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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I've always found this a weird concept. I don't dream about working, I don't want to work. Making any activity I enjoy a job will automatically destroy the enjoyment as I am now obligated to do it.

So no dream job here, just a dream to have enough money to live comfortably without needing a shitty job!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

OP answered that their dream job is cuddling with cats. I think you're taking the question too seriously.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I want to cuddle cats for a living.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I currently work as a developer because it’s something I could study on my own and have a good salary, if I didn’t have to worry about money I would choose to study medicine. The science is very interesting and you get to help people with the knowledge you get, seems like a win/win to me. But med school was expensive.

[–] BellyPurpledGerbil 3 points 1 month ago

I used to think it was making video games. And then my dreams were strangled by the game company I worked for at 21 and they made me watch. I also got sexually assaulted at work.

This world will take advantage of you and your passions. It will work you to death, pay you just enough to afford a meager apartment, and force you to smile through abuse. It will gaslight you into thinking your hard work will always be rewarded. And then it will discard you in your most vulnerable moment.

Dream jobs aren't real. You just get comfortable doing what you're good at in order to afford doing the things you actually dream about

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Can I get paid to eat?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Probably a mix of cleaning places, weeding, and refactoring sloppy source code.

[–] threelonmusketeers 1 points 1 month ago

I'd love to design new types of Rubik's cubes and other twisty puzzles.