Best job in the world?

So we can all dream can’t we. So forgetting the money part for a while, what would be your ultimate dream job? What’s the best (jammiest) actual job you’ve ever heard someone have?

I’m not talking pie in the sky made up stuff here, (e.g. being dedicated traveling massage therapist for the Swedish women’s beach volleyball team) – I’m talking about real jobs that could be somehow attainable and that you’ve actually heard people are doing.

I met a photographer once who was employed by a yacht charter company in the Caribbean. He was given his own yacht and spent 6 months every year sailing around the islands taking photos at sea of people who’d chartered yachts. The clients would pay the charter company handsomely for this service.

So more of this sort of stuff please.

A writer. Living exactly where I do, but writing instead of running around like the proverbial chicken.

An artist. Live in the countryside painting country scenes on canvas and selling them online or in local galleries.

Not the Swedish womens beach volleyball team but a friends brother was masseuse to Angelina Jolie for about 14 months going all over the world. He met her on set of Tomb Raider when it was shooting in London and she thought he was good and took him with her. Don’t think he got jiggy with her at all but not a bad gig to have.

I would say something like a pro MotoX rider in the States but having seen a few documentaries and talked to a trainer/mechanic at Thunder Valley a couple of weeks ago it is a brutal sport.

Laird Hamiliton seems to have a nice life, as does Joel Tudor.

I know a couple of bike guides, the money’s not great, and like any job it has its moments of “Oh, FFS!” But as one recently pointed out, he lives in the mountains and is paid to have fun.

I think anything that takes up so little of my time and pays a huge amount would be good.
I met a helicopter pilot recently who did pleasure fights (we had one) he said that was his dream job and he loved it. I could see why. So that I think.

I was a deck chair attendant on Tenby beach for a summer. Open up about 9ish, hand out deck chairs, stack them up again, close up about 6ish. Occasionally repair a few deck chairs.

Not bad for a summer bumming about.

I wouldn’t have missed my three years working in Afghanistan, infact I’d go back tomorrow if I could.

I used to be a photographer working with high speed cine cameras and we spent much of our time blowing things up. Let me tell you blowing things up never gets boring.:-)

Paramedic. For the uniform, you understand…

Rachel

Severn bridge attendants used to have a good deal. Sit there take peoples money and pocket it! 😉 Or so I’ve heard.

I’d like a trout fishery, lots of general fettling, mending fences, trimmng vegetation back, etc basically fannying about by a small lake.

I studied art at Uni and a few artist/ lecturers got paid to do ‘research’ ie make some work/ go travelling for a year or whatever. Truly money for eff all.

I’ve always yearned after self-employed carpentry and furniture design. However, a friend who followed this path (and turned out some stunning cherry veneer cabinets) said that he had to do too much site work to make it financially viable.

So we can all dream can’t we. So forgetting the money part for a while, what would be your ultimate dream job? What’s the best (jammiest) actual job you’ve ever heard someone have?

I was a bike guide for three years. Paid to ride bikes all over the globe. Certainly worse ways to make a living earn a crust. 😉

Paramedic. For the uniform, you understand…

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A car mad friend of mine is living his dream currently; he got an engineering degree, then worked for IBM and trained as a CAD specialist. Left IBM to start his own business selling his CAD expertise & was pretty successful, eventually selling it to a much larger company. He was then head hunted by Ferrari F1, given a good contract and is living and working in Italy at their expense.

A friend of mine was the person on which the female Swedish masses’ practiced.

On a yacht.

Oh, and they were mostly nude.

I am not making this up.

Batman.

It’s the car. Chicks dig the car.

Jedi has is pretty sweet.

I’d also like to run a boat yard somewhere like Tazmania. Really though I’m sure any job gets boring after a while, I’d rather travel, eating good food and learning about interesting places, jobs are over-rated.

As it is I spend hours a day travelling into and out of London … short term, it’s just short-term!

One of my distant friends works as a dive instructor on Necker Island in the British Virgin Islands (the one owned by Richard Branson).

Her facebook feed is full of pictures like this:

There are probably worse ways to make a living.

Heli ski guide in Alaska
Powder guide in Japan

Pro downhillers have quite a life. Hard work but amazing return for the top few.

If I won the lottery Id have a gentleman.
‘Prep the bikes, we are going riding’
‘Book the flights and wax the skis…’
‘Take the motorhome, I’ll meet you at Fort Bill’
‘Sort tickets to Anaheim, we’re going to watch the supercross’

I met someone who’s school mate does this for his millionaire mate.

Currently really enjoying being a Dad to a 3 year old. Playing dens in the woods. Bike riding. Picnics at the bmx track. Train rides. Walks. It can be stressful and need a day job to make it pay. Not sure I could do it full time even if the money was right though!

