I'd love to work as a person partaking in taking apart abadonned housing (or other buildings) in remote areas to free up space for nature.
I'd also love to be responsible for cleaning city center rivers. I always wanted to do it when I was taking a stroll by one of the Dublin's canals.
I have 0 clue how to get into it, but whenever I'd touch the topic, it appeared to my uneducated eyes that the industry may be quite nepotistic as in it appears to be mostly family businesses with jobs through connections, but maybe I perceived it wrong.
What's your unusual dream job?
General helper.
Need holes dug for pipes? I'll put in a few hours
Community kitchen need someone to cook or do dishes? I'll put in a few hours.
Just let me touch grass and do something tangibly helpful. Doesn't matter what. Move me around. Lemme try different things.
I want to work at the government Office of Whaddya-Need? where people come because they need help training their dog, or they need help moving across the country, or they need a leaking roof patched up, or they need someone to pick their kid up from soccer practice on Friday evenings, or they want to become a librarian and need career guidance, or they have limited mobility and just want someone to take them over to the lake and sit and chat. I want to be the person who helps to figure out how to get them the thing they need. For free of course, because it's a communist utopia.
I want to be that gruff-but-decent uncle-figure in the post-apocalypse who lives in a makeshift apartment on the mezzanine of an old warehouse full of machinery and tools. A low-key side role, the kind of guy that wannabe-heroes pay for equipment for their adventures, and who they sell their hauls to if they survive their salvage run.
if they survive their salvage run
"Dontcha ever want to be the hero?"
"No. I'm perfectly fine right here. And... good luck on your run out into the wastelands."
"I don't need luck."
Smiles. A few minutes later after they've gone he says to himself "Sure you do. Lots of it too."
Not really unusual but media archivist would be cool, be even cooler if I didn't have to go to school and get into debt to do it.
Converting suburban lawns into community gardens. By gunpoint, if necessary.
I want to work on the technical side of broadcast, radio or TV. It's a dying industry and it seems like most people's jobs will cease to exist when they retire, if not before.
I went to a NBA game last year and stole some seats right behind the broadcast cameras. Watching the camera operators set off my adhd hyperfocus and I ended up watching them more than the game. It'd be so cool to work that job or anything like it. They're really good at following the action and zooming in on reactions. Its so cool to see in person.
I want to install Linux/BSD/Plan9 on every computer in existence and help people/organizations migrate their data/programs so that it fits their use case. Doing custom development for them as necessary
“Idea guy”. People just come to me with issues, problems or opportunities. I brainstorm and just throw ideas at them. And I do nothing to implement or figure the ideas out. Just have ideas.
It’s my fake dream job ever since I was a kid.
tracking down random bullshit from really old books
i don't mean like indiana jones hijinks after valuable treasures, i mean like trying to find and catalogue old fruits, geological features, places the climate is allegedly nice or malarial. i want to fact-check old authors, basically. think that'd be fun and very definitely valuable to human culture
Just making shit for people...wood, metal, plastic. I try and do it as a hobby but I need money for a lot of the stuff
