Best job in the world?

^^ I did that for 13mths, nice job, not a lot of pay but you could use the boat as much/little as you needed and we used it for crew accom when racing the Melges. Been to some spanky places over the world following the big key regattas, seen lots of lovely people, stayed in some spectacular houses and locations and enjoyed it whilst it lasted.
If you know where to look jobs like this are around, not paid very well mind.

So I’d like Tony Blairs job, having ruined this country, taken us to war, belligerent in the extreme yet earns £’m spouting bullshit.
I can do that.

If you’ve ever been to the south of France on holiday, tune into the english speaking radio stations, literally ever other advert is for yatch crew. money is crap though, and you have to put up with the rich idiots who own them, who are relentlessly twatish.

Steve Peat or Cedric Gracia 🙂

Thing is, what you think would be your dream job often changes once you get that dream job.

In 2006 I left the UK to be the Operations Director and run the Mega Car company Koenisgsegg; to live the Dream I thought:
1) Move to Sweden;
2) Live by the sea and endless golden sand beaches;
3) Cycle to work every day;
4) Run a company making some of the most mad mega cars in the world;
5) Drive those cars on a daily basis;
6) Etc etc…..

Thing was after two years of doing that I resigned; because it wasn’t just a job it was a life, and quite honestly I didn’t want my life to be work!

So readjusted, kept items 1, 2 & 6, added a very good normally ish job, house, kids and now living the dream.

Of course not everything is simple and carefree (i.e. Instagram), but it’s not damn bad I must say.

For the record this was my favourite K’egg to drive:

Sorry to say I wouldn’t change my job for the world. Longhaul airline pilot, get to take my bike with me all over the world. This month I’ve ridden the Olympic RR course in Rio, and the Fuji foothills outside Tokyo. This weekend I’m popping down to the Alps for some mtb. Later in the month off to Buenos Aires for some steak & wine.

Jet lag is a PITA, but it ain’t a bad gig.

I’ve mentioned it on here before, but I did spend a few years doing my (personal) dream job. Photographing impact assessments for wind farm companies. Always in remote parts of Scotland, the pay was beyond my wildest dreams, all expenses covered, climbing mountains all day with my dog.

These days I shoot weddings…

Dad of a girl I knew flew round the world on behalf of a holiday co making sure the resorts were up to snuff.

Best summer job I heard of was crew on the mega £££££ yachts. The rich and famous rarely do the full voyage on their boats, they have a crew sail them to the Bahamas, Monaco wherever and then stay on them.

This kid was just a cleaner/deckhand but sailed round the world on these mega boats, got paid for the privilege.

I like the idea of travel would it would have horrendous impact on my family

Something that would give me the same pay and job satisfaction, but just less hours so I could spend more time doing things with my family and for me – that would be ace

Some interesting replies.

Yacht jobs sound fun for a couple of weeks, but the high turnover of staff must tell you that it is a far from perfect job.

There are also some jobs which a fun for a couple of years, but not long-term (bike guides, dive instructor on an exotic island etc.).

And there are plenty of ways of getting paid to do sod all, but I know that gets boring very quickly.

I think my perfect job would be creative with fast turnaround projects. Maybe making stuff for films – props, vehicles, sets etc.

@the00 hence the caveat best summer job. I can’t think of any student job I had that competes.

He did get to stay in the hotels in Monaco whilst moored there, went quad biking worth Colin Mcrae, go-karting with DC etc so had its perks but sure not a 52 week a year gig.

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.

Which company did you work for?

UKIP MEP. £80k a year and expenses. You never have to turn up, and when you do, you just have to spout a load of bollocks. Easy.

My wife’s uncle offered me the “office” job for his Pottery (Pots, Urns) business in Barbados a few years ago. It seemed right up my street, ‘puters, sales & customers and going home to a caribbean house.

But we’d have to sell up here to go (houses are the same price as the UK), wouldn’t earn enough wages to come back very often at all let alone save for a UK property, couldn’t save for the kids to go to Uni in the US / UK.

Shame really.

Whoa – are you saying I’d get bored of wearing a bright green jumpsuit all day and racing around in an ambulance? I don’t believe you…

Rachel

A friend has it pretty close, working as a Software Developer for Whistler and does guiding/coaching on the side. Regular job in a great location with benefits of a discounted lift pass! I guess the downside is living in a bubble but it seems a pretty good deal.

Dad of a girl I knew flew round the world on behalf of a holiday co making sure the resorts were up to snuff.

My cousin does that & has done for years. Good pay too. She also scopes new resorts for next year’s brochures. Annoying.

Personally, I’m quite taken with Obama’s retirement plan. Selling t-shirts on Wailea beach sounds pretty damned awesome.

Getting kids riding bikes – loved seeing mine achieve it, enjoyed taking some of Jnrs mates to Hicks Lodge for the first time and seeing them have a blast on their first (admittedly beginner friendly) trail centre.

Hoping that the county Scouts cycle unit will take me up on my offer to help out, and then considering Bikeability instructor training.

Some jobs that look exotic are 99% hard work and hassle and a few minutes fun. I span cars around with Russ Swift in the early days which was a lot of time on the road for a few minutes in the limelight, which looks glamorous but in fact demands too much concentration to be fun. He loved it, I preferred a day job.

Junior is an ESF ski instructor which is pretty cool except when it’s sleeting and he has a group of soggy miserable kids to jolly along. The red jacket is far cooler than a para-medic kit.

One of the jobs I enjoyed most paid the least. Camp site bod. Bumble around fixing things, organise a barby now and then, play games with kids once a week, socialise as much as you feel like, boss a thousand kms away, learn lots about life.

