Can I get paid to eat?
this post was submitted on 19 May 2025
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can someone just give me money? that would be my dream job. receiving money.
I currently work as a developer because it’s something I could study on my own and have a good salary, if I didn’t have to worry about money I would choose to study medicine. The science is very interesting and you get to help people with the knowledge you get, seems like a win/win to me. But med school was expensive.
I want to cuddle cats for a living.
so, rescue shelter, cat therapist
I've always found this a weird concept. I don't dream about working, I don't want to work. Making any activity I enjoy a job will automatically destroy the enjoyment as I am now obligated to do it.
So no dream job here, just a dream to have enough money to live comfortably without needing a shitty job!
OP answered that their dream job is cuddling with cats. I think you're taking the question too seriously.
the question means: if you could choose any job, including ones you’re not qualified for, and magically be qualified for it and have the job, what would you choose?
astronaut, for example…
Cool story but I knew what the question "meant" and answered it already.....
well pretending like you don’t know what it means because you read a tweet complaining about the idea of dream jobs and wanted to repeat that as your own observation is a very uncool story
What the fuck are you talking about? where is there a tweet in this post? Where am I "pretending" I don't know what the question means?
I stated clearly that I thought it was a weird concept but that doesn't constitute "pretending not to know" something.
I dunno if you are confused and responding to the wrong comment or something but either way jog on.
Oh I see, some random person "tweeted" the same opinion that I have and you just presumed that I couldn't possibly have formulated the same opinion as this person and then given said opinion in a relevant discussion thread elsewhere on the internet?
Well if that is what you want to think then, cool?
Cheers for letting me know so that in the future I can do a search to see if anyone else in history has independently formed the same opinion as me and expressed it in a public forum. I wouldn't want to look like such an idiot again!
My saviour!
like you haven’t already seen that a million times.
my main point is: pretending like you don’t understand the question and taking everything extremely literally isn’t deep or clever.
the fact that you’re repeating someone else’s argument just makes it lame
Ah yes the assumption that because you have seen something many times, everyone must have!
There was no pretending to not understand the question either, I literally answered the question with my opinion.
Either way this conversation isn't going to go anywhere because you immediately made so many assumptions reading my first response that you decided then and there who is was, my experiences in life and how I'm trying to be so "clever" or some other shit.
Have a good day man!
my main point is: pretending like you don’t understand the question and taking everything extremely literally isn’t deep or clever.
I currently get paid to do what I’d be doing if I were financially independent and didn’t need to work for a living. The only difference is that now I’m building and fixing things for other people - whereas in that alternative scenario, I’d be doing it for myself. I’m enjoying it nevertheless. Right now, I’m building a deck while enjoying the sun and listening to the birds sing. I’m also my own boss, which definitely helps.
I'd love to design new types of Rubik's cubes and other twisty puzzles.
Anything without a boss breathing down my neck. I want to be told what needs to be done and when it needs to be done by, then leave me the fk alone to achieve that however I see fit.
As a kid already, my three dreams were music, writing, or game dev. I'm really over the rockstar thing, I wouldn't mind jamming in a band again but I don't think I'll look for success in that avenue again.
As far as writing goes, the state of 'journalism' and AI these days makes me almost glad I didn't get a career in it, and being a successful author seems like almost as much of a longshot as being a successful rockstar.
So these days my dream job is game dev. Something that I could put music and writing and art and any other creativity into at the same time. I don't want to make the next Skyrim. Goals for me are someone like the Stardew Valley dev that is now successful and can spend all his time working on his one love if he wants, or tinker with something new without any pressure, if he wants.