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just out of interest!

i already have my ideal job. I work in a blood transfusion lab crossmatching blood for peoples operations or trauma cases. great feeling when something you do can help save a life.

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The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits
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Just be ordinary and nothing special. Eat your food, move your bowels, pass water and when your'e tired go and lie down. The ignorant will laugh at me, but the wise will understand
Bruce Lee

I work as a nursing assistant on a busy emergency surgery ward and I can honestly say that I really love what I do.
Some days its bloody hard work but i never got the sense of satisfaction I do now when I worked in factories.
Doing my NVQ 2 now and plan to train as a nurse in a couple of years.

Kirsty

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Bit of a theme going here me thinks.
I (having now escaped the nhs) work from home for a mailing company but previously worked for nhs for 17yrs in the pathology labs.
I really enjoy working from home especially this time of year as unless we are really busy i can just say s*d it i'm going to garden for the day.

Debbie

I have the best job in the world - I grow veg !!!!

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British by birth
Scottish by the Grace of God

Blog updated Wednesday November 13th

Also work in NHS, assessments of mental health problems...

Advise them to get a lottie, a dog and grow veg!

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Mines not bad. I get to go to loads of our construction projects and there are loads of nursaries to visit

My Ideal job would be propagating ..... no not mucky movies, taking cuttings or planting seeds, I find this fascinating .....although come to think of it grief the stud .....

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Never be afraid to try something new.
Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark.
A large group of professionals built the Titanic

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I'm in IT, Problem Manager, just starting in that role, so it is, I guess, what I make it.

Ideal job, national lottery winner and allotment gardener.

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Sorry folks - you work to pay the bills wether you like it or not.

If as Peter would like to - you won the lottery the first thing 99% of us would do would be to tell them to stick it. You would ,you know you would and dont tell me different.
Ideal job - to be paid to travel round the world fishing (hey its my thing OK ). Failing that I'd be LJ's personal slave

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Et tū, quis es?

My job? Looking after Granny Dragon, 3 old dogs, New Bungalow and garden
My ideal job? See above Retirement is wonderful!

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It's not the growing old I mind but the growing stupid with it!

Ideal job... No work, sunny beach and something cool to drink. Is that counted as a job

But I really enjoy my job at the moment

There was a time when I just loved my work. (Nurse) . Everything changed in the system, job became impossible to do with any kind of satisfation. Moved into other management type jobs and hated them.
Retired ! Wonderful ! Couldn't even think about that world of madness now. Life's too short to spend all that time on things you don't enjoy.

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From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.

I have worked for myself for about 15 years, so probably totally incapable of getting another 'job' now. I love my work (publishing), but the pay could be better! Heck, I think my staff get paid more than me... A few less hours a week wouldn't go amiss, but still, there's nobody to tell me off for visiting the vine during working hours, so it has its compensations.

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Actually I wouldn't tell them to stick it. Mainly because the only people I could tell is myself and my partner. We're self employed and city escapees.

We build websites for film, tv, software and music companies and do quite a few charity jobs and general good causes, a few political sites too when they were trying to do something we felt the same way about. I couldn't give that up for the world. I love my job and I love most of my clients.

One thing I'll concede to you is there's some clients I'd tell to stick it and the be honest I've already done that without winning the lottery. Ah I see why I'm not rich yet... DOH.

I would like to have more time to spend gardening but I'm working on that and we both stopped work at 6pm on the dot and went and built a frame for my tomato growhouse. I don't mind the commute from the living room to the garden at all.

Ideal job would be exactly what I'm doing right now just being a bit better at it and making a bit more money, but then I'd probably feel guilty about how much I charge or something. I saw evening jobs in the local somerfield at over £7 an hour and suddenly felt very guilty about how much I can and sometimes do make, but then I did spend 10 years training so I guess that's kinda fair.

Besides money isn't everything. I worked out that if I owned land and my own home, and used solar, wind, hydro and geothermal energy I really wouldn't have to work that hard to exist in the way that I want.

