Paying the Rent v. Dream Job

What's the job that pays the rent and what's the job that would fulfill (one of) your life's dreams?

Or

What's your dream job that makes you look forward to waking up each morning and what jobs paid the rent until you got the job you really wanted?

Pays the rent - Purchasing Administration, used to be graphics designer

Dream job - Physical Therapist and have my own practice.

Pays the bills (no rent, living with parent): Personal Banking Representative.

Dream Job: Would love to be an international DJ (real DJ, not lame radio people).

Farfetched?  Indeed.  But that's why it's called a "dream job" people.

Pays the Rent AND Dream Job - Working for a community to help maintain / better the water quality of it's streams and rivers :)

Actual Job - Working as a subcontractor to FEMA to keep FEMA floodplain maps updated :p

Pays the rent (BARELY) - Legal assistant in an Elder Law firm

Dream job - surgeon. (yes, I'm weird)

HK: Knowing where floodplains are is important.  So sayth one whose childhood town/county was just under a state of emergency last week and who knows several people who were affected by or narrowly missed the flooding in Central NY/Central PA last week.  I'm sure the Gulf Coast would agree.   

Pays the rent: Grantwriting/Event Planning/Fundraising at a non-profit nursing home/rehab center so it can continue to exist AND part time in a fabric store. 

Dream job: Trophy Wife/Kept woman.  :)  Kidding.  Grantwriting and/or Fiction author. 

No argument, beanie, it's important, but my job is BORING and I get hassled alot by people who don't like when we tell them they're not allowed to build what they want anyplace they want :p

When I first came to bloomsburg, it was all swamp. Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built in all the same, just to show them. It sank into the swamp. So I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So I built a third. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one stayed up.

PS - Floods SUCK!!!

hkellick, it sounds as though you have quite a lot of... power.

Is it an aphrodesiac? Do you get drunk on it?  =)

I want to be a trophy/kept wife too.............

Me? Drunk on power? No! Nev.. hold on...

LISTEN, DONALD! I TOLD YOU! YOU CAN'T BUILD A RESORT THERE! What.. a million? Why.. well.. maybe... but only for a billion. DONE!

... I'm sorry.. what was I saying?

Oh right, mostly we deal with smal things.. bridges, culverts, subdivisions, etc.
And I don't really have much power, I'm a cog in the great factory.. grinding away to the best of my ability.

Pays the bills: account specialist III at a large bank (glorified GL balancer)

dream job: If money was not the issue, I would love to restore muscle cars for a living! Take my time and make sure things are done right. Oh that would be so sweet! Come on lotto ticket, papa needs a new pair of everything!

Pays the rent   barely...  Legal Assistant/ Paralegal in PI firm

Dream Job:  Lawyer in a firm where I am full partner

Pays the rent (barely)-- residential treatment specialist at a children's residential psychiatric facility

Dream Job: College social psych professor or work in international aid travelling to Africa and Eastern Europe all the time (that'd be the best)

ooo-I vote for trophy wife!

I have a home daycare. Just about as far from trophy-wifing as is possible. :P

Ha!  I knew I wasn't the only one thinking that trophy wife/kept woman doesn't sound like a bad thing.  Heh heh heh. 

Sounds pretty damn good to me today  :)

Can I also join the I Wanna' Be a Kept Woman Club?  Sounds like vacation--every day! *sigh* ...as I look at my chipped manicure...

Pays the bills:  Lending money to large corporations/investment banking

Dream Job:  see above.

Pays the bills: Shop assistant at a grocery shop (only doing this part time while I'm still studying! - doesn't even pay the bills properly!)  

Dream Job: Professor/Novelist at prestigeous university, adored by men, admired by colleagues, cooler than cool. Like David Lodge if he lived in my head. Stinkin' rich.

Actually, I had this thought processs just yesterday. I nearly applied for this really cool job testing games localization for a big and great company, but it would have only paid 13k AND meant re-locating to Liverpool. For no matter how great the job sounded, I said no merely because of the money.

Kept woman HA! I want the means to "keep" a boy toy ... um uh... man yeah keep a man that?s it!

Job: college academics advisor

Dream: Civil Engineer

Pays the bills:  Student Service Specialist

Dream job:  I think it would be fun to be a travel agent.  I "play" internet travel agent for my friends and have a great time finding them vacation deals.