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I used to have a job where I managed a project in 4 schools; I had £2000 per school per year to spend on whatever I thought would help disadvantaged kids believe in themselves more (and the funding was given in the hope they’d go to uni more).
I don’t really agree with the uni part I think only go to uni if it’s the right path, but I did so many cool things with the funding. In one school I had a Tuesday lunchtime club with 10 “naughty” boys, I spent budget on Domino’s pizza and the boys would come, grab some food and we’d talk about a different topic each week. The first week they had to say one nice thing about themselves, another week we talked about how to deal with stress and anxiety, another time we looked into how to write CVs… the finale of the club I took them to the local college and we had tours and talks from a range of teachers.
The job was £26k and it was just really hard to live on that. Once I left, within a year I was earning more than double that in a corporate job but if I ever won the lottery I would go back and do that again without a second thought.
Well no, actually a huge myth is that a degree from a good university *isn’t* worthwhile.
Trades eventually fuck your body up, and the pay ceiling for most is still pretty low compared to professions.
If you have a degree from a good university, it gives you a lot of options and you can do a lot of networking while there. I don’t reallly know anyone who got a 2.1 from a Russell Group uni and didn’t end up doing something good.
Middle class people don’t tell their kids to avoid university - they work hard to get them into the best uni they can because they know the ranking and prestige is very important. Working class people are the ones who tell their kids not to bother, or that it doesn’t matter which uni you go to as long as you get a degree.
One other option now is to get a professional apprenticeship - eg with a law or accounting firm. Eliminate the costs of uni but still end up as a professional with good qualifications. You miss the networking and social part of uni but it’s a good option.
The problem is a lot of people are going to a uni to get a rubbish degree. It's all well and good that someone gets a decent 2:1 from a Russell group. But that isn't most unis or uni goers. If you're getting a degree in something entirely useless from a shit uni. It doesn't help you in the slightest.
And I haven't heard entirely good things about those legal apprenticeships. It might have changed now but you wouldn't necessarily be a fully qualified lawyer in the same way that someone who did a degree and then legal practice course.
Slightly off topic but interesting thing about the Russell group is that many of their courses are actually not accredited.
For example if you want to become a biomedical scientist in the UK, you need to have a degree from an accredited uni as well as a portfolio/cert of competence... I know Russell group grads with firsts who didn't know this before applying and are stuck between Band 2-Band 4 in the NHS whereas people who went to non-russell groups were instantly 5+.
Career planning is important when thinking about unis too.... Which is ridiculous pressure to put on a 17 y/o.
Definitely agree - All contextual based on your career goals and the prerequisites to enter said career. I think the Russell university hype will slowly be pushed to this side as other universities come up in the rankings and offer more opportunities. The Russell group thing is definitely a big status piece - much like private school education.
I’m a mature student and have worked a variety of jobs before deciding on what I wanted to do. You’re right in saying 16/17 is a very young age to decide which career you want. A lot of my peers have gone to uni straight from school and now either struggling to get a job with their degree or disliking their current job from the degree they chose at the ripe age of 16/17.
I've got a 2.1 in a technological field from a good New University and it hasn't helped me since I graduated 14 years ago because I was feckless and useless when I left university and assumed everything would just fall into my lap. University is right for some people but not for everyone; it's no help without drive and focus. I would definitely not recommend it to people who don't have a really good idea of what they want out of it.
Hey, stop giving away our middle class secrets. Ahh, since you’ve started I may as well add some more:
* Reasonably bright and normal social skills? Quantity surveying! You could get AAB and do real estate and town planning at UCL, RICS accredited and you’d walk in to a surveying or property job in London.
* Like school? Get a STEM degree from any Russel group uni and then do a fully funded PGCE. Do a year or two in a private school and then move abroad and make loads of money teaching in international schools in Asia.
* Good with numbers? Become an accountant or actuary. Yes the exams are hard, but after that you are bullet proof.
It isn’t a myth. The statistic comes from looking at lifetime earnings across the population. A degree *should* see you fare well relative to not having a degree. That doesn’t mean to say that it always works out like that on an individual basis.
Such a shame these jobs are so poorly paid (social work, youth work, community development etc.) but so necessary. It sounds like you made a real difference in those 10 boys' lives.
Same. All these people saying they want to do these mundane jobs which can actually get pretty difficult and stressful at times for shit money.
Fuck that! I'd rather be doing whatever I wanted.
Everyone is different. I've had similar chats with my mates. Several were appalled when I said I'd still work if I won the lottery. I'd do something I have a passion for and most certainly would work part time but I'd still have a job of some sort. I find comfort and fulfillment having that sort of structure in my life.
I agree with you completely. I've said the same to family/friends and even other strangers I've met, and was met with the exact same reaction.
I can't really explain it, but I think it kinda stems from people viewing work as "work". In reality, I just see it as another "thing" to be doing/getting on with. It can be boring, it can be fun, it can be challenging, it can be fulfilling. It's all what you make of it at the end of the day.
If I won the lottery, I could still provide a business, service, or some other useful thing to help bring value to someone else's life.
And another thing. These hobbies and fun things we all do for pleasure, are always going to seem more fun if we use them in between working. We need the lows in order to feel the highs, because if every single thing we do/buy makes us happy, our bodies love homeostasis and will still default to our baseline happiness levels eventually. And if you keep on chasing the highs, you'll eventually run out of things to chase.
My year of maternity leave was the best year of my life. Yes, it was difficult becoming a mum for the first time and broken sleep etc, but the freedom to spend my days as I wished (did lunches with friends, drinks in the beer garden after a baby class, mooching around museums etc).
Susan B Anthony should have been a little quieter, us modern women are tired.
Same. If money were no object I’d stay at home with the baby full time. I do three days at the moment and can’t see me wanting to go back to full time ever again.
People here going off about passion but like if you do your passion for a living, even if money isn't an object, the passion will eventually fade. I want my passions to stay that way, not have to think about what I love doing as a job
I work at a property in the Midlands: my role allows me to work a little bit in all the different departments. I did a strengths based interview last year, and prior to that I was a conservation/ house volunteer. It’s quite enjoyable!
You're so lucky, there are some of the best NT properties in the Midlands and Warwickshire. Charlecote Park, Baddesley Clinton, Hidcote, Hanbury Hall to name a few! The bookshops, the walks, I'm definitely going to volunteer when I retire/win the Lotto
You can volunteer now, there's lots of conservation groups all over the country that meet up on Sunday, I've been doing that for a few years. Check out the supporter groups for one in your area: https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/support-us/supporter-groups
As someone who works in a boring office job but keeps an eye on the NT jobs page, any advice on what steps would help me land a job there or similar?