So now I don't think about how much money I want, or what my perfect job is. Rather who I want to be around and what I want to be and be doing.

Try asking yourself that I was really surprised to find that I'm 50% there now whereas 3 years ago I was living in city hell.

So if money didn't matter what would you do? That's something that intrigues me as if money didn't matter people couldn't buy power or control etc.

So maybe I should be an anarchist, But I like order too much (that'll be the engineer in me

Angie

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Newbie gardener in Cumbria.
Just started my own website on gardening:

http://angie.weblobe.net/Gardening/

What a great post Vertangie. You've said it all. So many people know the price of everything and the value of nothing. Sounds as if you've got it all worked out for yourself.

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From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.

I used to love my job - I'm a teacher. I always said that if I turned into a cynic I'd quit. It took 10 years, and I won't be teaching for much longer.

Ideal job: something that pays the bills and doesn't require me to keep copious written records just to prove that I'm doing my job.

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no less than the trees and the stars;
you have a right to be here.
Max Ehrmann, Desiderata

blog: http://allyheebiejeebie.blogspot.com/ and my (basic!) page: http://www.allythegardener.co.uk/

I have my ideal jobs. I'm sort of retired from my previous lives, live in a wonderful part of the world, have an academic/genealogy research company which keeps me intellectually stimulated, edit an international genealogical journal, research and write articles and papers and then in the spring/summer/autumn get to grow veggies and fruit, 'cook and sow, make flowers grow and understand my pain' for those real Dylan afficianados.

Today I am 60. In 1983 I was diagnosed with a rare blood disorder, sort of leukaemia in reverse and given 5 years so every day is a bonus.

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TonyF, Dordogne 24220

I'm a Manager of a Halfords Superstore in Congleton, Cheshire, been with Halfords for 19 years, 16 as a Cycle Specialist (I got paid for playing with bikes, one of my hobbies!), 18months as a Deputy Manager and now been a Manager for 18months and things are going well! I enjoy a lot of my job, but it can be frustrating and stressful (but so can any job), but it does just about pay the bills!

Ideal job, hmm, I used to think being a Pilot was my dream job, I even had a PPL at the age of 17 (RAF Flying Scholarship) and went through the RAF Officer Training College at Cranwell at the age of 19 (I was too young really so didnt quite enjoy it as much as I thought I would, so left!).

Current dream jobs, given the money I'd love to take on a small holding, grow our own veg and food animals, but I know we'd not be able to make enough to pay a mortgage to do it, so unless we win the lottery I'm afraid the best I can hope for is to progress in my career with Halfords and reach a level that I can earn enough to one day retire to the countryside, prefferably sooner rather than later!

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Blessings
Suzanne (aka Mrs Dobby)

'Garden naked - get some colour in your cheeks'!

The Dobby's Pumpkin Patch - a blogspot work in progress!
Last updated 26th November2008 - more new piccies!

I enjoy my job (nurse) when I'm allowed to do it properly, hence still trying to find a job to allow me to move off the ward and do my job properly.

Ideal job - well Mr EB and I are working towards owning a complentary therapy school and clinic including making our own range of flower essences and other products (hence the growing).

Yes we'd also love to go for the small holding but would end up with a sort of retreat type thing as we'd end up combining it with the therapies. LOL!

congrats on becoming an Early Fruiter Mrs D - even if it is 40+ posts late.

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Bright Blessings
Earthbabe
If at first you don't succeed, open a bottle of wine.

Right now I'm a marketing manager, but given the opportunity I quite like the idea of running a small record shop - you know, something like in the film Hi Fidelity. That or running a buying/selling/hire shop for Volkswagen beetles and camper vans in Cornwall somewhere.

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A simple dude trying to grow veg.

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Unemployed at moment I am finding it difficult to get a job, I think my Age (58)has something to do with it.
On the bright side there is always my allotment to spend my time on.
My ideal job working for Cask Mark going round pubs "testing" beer(dream on sunshine)or working for a brewery in quality control!!!

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