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(, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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DG's post last night has got me thinking...
If you could do any job at all in the world, what would it be and why?

I think I'd still be doing all the jobs that I do but I'd do them with greater confidence - I'd have a huge reputation for being brilliant instead of a huge reputation for smiling and saying yes a lot.

You?
(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:20, 141 replies, latest was 16 years ago)
If we're talking impossible dreams
then an astronaut.

More achievable but still pretty much a non-starter, film director
(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:22, Reply)
I wouldn't be an astronaut.
I'm scared of heights.
(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:22, Reply)
How are you going to manage getting on the plane to come to the UK then? ;)

(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:25, Reply)
I'll try to have an Aisle seat where I can't see out the window, and sleep a lot.
Taking off and landing are the worst bits. And Turbulence.
(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:27, Reply)
I was on a flight once
that had a passenger in it with a phobia of flying. The air steward tried to calm her down by telling her about the hundreds and hundreds of plates and bolts that go into the wings. Apparently she was afraid of them falling off. I sat there thinking that telling this person that the wings were anything but solid was probably not the best way to go, psychologically.
(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:31, Reply)
Did you all line up to slap her
"Airplane" style
(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:35, Reply)
It's more knowing how far the ground is away from me I think.
I can't abseil or anything. I just get paralysed with fear and freeze.
(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:45, Reply)
Okay, so the astronaut is probably out of the question
but film director isn't.
Why is it a non-starter? There are plenty of obstacles in the way - not least of all that it's a job which pays zilch until you become Jane Campion - and I bet even she doesn't make as much as the average senior partner in an accountancy firm. But still....one life and all that...
(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:25, Reply)
it's not the money that deters me
but that I suspect I'd be rubbish. I'll just continue on writing, and hope to work my way up
(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:26, Reply)
I'd be writing story lines and plot for computer games
It's a VERY hard market to break in to though.
(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:26, Reply)
I used to like thinking about concepts for computer games rather than the story
I think every kid had dreamt of GTA before it was ever released. Nice that Rockstar done a good job of it..
(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:29, Reply)
Have you looked into the fan based remakes?
They're looking for people to help for free and some smaller publishers scout from there.
(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:31, Reply)
My brother used to be heavily involved in game modifications
quite easy to get into and some are pretty excellent and even make it big. Counter-strike I recall being a free mod..
(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:32, Reply)
Mod community is a good place to start as well.
Valve in particular hire from the modders.
(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:35, Reply)
S'good idea there dude
I shall have a look into that angle.
(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:34, Reply)
you should, you'd be ace at it.

(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:38, Reply)

ace shit

Then I can point and laugh and go HA look at the failure! And then I'd run you over with my car
(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:40, Reply)
one day
I'd like to restore old cars. Currently I'm being stopped by a lack of money to train, buy tools, buy cars to practice on and to buy houses with attendant garages to work in. Other than that, I'm bang on target.
(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:28, Reply)
I'd love to do this too
I also have a metric fuck ton of imperial tools
(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:30, Reply)
I have imperial and metric socket sets,
which is enough for most small things, but I'd love a fully equipped workshop.
(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:34, Reply)
Gaz me if you ever get round to it
then you can teach me, and I can go and do the Mongol Rally...
(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:37, Reply)
I'd love to do that

(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:39, Reply)
Ah, me too
with bells on. I think CHCB may have done it? My almost entire lack of knowledge of cars and engines and whatnot would hamper me somewhat though I think. Plus I don't know anyone batshit mental enough to do it with.
(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:43, Reply)
Me too!

(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:48, Reply)
Fighter pilot
but i'd have to call Kenny Loggins, coz i'd be in the DAAAANGER ZOOOOONE!
(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:28, Reply)
Although saying that, my job would basically be killing people
Killing people from a great hight and in a really cool way, but still killing people.
(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:34, Reply)
you could have been
The pilot of the 8 seater plane that took us over to the grenadines yesterday. It was like sitting in a battery! But he looked v cool in his uniform performing death defying stunts over mountains with us.
(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:41, Reply)
I do have a flight suit
but I turned it into a Ghostbusters costume
(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:45, Reply)
what would i have to do/pay
For you to post a picture???!!
(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:48, Reply)
I will try and get some
it was for a Halloween party a couple of years ago, loads of photos were taken (but not by me).