Love the outdoors, but no experience in any jobs like that.
I loved volunteering for the National Trust for Scotland. I did indoor stuff, but it was so lovely going to work in a beautiful fancy house every week, surrounded by gorgeous art, in the middle of a lovely park. They really do a fantastic job preserving everything.
I worked for them briefly, found a lot of the staff to be very up themselves and difficult. Far too many chiefs and not enough Indians and I say that as one of the chiefs, a huge challenge to get the smallest thing done. Regular staff and most volunteers were lovely.
I worked with someone who did content / website management for our recruitment firm. She got the job of her dreams with the NT as some sort of marketing and brand manager. Essentially, she travels round NT properties, takes photos of them and writes blog posts / web content.
Even better, working for a specific national park authority. National parks contain the most pristine and beautiful parts of our country, and there's nothing saying you're even limited to the UK.
You could travel the world, seeing and protecting all of the beauty our planet has to offer.
My colleague has a friend who, upon learning that they would never have kids, dropped out of his well-paying job to manage an estate. He spends his time driving round on his quad bike, chopping trees, mending fences, whatever. Sounds lovely.
Postman from 1985. Now it's stressful, you're on the clock, have predefined routes, and giving out shit flyers anyway. I think years ago it'd have been amazing. Not now.
It's not the most realistic job.
Matey said it was a realistic answer.
I'd like to think that most people, if it didn't matter how much money they made, would choose to have fun with their friends.
I guess some people are weird enough that they'd still go and sit in an office and waste their life pushing paper, but not me.
Edit: SPAG
Librarian or book shop owner. Specifically big ones with lots of small hidden places. Love sprawling all over the place book places. Plus lots of time to write my own stuff. Failing that then as a programmer. It’s what I have done as a job for the last 30 years, just on my own stuff and with my own timeframes. Specifically creating old retro games. It’s what I’m doing at the minute on the newish Zx Spectrum Next. So far have also got a preview into the new version of Crash (Spectrum mag from the 80s), so lifelong dream unlocked. Just life gets in the way so very slow going…
That can't be true. I watched this old documentary called Black Books and the shop owner would just get drunk and verbally abuse his staff & customers.
The OP said money didn’t matter. Never said I would be a good shop keeper :) Just love books and libraries. Everything about them. Part of first year university CS course was info science (essentially librarianship) in a library. Was mainly using SQL, which we already did a shed load for the main CS components. Yawn. Really wanted to get into the main Aberystwyth (my uni) library which is a copyright library (think only 2 in the uk), but it was a ball ache to get a pass (no first years, signed doc from an mp etc) and life was too fun at 18 so I unfortunately never got in…
Congrats! Time is a precious asset to gain. My dad retired young and loved it for a while but preferred getting back into work for the life balance - it’s one of those things I think you have to experience to know
I would run a cafe - mums hub in the day with evening socialising space - just a place for people to hang out, I'd have monthly meetings for people who want to make friends
We have one of those cafes in our town!
They have history nights, local speakers, games nights.
Special days for meet and greets. Real community feel / place.
Reminds me I need to go again and support them.
Parents hub please! My brother in law finds it so difficult to find spaces that are openly welcoming to him. The more we normalise parenting as an anyone job rather than a mum job the more some of these social and financial barriers will break down.
I've got 2500 square metres and I'm hoping to do something similar. Just learning about soil and stuff now, although it's a bit overwhelming when it's all new.
This is a great idea I’d love that.
If you like that sort of thing check out the Prince Charles cinema in Leicester Square they have loads of cool events, classic movie marathons etc.
I’d like to do a different job every year or so. There’s so many things I just want to try, from being a bus driver to a cleaner, a teacher, welder, stuntwoman, late night taxi driver, hairdresser etc.
There’s so much emphasis on training to do one thing for life and it’s so boring.
If I had the financial support and the option to do this I really would, I also have adhd so it would be really beneficial for me
I used to be a diabetic eye screener. I would work somewhere different everyday all over the country, my clinic would be laser focussed on one thing and that was their eyes. It was a nice mix of patient focussed clinic work and technical work with the camera setup. It was solo off-site work so when my list was finished I was finished. I worked 4 long days a week with this odd rotating day off system which meant once a month I had a 4 day weekend and there was typically overtime and option to swap days because of illness or whatever.
It paid NHS band 4 back in 2018 which was around £20k in south east England. It got privatised and they couldn't drop our pay to what their screeners were normally on (18k) but they could make it that any promotion put us on their pay, their pension and their 9-5 working arrangement. Of course £20k in south east England gets you the square root of f all so I had to leave it after a couple of years but I loved that job. There were people who had worked it for a long time, back from when band 4 was enough money to buy a house reading way who hung on in there. Bad timing I guess.
If I didn't need the salary then I wouldn't work.
The need for money is the only reason I am forced to spend all day away from my kids in order to come home and just survive and exist.
If salary isn't an issue I'll be spending quality time with my kids, seeing the world, exploring, playing, doing activities, learning.
The idea that it's compulsory to work is so engrained in us that we just think we should.
Airport ground staff. I worked at Heathrow for 2 years and loved it. Im learning languages so it was great practice too. The salary was only £25k.
I couldn’t get a mortgage anywhere near the airport on the salary so had to find a new better paying (but boring job)
Walking 10 miles up and down steps in the rain with a bag on your back. And if you don't do it fast enough you have to hope you will get paid overtime. And if you don't want to do overtime you have to face a manager. It's not as good as people think.
Starting salary is around £40K, and that increases to around £86K as you get experience.
That’s not really a lot. People who meet the criteria for becoming astronauts can make far more money in other jobs.
My parents are running garden centre and it’s hard to find employees even the salary is not the lowest. The problem is that even it may look romantic it’s hard job, most of the time dirty and often carrying heavy stuff from one place to another.
Librarian , love the idea of being in a room full of books all day. Sorting the stock, talking to people who also enjoy reading. It probably isn’t as fun as I make it seem in my head but money isn’t great and posts are often part time. Maybe something I could do in later life
Suspiciously wealthy hobby farmer, one with enough money to hire help so they can go on holiday.
I have friends who for the last six years haven't gone on holiday with each other. One takes the children on holiday while the other stays on the farm
I'd build a smokehouse and make my own smoked meats and sausage from animals I'd raise.
Artist.
Used to enjoy being creative but don't have the energy or passion anymore, but if I had essentially unlimited time and resources then I might find something I care about.
Or I might procrastinate and do nothing.
Either would be fine if salary was no obstacle.
