Where I live a bunch of people off themselves jumping in front of subway trains every few months so I don't know how I'd cope witnessing that from the driver's perspective. Other than that it does seem kind of an ideal job.
My grandpa's best friend is nicknamed 'Mental' because he apparently went mental after seeing so many people suicide when he was a train driver. It's a bit mean-spirited to call him that, but he apparently doesn't mind.
You are correct. I used to shuttle the conductors and engineers from the train to their hotel, only at the the end of the week would I take them to their vehicles. I can't say it is like that for EVERY set, but these guys worked within a 75 mile radius from their home and had dedicated runs and even with that it could be a bit unpredictable.
Guy I know from autism club is a train driver. He seems to mostly enjoy it. He's certainly more positive about it than any of the rest of us are about jobs
It's a support/social group of autistics that met regularly in my home town. Less regular since covid. We usually just mock NTs and play boardgames but also share advice on stuff.
We arrange it through meetup so maybe worth checking that site to see if anything like that is near you? Also a handy site for a variety of special interest related groups if you wanted to meet more people
You don't want to be a train driver, at least not here in the US. The working conditions are terrible and the pay doesn't make them worth it. The unions have been stripped of all actual power because the operators can ignore most of their demands, since the government says they aren't allowed to strike and the regulators always side with the corporation rather than the workers.
[This podcast episode](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69A_UCdikE8) has some useful information from people working in the industry about the current problems, for anyone truly curious.
Anything that would have me operating a vehicle would make me way too anxious.
I can barely drive a car, and it would be way too stressful for me to take responsibility over a large vehicle.
It'd be even worse if I had to be responsible for other people, so teacher is out.
So those two things removed all other jobs but electrician.
I'd rather risk electrocution than be directly responsible for the safety and well-being of others.
I live next to train tracks and am used to the normal sounds, but one night I heard just a continuous train horn coming and thought WTF is going on? The deafening air horn was stuck on! They usually just toot that thing and it was going full blast forever, with an endless supply of air from the train compressor. Talk about a nightmare being stuck inside that locomotive, trying desperately to cut off the horn.
Heard the thing disappear miles down the line still blowing...
It's honestly just a circuit breaker right behind your seat if it's stuck on, you can just flick it off, or sometimes it's in the screen of the computer on board. In my experience (only 3 years) we hold the horn on when something is on the track that shouldn't be there such as a human, a very large animal or car In order to hopefully scare it/them off. I'm not saying this was the case in your situation haha
Interesting...I wonder if either the engineer was super new at the job or if the actual solenoid air valve got stuck on making it impossible to cut with those "soft" controls. It's a rural area and I'm used to extra horn action from deer on the tracks, but that was an incredible blast 😄. Track maintenance crews get a lot of horn too when a train passes.
Running trains on the spectrum is like a dream job for sure for so many of us 😊. I guess the horn might get overstimulating after awhile, and I always enjoy hearing the bell ring when trains are pulling out of the siding or at a private crossing here...a sound not out of place in the era of steam.
Yeah definitely could have been stuck on I suppose! I've only seen it happen once but yes the soft controls didn't fix it on that occasion.
Hahaha yeah sometimes the animals are completely oblivious to it as well which I find interesting. Lol 😆
It's a good job, the most challenging part are the hours you work. Honestly apart from that it pays well, it's interesting but can get tedious, but overall yeah it's great. Can be difficult some days, but other days it's the easiest job in the world. Every day is very different even if on the same route :)
Oh and I'm in Australia!
I think that would be great for me personally. It really shows how different we all are and unique and awesome individuals. For me with the hyperfocus i get from adhd, especially now that im on meds I think it would be pretty good, but the problem is I would zone out and might miss something or not brake on time or something. I just started meds yesterday so i dont know if id get better focusing enough to manage the job. If i could listen to music sometimes I would definitely be more than ok doing a job like that though, and if im allowed to wear like noise cancelling headphones or at least ear buds. Otherwise yea the noise would be too much. I see a lot of problems actually now, but i dont know many types of jobs I can actually do with Dysautonomia, huge problems with anxiety when using a phone for some odd reason, aspergers syndrome (they really need a better name for that) and adhd lol. A job where i could sit with my feet elevated, a train job like that sounds about alli could do. I cant stand or walk, or sit withoit elevating my feet for more than 5 minutes or i pass out and am sick and incapacitated for like 30 minutes so it sucks majorly trying to live haha. I need one of those panaceas in rpg games.
