Or both...he lived the dream:
Posted on 01/26/2007 2:07:25 PM PST by shrinkermd
More than four out of five U.S. workers do not have their dream jobs, which most people describe as work that is fun, according to a survey released on Thursday.
Salary was one of the least important requirements of a dream job, cited by just 12 percent of respondents in the survey by CareerBuilder.com, an online job site, and The Walt Disney Co , which is holding a contest in which winners can get a chance to work at a Disney theme park job for a day.
...Fields with the least number of workers with dream jobs were accommodations and food services at 9 percent, manufacturing at 9 percent and retail at 10 percent.
Among major U.S. cities, workers in Boston had the highest incidence of feeling they have their dream jobs, at 37 percent, followed by Sacramento at 26 percent, San Francisco at 23 percent, Philadelphia at 22 percent, Salt Lake City at 20 percent, and Dallas and Portland, both at 19 percent.
...Asked what they had wanted to be as adults when they were children, 22 percent of people surveyed said firefighter, 17 percent said princess and 16 percent said professional dancer. An equal number of people -- 14 percent -- wanted to be cowboy or president.
(Excerpt) Read more at yahoo.reuters.com ...
A profound piece, veiling a cadence of 1 Corinthians 13 from the New Testament, and the disposition of the servants heart.
I'm a firefighter that runs a sideline photography business. Two dreamjobs.
Thanks for the post Gorzaloon.
When are people going to realize that you can't always get everything you want in life?
Haven't found a guarantee of a dream job in either the Holy Bible or the Constitution; and, the Declaration of Independence only states as an unalienable right the pursuit of happiness, not happiness itself.
A pleasure to finally remember it this far into the thread of posts. Gibran comes and goes, and had a big revival in the '70's.
His writings made a big difference to many aspects of my life.
To those who have not read him, websearch "Gibran on Love" and "Gibran on Friendship", or, better yet, pick up "The Prophet". There are copies everywhere in used bookshops, online, etc.
this can be for some people, but not all... and that can be fine... we don't all have to take what we most enjoy and make a living out of that... but we can still find joy in our work... and it may be that certain aspects of a job bring joy--(working with people, working alone, being outdoors, traveling, etc.)... it just may be taking pride in doing a job well... The Practice of The Presence of God (or Practicing God's Presence) by Brother Lawrence is a good source to learn more about that type of attitude...
i do agree that whenever people can forge work out of what they most enjoy, then that can be the ultimate... but even that takes the right attitude... some people do pursue careers doing what they most enjoy and are still miserable... maybe due to burnout, no margin in their lives, ungrateful attitudes...
people can live joy-filled lives doing work that they find okay, fine enough, an okay job that pays well, a job with good hours... and pursue what brings them most joy in their leisure...
Especially the guy who went from being a coal miner to a furniture salesman.
Show me a piano falling down a mine shaft and I'll show
you A-flat miner.
You could change your screen name to something unpronounceable; would that help?
Thank you for that beautiful passage. I read "The Prophet" while in college and you just reminded me that I need to read it again.
Hi Conan!
I, too, have my dream job as a professor at a school of library and information science. Of course, it only took my 5 years of working on the PhD to get it. People seem to think dream jobs should just fall into their laps. You have to work to get them, but it sure is sweet when it all falls into place!
Or both...he lived the dream:
I wanna work quality control in a cathouse.
Doctors and investments. Years ago, before the cartels, I was told by a drug crimes investigator that when they found a well organized drug ring the moneymen were "doctors, always doctors". At the time one in five commercial pilots in Arizona was running the border. I also watched a group of doctors put $14 million into a 'dirty' scheme. High profits, no taxes. They lost it all.
Cause of death: Steinway & Sons
thank you!
When I had first read it, one of my "dream jobs" had evaporated, I had just bought my "Dream House", was laid off, and was working in an unheated machine shop that was in the rear of an Amoco station. We were expected to run outside in the middle of a cut and pump gas. The cheap Yankee who ran the place was using drain oil for cutting, etc. It was rock bottom.
Every once in a while, I forget that it was the jobs I hated, not the work, and the passage reminds me of that. Chemist or not, I love to run a lathe and miller and do a good job. I still do, in my garage, and take pride in my work, whether it's a monel cannon for a friend's boat, or a silly stainless adapter to fit a bird feeder.
However, nothing has ever made me like the Quarterly paperwork. "Work and love made visible" do not apply to the IRS, and I'll never be able to stretch Gibran that far!
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