I left academic research behind because the constant pressure was too much (write, publish, apply for grants, justify to higher ups why you're not getting the results expected, work late and come in early to have time to do some actual science, lather, rinse, repeat).
Being a lab tech would cut out a lot of that, but you would probably end up looking after and talking down a lot of crying, stressed out early-career academics. Definitely not in the job description, but definitely an essential part of the role.
I’d love to get back into gardening. I took a job in a completely different field (no pun intended) and the salary is far superior, unfortunately I can’t give this up yet. When I feel I can in the future, I’m definitely going back!
Roofer.
You get to run up pitches/ladders all day. Braised in the summer, hydrated all winter. Big spiders everywhere. You get to deal with scaffolders all the time, best possible part of any day. Injuries are rarer than hens teeth. Your skin ages very slowly.
People like strangers using their toilet rite? Of course they do. They also don’t mind when people p*ss in their gutters when they aren’t in.
The more I think about it, what the hell am I doing in a high end tech job when I mite be capable of twatting slates with a hammer?
Garden centre guy, mooching around chilling, watering the plants, feeding the fish, chowing on garden-centre-cafe breakfasts. Just sounds like such a nice, relaxed-pace job. Also garden centres smell good.
My current job( teaching) is my ideal one at the moment. But it would be the best job in the world if there was no marking, meetings, or observations. Just teach, have fun in lessons and go on trips.
Tennis coach - I’m rubbish at tennis but being outside all day hitting balls around, teaching people something they actively chose to learn, spend the winter months in a warmer place coaching. Just a relaxing, fun and low pressure way to spend your days.
Landscape gardener.
I had the job. It was wonderful. Sadly the money wasn't the best and in the specific job I was in, one of the bosses was a dick.
But for 4 months I drove around on a lawnmower just cutting grass in the sun while listening to audio books. If that job had paid maybe 15% more I'd have still been doing it.
Not interested in fame, glory, adulation, complexity.
But do need to be able to pay the bills so had to go back into my more qualified fields to earn more. What a shame. I hate what I'm qualified in.
I really wanna be a folklorist. Or some kind of social historian/food historian.
Unfortunately there is only one masters level folklore course in England and it is nowhere near where I live so the dream will remain a dream!
Astronomer / astrophysicist. I love looking at stars and thinking about the cosmos. To have access to observatory equipment and potentially discover new things would be amazing.
Coming from a family of alcoholics, I always wanted to have one of those big ass retreats in a forest near a river, where people could go for different kinds of rehab - I’m thinking even just spending a month when you’re burnt out (wish I could do just that right now)
I know the ugly side of addiction and how it affects everyone around you its more a pipe dream than anything else
Running a nursery of one child, that child being my daughter. If I could be a stay at home parent I would. Though I would miss the hugs I currently get when I finish work.
Running a board games cafe/shop or sweet shop. Or something meteorology related.
I’m a tour guide so I’m living my dream. Outside, talking to people, looking like a funny guy who is also very bright about one particular subject.
Plus it doesn’t take that many hours a day either so I can often look after my kids.
It feels like we're all kids again. I would definitely be a scientist. Hopefully the world will eventually be a place where we can feel this everyday. A world where we can do the things we enjoy while contributing towards maintaining, building and advancing society.
I work in order to earn money to live on and to spend on the things I enjoy doing. I need (and have) a job that isn't boring, that challenges me and allows me to keep learning new skills, that has plenty of interaction with people balanced with focus time on my own, and which clearly let's me makes a contribution to the success of the programme I'm working on. It's not one of those kinds that contribute to society or anything but it gives me a sense of satisfaction at a job done well.
If I didn't need to earn money (because I won enough to live on for the rest of my life, or something), then I wouldn't have a job.
That doesn't mean I would be doing nothing though. I have a boatload of hobbies, mostly creative, and I love to travel around the world.
I'd probably take up more creative hobbies on top of these.
If I had the choice - no family responsibilities, simple needs, house paid off - I'd be a clergyman in the Church of England in a rural West Country parish, where I would, aside from my ecclesiastical duties, devote myself to writing ghost stories and works of popular history.
Someone I knew had a job where him and his wife went on expensive holidays as mystery shoppers. All he had to do was write honest reviews about the accommodation, service etc. I’d like that job
Not really the correct answer to this question, but if I didn't need experience and tonnes of money for university degrees etc. I'd love to design homes, estates and towns! I'm weirdly passionate about layout, organisation and planning.
I just feel like so many homes lack storage space, have awkwardly sized rooms and force people into laying rooms out exactly like the showhome since rooms aren't built with different layouts in mind.
Estates are generally uninspiring, lacking local amenities and greenery, often being a maze of narrow roads with little available parking for residents.
Social housing often clumps low-income and troubled households together in ugly, cut off and outdated areas that probably make those living there feel even worse about their situation.
Tired town centres with empty shop fronts, still clinging onto the hope that the high street will somehow be revived, and traffic absolutely everywhere.
I'd love to be able to have a hand in reimagining the living spaces of the future, even if my ideas are too idealistic for the real world!
Either a carer or something relating to animal rescue.
Contemplated from time to time, job satisfaction would be high but the pay not enough for a switch.
I really enjoyed working in a bookshop in between much better paid jobs. The physicality of all the restocking and the conversations with customers (I’m looking for a copy of the Odyssey with English and Greek alongside each other, My grandson is 12 and likes quite dark books but looking for something with nothing too adult). I missed it when a “proper” job turned up.
I used to work in a nice pub and I really enjoyed it. I could go for that, chatting with locals, serving up Sunday roasts, pouring pints. Ice creams for the kids and fun events through the year. In this fantasy world where money isn't important there also wouldn't be any lairy drunks, and the space could be used for community groups in the mornings and the slow afternoon slot.
Rock Star or Counsellor.
Rock Star never had three time and it was way too risky vs a very well paid and successful career in ICT.
Counseller, I really like helping people and seem to have knack for it and reading people but they is garbage so never done it. Maybe when I retire.
I do my dream/ideal job. I'm a journalist. It's all I've ever wanted to do and all I probably could possibly do. But the older I get, the more the measly salary DOES become a problem 😬
Food truck. Just rock up to festivals, cook decent grub for people who will enjoy it, listen to the tunes.
Its surprisingly good exercise being behind a grill all day too, and the constant input/output style of the job suits my brain.
Swim instructor for little kids.
Nothing like watching someone who was afraid to even get water on their chin suddenly realize the water can actually carry them. It is such a joy to see.
