Dream Career/Profession

Doing what I'm doing now, running a business

Why? Worn down by corporate land mentality...

At least you can do your own books

I would love to run my own company doing something I love, or be within a job where I simply don

Same as Steve, Running my own company which I've been doing since 1989.
It's great that the buck stops with me, good and bad.

Hi everyone,
I am working from home and earning a handsome amount. I am happy with my work, because I have lots of spare time. In that time, I am searching forums and talk with different people, getting knowledge of different fields.
I am enjoying my work.

You're going to point and laugh at me, but I'd like to work in a library. I don't mean I'd like to be a librarian, nor do I mean I have some kind of romantic yet misguided idea that it would mean spending all day reading book after book after book (although wouldn't it be wonderful if it did!). I mean I'd like to work on the 'shop floor' in a public-facing role as a library assistant. Putting books back in the right places on the shelves. Going on hunts for books that haven't been put in the proper place. Helping people use the computers even when they're at the "mouse? what's that?" stage. Booking stock in and out. Managing a noticeboard of local events. Organising reading groups and children's events and suchlike.

Bookshop would also be good, but then there would be an employee discount and I'd need a bigger house.

I enjoy sorting out work / career problems (the people aspects, the analytical part, the imaginative leaps to find a solution that works and the pats on the back when clients feel I've helped them). To that extent my present career suits me well.

Self-employment also means I can have other "goodies" in my life (eg freedom to try anything I think I can do well, control over my time and space, no "office politics" to worry about, a dog, etc).

What I rarely have and really miss is the excitement of dealing with crises (eg preparing a defence for a tribunal case, finding alternative non strike bound ports for a deepwater ship carrying desperately needed raw goods and finding a replacement specialist tutor for the one who goes sick while presenting a course).

I'd also love to continue with the occasional corporate trouble-shooting I've done - working out what's happening in an organisation and how to put it right. I've done this on a voluntary basis recently - working out and reporting why the local authority so wilfully refused to see the problems it was letting everyone in for with a major development project - but it's not the kind of service I can sell.

I would love to retire early SO my dream job would be doing nothing

I'm living my dream. Even though I still work for in the corporate sector, it's what I have always wanted to do. I am a marketing team leader, and an artist, and it's kinda the best of two worlds for me because I can use my art and design talents in my work, and vice versa, (if I wanted to... but don't). I guess, for me its just really satisfying to see that my work makes a difference.

Why not? If you're good at it, then sounds like consultancy to me, I'd imagine it's pretty satisfying as well, especially fixing issues in the public sector.