I made a proton excellerator as well. Didn't win "best costume" though, some arsehole dressed as Jack Sparrow did. Damn flash-in-the-pan idiots mutter mutter mutter...
(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:58, Reply)
this is sheer genius
Although I do have to admit to a secret soft spot for captain jack too, esp given ny current caribbean location, was on one of the boats and islands from the first film yesterday!
(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 12:10, Reply)
nobody cares.

(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 12:11, Reply)
Just to make it absolutely clear Rach
HE DOESN'T FANCY YOU
(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 12:15, Reply)
i agree with you
But for the avoidance of doubt, let's get him to spell it out... Chompy?
(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 12:21, Reply)
I DONT FANCY YOU

(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 12:23, Reply)
thanks for the clarification
we can all rest easier now
(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 12:24, Reply)
he is clearly lying

(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 12:28, Reply)
Woh', I'm pretty sure I just heard the sigh of releaf from here.

(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 12:38, Reply)
you're absolutely right gonz
It was more like a hurricane gust of happiness
(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 12:40, Reply)
I'll get in there before he does [in reply to me]....
"Yeah', it was from you, gonz, as you're no competition in this twisted game".
(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 12:42, Reply)
She's all yours dude.

(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 12:43, Reply)
wtf
Since when was I yours to give away? I'm not a fucking paperclip!
(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 12:45, Reply)
I don't think you understand the principle of selling things.

(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 12:46, Reply)
just because i would charge you a fortune
Does not mean I would not be free to gonz
(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 12:54, Reply)
Can you please
just shag one of them and get all this terrible tediousness over with?
(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 12:57, Reply)
Ha ha ha,
finally some sense.
(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 12:58, Reply)
aha
So you do adnit you'd do it! Change your sig please.
(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 13:13, Reply)
which one would you choose to do?

(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 13:03, Reply)
"Nonononono, I just leave my money on the side of the table every night, no, this doesn't constitute as an offer, as far as I was aware no money would be exchanged...
... and besides, you could at least double that if I was, that's around £68 pounds at least".

/alan partridge.
(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 12:58, Reply)
For the impossible dream a toss-up between a pro footballer and a musician
I don't think you can beat doing something amazing in front of a massive crowd. The winning goal in a cup final and all that. Man I scored a wonder goal in a local 7 a side match a few months back and there was actually a crowd of 20 or so people - best feeling ever.

Realistically though I kind of wish I pursued journalism because when I put my mind to it I'm an alright writer. So a football correspondent for a broadsheet would be amazing really.
(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:28, Reply)
^ This ^
or an assassin
(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:31, Reply)
i would quite enjoy being queen
I would be good at that
(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:37, Reply)

I one
(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 12:15, Reply)
I reckon I would quite like to do cooking for a living, or photography, or scuba diving (but not comercial diving), or a Shop Buyer for something I'm interested in like technology.
But I'll be honest with you, chickenlady, I just want a normal life, where I wake up and my guts don't cain and I go to work and complain about the tube to my collegues and then go out for 30 minute lunch break because I'm rushed off my feat and then I go home to my beutiful wife and lounge in front of the telly and then I cook something and she does the washing up (swapping every few days) and I have a labrador that I have to take out for a walk in the rain and then I go to bed and do it all again the next day.
(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:41, Reply)
This makes me want to cry

(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:45, Reply)
The spelling?
Yeah me too
(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:47, Reply)
Aw, soz, we all get a different set of cards, some of them are a bit shit, some of them are great.
Granted, there is a lot of OH WOE IS ME things, but in general it's quite good most of the time =)
(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:56, Reply)
Poignant

(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:46, Reply)
i think I'd like to be helping people not be sad or wankers
Like, a counsellor or a diversity trainer (I know that sounds ludicrous the way I bandy around words like 'mong' but I'd deep down like people to stop being small-minded)
(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:46, Reply)
I'd like to help people not be wankers by killing them with a hammer.

(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:54, Reply)
you'll then create a load of self-pitying self-righteous wankers in their families
and there'll be more people to kill.
Too messy.
(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:55, Reply)
It'll be a BIG hammer.