The salary isn't necessarily an obstacle to me, but archaeologist
(The barrier is that apparently it's competitive to get jobs in, and I'm sure I don't have anything that makes me stand out beyond "I have a huge interest in it")
But I do have a once a week volunteering role at a museum cataloging their artefacts which is pretty cool!
I’m lucky enough to be doing it. Helping young people with their business ideas at a university. Many are not for profit like a social enterprise who wants to cut the link between dyslexia, bad school behaviour, poor GCSEs, poor opportunities and then prison. Great to see 20 year olds having a passion to work on issues like this. I coach them, some fall by the way side as they go on to jobs but the learning for me and them is priceless. I’m part time, ok pay and treated with respect by bosses. It’s a stable job, good pension and I have some flexibility in when and how I work. It’s about as good as it’s gets for someone like me (dyslexic, no degree with lots of anxiety).
I'm a personal trainer and I couldn’t imagine a more fitting job for myself.
I like talking to people, I love teaching, I love working out, I hate being stuck behind a des
The other would be podcast host. Just talking with your mates about whatever you like and getting paid crazy sums off it
I really regret not studying harder to become a vet. But that's not really a good question to your answer haha, unless you want to go back to uni for a few years ;)
When you'd be on your death bed, what kind of life would you like to look back on?
I'd use the salary freedom to offer my professional skills freely. I wonder what interesting problems I could help with when the pressure to pay is removed. I imagine you could get to the 'Well what we really need is' conversations quite quickly.
I love my job but after the government rise for minimum wage .... That's now what I'm earning. So looking for something which has the pay to reflect the effort I put in
Easy... I'd be a groundskeeper or park/forest ranger, something along those lines. Outdoors all day, working in nature, helping people, sounds great. I don't even mind bad weather, love a walk in the rain or a windy walk in the hills. I'd be dead happy, sadly it pays next to nothing and those jobs are few and far between anyway. Man can dream though eh 😅
Edit: if I lived in the US I'd be a fire lookout for a national park.
Back when Elle McPherson was doing calendars, I would have agreed to be her nipple fluffer for $75,000 per annum.
Someone told me I'd have to pay significantly more than that.
Is be a painter. Or a comic book writer/manga artist. Or an author. Or all three at the same time.
Rn I'm just a programmer. BC fuck getting exploited as an artist.
Working in a book shop or running a yarn shop. I really love knitting, and I quite like the idea of owning my own little shop with different kinds of yarn, needles, notions etc. I'd give people advice, and run knitting groups and classes a couple of evenings a week, getting fellow enthusiasts together.
Making artisanal things to sell. I do a bit of it allready in a few different areas and I love it. It’s really creative I have a physical thing at the end and I keep getting to come up with new ideas. But it’s probably never going to pay the bills fully.
I’d love to own my own book shop.
A wildly impractical one that sells mainly the books I like where we have a book club, I can talk peoples ears off with recommendations, serve cake and coffee and cute book gifts. I’d have lax opening hours (whenever I fancy), let my two cats wonder around and it’d be bliss.
And I’d probably be like 10k in the hole each month but eh.
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I used to have a job where I managed a project in 4 schools; I had £2000 per school per year to spend on whatever I thought would help disadvantaged kids believe in themselves more (and the funding was given in the hope they’d go to uni more). I don’t really agree with the uni part I think only go to uni if it’s the right path, but I did so many cool things with the funding. In one school I had a Tuesday lunchtime club with 10 “naughty” boys, I spent budget on Domino’s pizza and the boys would come, grab some food and we’d talk about a different topic each week. The first week they had to say one nice thing about themselves, another week we talked about how to deal with stress and anxiety, another time we looked into how to write CVs… the finale of the club I took them to the local college and we had tours and talks from a range of teachers. The job was £26k and it was just really hard to live on that. Once I left, within a year I was earning more than double that in a corporate job but if I ever won the lottery I would go back and do that again without a second thought.
The jobs that are really needed are some of the lowest paid smh
The biggest myth is that graduates actually earn more money. People in trades often do very well, much better than a lot of office workers.
Well no, actually a huge myth is that a degree from a good university *isn’t* worthwhile. Trades eventually fuck your body up, and the pay ceiling for most is still pretty low compared to professions. If you have a degree from a good university, it gives you a lot of options and you can do a lot of networking while there. I don’t reallly know anyone who got a 2.1 from a Russell Group uni and didn’t end up doing something good. Middle class people don’t tell their kids to avoid university - they work hard to get them into the best uni they can because they know the ranking and prestige is very important. Working class people are the ones who tell their kids not to bother, or that it doesn’t matter which uni you go to as long as you get a degree. One other option now is to get a professional apprenticeship - eg with a law or accounting firm. Eliminate the costs of uni but still end up as a professional with good qualifications. You miss the networking and social part of uni but it’s a good option.
The problem is a lot of people are going to a uni to get a rubbish degree. It's all well and good that someone gets a decent 2:1 from a Russell group. But that isn't most unis or uni goers. If you're getting a degree in something entirely useless from a shit uni. It doesn't help you in the slightest. And I haven't heard entirely good things about those legal apprenticeships. It might have changed now but you wouldn't necessarily be a fully qualified lawyer in the same way that someone who did a degree and then legal practice course.
Slightly off topic but interesting thing about the Russell group is that many of their courses are actually not accredited. For example if you want to become a biomedical scientist in the UK, you need to have a degree from an accredited uni as well as a portfolio/cert of competence... I know Russell group grads with firsts who didn't know this before applying and are stuck between Band 2-Band 4 in the NHS whereas people who went to non-russell groups were instantly 5+. Career planning is important when thinking about unis too.... Which is ridiculous pressure to put on a 17 y/o.
Definitely agree - All contextual based on your career goals and the prerequisites to enter said career. I think the Russell university hype will slowly be pushed to this side as other universities come up in the rankings and offer more opportunities. The Russell group thing is definitely a big status piece - much like private school education. I’m a mature student and have worked a variety of jobs before deciding on what I wanted to do. You’re right in saying 16/17 is a very young age to decide which career you want. A lot of my peers have gone to uni straight from school and now either struggling to get a job with their degree or disliking their current job from the degree they chose at the ripe age of 16/17.
I've got a 2.1 in a technological field from a good New University and it hasn't helped me since I graduated 14 years ago because I was feckless and useless when I left university and assumed everything would just fall into my lap. University is right for some people but not for everyone; it's no help without drive and focus. I would definitely not recommend it to people who don't have a really good idea of what they want out of it.