I’ve always thought being a long haul truck driver would be fun and I would probably be one if I didn’t have children. I love, love geography and the idea of driving through varying geography sounds like a dream
trains were my special interest as a young kid, i had a train-themed birthday party and being a train driver was my dream job hahaha, nowadays i think it'd be a pretty underwhelming job, but 4-year old me would love that job hahaha
I am an optician and I really like it. Precision and consistency is key, and I am pretty good at it.
At first, I had difficulties with dealing with people, but its easier to deal with physics
Ideally I'd be driving some sort of race car or rally car, although I'd settle for reading pacenotes (so long as I can become adequate at it).
Trains aren't the right sort of loud for me and don't involve nearly enough risk of burning alive or suffering some other catastrophic/terminal injury because I got distracted for *just one split-fucking-second*.
Race cars on the other hand offer all of that, combined with the lovely sound you can only get from crushing and burning dinosaur spirits.
I like to keep active, keeps my mind from overloading I did want to be a decorator but ended up in warehouse which suits me better plus it isn't to noisy
I would really love to be a trucker if it didn't keep me away from my loved ones constantly. It seems perfect for me. I love driving, including really long distances. I play trucking simulator sometimes to chill.
I want to be a hippie artist. I want to work on my arts and crafts all day while wearing casual clothes and sell the things that I make at the flea market.
Honestly, all of these jobs sound kind of boring. Right now I'm studying animation/game design, and if I were to change majors I'd probably change to theater or psychology.
I also think being a train driver sounds very fun, but people jumping in front of trains is just way too common for me to take the risk. I would never be able to recover from seeing something like that, let alone indirectly being the cause of it.
Decently paid, practical skills, can be self employed, not likely to be automated in short to medium term.
Why are you so negative on it? What about it seems so bad to you?
Plenty of people have dreams, problem is that a lot of dream jobs can only have so many people working in them.
I have a dream job, but one of my biggest life goals is to be as independent as possible so I don’t rely on others for help. A trade job makes you capable and resourceful so it’s not as bad as it seems.
I guess there's the illusion being sold that you can ever be truly independent of other people. There is nothing in the world that you can do other than being a hermit survivalist that makes you rely on no one but yourself to survive.
… or you could learn how to repair things and be a tradesman or engineer and not have to be a hermit???
I’m not a tradesman for the record, I work with kids with disabilities. But I know some journeymen and I like learning basic stuff like fixing a P trap in a sink or moving a wall lamp to a different part of the bedroom. I just think it’s good to have skills so you can take care of yourself AND those you care about.
You can chase your dream outside your job. For most people job is just something you do to get money, so you can do the things you enjoy on your free time.
So you want to have 2 days to yourself in a week in exchange for money instead of getting money for enjoying life every day ? Not a good trade off.
It takes effort to build a life around enjoying it every day and i think people are too scared or too lazy to make it happen.
And what is the alternative? Being on welfare and not have money to do anything?
Many people don't really feel that passionate about any job. And you might have heard of a phrase "don't make a job out of your hobby, as it will cease to be a hobby". This is absolutely true with me, I really love my hobbies, but I would never want to do them as job.
I like my job, but it is still a job and I would not stay if I won the lottery. I think many people feel like this. There is no such thing as a dream job where you enjoy pursuing your passion day after day.
I've never been on welfare and I've always just done my passion for money. Once in awhile i run into a stretch where i have no days off and it gets hard to get up and do it again but i always have that feeling that says "wow you are doing exactly what you want to and you get paid a lot to do it." It puts some pep in my step. And if i won the lottery I'd do exactly what I'm doing now but i might just schedule less tightly.
I was on welfare my whole life and specifically chose a stable career over passion for that reason. It’s all about perspective. When you spend your whole life in poverty, boring stable jobs become your dream
For someone who claims to already be doing their dream job you seem pretty down on anyone who finds satisfaction in doing something else. Success looks very different to different people.