(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:56, Reply)
Stop that

(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:57, Reply)
Poor M.C WellGroomedMCHammer.
=(
(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:58, Reply)
:D

(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:58, Reply)
Have you heard of "Three Guys One Hammer" ?
It's the sickest thing I think is out there on the net, like seriously disturbing stuff.
(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:57, Reply)
I've had the misfortune of seeing
1 guy 1 cup (or jar) and also something about needles as well.. *shudder*
(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 12:13, Reply)
uggh one guy one jar
*bokes*
(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 12:17, Reply)
I didn't know what this was so I googled the description
I don't like execution videos. Well, obviously. Curiosity always nearly gets me but then I remember how I felt when someone tricked me into looking at rotten.com or whatever it was. I didn't watch Ken Bigley's murder or any of those videos, if I know they're real they massively upset me.
(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 12:20, Reply)
I got like half a second into it, as at the time there was no real descriptions out there, before I realised what was happening and closed it down.

(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 12:44, Reply)
I saw Saddam Husseins hanging
I felt physically sick.
(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 12:44, Reply)
Ohhh, I totally forgot, I'd like to be a theorpy-dog trainer, that's right at the top of my list.

(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:57, Reply)
Wassat?

(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:58, Reply)
You know how you can get guide-dogs and death-dogs and all that....
... well, you can get ones for theropy, like helping deal with depression, terminally-ill, anxiety, mentally challanged (etc) people, they just pet the dogs or learn how to look after them or even just look at them being dogs... and it helps them cope with the bad stuff in life.
(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 12:03, Reply)
That's lovely!
I swear my cat helped my dad's depression last time.
(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 12:03, Reply)
=)
I really do believe that animals have great mental healing powers, I don't mean in any sort of phsycic way or anything like that, but just in a way that makes you feel good. It's unconditional love, you put food on it's plate and take it out for walks and treat it right, and it'll show you an affection unlike anything else. You can tell them what you want and they won't tell anyone. It also helps you MTFU and take responciblity 'cus it doesn't matter how AWW DIDUMS you're feeling, you _have_ to look after it. It's better than having a kid in that department, because you can really fuck up an entire other human life if you're having the kid for that reason, which is beyond unfair.
(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 12:07, Reply)
I agree with all of this, although I reckon you can mess an animal's head up
My ex encouraged Tigger to be a bit wild and I wanted him to be more calm and less nervous.
He'd have been a more stable individual if it was down to me alone.
(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 12:15, Reply)
Oh'aye', I agree.
But on a theorpy animal basis, you see them for 30 minutes each day, or whatever, so you can't do any lasting damage, plus it's supervised, like you teach the dog to nussle at their hand as they recount horrific stuff to councilers, for example.
(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 12:22, Reply)
Awwwww

(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 12:22, Reply)
I can't wait 'till I eventually move onto my next place, with a garden, so I can do this as a job.

(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 12:25, Reply)
You'd bloody love that

(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 12:29, Reply)
I could not express in words how much I would
=D

In fact, I'm going to look up local collage courses this afternoon to see if I can get in on that.
(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 12:29, Reply)
This is a brilliant idea Gonz
It would suit you right down to the ground!
(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 13:23, Reply)
Death dogs
sound amazing..
(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 12:10, Reply)
As a first step you could give them some of my real ales. Get the dog's pissed and let all their inhibitions out.
I'll give you a discount.
(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 12:02, Reply)
I wouldn't do anything to potentially harm a dog.
I didn't realise there would be any monsters on here who would do that =/
(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 12:04, Reply)
Err, I wasn't being serious.

(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 12:15, Reply)
neither was he

(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 12:17, Reply)
Are you serious?

(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 12:18, Reply)
Yes

(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 12:18, Reply)
Sure?

(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 12:20, Reply)
nah I wasn't being serious at all

(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 12:21, Reply)
Deadly

(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 12:22, Reply)
Does this mean that I was being serious then?

(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 12:22, Reply)
srsly?

(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 12:37, Reply)
Oh god, I'm so confused.
=(
(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 12:38, Reply)
This is why I always right "srs?" when I mean seriously serious.

(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 12:38, Reply)
sorry, I'll try not to mess with your head in future.
It's only spelled srsly in New Zealand.
(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 12:47, Reply)
vowelless tools

(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 12:48, Reply)
Pot saying the kettle has a stupid accent.

(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 13:22, Reply)
Cuh! I feel right daft, now.

(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 12:23, Reply)
Diversity trainer?
I can't imagine you doing some of them back flips
(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 12:16, Reply)
Hahahah!!