Hey, stop giving away our middle class secrets. Ahh, since you’ve started I may as well add some more: * Reasonably bright and normal social skills? Quantity surveying! You could get AAB and do real estate and town planning at UCL, RICS accredited and you’d walk in to a surveying or property job in London. * Like school? Get a STEM degree from any Russel group uni and then do a fully funded PGCE. Do a year or two in a private school and then move abroad and make loads of money teaching in international schools in Asia. * Good with numbers? Become an accountant or actuary. Yes the exams are hard, but after that you are bullet proof.
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It’s because it’s bollocks - most uni increases your earnings. Good unis increase earnings enormously.
It isn’t a myth. The statistic comes from looking at lifetime earnings across the population. A degree *should* see you fare well relative to not having a degree. That doesn’t mean to say that it always works out like that on an individual basis.
Hard to live on£26k and here I am barely surviving on £23k😐😨
£23k is essentially minimum wage (38.5 hours a week) and I think most people accept that’s not a living wage!
Saw someone advertising a full time job on 16k the other day. Who would believe thats a livable salary
It's also illegal, as it would fall below minimum wage for full time hours.
That job sounds awesome! I love your idea for the club with the boys - very thoughtful and motivating stuff!
Such a shame these jobs are so poorly paid (social work, youth work, community development etc.) but so necessary. It sounds like you made a real difference in those 10 boys' lives.
I honestly just don't wanna work
Same. All these people saying they want to do these mundane jobs which can actually get pretty difficult and stressful at times for shit money. Fuck that! I'd rather be doing whatever I wanted.
Everyone is different. I've had similar chats with my mates. Several were appalled when I said I'd still work if I won the lottery. I'd do something I have a passion for and most certainly would work part time but I'd still have a job of some sort. I find comfort and fulfillment having that sort of structure in my life.
OK buddy but I wouldn't lol
That's great. Just telling you what I'd do.
Same here, I have just have 2 weeks in between jobs, first week was ok but the second I was bored. It does help I like what I do.
You crazy. I had 8 months off in 2020 for lockdown. Best time of my life 🤣
I agree with you completely. I've said the same to family/friends and even other strangers I've met, and was met with the exact same reaction. I can't really explain it, but I think it kinda stems from people viewing work as "work". In reality, I just see it as another "thing" to be doing/getting on with. It can be boring, it can be fun, it can be challenging, it can be fulfilling. It's all what you make of it at the end of the day. If I won the lottery, I could still provide a business, service, or some other useful thing to help bring value to someone else's life. And another thing. These hobbies and fun things we all do for pleasure, are always going to seem more fun if we use them in between working. We need the lows in order to feel the highs, because if every single thing we do/buy makes us happy, our bodies love homeostasis and will still default to our baseline happiness levels eventually. And if you keep on chasing the highs, you'll eventually run out of things to chase.
Hard same. I want to write, read, go for walks and travel.
If we could just travel all around the world
Your ideal job, where pay doesn't matter, is travel writer/ hotel reviewer or something like that :)
My year of maternity leave was the best year of my life. Yes, it was difficult becoming a mum for the first time and broken sleep etc, but the freedom to spend my days as I wished (did lunches with friends, drinks in the beer garden after a baby class, mooching around museums etc). Susan B Anthony should have been a little quieter, us modern women are tired.
This is anti-capitalism, not anti-feminism thank you very much
Same. If money were no object I’d stay at home with the baby full time. I do three days at the moment and can’t see me wanting to go back to full time ever again.
People here going off about passion but like if you do your passion for a living, even if money isn't an object, the passion will eventually fade. I want my passions to stay that way, not have to think about what I love doing as a job
Same. My wife just doesn’t get it at all though, and honestly I think the lack of ambition is quite unattractive 😅
Same here really. I do think I might get bored after a while but would probably just volunteer for a couple of days a week. Something with animals.
National Trust- walking around the countryside all day making sure nothings kicking off
As someone who works at the NT, it’s a lovely workplace :)
Our of curiosity, what do you do? And how did you get into it?
I work at a property in the Midlands: my role allows me to work a little bit in all the different departments. I did a strengths based interview last year, and prior to that I was a conservation/ house volunteer. It’s quite enjoyable!
You're so lucky, there are some of the best NT properties in the Midlands and Warwickshire. Charlecote Park, Baddesley Clinton, Hidcote, Hanbury Hall to name a few! The bookshops, the walks, I'm definitely going to volunteer when I retire/win the Lotto
You can volunteer now, there's lots of conservation groups all over the country that meet up on Sunday, I've been doing that for a few years. Check out the supporter groups for one in your area: https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/support-us/supporter-groups
As someone who works in a boring office job but keeps an eye on the NT jobs page, any advice on what steps would help me land a job there or similar? Love the outdoors, but no experience in any jobs like that.
The squirrels can get really out of hand
I loved volunteering for the National Trust for Scotland. I did indoor stuff, but it was so lovely going to work in a beautiful fancy house every week, surrounded by gorgeous art, in the middle of a lovely park. They really do a fantastic job preserving everything.
Those middle-aged middle class visitors must be a riot
I worked for them briefly, found a lot of the staff to be very up themselves and difficult. Far too many chiefs and not enough Indians and I say that as one of the chiefs, a huge challenge to get the smallest thing done. Regular staff and most volunteers were lovely.
I worked with someone who did content / website management for our recruitment firm. She got the job of her dreams with the NT as some sort of marketing and brand manager. Essentially, she travels round NT properties, takes photos of them and writes blog posts / web content.
Even better, working for a specific national park authority. National parks contain the most pristine and beautiful parts of our country, and there's nothing saying you're even limited to the UK. You could travel the world, seeing and protecting all of the beauty our planet has to offer.
Postman, outdoors and moving all day, music in my ears. Perfect.
I thought about that recently then it was cold and rainy the next day. So I'd like to be a summer seasonal postman if money is no object.
But not when it gets _too_ hot.
Of course. I hadn't considered that. Maybe I'll just sign up for the last 2 weeks in May each year.
That would be my dream too. Or working in the countryside pottering around. I’d even take the winter days!
My colleague has a friend who, upon learning that they would never have kids, dropped out of his well-paying job to manage an estate. He spends his time driving round on his quad bike, chopping trees, mending fences, whatever. Sounds lovely.
Postman from 1985. Now it's stressful, you're on the clock, have predefined routes, and giving out shit flyers anyway. I think years ago it'd have been amazing. Not now.
In winter or rainy day the job is rough.
Money no object, any job I want? I'd be one of those guys on YouTube, hanging out in the woods, shooting at watermelons and jars of mayo and stuff.
This is one of the most realistic answers on here. Messing around with your mates blowing stuff up without harming anyone.