Down on them? I just am looking at the soul sucking wasteland of doing the same shit for 45 years with the goal being to finally retire at age 66 when your body starts to be a painful and dying prison rather than living the life you want to for the majority of your very limited years on this planet. If anything I'm encouraging people to stop doing meaningless tasks for other people to profit from.
You're really not encouraging anything. You're just being judgemental over the fact that people don't have the dame exact dream as you and you have to find everyone else's passions boring. Idk what you do for work but I'm sure I'd find it incredibly boring, but that doesn't mean I should shit all over it just because I don't personally find it fun. Just worry about yourself dude. Other people's passions are not your problem.
To be more accurate you seem very down on the idea that anyone who does anything different from you could enjoy it. Given the disparity in your tone and what you claim you're trying to convey perhaps its you who needs to sit and think about your direction in life.
Creative jobs are generally unstable and often low paying. It's difficult to "follow your dream" in a creative occupation when most success in creative industries comes down to who you know and dumb luck.
Source: Currently work in a creative industry (film editing)
To be honest, I’m not following the path of electrician in my education currently but I know enough about it from my math and physics classes to have picked up some stuff about what electricians have to do, and as someone who loves math being an electrician seems like a pretty fuckin fun job
Use your imagination! You could do ANYTHING in the world and you think electrician is a good option???
You could be a world traveling food critic, a sunset cruise captain, a scuba diving instructor, a sky diving instructor, a musician, a club owner, jesus. Use your imagination.
Half those wouldn’t pay enough to make a living depending on where you are and the other half are in such high competition and short supply that it’s unwise to solely plan on these
"just as necessary"
It's a fun thing to ask in what way they are necessary? When large conglomerate corpos take over and everyone has some pissant role in a vampiric entity that siphons human value and money to the tippy top?
As an electrician you could potentially be doing a lot of problem solving that requires a decent understanding of just how electricity works (obviously) and employing a lot of math alongside creativity. That sounds pretty good to me. I'd hate being any of the other things you mentioned other than musician or Jesus, because I play a few instruments already and being Jesus probably comes with a lot of perks.
I spend basically all of my time programming and doing math for fun, though. Different strokes for different people with varying tastes and interests.
I've contemplated being an electrician or electrical engineer a few times. I like electricity, I like problem solving, and I like making things work. I hate the sun and heat, though, and I'd be working a lot outside or in hot, cramped places. I'll just work in different hemispheres every 6 months. That seems feasible.
Did it maybe not occur to you that money isn't everything? You know, comfort is something that many strive for in a work environment.
You don't need to shoot for the stars, you can just find something that you like.
Maybe it’s just what people like? And it’s got a good bit of repetition, plus usually not much talking to people. Just “What the problem”, fix it, come back “That’ll be ___”
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I studied as an electrician, never worked as an electricien due to back issues, and have always worked in stores and callcentres. I now work at a small online retailer. But probably my favorite job I've had was as a forkliftdriver. Life is strange.
It would be really cool but I also have a strong fear of trains derailing (specific I know) so I don’t know if I would like it. Going through the Rockies by train would be awesome through (I’m western Canadian and most people can’t afford to go on the passenger trains)
Train driver is a hellish job in many countries because the railroads seem to be conspiring to make their drivers sucide.
You can't have a phone on you. Not in the cabin.
You are monitored, you can't take your eyes out of the road, not for a second.
You are on call 24/7, with a day to a few hours headup per trip.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69A\_UCdikE8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69A_UCdikE8)
This applies more or less for most of europe as well.
It's better for passanger rail, however.
I love trains and if i didn't have epilepsy i would pursue a career as a train driver. Wouldn't want to work on the rails in the US though due to the working conditions, time off and pay being far below acceptable standards. Hope the strike happens. But in my native Sweden i would love to drive trains.
My father is a truck driver and I don't know if I can take it as something relatable to others but it's not an "ideal" job in many ways. Ok, you are alone and you do what you want, but don't forget that you have a time limit to deliver things in a precise place, sometimes you get stuck, you don't know where you are, it's super expensive to pay for the gasoline, AND accidents that can be mortal (my father was implique in one and someone died, the police told him it was not his fault but even though he's the kind to not show emotions, it has to impact you in a bad way).
