Self employed entrepreneur in real estate.

Basically, I buy houses way below market value and sell them at market value. How I do this is complicated.

It's fun because I am in the process of building my business step by step and having a great time doing it. I work my own hours and have no boss. Within a few years I will have a business system that buys and sells homes without me being personally involved.

Plus, each transaction brings home quite a pretty penny.

Tarte

Canada933 Posts

April 13 2007 01:18 GMT

#22

Both !

(obviously i'll follow my dreams if possible..)

doedrikthe2nd

Sweden981 Posts

April 13 2007 01:24 GMT

#23

I want to be a music producer and produce the biggest hip hop artists, and also try to make something together with a friend of mine, who's a decent rapper and he's pretty good at writing lyrics aswell. I think it's a realistic goal because I know I'm talented enough, only question is if I'm ready to put in the effort that's needed.
I've had alot of dreams of what I'm going to be when I get older, and this is my latest. But this is the only time I've felt that I could really do this.

Tadzio

3340 Posts

April 13 2007 01:55 GMT

#24

Dream job is cartoonist. I'm old enough to have already settled on a realistic job, and it's no fun at all. I never really figured that whoring out my labor to make complete strangers rich would be so horrible. But in those moments when I have the opportunity and inclination to consider it, it feels rotten. It sucks that someone I don't know, and who undoubtedly lives much more comfortably than I do, gets to syphon away the fruits of my endeavors, and the only legal thing I can do about it is beg for a larger percentage of what my labor is worth (ask for a raise). But that's US capitalism for ya. Wage slavery, CEOs that write their own paycheck and stock spectulators who're gamblers at heart; meanwhile the wage slaves feed and fuel the whole system, doubling as underpaid, interchangable labor and the consumer market. The whole thing's pretty depressing.

I wanted to be a cartoonist because I wanted to make a living communicating exactly what I wanted to communicate in a way that people enjoyed enough to pay to see. Film and music you have to give other people creative input. Painting, sculpture and the other 1-man visual artforms are even more difficult to make a living with than cartooning, and by the nature of their mediums, any message you tell is going to be vague. Writing is pretty precise, but I'm not confident that I write well enough to tell a story that way, and self-publishing a novel seems to be a huge pipe-dream (writing novels, like working in the film or music industries, is being a creative wage slave).

At this point I'd consider it a "dreamjob" to be doing any manner of self-employed work. Earning exactly the amount of money that my labor is worth seems like a fantasy worth exploring, even if I don't communicate anything worthwhile whatsoever. Still, in the back of my brain I think about cartooning-- making comics and communicating to a sheet of paper words and images that an audience will eventually read.

rS.NonY

United States286 Posts

April 13 2007 02:12 GMT

#25

Professional track & field athlete. I'm training hard for a year to see if I can achieve the times I need to pursue it further. If I don't make it, I want to be a criminal defense lawyer. If my professional running career doesn't earn enough money to last my lifetime, I'd be happy going to law school in my 30's and becoming a lawyer then.

fbs

United Kingdom2476 Posts

April 13 2007 02:19 GMT

#26

Dream probably to be part of the Special Boat Service (SBS) - trained hard to join Royal Marines but forced to pull out with a back injury. Pay sucks anyway but it is obviously not a job you join for the money.

Phantom

Canada2151 Posts

April 13 2007 02:43 GMT

#27

if you guys get a job to just put food on plate, don't get kids either...they cost like tons of money...all that money could mean a lot of video games guys...

TheMusiC

United States1054 Posts

April 13 2007 04:29 GMT

#28

majoring in oboe performance and business at the university of texas next year.

whatever happens happens, i'll probably have my mind made up by grad school.

my dream is to play oboe and english horn professionally for a big symphony orchestra, but the path there is long and very financially unstable =P

infinity21

Canada6683 Posts

April 13 2007 04:36 GMT

#29

Actuary!

That's what I'm aiming for. I'm well on my way, too. I got accepted for Math and Business double degree at University of Waterloo and Wilfrid Laurier University. It pays well and it involves subjects I am good at and enjoy.

Any actuaries here?

Yogurt

United States4258 Posts

April 13 2007 04:43 GMT

#30

my dream job involves me doing absolutely nothing and getting paid for it

besides being an all-pro wide receiver =(

YoUr_KiLLeR

United States3420 Posts

April 13 2007 04:44 GMT

#31

On April 13 2007 13:36 infinity21 wrote:
Actuary!

That's what I'm aiming for. I'm well on my way, too. I got accepted for Math and Business double degree at University of Waterloo and Wilfrid Laurier University. It pays well and it involves subjects I am good at and enjoy.

Any actuaries here?

hi. i just started the major this year.

MathAreHard

United States74 Posts

April 13 2007 04:45 GMT

#32

racketeering would do it for me.
i want to be a boss ='[

Seraphim

United States4467 Posts

April 13 2007 04:48 GMT

#33

i want to become a pro-gamer but i know that's impossible

AmorVincitOmnia

Kenya3846 Posts

April 13 2007 04:48 GMT

#34

i want to do improv/stand up even if it means living in a cardboard box behind pizza hut for the rest of my life.

TehKris

Norway322 Posts

April 13 2007 04:52 GMT

#35

A dream job is a job where you are both excited about going to job, and it pays good.

infinity21

Canada6683 Posts

April 13 2007 04:57 GMT

#36

On April 13 2007 13:44 YoUr_KiLLeR wrote:

Show nested quote +

hi. i just started the major this year.

Awesome :D
How is it?

Rekrul

Korea (South)17174 Posts

April 13 2007 05:06 GMT

#37

i put food on my plate by crushing other ppls dreams

{CC}StealthBlue

United States41117 Posts

April 13 2007 05:43 GMT

#38

Basically I want to learn how to program but be a Historian and travel the world. That's it.

Pressure

7326 Posts

April 13 2007 05:55 GMT

#39

both

Chill

Calgary26003 Posts

April 13 2007 06:01 GMT

#40

http://www.blizzard.com/jobopp/designer-game-balance.shtml

Had a good run at it, twice :D
They never gave me feedback on why I didn't get it despite me asking several times. I suspect I gave the wrong impression by sending low salary expectations and didn't have enough new ideas, I mostly talked about changing the current ones.