@Mikey74 Rocky Mountain Adventures

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I’m sat here at my desk at home, drinking tea and looking out the third floor window across the estuary to the Haldon hills.. Got some ace Brazillian drum n bass blaring out the speakers and I’m just having a fag break before returning to my easel..
I’ve got literally sod all money though 🙂

A lad I know has just spent the weekend DJing the VIP area for Beyonce’s Wembley gigs.. that’s gotta be quite a buzz

I’d really like to have some sort of festival related business

Shawn Colvin’s bass player – when she tires of people like Michael Rhodes, that is.

In fact, any bass gigs where I had the opportunity to play in front of big audiences again would do – nothing beats it, IMHO.

I’d want to be a game developer.

Making games for children of all ages, make a game for myself that I will never ever get tired of playing. I can play with my spouse, my kids and they’ll tell me, what a nice game.

Develop a game that will make me famous and really really rich.

My wife’s oldest school friend runs a deep sea fishing charter business in Negril, Jamaica with her family which is quite a nice gig. They have 2 boats chartered pretty much solidly from September to March and also do a little diving as a sideline (he’s a fully certified dive master). It’s all catch, tag and release of sport fish too so that’s good.

Dad. /thread closed.

@ mtbroutes

You must had guided me, then, as I did 2 years in a row with RMA.

While probably not the greatest job in the world a friend of rocket jr’s works for a red brick in a team of prototype engine developers

They have an amazing workshop and make components/sub assemblies and run them up on prototype engines from the big guns

Getting something working at its best really appeals to me

I’d quite like to be a handyman on a little French campsite. Potter about, fix some stuff, enjoy the weather/food/wine.

Or repair clocks and watches (which is something I could learn to do now I suppose)

this:

I’d quite like to be a handyman on a little French campsite. Potter about, fix some stuff, enjoy the weather/food/wine

by the seaside (could double up as deckchair man too).

A friend of my brothers is a model and in a band.

He basically shags models and singers.

A friend of my brothers is a model and in a band.

He basically shags models and singers.

Prime Minister.
You get to screw models and singers and brickies and miners and office workers and lots of other types of people.
60 million of them.
All at once.

Something almost other worldly like Astronaut or F1 driver still appeals of course, sadly decades past the tiny sliver of opportunity to be one.

I didn’t know what I wanted to be until I was in my early 30s really, one of my only regrets in life is that I was told I was lazy school and wasting everyone’s time, really I was bored, I sit very high on the ADD scale.

I would have really loved to be a Medical Doctor, I know it’s not a pathway to riches, but that’s never really bothered me, I’m usually more stressed when I have money than when I don’t, and I know it’s long hours and hard work, but I’d rather that than boredom. I worked in a call centre once, I knew it was time to leave when I started to develop an involuntary twitch and having the same recurring dream about zombies slowly walking toward me, whenever they reached my bed they’d open their mouths as wide as they could and the noise the phones used to make would come out of them loud enough to make me jump – the worst part is in that dream, I never thought I was dreaming.

Sadly for me, I think, well I hope I could have been a pretty decent doctor, I work well under pressure and high speed, but it was the years of cramming in all that info, no way I would have had the attention span for it.

I worked in Sydney during the Olympics, collecting hire cars from the airport and hotel, cleaning them and delivering them to the next customers – 14 hour days, 40c heat and exhausting – loved it. Best job ever.

I would have really loved to be a Medical Doctor, I know it’s not a pathway to riches

I’m not sure about that – one of the wealthiest people I know is a surgeon, and the GPs I’m friends with aren’t doing too badly either… I’d need all that money to persuade me to do it though, definitely not my idea of a dream job.

Some of the most fun I’ve had at work has been kitchen and bar jobs. I sometimes think I’d be pretty happy going back to that.

Mythbuster.
Astronaut.

In practical terms if I lost my current job through minor health issues I’d take the insurance payout, clear my mortgage, and try to get a job guiding mountain bike tours somewhere warm and scenic.

Astronaut in the 2100s, when we have enough technology to really start reaching out and touching the stars – or an 18th century privateer or a silk road trader at the height of the Mongolian empire. The worlds too **** small.

Because

We’re the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our great war is a spiritual war. Our great depression is our lives. We’ve all been raised on television to believe that one day we’d all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars, but we won’t. And we’re slowly learning that fact. And we’re very, very pissed off.

– Fight Club

There’s not much place for easily bored, curious risk taking chancers anymore. Everyone dies at some point, at least living in those eras could be an assault on my senses before I died an untimely death due to air pressure loss, cannon fire splinters or the bubonic plague. I would have been better off in the days when biology was more about being an exploring naturalist, instead of losing my mind in a sterile office.

I was Via Ferrata guide in the Dolomites for a summer. I’d happily do that for the rest of my life.

I have a very ‘exciting’ job in the Big Smoke managing costly and complicated IT projects.

I wish I had followed my heart rather than my head when I was younger.

I’d love to be a bespoke furniture designer/maker.

Probably a volcanologist or a landscape photographer, or maybe a volcano photographer

…. or a mythbuster

Reckon a job as a journo for a hobby mag, be it bikes, super cars, travel, cuisine etc, would be pretty sweet.

Freelance of course, after getting bored of being a stay at home lottery winning millionaire

On a serious note, a photographic ethnographer or something.

I’d quite like to be paid to take a camera and remove myself as far away from westerners as possible, Mongolia, deepest rural parts of China etc, Papua New Guinea, the Congo etc

Or work for MSF in a field hospital.

On the grass is greener on the other side thoughts, I had a pretty good deal working for a Bike Manufacturer. I was in Software Support and Development, cost price bikes, reasonable salary, I wasn’t working directly with bikes so my hobby wasn’t my job and I could ride at lunch! But the reality was the work was repetitive, boring, didn’t challenge me at all and I could see myself being unemployable if I stuck at it.

I’m glad I left but it was good for a few years.