Your fantasy job?

[Sejs]

Or a well-paid tester for video games and the like. That sounds almost too good.

Having done the video game tester bit, I can honestly tell you that it's not all that it's cracked up to be. Sure, playing video games for a living sounds great, but it's not as enjoyable as one might think. You're there to work, not to kick back and play the game however you want, at your own pace. The process typically involves doing the same section of a game over, and over, and over, and over, until you know every single pixel in your area on a first-name basis and you see various game scripts dance about in your head when you sleep.

Then the game designers burn off another ROM to fix the bugs that were found last time and you get to do it all over again. And typically you get to do all of this while keeping an eye on the game's release deadline.

 

[DaveMage]

My dream job?

Bra-fitting specialist for Victoria's Secret...

 

[Hida Bukkorosu]

my other dream job:

king of my own little island country, with talented advisors to delegate they day to day ruling to so i didn't have to do any actual work, i could just enjoy my harem of young beautiful concubines and game all day

 

[Turanil]

I'd be a writer. The third book in my award-winning series would be coming out in bookstores for Xmas, to coincide with the movie adaptation of the first. And I would celebrate by setting the first stone of the building to house "the first RPG Haven", my soon-to-be world-spanning RPG association.

Ditto.

I would be as successful, renown, and rich as Stephen King. All my science-fiction novels would sell 10 millions copies each, and all of them would happen in the same setting. Of course, there would be a d20 game for this campaign setting...

Someday, someday...

 

[Tinker Gnome]

Be a Biological Researcher working for some rich company that is making bio-weapons. BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!

....

Course as soon as the zombies showed up I would skip town. Or if I was one of them, I would come and eat Piratecat's brain. OR I could inject myself with the latest crazy virus and make myself into a big monster and rampage about.

Then there are the fungus men....

 

[Algolei]

I'd rather be a ninja.

Are you mad?!?! Have you learnt nothing from >>the Order of the Stick?!<<

 

[John Q. Mayhem]

I'd say either a really good teacher, or a classical fencing instructor.

 

[Blue_Kryptonite]

I sort of did one of my dreams already... part of the fifteen years mentioned in the other thread. My own lab, a stack of testing and project inboxes, an "Out" box. No one bothering me all day, gleefully breaking things, fixing what broke, inventing parts and writing software.

However, if my 10th grade plan had gone right:

After high school, I joined the Air Force and was not 4F. Afterwards, I played some AAA pro ball, finally getting picked up by the Mets. We made it to the world series, where despite our win, I sustained a career-ending injury. After rehab, I became a cop, then branched into the FBI. That old injury, though, blew out while I was solving a huge case. The book I wrote made me enough to live on forever, and I'm enjoying hosting my new series on Court TV.

 

[Cthulhu's Librarian]

Peace Corps Volunteer in the South Pacific, but I'd settle for Africa or South America.

Best job I ever really had was an Americorps Volunteer for a year. One whole year of hiking trails, building trails, and doing archeology research. I'd do it again in a heartbeat, if I didn't have a mortgage.

 

[Prince of Happiness]

Dream job #1: World travelling brawny barbarian swordsman in a beautiful and decadent world filled with scheming wizards and voluptuous concubines. CROM!!!

Honestly, it would be as as a musician. Maybe not mega-huge, but someone like Brian Eno who has relative obscurity so he can go shopping for groceries on his own but is considered a musical god who shifted the course of popular music in subtle, surprising ways. And make loads and loads of money doing that and producing records for mega bands (just like Eno did for Ultravox!, Devo, Talking Heads, David Bowie, and U2).

On a smaller and (maybe) more feasible scale, I'd love to run a small store dedicated to small-press fantasy and sci-fi publishers.

The ultimate would be: Yes, idle rich, living on some beautiful island in the Aegean surrounded by beautiful raven-haired women DMs. What work!