

Porn director, porn studio executive, high-paid web designer, brothel owner, consultant in any field of interest, sex therapist, head shop owner, stand-up comedian, actor, artist, photographer, page designer, chronic masturbator.

[Hustler]

Wood processor.

[Spartan26]

Wood processor.You mean turning trees into paper products? Or should that've said "word"? If the former, at what point would you like to process?

[fripping]

professional inappropriate caption writer for seemingly innocent photographs.

critic with no functional idea of how the _______ industry works.

[composer]

I've done a number of these jobs.

Musician
Good

Great hours
It's music! What's not to like?
Lot's to learn
Challanging

Bad

You have to perform
Don't make any money
Probably gets boring after a while


Physicist
Good

Interesting, lots to learn
Exciting stuff, get left alone to work on things

Bad

Doesn't pay anything - punk engineer out of 4 year college makes more than you.
Needs too much formal education
Hard to work on the really interesting problems. Most folks are working on the boring problems.

Software Engineer
Good

Make lots of money
Computers are really fun
Lot's of interesting stuff to work on

Bad

Corporate follies and office crap can be annoying
Don't get any significant time off


Somebody mentioned being a composer. I know an INTP who is a retired composer. He taught, and retired a little early in his early 50's. He's said that retiring was the best thing he's done in his life. More time for relationships, and to compose. That's right - while in academia he had to compose or perish - now he just does whatever he feels like, and love it.

So simply there isn't a best job. Because a job by definition is for pay, that means that it's unlikely to ever be perfect - because the pay often demands you do things you wouldn't do if you were not paid.

Of the above the software was the one that stuck with me. It's sucked, but I've been lucky to be in a spot where I have lots of autonomy, and can just solve problems, and make a ton of dough. It's been good ...

[aether]

Designer and implementor of a space colony.

[SuperToast]

I'm kinda working towards something in theoretical physics or else trying to get on board some think tank for something.

</end stereotypical answers>

I want to be a firetruck! Or like a professional Frisbee maker. I'd custom make Frisbees for professional Frisbee golfers or just rich amateurs. Maybe I could design a few courses on the side just to stuff the wallet a bit.

[Faust06]

You have to perform

You don't need a touring band to make cash, though it helps. Post some material online, try to get a small following, and you've got passive income.

[Linz]

I am an aspiring animator :] I'm also very much into comic illustration and character design. Took some classes on the first two subjects at a school in San Francisco this summer.

[Oso Mocoso]

I am an aspiring animator :] I'm also very much into comic illustration and character design. Took some classes on the first two subjects at a school in San Francisco this summer.

At the San Francisco Academy of Art University?

--Oso

[puzzled-observer]

I think my dream job would just be to be one of those freelance inventors or something to that effect. However, it seems quite impractical due to the fact that there's no security at all. But if i could do it successfully, yea , that'd be it.

[Linz]

At the San Francisco Academy of Art University?

--Oso


Yep! =D Didn't know if anyone would know it and I couldn't post a link because I haven't posted 15 times, so yeah. :-P

[deusXmachina]

I don't have the patience to write a novel--or maybe my fingers are just too slow. And, really... I'd have to completely change my writing style every ten pages to keep the reader from falling asleep or predicting what will happen next.

So... no. I'd be a terrible writer. Though you, afton... You've got talent! Your public demands a 100 page manifesto on fetal breast implants! You've already done most of the prewriting and research for this paper. You could say the solution used in the fetal implants should probably be breast milk, so a child can learn to feed off of itself! And besides, you are never too young to know you look beautiful!! I can see it running as a special section in all the major newspapers now...

We should all go with what we love. I love sitting around in my underwear and giving potentially bad advice. That's what I need to make a career of. Writing just wouldn't be for me.


Too slow? I'll be your typist then, hows that?!
Then write 10 different versions of a book I'm sure that would garner enough interest


You mean turning trees into paper products? Or should that've said "word"? If the former, at what point would you like to process?

Maybe wood is part of his diet :theclap:

Psychiatrist
Entrepreneur
Something In the field of research
Security engineer
Cryptographer
Forensic scientist
Interpreter
Financial analyst
Network integration specialist
New Market or product conceptualizer
Philosophy professor

And same as groty: ?I want to start my own business. Computer related, heavy into Marketing analyis. I want to create and sell a great product and make well paying jobs.?

Professional Poker Player- That i want to try

Magician tee-hee-hee
Conductor
Manga artist :)
Linguist wait is that classified as a job?
Strategic planner
International relations

?My dream job? Never to have to have one. I would love to be able to pursue my interests without having to worry about how I am going to make money with them.?-if only real life works like that!

