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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

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!

I want to cuddle cats for a living.

Being a reporter.

Nailed it.

Can I get paid to eat?

I currently get paid to do what I’d be doing if I were financially independent and didn’t need to work for a living. The only difference is that now I’m building and fixing things for other people - whereas in that alternative scenario, I’d be doing it for myself. I’m enjoying it nevertheless. Right now, I’m building a deck while enjoying the sun and listening to the birds sing. I’m also my own boss, which definitely helps.

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.

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

Anything without a boss breathing down my neck. I want to be told what needs to be done and when it needs to be done by, then leave me the fk alone to achieve that however I see fit.

As a kid already, my three dreams were music, writing, or game dev. I'm really over the rockstar thing, I wouldn't mind jamming in a band again but I don't think I'll look for success in that avenue again.

As far as writing goes, the state of 'journalism' and AI these days makes me almost glad I didn't get a career in it, and being a successful author seems like almost as much of a longshot as being a successful rockstar.

So these days my dream job is game dev. Something that I could put music and writing and art and any other creativity into at the same time. I don't want to make the next Skyrim. Goals for me are someone like the Stardew Valley dev that is now successful and can spend all his time working on his one love if he wants, or tinker with something new without any pressure, if he wants.