Perfect Job

[Aηdy]

I heard today that "experts say your perfect job is a job you would do without getting paid". Do you believe there is such a job out there for you?

I don't think there is for me really, you need money to live! Actually I would build/restore cars for nothing :)

[IAMWILL]

I'm with you with the car thing, but I would like to engineer/test them. I would work for Koenigsegg for nothing!

You do need money to live though....

[Mzor203]

Hmm... Well, I would always work as a cook for free, if I had some other way to sustain myself.

[Gumleaf]

hmm, i've modded these forums for 1.5 years free of charge. this must be my chosen career lol :P

[bagman]

ya this is true. i would draw animations for free.

[nachtspiegel]

I'm honestly not sure.
This ties in to not being sure what I really want to do with my life.

[Requin]

No. In short. For people who love to help people in africa and here in charity shops etc and who love to do that...then maybe, but even then some of those get paid.

But for moi? No. But money doesn't bring you happines.

[Triceratops]

I would do anything creative for free, as I enjoy it so much. I would make one of those HUGEEE collages that people put up in cities without being paid. I would also tattoo someone for free, and do my absolute best on it.

Ohhh and I would definitely do charity work for free.

Haha come to think of it, I would do plenty of stuff for free.

[pokerface]

NO! NO! NO! NO! NO!
I'm not putting myself through four years of terribly hard work in International Baccalaureate to get into an Ivy League school and become a forensic psychiatrist. I have way too many goals (material wants and needs) to do that. I'm what you can call a brat, and I need to maintain my lifestyle. I don't want to do a job with under an $80k-$120k per year salary.

[ashy-bear]

To me, money is not that important. I know you need it to live and everything. But I want to work in childcare/early childhood and everyone is telling me not to do it because it's not high paying. But I try not to listen, because I love children and it's what I really want to do. I'd rather be happy in a job and not earn that much than not be happy and get lots of miney

[Patchy]

I would dj on a commercial station for nothing :)

Would still want a paying job too though ;)

[OnlyByTheNight.]

I would do any job relating to the human brain/human behaviour for free. I just love that stuff!

[INFERNO]

2 more years (or so) and I'm done my bachelor's, then masters and ph.d in neuroscience or forensic psychology... working for free? Hell no. I volunteered way back when but now, not a chance. I mean, you do all that education to get no money? Only an absolute moron would do that. Money obviously is able to get your the necessaties and plenty more, but is also able to get you power, although power can be obtained in other ways.

[MisterAndrews]

id teach in the 3rd world for free... not all the time obv, but for a year or so voluntary.

[Kaleidoscope Eyes]

I think there is. I'm really passionate about archaeology, it's what I want to do "when I grow up". I'm totally ok with the fact that I'll have to do a lot of crew work for free while I get my foot in the door, like as a student. I think I'll just be excited to be there. That's the kind of thing I'd still have fun with even if I didn't get paid.

Another thing I'd do for free, would be some service-project-type things. Teaching in a 3rd world country, like Adam said. Helping out in a soup kitchen. Habitat for Humanity. That sort of stuff.

And, Andy, I think the question is meant to be more hypothetical. Obviously, none of us would work for free if it meant having absolutely no money to live off of (if we could help it). I answered the question based on the assumption that I have enough money to get by on. Basically, is the job worth it to me to do it even if I wasn't being compensated? Would I enjoy the work, and not just be in it for the money?