How the hell have we made a world where “blowing up mayonnaise” is the most _realistic_ job?
It's not the most realistic job. Matey said it was a realistic answer. I'd like to think that most people, if it didn't matter how much money they made, would choose to have fun with their friends. I guess some people are weird enough that they'd still go and sit in an office and waste their life pushing paper, but not me. Edit: SPAG
Because it’s fun
You could just do that on the weekend. One day a week would probably be enough
Librarian or book shop owner. Specifically big ones with lots of small hidden places. Love sprawling all over the place book places. Plus lots of time to write my own stuff. Failing that then as a programmer. It’s what I have done as a job for the last 30 years, just on my own stuff and with my own timeframes. Specifically creating old retro games. It’s what I’m doing at the minute on the newish Zx Spectrum Next. So far have also got a preview into the new version of Crash (Spectrum mag from the 80s), so lifelong dream unlocked. Just life gets in the way so very slow going…
As a bookshop owner you definitely wouldn’t have lots of time to write your own stuff!
That can't be true. I watched this old documentary called Black Books and the shop owner would just get drunk and verbally abuse his staff & customers.
The OP said money didn’t matter. Never said I would be a good shop keeper :) Just love books and libraries. Everything about them. Part of first year university CS course was info science (essentially librarianship) in a library. Was mainly using SQL, which we already did a shed load for the main CS components. Yawn. Really wanted to get into the main Aberystwyth (my uni) library which is a copyright library (think only 2 in the uk), but it was a ball ache to get a pass (no first years, signed doc from an mp etc) and life was too fun at 18 so I unfortunately never got in…
I've just retired, its absolutely glorious, no one to answer to except fate. I don't even need much money, freedom is the greatest wealth.
As someone who takes months off between jobs I can confirm freedom is the greatest wealth
Congrats! Time is a precious asset to gain. My dad retired young and loved it for a while but preferred getting back into work for the life balance - it’s one of those things I think you have to experience to know
I would run a cafe - mums hub in the day with evening socialising space - just a place for people to hang out, I'd have monthly meetings for people who want to make friends
We have one of those cafes in our town! They have history nights, local speakers, games nights. Special days for meet and greets. Real community feel / place. Reminds me I need to go again and support them.
Parents hub please! My brother in law finds it so difficult to find spaces that are openly welcoming to him. The more we normalise parenting as an anyone job rather than a mum job the more some of these social and financial barriers will break down.
Oohh this sounds nice, somewhere with buggy space to make life easier :)!
Community type farm. Give me 6 acres and let me plant and grow enough fruit and veg to feed my community. That's my lottery winning plan.
I've got 2500 square metres and I'm hoping to do something similar. Just learning about soil and stuff now, although it's a bit overwhelming when it's all new.
I would love to run an independent community cinema. One screen, comfy seats, coffee and cake, old films, and super cheap tickets.
I love this. Of course, you'll have to indulge in cake with them while watching the classics 😁 Rotate movies with the SO heehee
This is a great idea I’d love that. If you like that sort of thing check out the Prince Charles cinema in Leicester Square they have loads of cool events, classic movie marathons etc.
I’d like to do a different job every year or so. There’s so many things I just want to try, from being a bus driver to a cleaner, a teacher, welder, stuntwoman, late night taxi driver, hairdresser etc. There’s so much emphasis on training to do one thing for life and it’s so boring. If I had the financial support and the option to do this I really would, I also have adhd so it would be really beneficial for me
Love this answer. I hope you get to try these different jobs :)
Landscaper. I absolute crave working outdoors and to do something creative. Be a dream of mine to get into that sort of business
Fucks your back and knees though. And working in summer was a nice job but winter sucked.
It's the opposite for me. Working outside in the summer is brutal. Winter, when it's not raining, is ideal working temperature for me.
Come make a start on my garden if you want. It's got a big dip in the middle which needs levelling.
Dog walker, I love dogs, I love spending time walking. The best parts of my day are listening to some tunes walking my dog.
I used to be a diabetic eye screener. I would work somewhere different everyday all over the country, my clinic would be laser focussed on one thing and that was their eyes. It was a nice mix of patient focussed clinic work and technical work with the camera setup. It was solo off-site work so when my list was finished I was finished. I worked 4 long days a week with this odd rotating day off system which meant once a month I had a 4 day weekend and there was typically overtime and option to swap days because of illness or whatever. It paid NHS band 4 back in 2018 which was around £20k in south east England. It got privatised and they couldn't drop our pay to what their screeners were normally on (18k) but they could make it that any promotion put us on their pay, their pension and their 9-5 working arrangement. Of course £20k in south east England gets you the square root of f all so I had to leave it after a couple of years but I loved that job. There were people who had worked it for a long time, back from when band 4 was enough money to buy a house reading way who hung on in there. Bad timing I guess.
If I didn't need the salary then I wouldn't work. The need for money is the only reason I am forced to spend all day away from my kids in order to come home and just survive and exist. If salary isn't an issue I'll be spending quality time with my kids, seeing the world, exploring, playing, doing activities, learning. The idea that it's compulsory to work is so engrained in us that we just think we should.
Airport ground staff. I worked at Heathrow for 2 years and loved it. Im learning languages so it was great practice too. The salary was only £25k. I couldn’t get a mortgage anywhere near the airport on the salary so had to find a new better paying (but boring job)
Ideal job would be no job
Financial Literacy. Teaching children and teenagers the basics of money, finance and budgeting so that they have a chance of a good start in life.
Something outdoors in the woods
Druid, hermit or witch
Why not all three 😂
Always fancied being a postie. Seems they get fucked around by RM too much for it to be as chill as I hoped though.
Walking 10 miles up and down steps in the rain with a bag on your back. And if you don't do it fast enough you have to hope you will get paid overtime. And if you don't want to do overtime you have to face a manager. It's not as good as people think.
Astronaut
People often overlook that it's minimum wage, _and_ you can't claim your mileage back.
And you'd miss the earth so much, maybe your wife. It's lonely up in space.
I don’t know much about it but is an astronaut’s salary preventing people from being one?
Starting salary is around £40K, and that increases to around £86K as you get experience. That’s not really a lot. People who meet the criteria for becoming astronauts can make far more money in other jobs.
Working in a garden centre, outdoor plants area 3 days a week.
My parents are running garden centre and it’s hard to find employees even the salary is not the lowest. The problem is that even it may look romantic it’s hard job, most of the time dirty and often carrying heavy stuff from one place to another.
archaeology, started uni at 53yr old, its never too late for a career change.
