"Real" Dream Job

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Jeff698

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So, there I was, at the end of a brutal day of single coverage. I'd just finished my last note and discharged my last patient.

Now, 6 months or so after finishing medical school and residency and accumulating tons of debt, I discovered my true dream job.

I'd be a nature photographer for National Geographic like this guy: http://michaelnicknichols.com/

My partner I just finished handing off to last night voted for opening a body shop and restoring old cars.

So, what would y'all do if money, debt, yada yada weren't holding you back?

Take care,
Jeff
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OK, real answer: Musician or high school chemistry teacher, preferably both.
 
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As I've said elsewhere on SDN, sports writer. If you can throw a few words together (I mean, if you have the gift, you do), you can be as nice or as much of an ******* as you want (case #1, Jerry Sullivan from the Buffalo News - in one word, unsavory), you can drink and smoke while you are doing it (and top-shelf stogies and liquor, not rotgut), and get to all the great events, to meet the athletes, and, even though they come or go, you don't. Free tickets, great trips, and the ego trip of your name in print. And you're writing about sports - not about "real life". A "bad day" is a loss for the team or a prospect. It's not about a house burning down, or 5 people killed on the interstate.
 
Community organizer :D

Actually, I'd be happy with travel photographer, supreme court justice, GM of a pro football team, or independently wealthy snowplow driver.
 
I would love to be an international correspondent / photojournalist... basically, I want to be Christiane Amanpour :)
 
I want to be Indiana Jones...

sans the aliens.
 
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Village/Country MD in a place with no paperwork, you can't get sued, all of the nurses are fit and do what you ask, I get paid in chickens, there is an infinite supply of scotch and women, both 18 and I only work one maybe 2 days a week.....I think they call it Thailand.
 
A nurse with my own chair built into my butt.
 
A mountain man.

Wake up, take a dip in the pond, nap in the hammock.

Go kill me a b'ar, tend the garden a little, take a nap in the feather bed.

Read a book by the fire, sleep for 10 hours at night.

No taxes, live off the land, shoot trespassers.

Maybe in 30 years when I can save enough to not have to eat wild-game every day if I don't want to.
 
Shortstop for the Red Sox. They need a shortstop.
 
Automotive journalist. Hands down. Travel + Cars + Writing = Sweetness.
 
Storm chaser +/- meteorologist. If I had thought of it before I spent 2 years as a pre-med, I might have done it instead.

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waMMMo-rAns[/YOUTUBE]
 
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Travel writer, novelist, or just plain ol' beach bum. Maybe a teacher. Who marries rich and gets to travel during the summer. Trophy wife.
 
Fighter pilot. "I wanna go fast."
 
Professional kiteboard instructor in Maui.
 
I'm not in residency yet. Hopefully I will be in a few months.

Dream job:

Graphic designer and/or soundtrack composer and/or writer for a mid-sized video game company: we get enough money to succeed and garner industry respect, but we aren't pigeonholed into pandering to the masses.

If I could see a sure-fire way to hit this dream, I'd leave medicine tomorrow.
 
College Football Commentator.
 
Short of being independently wealthy, my dream job(s) would be:

1. Travel photographer
2. Work for an NGO like IRC or IMC
3. History Teacher
 
pinbor1 said:
Short of being independently wealthy, my dream job(s) would be:

1. Travel photographer
2. Work for an NGO like IRC or IMC
3. History Teacher
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Pinbor1 - why can't you do #2 (and then #1 as a side thing)? Even if it's just part time/ periodically? I've met a number of docs (EM docs in particular) who do relief work - for some it's a full-time gig, but there are many who just go occasionally for a few months at a time so they can coordinate it with their regular job in the US.
 
Professional golfer. Even local club pro would be great if it just paid more.

National Ski Patrol.

Brewmaster for Budweiser; would actually craft a drinkable beer.
 
quideam said:
Pinbor1 - why can't you do #2 (and then #1 as a side thing)? Even if it's just part time/ periodically? I've met a number of docs (EM docs in particular) who do relief work - for some it's a full-time gig, but there are many who just go occasionally for a few months at a time so they can coordinate it with their regular job in the US.
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Quideam, I try to do all three. I do teach an international health research class for med students, then when I get the chance I try to get out to do some health systems work in Thailand, Haiti, and India. I just bought a new DSLR, perhaps I can make my dream come true!

I was planning on working for an NGO, but meeting the woman has changed plans a bit. And my current job doesn't give me as much time as I would like to go abroad.
 
pinbor1 said:
Quideam, I try to do all three. I do teach an international health research class for med students, then when I get the chance I try to get out to do some health systems work in Thailand, Haiti, and India. I just bought a new DSLR, perhaps I can make my dream come true!
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I too would like to have a Mercedes DSLR.
 
Used to say teacher, but when my girlfriend comes home everyday it reminds me that it still sucks. My dream jobs, in order of preference would be:

1- Professional athlete
2- Porn Star
3- Bartender
 
The more that I think about it, the more my original idea sounds sweet: a tenured professor of Ancient History at a university in a cool city, with a livable salary and always surrounded by smart, creative peeps. :thumbup:

pinbor1 +1
 
Jeff698 said:
So, there I was, at the end of a brutal day of single coverage. I'd just finished my last note and discharged my last patient.

Now, 6 months or so after finishing medical school and residency and accumulating tons of debt, I discovered my true dream job.

I'd be a nature photographer for National Geographic like this guy: http://michaelnicknichols.com/

My partner I just finished handing off to last night voted for opening a body shop and restoring old cars.

So, what would y'all do if money, debt, yada yada weren't holding you back?

Take care,
Jeff
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Thats why I love Emergency Medicine... don't we have time to do 'other things'? I prefer restoring 'newer' cars.... This ones almost done.

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The new Sanjay Gupta or a New York Times Science writer
 
1) Porn Producer
2) Scuba instructor (think Hank Azaria in Along Came Polly)
3) Senator/Misc Politician

I really gave the first a lot of thought before starting medical school. Alas... the choices that've been made. I'd still like to go into politics at some point. Scuba, who knows.
 
Gym owner somewhere sunny and warm - I'm a meathead at heart.
 
Old timey dream job:
Jarabacoa said:
A mountain man...
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Excellent choice.

40's dream job: Physicist when statistical and quantum mechanics were being developed, work on the Manhattan project, meet greats like Einstein, Bohr, Feinman, Oppenheimer, and others.

60's dream job: Apollo Astronaut - good chance to land on the moon, be a part of the real exploration phase of NASA.

Current dream job: clinician-scientist.
 
I'd write and play music most of the time, preferably in year-round 75-degree weather close to a body of water. When I wouldn't be doing the music thing, I'd travel the world eating fine cusine and really master card counting.
 
I second the National Geographic Photographer - you get to travel, be a wilderness man, take pictures, and get paid for it! Only downside is I'm sure it would be hard on family life...
 
I would like to be the dude that gets to spray all the bikini models down with water or oil....get them all shiney and wet for the photo shoot.

I also wouldn't mind being a stay at home Dad.

The journalist that gets to visit and write about the Worlds best beaches.
 
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