I think I want to be a hacker-Who doesn?t?

"nanotechnology research" never gave this much thought but it sounds cool

movie director-this I will make it happen (at some point)!

race car driver I don?t know what my parents will say if they look at this...take me out of school probably

"My dream job as a child was to be an astronaut" yes that was what I wanted to be as a 6 year old girl?right after learning about all the planets. I wanted to creat a spacesuit that?ll enable astronauts to ?land? and explore the planet venus safely.

Secret agent for myself... I don't trust the government.

An Anarchist-just cause chaos and unrest basically :grin:

Right now the prospect of becoming any of the ablove looks slim.....I'm still in highschool but I have a feeling I will be needed in the "family company" right after I emerge from university and that I shou'dn't decline as helping the family/business grow will be the "right thing to do" (damn). But I am the second child sooooo.......hmmm.

[LC333]

1) Forensic psychiatrist
2) Superstring theory researcher
3) Philosophy professor
4) Sociologist
5) Lead market research analyst for a major corporation

[Undecided]

I love my job...well, as much as I expect anyone could love a "job".

I am a real estate appraiser. The upside is that you can be completely independent. No annoying co-workers, boss, politics for promotions, etc. You can accept or decline any project at your own discretion. You get to walk around with a clipboard and look important, and yet most of your work can be done in your pajamas.

The down side is that some houses you really don't want to go into. And you have to like defending your opinions with facts. (Not a problem with most of us, I assume.)

[Faust06]

deep sea researcher/miner
part-time musician/composer
technician/operator working with huge complex machinery
adventurer/bounty hunter in some other world
part-time game designer (because I hate most of them these days)

[scholes!!!]

I was wondering what INTPs consider to be their dream jobs? What kind of job would you love and what kind of job would you hate? I hated selling Cutco. I hated to sell overpriced products to people. I do love to sing. I would love to become a professional singer. I love music and I cannot live with out it. However being an art teacher seems kind of fun and reasonable.

lol I hear ya...I once worked at Toys R Us and most of their toys were overpriced, they were selling a ride-on car made out of plastic for $500!! I could buy a real car for $1000 (albeit one on the verge of breaking down). I basically told the customers that it was a rip off and my manager heard me lol...I eventually decided not to continue working there. I don't think I belong in retail but I've always known that.

Recently, I can't stop singing but I haven't seeked any lessons so I guess I'm not good at it...I don't have intention in taking it seriously. My passion is soccer. I would love to travel around the world and watch soccer games, write articles about it and take photos for the articles. I also wouldn't mind learning new languages in the process which I've found that I'm quite good at.

IT is a common career choice for INTPs but I don't wanna be stuck on a computer all the time, I wanna travel!

[origami]

I was wondering what INTPs consider to be their dream jobs? What kind of job would you love and what kind of job would you hate? I hated selling Cutco. I hated to sell overpriced products to people. I do love to sing. I would love to become a professional singer. I love music and I cannot live with out it. However being an art teacher seems kind of fun and reasonable.

I teach - which I think INTP's are great at. After many years of mental health and acadamia I am now a yoga teacher and clay teacher. I see clients individually for mind/body medicine. I teach group yoga classes. I immerse myself in art and yoga. Yoga is as deep intellectually as you are caring to go, or physical - it fulfills much of my T requirements. But art is my heart and soul. I spend most of my time pursuing my dream to sculpt the human form. I love my work. I will build a combination yoga/clay studio this spring with a tapas/tea/juice bar! I also do a few consulting gigs when they come up. I like the mix of all of the above.

living the dream:) Art and Teaching

[mancroft]

Teaching fuckheads?

:sick:

[benzene]

I always find this sort of question hard and my thinking is a bit abstract in the area of careers, but here goes.

I'd time-share between two jobs: a "major" for my dominant function and "electives" for my less explored functions to twist things up a bit.

For my Dominant Function
- Technical research and development; leaning more towards industry than academia (... I think ...)
- A philosopher, free to wander the world and run whatever experiments I will ... eventually writing that book that gives the answers I've been looking for

To mess with myself - at own risk ...
- Teacher/trainer of some sort
- Some kind of outdoors naturey work
- Running an agnostic inner development school similar to Gurdjieff's "Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man" - where I can change my mind about the teachings & practices whenever I feel like it

[Sugarskull]

Video Game Designer




Mix Martial Arts Fighter



Anything where I get paid large amounts of cash for very little actual work...


I'd also like to be a Musician.

I'd really just like to have no job, and not have to worry about money, so I can just go and pursue anything that interests me at the moment.