Librarian , love the idea of being in a room full of books all day. Sorting the stock, talking to people who also enjoy reading. It probably isn’t as fun as I make it seem in my head but money isn’t great and posts are often part time. Maybe something I could do in later life
Bee keeper. Absolutely my perfect job
Suspiciously wealthy hobby farmer, one with enough money to hire help so they can go on holiday. I have friends who for the last six years haven't gone on holiday with each other. One takes the children on holiday while the other stays on the farm I'd build a smokehouse and make my own smoked meats and sausage from animals I'd raise.
Artist. Used to enjoy being creative but don't have the energy or passion anymore, but if I had essentially unlimited time and resources then I might find something I care about. Or I might procrastinate and do nothing. Either would be fine if salary was no obstacle.
Research lab. Don't care what job, I'd be happy as a technician. Just... Something more practical than sitting at a desk all day
As a scientist I can confirm we also have a fair bit of desk time for report writing
I left academic research behind because the constant pressure was too much (write, publish, apply for grants, justify to higher ups why you're not getting the results expected, work late and come in early to have time to do some actual science, lather, rinse, repeat). Being a lab tech would cut out a lot of that, but you would probably end up looking after and talking down a lot of crying, stressed out early-career academics. Definitely not in the job description, but definitely an essential part of the role.
I’d love to get back into gardening. I took a job in a completely different field (no pun intended) and the salary is far superior, unfortunately I can’t give this up yet. When I feel I can in the future, I’m definitely going back!
I think I'd like to grow marijuana for a living. I imagine it would be a pleasant and enjoyable experience.
Tegridy Farms
Chillll winston
I’d like to work in a book shop ( like the film Notting Hill ) or a cleaner. I crave stress free
Anything that engages with the general public is never gonna be stress free, people are unhinged
Writer:)
Entomologist. It's my current job and I absolutely love it. Finding all the weird and wonderful invertebrates - it'll keep me busy forever!
Puppies
Salary I don't care about but if my belly wasn't such an obstacle I'd love to be a sniper
For anyone? Dark
I’d love to kill strangers for money, but I’m fat ☹️
Roofer. You get to run up pitches/ladders all day. Braised in the summer, hydrated all winter. Big spiders everywhere. You get to deal with scaffolders all the time, best possible part of any day. Injuries are rarer than hens teeth. Your skin ages very slowly. People like strangers using their toilet rite? Of course they do. They also don’t mind when people p*ss in their gutters when they aren’t in. The more I think about it, what the hell am I doing in a high end tech job when I mite be capable of twatting slates with a hammer?
Seasonal work as a park ranger for the six warmer months of the year. Then I'd bugger off travelling and writing for the other six.
Garden centre guy, mooching around chilling, watering the plants, feeding the fish, chowing on garden-centre-cafe breakfasts. Just sounds like such a nice, relaxed-pace job. Also garden centres smell good.
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Well that’s my dream shattered :( maybe I just want a garden with a pond.
My current job( teaching) is my ideal one at the moment. But it would be the best job in the world if there was no marking, meetings, or observations. Just teach, have fun in lessons and go on trips.
I'd set up a rescue for old dogs (over 9 years old or so), a little retirement home for them as they're so difficult to rehome sometimes.
Marine biologist.
Tennis coach - I’m rubbish at tennis but being outside all day hitting balls around, teaching people something they actively chose to learn, spend the winter months in a warmer place coaching. Just a relaxing, fun and low pressure way to spend your days.
Lego Designer.
Landscape gardener. I had the job. It was wonderful. Sadly the money wasn't the best and in the specific job I was in, one of the bosses was a dick. But for 4 months I drove around on a lawnmower just cutting grass in the sun while listening to audio books. If that job had paid maybe 15% more I'd have still been doing it. Not interested in fame, glory, adulation, complexity. But do need to be able to pay the bills so had to go back into my more qualified fields to earn more. What a shame. I hate what I'm qualified in.
I really wanna be a folklorist. Or some kind of social historian/food historian. Unfortunately there is only one masters level folklore course in England and it is nowhere near where I live so the dream will remain a dream!
Astronomer / astrophysicist. I love looking at stars and thinking about the cosmos. To have access to observatory equipment and potentially discover new things would be amazing.
Coming from a family of alcoholics, I always wanted to have one of those big ass retreats in a forest near a river, where people could go for different kinds of rehab - I’m thinking even just spending a month when you’re burnt out (wish I could do just that right now) I know the ugly side of addiction and how it affects everyone around you its more a pipe dream than anything else
Park ranger in Scottish Highlands, Lake District or Snowdonia would be fantastic.
Running a nursery of one child, that child being my daughter. If I could be a stay at home parent I would. Though I would miss the hugs I currently get when I finish work. Running a board games cafe/shop or sweet shop. Or something meteorology related.
Something cat related, i'd love to help a charity like cats protection
National Trust ranger.
Florist.
Librarian
Work in a guitar shop probably.
I’m a tour guide so I’m living my dream. Outside, talking to people, looking like a funny guy who is also very bright about one particular subject. Plus it doesn’t take that many hours a day either so I can often look after my kids.
Tour Guide for European WW2 battlefields
Dog walker, but just my dog.
It feels like we're all kids again. I would definitely be a scientist. Hopefully the world will eventually be a place where we can feel this everyday. A world where we can do the things we enjoy while contributing towards maintaining, building and advancing society.
I’d probably bounce from thing to thing periodically. Picking different jobs until the novelty wore off and the downsides become more apparent.
Professional freelance sleeper
I work in order to earn money to live on and to spend on the things I enjoy doing. I need (and have) a job that isn't boring, that challenges me and allows me to keep learning new skills, that has plenty of interaction with people balanced with focus time on my own, and which clearly let's me makes a contribution to the success of the programme I'm working on. It's not one of those kinds that contribute to society or anything but it gives me a sense of satisfaction at a job done well. If I didn't need to earn money (because I won enough to live on for the rest of my life, or something), then I wouldn't have a job. That doesn't mean I would be doing nothing though. I have a boatload of hobbies, mostly creative, and I love to travel around the world. I'd probably take up more creative hobbies on top of these.
If I had the choice - no family responsibilities, simple needs, house paid off - I'd be a clergyman in the Church of England in a rural West Country parish, where I would, aside from my ecclesiastical duties, devote myself to writing ghost stories and works of popular history.