Does post-IPO owner of a successful startup count?

I keep thinking I’d like to build a startup, but my mind keeps throwing up obstacles.

I’d not mind being a children’s tennis coach, but the money’s not that great, and tennis parents.

Thestabilisers job sounds good to me too!.

Paid for trailbuilding would be good too, I don’t mind a bit of hard manual.

Conservative Prime Minister

Whilst my dream job most certainly isn’t being a teacher, I think it would revolve around some sort of education of others. One of the joys of being a parent is teaching my kids about the awesome (and not so awesome) stuff in the Universe. Sometimes they even look interested 🙂 Passing on knowledge is hugely rewarding so I’d try and build something round that…

I’d like to work for something like Wheels4Life. #fanboi
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I honestly really enjoyed the life of a scientist, for large parts of it. Good salary, plenty of travel, left to get on with what I wanted (no boss), intellectually stimulating, felt like I was making a difference, could cycle to work on or off road (occasionally, run through the forest).

But it was a smelly office block in a not very nice area, and the canteen food got a bit boring. And then the institute went to shit so I walked out.

Philanthropist – is that a job?

Otherwise writer, or some sort of elite consultant that can do a few weeks work every few months and bum around the rest of the time.

However – in terms of real jobs, one of my sister’s friends (a real actual bloke who I’ve met many times) is one of the naturally jammy people. He had a job for a while working for a holiday company testing out hotels and venues in upmarket holiday spots – Carribean, Mauritius etc. Because the hotels knew he was coming, and wanted the business, they laid out every inch of red carpet they had – and they were posh places so had quite a lot.

He said it got too much after 6 months or so though. But fun whilst it lasted 🙂

Oooh, one of our neighbours used to sail yachts down to the med for wealthy boat enthusiasts who weren’t enthusiastic enough to sail them themselves

My mate is living his dream at present. Started in January as mechanic for Joe Barnes (and so inherited the other dudes!) and has been bloody everywhere, all over Europe, chile, Argentina etc. Just set off yesterday for another 7 weeks in the Alps, then got a week off before 5 weeks in the states.

It’s a lot of responsibility, not just bumming around, but he’s a smart lad, and loves it.

Don’t think he was loving driving the landship round the one lane M25 last night mind!. 😆

I’d like my own beach club on an island somewhere.

Bikes, sailing & scuba on my doorstep every day.

In the winter, we would retreat to the mountains.

I’d like to be an ambassador for Patagonia. Not in a Ferrero Rocher way but like this:

http://www.patagonia.com/us/ambassadors/surfing/liz-clark/71249

BBMF pilot would be a cool gig. Get paid to tootle around in Spitfires and Hurricanes on nice sunny days.

…but then I went to my first airshow last year and saw modern fastjets fly up close for the first time. Lift off, stick back, full burner, f… off into the blue yonder just like that. Can’t believe that feeling ever gets old. Mind you, there’s the small matter of possibly/probably needing to kill or be killed.

I’d love to have a skill that allowed me to live somewhere like the Alps but still earn a reasonable wage. I did winter and summer seasons a few years back, earning well below minimum wage working rubbish hours was not a long term solution.

I have a mate who makes one off pieces of furniture. Lives in the mountains year round and takes most of the winter off to ski.

Can’t believe that feeling ever gets old. Mind you, there’s the small matter of possibly/probably needing to kill or be killed.

— much like being a web developer, then… 8)

Rachel

Official state testicle kicker, with responsibility for Farage, Blair, Johnson and Gove.

I’m pretty sure that I could bring enthusiasm and imagination to that role.

I did 6 months mtb guiding in Colorado/Utah (hello ex-guests!) back in 2003. That was pretty much my dream job, apart from changeover day which was a looong day cleaning toilets etc.
Some people say don’t make your hobby your job. I disagree, and you can always get a new hobby anyway.

I used to work in a yacht Chandlery as a sat job years ago. One of the other part timer’s was just completing his archtecture degree / placement.

He came into work one morning, having spent the evening in the pub the night before chatting to the owners of one of the spectacularly large yachts in the marina.

In short he was asked to sail the yacht round the world over 5 years with his fiancee. The owners would fly out every couple of months for a few weeks with the yacht in a new location.

When the owner’s were not on board, he was free to use the yacht as he liked, provided it got to the next rendevous.

That’s it.

Time to take my chances with reincarnation*.

*no, not really

This is my dream job. Not sure I’m funny enough though. Maybe in person 😉

All these yacht dream jobs.

How did they get back into the workforce after the elites got tired of paying for them to do it or they got tired of the job and changed their minds?