[Savy]

A translating job overseas in either Japan or Korea. Maybe I could be a video game translator. Or perhaps a foreign video game programmer working for square enix? Being a spy wouldn't be bad, nor would being a writer. It would be awesome to be a pianist in some popular-enough band.

I'd hate to have any job that's dull. A job with rigid rules in a cramped office, sitting and doing some boring thing repeatedly... That's the worst case scenario.

[Kazan]

The career of my dreams would be one that changed to a different academic subject each day...

Mon: physics
Tue: history
W: philosophy
Th: biochemistry
Fri: mathmatics
Sat: law
Sun: astronomy

And, of course, have someone pay me for it!

[Faust06]

The career of my dreams would be one that changed to a different academic subject each day...

Mon: physics
Tue: history
W: philosophy
Th: biochemistry
Fri: mathmatics
Sat: law
Sun: astronomy

And, of course, have someone pay me for it!

That's a neat idea. I mean, if we're talking dream jobs, anything goes. I'd totally do that. Being a student is great with the right circumstances.

I think I'll update my list a little.

-Problem-solving with electronics schematics. I love the whole system, it's like a puzzle, but I hate the mundane boring work of a technician or technologist. Nor do I necessarily care to design anything. But anyway, there's a kind of beauty to circuit boards and schematics that I really like. I'm drawn in. If only it were more intuitive.

-being Prime Minister or in a position of high political influence in my country. I think it would be interesting, though I'd probably prefer to just live my life than spend my time messing with the system in which I live. If it were like Sim City I'd have a good time with it.

-Composer/musician, dishing out tons of material a year, like John Zorn. I like to perform a little, but I wouldn't like touring and playing the same stuff over and over... except if it was really improvised. I have a fondness for that too, but more so for intricately composed music. I plan to release at least one album even if I wouldn't become a career musician, it's a promise I make to myself. It's going to be very... lush and orchestral.

-Some other form of artistry like making comics, games, paintings, stories, movies. I plan to hone some of my abilities in most of those areas to an extent. I'm all for art.

-Billionaire. The possibilities would be endless, but I'd only be good at spending my money on all sorts of projects and not focusing so much on making it. I'd probably fashion my home town into something more ideal.

-Brewing my own world-class beer. I'd like to emulate the methods that the monks in Belgium use for the Trappist Westvleteren 12, though.

-Creating an innovative or "perfect" video game (ie Cave Story, Metroid 3). A role playing game that's actually fun to play would be a good start. Or if that's not a possibility, diminish the "action" in rpgs and augment other interactiveness. I plan on actually doing this, but it's not one of my top priorities at the moment.

-Software Engineering. Lets home it's a dream job. I assume, in terms of practical work, engineering is most up my alley. But it's intimidating.

[wrathfuldeity]

My dream job would be to get paid alot of money for dreaming...and not have to record, disclose or do anything in particular with the dreams that I dreamt. And then when not dreaming, I would have enough money to do whatever I wanted.

[Resonance]

My dream job would be to get paid alot of money for dreaming...and not have to record, disclose or do anything in particular with the dreams that I dreamt. And then when not dreaming, I would have enough money to do whatever I wanted.
You want to be an artist married to a wealthy person?

[teleforce]

You want to be an artist married to a wealthy person?

that would be awesome.

[Qfwfq]

1. astronaut
2. lawyer (criminal prosecution)
3. hedge fund manager
4. biotechnologist

I just chose biotechnologist because that's what I'm studying now, but I know that as soon as I've learned enough I'll want something else. I like Kazan's idea.

[Qfwfq]

Idle rich/aristocracy



I have no problem with this either. You hate it, but who doesn't want to lobby politicians and eat a 500$ steak?

[Digital Future]

You want to be an artist married to a wealthy person?

That's sounds cool. Rich people do like art. I could be a live in artist.

[surrealist]

1. Artist
2. Professional soccer player
3. coach
4. film director
5. Economist\Philosophy professor

[Shoot!]

My dream job would definitely have to be becoming a Pharmacologist / Pharmaceutical Scientist. I love the sciences, especially chemistry, and I am very interested in how medicine actually works on a chemical-reacting-with-biological basis. According to the BLS it's a pretty lucrative field, too. :D

[Kurai]

I've always wanted to be a paleontologist or archeologist, well when I was little, but I'm really wanting to teach English in Japan or be a translator, if I could get my lazy self to learn the language properly ~~;;

Though I also want to write on the side, I"m actually in development of writing a book with my friend.

[Delusion]

3D Modeler / Animator

[rhuarch]

I always thought it would be cool to be a Sys Admin for a video game production company. Preferably one that makes games I like. Barring that I think assassin would be good backup choice.