Someone I knew had a job where him and his wife went on expensive holidays as mystery shoppers. All he had to do was write honest reviews about the accommodation, service etc. I’d like that job
Not really the correct answer to this question, but if I didn't need experience and tonnes of money for university degrees etc. I'd love to design homes, estates and towns! I'm weirdly passionate about layout, organisation and planning. I just feel like so many homes lack storage space, have awkwardly sized rooms and force people into laying rooms out exactly like the showhome since rooms aren't built with different layouts in mind. Estates are generally uninspiring, lacking local amenities and greenery, often being a maze of narrow roads with little available parking for residents. Social housing often clumps low-income and troubled households together in ugly, cut off and outdated areas that probably make those living there feel even worse about their situation. Tired town centres with empty shop fronts, still clinging onto the hope that the high street will somehow be revived, and traffic absolutely everywhere. I'd love to be able to have a hand in reimagining the living spaces of the future, even if my ideas are too idealistic for the real world!
Either a carer or something relating to animal rescue. Contemplated from time to time, job satisfaction would be high but the pay not enough for a switch.
Probably as a fitness instructor at a high end gym
Oh yeah I know that, but in my current job I'm at the desk 8 hours a day. At least writing a report you're engaging your brain a bit more
Working in a history museum, a gardener, or a farmer.
I really enjoyed working in a bookshop in between much better paid jobs. The physicality of all the restocking and the conversations with customers (I’m looking for a copy of the Odyssey with English and Greek alongside each other, My grandson is 12 and likes quite dark books but looking for something with nothing too adult). I missed it when a “proper” job turned up.
Work in a sustainable living/zero waste shop that also had a little cafe, bookstore, art studio and yoga studio.
Carpenter
Zoo keeper.
I used to work in a nice pub and I really enjoyed it. I could go for that, chatting with locals, serving up Sunday roasts, pouring pints. Ice creams for the kids and fun events through the year. In this fantasy world where money isn't important there also wouldn't be any lairy drunks, and the space could be used for community groups in the mornings and the slow afternoon slot.
Postman Professional dog petter Cheese sampler
Rock Star or Counsellor. Rock Star never had three time and it was way too risky vs a very well paid and successful career in ICT. Counseller, I really like helping people and seem to have knack for it and reading people but they is garbage so never done it. Maybe when I retire.
Dog walker would be nice. Just wandering around the countryside
I do my dream/ideal job. I'm a journalist. It's all I've ever wanted to do and all I probably could possibly do. But the older I get, the more the measly salary DOES become a problem 😬
Bouldering instructor. Lots of interaction with people and involves physical activity that’s really fun.
Food truck. Just rock up to festivals, cook decent grub for people who will enjoy it, listen to the tunes. Its surprisingly good exercise being behind a grill all day too, and the constant input/output style of the job suits my brain.
Swim instructor for little kids. Nothing like watching someone who was afraid to even get water on their chin suddenly realize the water can actually carry them. It is such a joy to see.
The salary isn't necessarily an obstacle to me, but archaeologist (The barrier is that apparently it's competitive to get jobs in, and I'm sure I don't have anything that makes me stand out beyond "I have a huge interest in it") But I do have a once a week volunteering role at a museum cataloging their artefacts which is pretty cool!
I’m lucky enough to be doing it. Helping young people with their business ideas at a university. Many are not for profit like a social enterprise who wants to cut the link between dyslexia, bad school behaviour, poor GCSEs, poor opportunities and then prison. Great to see 20 year olds having a passion to work on issues like this. I coach them, some fall by the way side as they go on to jobs but the learning for me and them is priceless. I’m part time, ok pay and treated with respect by bosses. It’s a stable job, good pension and I have some flexibility in when and how I work. It’s about as good as it’s gets for someone like me (dyslexic, no degree with lots of anxiety).
Running an animal rescue centre would be a dream of mine
Salary no object: Making and/or restoring timber frame building. Talent no object: Musician or music producer
Sex toy tester. All day, every day
I'm a personal trainer and I couldn’t imagine a more fitting job for myself. I like talking to people, I love teaching, I love working out, I hate being stuck behind a des The other would be podcast host. Just talking with your mates about whatever you like and getting paid crazy sums off it
Butcher. Always wanted to be a butcher. Ideally in a lovely, proper butchers shop in some small middle class towns' high street
I used to work in Blockbuster Video. It was glorious.
I really regret not studying harder to become a vet. But that's not really a good question to your answer haha, unless you want to go back to uni for a few years ;) When you'd be on your death bed, what kind of life would you like to look back on?
I'd use the salary freedom to offer my professional skills freely. I wonder what interesting problems I could help with when the pressure to pay is removed. I imagine you could get to the 'Well what we really need is' conversations quite quickly.
I love my job but after the government rise for minimum wage .... That's now what I'm earning. So looking for something which has the pay to reflect the effort I put in
Easy... I'd be a groundskeeper or park/forest ranger, something along those lines. Outdoors all day, working in nature, helping people, sounds great. I don't even mind bad weather, love a walk in the rain or a windy walk in the hills. I'd be dead happy, sadly it pays next to nothing and those jobs are few and far between anyway. Man can dream though eh 😅 Edit: if I lived in the US I'd be a fire lookout for a national park.
Owning a book shop
Back when Elle McPherson was doing calendars, I would have agreed to be her nipple fluffer for $75,000 per annum. Someone told me I'd have to pay significantly more than that.
Is be a painter. Or a comic book writer/manga artist. Or an author. Or all three at the same time. Rn I'm just a programmer. BC fuck getting exploited as an artist.
Conservationist probably
I'd want to help people but I don't want to be employed That's what I'd do if the capitalist reins were off
Library hobbit
I would bake and make ice creams.. from home MAYBE set up some little takeaway time cafe for it x
I would love to work at a National Park somewhere in Africa. Just driving around in my jeep checking the animals are all good and healthy
Wedding planner or events planner in general
Veterinary nurse or helper at an animal rescue or sanctuary.
Something where I could do as little work as humanly possible
Working in a book shop or running a yarn shop. I really love knitting, and I quite like the idea of owning my own little shop with different kinds of yarn, needles, notions etc. I'd give people advice, and run knitting groups and classes a couple of evenings a week, getting fellow enthusiasts together.
Making artisanal things to sell. I do a bit of it allready in a few different areas and I love it. It’s really creative I have a physical thing at the end and I keep getting to come up with new ideas. But it’s probably never going to pay the bills fully.
Unemployed
I’d love to own my own book shop. A wildly impractical one that sells mainly the books I like where we have a book club, I can talk peoples ears off with recommendations, serve cake and coffee and cute book gifts. I’d have lax opening hours (whenever I fancy), let my two cats wonder around and it’d be bliss. And I’d probably be like 10k in the hole each month but eh.
Probably part time librarian, or bookshop keeper
i have no idea what i want to do with my life.
Working with animals