Some need purpose, problem-solving, some form of mental stimulation. Why I feel bad for pampered pets, the sheep dogs have a way more fulfilling life

 

Pilots can make very good money. 

My sister is a 777 Captain. When you near retirement on the big planes, they call it “dozing for dollars” as on long international trips some pilots are able to take a nap and get paid for it.

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 

Pilots also have the best social life. After Doctors the next most respected job. Get's you the 10s without needing to compensate with high financial damage.

 

Let me guess, you’ve not experienced the industry yet. You will not have any personal time/family life, believe me. No money can pay for that. Fuck that!

 

it's not like James Bond, the reality of being a secret service agent may be quite unglamorous (like having a simple and boring life in a foreign country just to look like a local and pass information to your home agency). But regardless, I would also go for the CIA. The training and things that one learns over there are priceless (pragmatic psychology, some combat sports, politics, foreign languages, history, cultures, etc.).

 

Special forces. And I know the absolute walls of text people respond to posts like this with, with comments like "you don't want to serve, you want to appear like you serve" and all of that jazz.

But for me, the truth is that it just seems incredibly challenging, rewarding, and interesting if you were to be on a spec ops team. I understand there's a lot of admin to it as well, but so does every job.

 
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Special forces. And I know the absolute walls of text people respond to posts like this with, with comments like "you don't want to serve, you want to appear like you serve" and all of that jazz.

But for me, the truth is that it just seems incredibly challenging, rewarding, and interesting if you were to be on a spec ops team. I understand there's a lot of admin to it as well, but so does every job.

This is what I wanted to do when 18 years old. I tried out and got pretty far in the pipeline, but then failed an academic test. I never quit though. Never ever quit.

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 

I worked as a backcountry park ranger during my summers before working in finance - I would give anything to go back

 

I worked as a backcountry park ranger during my summers before working in finance - I would give anything to go back

What is stopping you from going back right now?

“Bestow pardon for many things; seek pardon for none.”
 

National park ranger

My Dad (way retired) runs the half scale railway at the local zoo.  He's got the full striped getup and grew out a beard for the gig too.

The only difference between Asset Management and Investment Research is assets. I generally see somebody I know on TV on Bloomberg/CNBC etc. once or twice a week. This sounds cool, until I remind myself that I see somebody I know on ESPN five days a week.
 

Second this - few jobs where you get to learn about companies and industries like VC/PE, the problem is the people can make it suck realy bad

 
Funniest

Investment Banking. You really don't get it do you, beta cuck loser. I'm a sigma, I don't care about the money or prestige, all I love is the Hustle. 

 

Yeah high school history teacher + varsity coach. I think if money wasn’t a factor, this is a job that gives you the sense that you are doing something meaningful, having an effect on society and individuals, and also has pretty good wlb. Having winter, spring, summer break sounds fantastic.

 

Psychologist

What would you do as a psychologist? I’ve interned in the field and was doing Neuroimaging Analysis as well as clinical trials in new drugs for Alzheiemer’s/Dementia.

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 

Orchestra Conductor 

The important thing is never to let oneself be guided by the opinion of one's contemporaries; to continue steadfastly on one's way without letting oneself be either defeated by failure or diverted by applause.
 
Restless

CIA

Analyst or Operative?

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 

Law enforcement with jurisdiction on human/sex/child trafficking.

I would also do this in the private sector. 

“Bestow pardon for many things; seek pardon for none.”
 

Poker Player, 420 owner or grower, Psychiatrist, Gardener, or VC/PE/M&A.

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 

Too many interests to focus on one thing. Music, history, technology, public policy, "alternative" men's fashion, architecture, theology, cosmology, cute dogs, film, finance/economics, etc. Classic case of paralysis of choice. So even if I had $10 billion there is no one job that would be my "dream" job. I'd get bored with it and want to do something else. 

I actually think a lot of famous, hyper-successful people (not all, of course) aren't polymaths or persons with many interests. They're hyper-focused on certain topics and on achieving a specific goal. 

 

Fisherman, specifically in a remote location, probably somewhere tropical. Hard work yet a simple life, get a good tan, sustainable. Would love it. 

 

A baker or a butcher/heritage pork and beef breeder.

Quant (ˈkwänt) n: An expert, someone who knows more and more about less and less until they know everything about nothing.
 

One day it would be awesome to teach AP Micro/Macro/US History and coach a sport/help out with athlete strength training. Combines my interests with mentorship and improving lives while being able to witness the fruits of your labor rather than writing a check to XYZ organization.

 

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