(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 12:17, Reply)
lolz :D

(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 13:20, Reply)
Run a shop selling real ales and beers from around the world.
Probably with a small brewery attached.
(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:46, Reply)
Vagina tester

(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 11:52, Reply)
as good as that sounds
imagine the reality.
(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 12:05, Reply)
that reminds me of the dream job QOTW
where some guy said he wanted to be a gynaecologist until he realised he would only get to see the diseased ones.
(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 12:11, Reply)
Well.
I think we all know that I have something of a yearning for the stage, darlings. And I'd like to direct films - I'm hopefully shooting my first short film later on this year... Anybody wanna be an actor?

Other than that, I always wanted to be a pilot.
(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 12:03, Reply)
You KNOW I wanna be an actress
But you don't create roles for faded starlets
(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 12:06, Reply)
I think you'll find I did, actually.

(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 12:07, Reply)
When?

(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 12:10, Reply)
When I wrote the script.
That's the second time today that you've forgotten something I've told you before...
(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 12:14, Reply)
She was too young.
Or do you mean the mum :(
(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 12:16, Reply)
Neither.

(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 12:20, Reply)
Good on you
Got it
(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 12:22, Reply)
I wanted to be an actress
but I couldn't handle the uncertainty. I like food too much. I did omgdramaz at school and shit, but I didn't dare pursue it. I still can't believe how expensive it is trying to get into a drama school.
(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 12:10, Reply)
Ditto
But I think I was too hammy as a youth.
I reckon I might be able to act by now.
(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 12:11, Reply)
I'd quite like to be an extra, it looks fun
like acting without any pressure of actually being good haha
(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 12:22, Reply)
My grandad did that for years
We kept seeing him in films that we didn't know he was in.
(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 12:27, Reply)
haha that's win
I'd love to be surreptitiously turning up all over the place like Where's Wally.
(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 12:37, Reply)
My Grandpa was like Where's Bluto

(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 12:40, Reply)
I am a *deep breath* CLASSICALLY TRAINED AC-TOR.
But then, y'know, I finished drama school, and got a job to pay some bills, and six years later etc...
(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 12:15, Reply)
A couple of fortyish Shakespearean actors bump into each other on Shaftesbury Avenue.
They carry themselves well, and project reasonably forcefully while the following exchange takes place.

"Dear boy, how are you?"

"Oh, dear boy, not so bad." (They all talk like that, just ask DiT.)

"What are you up to these days?"

"Oh, a touch of rep here and there, nothing much. Yourself?"

"Lear at the National."

"I say, really? Money any good?"

"No, but real bread and cheese in the third act!"
(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 12:23, Reply)
I'd be shit at training
But I'd be good being just 'discovered' like that old scouse woman who just plays herself because she is an alky old slag.
(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 12:23, Reply)
If I can be a bad guy or villian I'm in.

(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 12:18, Reply)
I've said it before, but I'd like to be a blacksmith
not shoeing horses or any of that bollocks (yes I know that's a farrier).
(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 12:06, Reply)
You'd suit that

(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 12:06, Reply)
I think so :-)

(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 12:09, Reply)
...nah, but I told a donkey to fuck off once.

(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 12:24, Reply)
I loled when I heard about that.

(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 12:25, Reply)
one of my favourite jokes :-)

(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 12:29, Reply)
Oh, I was talking about saturday.

(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 12:30, Reply)
err...me too....

(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 12:32, Reply)
Heh, lol =)

(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 12:36, Reply)
Hahah.

(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 12:32, Reply)
I think I'd be a travel writer
or something like that so I could get paid to travel all over the world and see lots of different things. Either that or I'd own a bar on a tropical island. Mostly I just want to live somewhere beautiful and not be stuck in an office all bloody day.
(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 12:09, Reply)
This has started me thinking about what businesses might go together.
For instance, if you have an Ice Cream Parlour that's not as busy as you'd like, how might you diversify? Well as you've got a parlour and freezers why not make it "Bob's Ice Cream and Funeral Parlour". People need something to cheer them up after they have been to the funeral parlour, hence ready made customers for the ice cream.

Also how about a bakers/stone masons?
(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 12:41, Reply)
I'm working on Corsets & Cupcakes
however, you can't wear the former if you binge on the latter, so needs work.
(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 12:42, Reply)
But the latter can create the need for the former, surely?

(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 12:46, Reply)
Similarly RADA should also run courses on waiting tables.

(, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 12:45, Reply)

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