Pastoring a medium sized rural congregation where money, insurance, crazy tax laws, etc... aren't an issue and I can just do my job.
If you are making 50K a month in oil lease income....imagine how much the OIL people are making! My dream job is 100% based off of lifestyle design. I'm pretty damn close to there right now.
Small biz. Great profit margins. Seasonal biz. My job is completely mobile and I could live anyplace. I see no benefit in making an additional 20% when it drives me crazy.
I love the job I am doing now.....a few years from now when I have earned my keep and learned the necessary skills I would like to be in a squad that hunts down the worst criminals in my area.
I wonder. I know quite a few trust fund kids that are miserable. Being able to hunt and take great vacations is fantastic when its a treat and something to look forward to when you work.
I already had one dream job. I own(ed) and operated a fishing and bear hunting camp in NW Ontario for 9 years. Being the owner was extremely stressful, but it was also a lot of fun. Making people's vacation dreams come true was an absolute blast. I got to meet a ton of great people and treat them as if they were friends, not just customers. The smiles on their faces when they killed their first bear or caught a **** ton of walleyes on a small lake in the middle of the bush after an 8 mile ATV ride was priceless. I don't miss the business part of it, but I do miss the people a ton. I gave it up and turned over the operations to my older brother a couple years ago because it didn't fit into our changing lifestyle with the young kids and them having to go to school. A couple years before we moved back here my wife started to attend online schooling to get her second degree, accounting. Online was the only way she could do it from up there, but it paid off. For the last two years I've been a stay at home dad so Jill could finish her degree, get experience and get her dream job as an accountant at the biggest accounting firm in our area. She has been doing it for just over a year and absolutely loves it. She's happier now than ever and I have been able to spend time with my kids that I never was able to while we were at camp. I was married to the place and the customers 16 hours a day 7 days a week. For the last couple years I've been trying to figure out what I wanted to do with my life, now. I started a clothing company, but really didn't enjoy it, so have since licensed the trademarks out to a larger company that can do more with it than I had the heart to put into it. If I wanted to, I could have found a place in the family businesses here (9, soon to be 10 grocery stores.) But, growing up around the business, I knew my heart wouldn't be in that either. About a year ago my older brother, who is now the President of the company since my dad retired, asked me to research some vegetable farming for our stores. Last year I test grew a few thousand pumpkins and about 30,000# of squash and loved it. We're currently in the process of buying a smaller hobby farm (38 acres) and I will be growing 30-40,000 pumpkins as well as 60,000# of squash this year. I'm also going to do some test plots on other crops this year to expand into over the next few years. This is becoming my second dream job, as I can work for myself seasonally, be around for my kids and also use the connections I have with the family business. I'm really looking forward to growing this business as I did the resort. Don't ever think that there isn't a dream job out there for you. Life is what you make of it and is too short to be stuck in a miserable position. We live in a great country where there is still lots of opportunity, if you put your mind to it.
I like this ill take it a step further and say I've always wanted to be a USMC Scout sniper or SWAT sniper at this point both are still on the table. Sent from my ADR6300 using Tapatalk 2
When I got out of college, I got an internship with a school for kids with severe behavior problems. I knew I loved the job, but couldnt live on $11-$12 per hour. That was 20 years ago, but if I ever "won the lottery" I would get back into this for sure. However, my job now is pretty good too. I am a troubleman for the local electric utility. From june through the end of august I basically have to work 80-100 hours a week, which is the downfall.
I would love to have Fitz job! I would give it a try in a second but couldnt get my wife to move away from her family
My dream job would be owning a business that takes up from 9-3 M-F max. Whats this Oil Lease people are talking about? Ive never heard about it in the NW
Good luck with that one. When you find that place let me know. We have tried for a year to get a cement slab poured!! RC
