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What's the dream job you have when you are already working in your dream job?
You know, you thought for yourself for years "when I grow up, I want to be a..." or you slogged through who knows how many other jobs trying to work out what was the right career for you, thinking all the time "I really wish I could be..." — and then, somehow, you pulled it off, and actually got the "dream job".
But after a while it just became your day-to-day reality, and you became better acquainted with it's problems and imperfections. Maybe you're over it. Perhaps you still don't mind the job, or perhaps you still love it and fully expect to be here until you retire, but people being what they are, you still wonder if the grass is greener in another pasture. You've been here, done this, and there might be new horizons for you.
When you fantasize about doing a job that's not this job (which you thought would be The One), what do you dream of being?
Being a librarian is my dream job, and sometimes I'm still perfectly happy here, but sometimes (more and more frequently as the years pass) I yearn to be something else, somewhere else.
I used to think I wanted to own and run a bookshop cafe, but I know too many people who have owned either a bookshop or a cafe, and I know that's just a bucket of pain waiting to smother your hopes and dreams.
So for a little while now, my "dream job" has been groundskeeper.
I just want to mow lawns, weed garden beds, shovel horse poop around the base of plants and generally make things look nice in an estate somewhere. I don't know what kind of a... ah... poop show the job actually is when you do it, but I have a deep yearning to stop looking at a computer all day every day and just take care of things that need taking care of in the outdoors. I want to keep some grounds.
Sometimes I get fancy and think I might want to be an estate manager which, as I understand it, is a bit of a cross between the old Groundskeeper and Housekeeper roles from days of yore (when Grand Estates had a entire team of groundsmen under the groundskeeper and "staff" under the housekeeper). But I'm not sure I'm up for that kind of responsibility. Groundsman is probably more my speed. Let me shovel the poop and be happy.
Has anyone got an estate looking for a poop shoveler?
