What job would you want to do if money was no object?

[tasha99]

Activities director in a nursing home. When I was an SLP working in nursing homes, I coordinated with them a lot. It seemed like a wonderful job to me, but it doesn't pay anywhere near as much as speech therapy, so it wasn't a realistic switch.

 

[BadPinkTink]

Being a tour guide in a historic house. I love historic houses and love to take tours but always want to see what's behind the doors you can't go into or be in the house with no other tourists in it. I also love to talk and tell stories so perfect for me.

I used to have a summer job when I was a teenager working in a historic house in Ireland. The house was in the village where my grandmother lived and she was part of the volunteer team so when I visited her I went with her to work in the house. When I first started going to The Big House with my grandmother, it was before the House was open so we helped out getting rooms prepared for the tour, cleaning, moving furniture, sorting things etc etc. Then once the House was open to the public, my grandmother became a tour guide. I worked mostly either in the gift shop or taking the entrance money.

I have so many amazing memories of that time, I was part of something very unique but I didn't realize it at the time. Me and my sister basically had free reign all over The Big House, both in the public areas and behind the scenes. This was before mobile phones so we were the go fers, making tea for workers, bringing the dogs for walks, and all the little jobs that needed to be done, that today we would just use a mobile phone and call the person in another part of the building.

I loved knowing what was behind doors and areas that the public could not go. One of my favourite times of the day was either at the start of the day or the end of the day when there was no public in the House and it was just the workers.

 

[comicguy]

I would have a "farm" to give unwanted dogs a place to live

 

[TCRAIG]

I’d like to name new colors for a paint manufacturer.

 

[mrodgers]

If money were no object, I would choose not to have a job, lol. Isn't that why all/most of us work at all?

Indeed. I'd say my job would be retirement, something that is only a dream.

 

[MamaMermaid]

Librarian, museum curator, bookstore worker/owner, historical home tour guide/restorer.

Basically, anything with books and/or history.

 

[MillauFr]

A mortician

 

[Moliphino]

Work in a doggie daycare.

 

[BlueStarryHat]

Florist.

 

[DisneyHardin]

I'd probably just keep the job I have - a school librarian.

I have always thought I might like to be a Real Estate Agent.

 

[hhisc16]

DHHIR driver

 

[NMBCFangirl]

I wish I could go back to software QA. Had a blast doing it, was rewarding and interesting, but just didn't pay very well. Dream job if money were no object would be games QA which I only did a bit.

 

[bcla]

If money were no object, I would choose not to have a job, lol. Isn't that why all/most of us work at all?

I've heard of some people who had tons of money, but just took a part time job because it gave them a little satisfaction, and also because it came with medical insurance.

https://wtop.com/news/2013/03/forme...rks-as-crossing-guard-in-montgomery-co-video/​

“I could sit around the house. I could do that, I don’t want to do that,” he says.​

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Dantley says he took the job for the health care benefits and to have something to do. He says he doesn’t need the $14,685.50 annual salary, as listed in the Montgomery County civil service records.​

 

[BrianL]

I'd be a writer, preferably a comic book writer. and also the editor so I could make sure all storylines are to my liking.

 

[RUDisney]

I'd be a philanthropist. That's my dream job... having so much money that I can just help others.

 

[Colleen27]

If money were no object, I would choose not to have a job, lol. Isn't that why all/most of us work at all?

I think a lot of people - certainly not everyone, but many - need the purpose and structure and socialization of a job just as much as they need the paycheck. So in a "money is no object" situation, those folks would gravitate toward choosing personally meaningful, low-stress work rather than to some version of early retirement. A super-early retirement is often better as a fantasy than as a reality, if only because it leaves a lot of hours to fill and is out-of-step enough with social norms as to be pretty isolating.

 

[Kathryn Merteuil]

Influencer

 

[MillauFr]

I would have a "farm" to give unwanted dogs a place to live

Just make sure you keep Michael Vick out of there.

 

[joyadrian7013]

I think a lot of people - certainly not everyone, but many - need the purpose and structure and socialization of a job just as much as they need the paycheck. So in a "money is no object" situation, those folks would gravitate toward choosing personally meaningful, low-stress work rather than to some version of early retirement. A super-early retirement is often better as a fantasy than as a reality, if only because it leaves a lot of hours to fill and is out-of-step enough with social norms as to be pretty isolating.

 

[kanerf]

Being a tour guide in a historic house. I love historic houses and love to take tours but always want to see what's behind the doors you can't go into or be in the house with no other tourists in it. I also love to talk and tell stories so perfect for me.

I already do this part time. I am a docent (tour guide) at the Sully Historic Site close to Dulles airport.