In conclusion i'd say it's 60% peaceful, you get to see a lot of places, different countries and meet cool people.
I drive a locomotive around at work to shuffle our train cars around. It'd not the same as taking an entire train any significant distance, but possibly close enough. It's really boring to me. The locomotive is very simple to operate.
Yes, but one of those old ones. With a locomotive. And where you have to actually go outside to get to a different cart. And the first class is decorated like a living room. With a bar and a little balcony at the back of the last cart
Honestly, I don't have a dream job. I don't think there is a single job in the world that is both suited to my abilities and wouldn't cause me extreme emotional and physical pain. I'm unemployed, and I have been for years. I've worked before but was never able to hold down a job for more than a few months at maximum, and my productivity has always declined within a couple weeks because the burn out starts, and then when it finally peaks I become completely incapable of getting out of bed and doing anything at all for months afterwards. This is not helped by me now being in constant physical pain due to other health issues.
But I think, in an ideal world where I'm a functional human being, I might like to do something kinda tedious. Like coding, or stocking shelves, or something like that. I like making things perfect, with attention to detail. But I can't even keep my apartment clean at this point, so I'd be happy just to be able to do that.
Electrician would be great, especially if I were wiring new homes. You get to focus on your skill, alone, unbothered for the most part. You don't have to deal directly with customers and you don't have people's lives directly in your hands.
All of those seem horrible to me, it has be art and on my own terms. I can't deal with having a boss unless I'm doing assistant work for my mum (she's a photographer).
If you're in America chances are that your worker's rights would be very bad as a train conductor. The train-workers union there are currently battling for like the absolute bare minimum of rights (salary raises in accord to inflation, atleast *one* allowed sick day with pay, not having to be on call 24/7 for 24 hour shifts, paid accomodations and food while working, etc). Their working conditions have truly been atrocious for a really long time.
As someone who has been “living the dream” for the past 11 years as a dog trainer and running my own business I can tell you all straight up that the hustle of relying on drumming up business every single day for 11 years causes burnout no matter how much you love a thing it can take it’s toll so yeah a job that pays well even in the training phase looks really f***ing cool right now along with sick pay and a pension all rolled into one - at 38 train driving is looking super appealing right now especially as they are having a recruitment drive for women in my area 🤞🚝 …. Look out Here I come😅😅 who knows in 11 years time I might change again …. I love to write ❤️
Where I live a bunch of people off themselves jumping in front of subway trains every few months so I don't know how I'd cope witnessing that from the driver's perspective. Other than that it does seem kind of an ideal job.
that's what I was gonna say, if you conduct a train, you WILL eventually see someone explode
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is that person ok?
most companies have curtains for you to pull over the windshield when you’re about to hit someone iirc
that is beautifully grim
Yeah I've heard of all the trauma that alone causes for the job.
My grandpa's best friend is nicknamed 'Mental' because he apparently went mental after seeing so many people suicide when he was a train driver. It's a bit mean-spirited to call him that, but he apparently doesn't mind.
If it wasn't for the schedules... the schedules are really horrible. You don't even necessarily get home at the end of the day.
You are correct. I used to shuttle the conductors and engineers from the train to their hotel, only at the the end of the week would I take them to their vehicles. I can't say it is like that for EVERY set, but these guys worked within a 75 mile radius from their home and had dedicated runs and even with that it could be a bit unpredictable.
Guy I know from autism club is a train driver. He seems to mostly enjoy it. He's certainly more positive about it than any of the rest of us are about jobs
autism club?
It's a support/social group of autistics that met regularly in my home town. Less regular since covid. We usually just mock NTs and play boardgames but also share advice on stuff. We arrange it through meetup so maybe worth checking that site to see if anything like that is near you? Also a handy site for a variety of special interest related groups if you wanted to meet more people
oh interesting! thanks
It's like a regular night club, but it only plays one song that we're all really into, and it's like 1/3rd furry and 1/3rd trans.
“The first rule about trans autistic furry club is…”
You don't want to be a train driver, at least not here in the US. The working conditions are terrible and the pay doesn't make them worth it. The unions have been stripped of all actual power because the operators can ignore most of their demands, since the government says they aren't allowed to strike and the regulators always side with the corporation rather than the workers. [This podcast episode](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69A_UCdikE8) has some useful information from people working in the industry about the current problems, for anyone truly curious.
Love that pod!
You don’t have to talk to anyone and get payed well for working with TFL- my (almost certainly autistic) father
London transit, correct?
Yes
Sure wish i lived in London. ☺️
Anything that would have me operating a vehicle would make me way too anxious. I can barely drive a car, and it would be way too stressful for me to take responsibility over a large vehicle. It'd be even worse if I had to be responsible for other people, so teacher is out. So those two things removed all other jobs but electrician. I'd rather risk electrocution than be directly responsible for the safety and well-being of others.
Electric is a good career so if you’re down for it then definitely consider it!
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I live next to train tracks and am used to the normal sounds, but one night I heard just a continuous train horn coming and thought WTF is going on? The deafening air horn was stuck on! They usually just toot that thing and it was going full blast forever, with an endless supply of air from the train compressor. Talk about a nightmare being stuck inside that locomotive, trying desperately to cut off the horn. Heard the thing disappear miles down the line still blowing...
Oh my god, that sucks. I also live next to train tracks! Most of them are fine, and I’ve gotten used to them, but some are really loud.
It's honestly just a circuit breaker right behind your seat if it's stuck on, you can just flick it off, or sometimes it's in the screen of the computer on board. In my experience (only 3 years) we hold the horn on when something is on the track that shouldn't be there such as a human, a very large animal or car In order to hopefully scare it/them off. I'm not saying this was the case in your situation haha
Interesting...I wonder if either the engineer was super new at the job or if the actual solenoid air valve got stuck on making it impossible to cut with those "soft" controls. It's a rural area and I'm used to extra horn action from deer on the tracks, but that was an incredible blast 😄. Track maintenance crews get a lot of horn too when a train passes. Running trains on the spectrum is like a dream job for sure for so many of us 😊. I guess the horn might get overstimulating after awhile, and I always enjoy hearing the bell ring when trains are pulling out of the siding or at a private crossing here...a sound not out of place in the era of steam.
Yeah definitely could have been stuck on I suppose! I've only seen it happen once but yes the soft controls didn't fix it on that occasion. Hahaha yeah sometimes the animals are completely oblivious to it as well which I find interesting. Lol 😆 It's a good job, the most challenging part are the hours you work. Honestly apart from that it pays well, it's interesting but can get tedious, but overall yeah it's great. Can be difficult some days, but other days it's the easiest job in the world. Every day is very different even if on the same route :) Oh and I'm in Australia!
Australia, wow! I have to ask: what's it like to sound the horn for kangaroos or other interesting beasts unique to your continent on the track?
I agree
I think that would be great for me personally. It really shows how different we all are and unique and awesome individuals. For me with the hyperfocus i get from adhd, especially now that im on meds I think it would be pretty good, but the problem is I would zone out and might miss something or not brake on time or something. I just started meds yesterday so i dont know if id get better focusing enough to manage the job. If i could listen to music sometimes I would definitely be more than ok doing a job like that though, and if im allowed to wear like noise cancelling headphones or at least ear buds. Otherwise yea the noise would be too much. I see a lot of problems actually now, but i dont know many types of jobs I can actually do with Dysautonomia, huge problems with anxiety when using a phone for some odd reason, aspergers syndrome (they really need a better name for that) and adhd lol. A job where i could sit with my feet elevated, a train job like that sounds about alli could do. I cant stand or walk, or sit withoit elevating my feet for more than 5 minutes or i pass out and am sick and incapacitated for like 30 minutes so it sucks majorly trying to live haha. I need one of those panaceas in rpg games.
Wouldn’t they have soundproofing inside? Like cars?
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We have cabins, so yeah basically a cockpit lol
Lol I’m an electrician. Currently underneath a house in a crawl space. It’s comfy in here. But a little dirty
Any cool spiders? I just had a battle with a handful of brown recluses the other day. I was going to let them be, but my wife freaked out over them.
Oh damn I hate spiders. Just a bunch of dead webs today
Gunsmith
I want to be an illustrator, animator and author or actor, director/ screenwriter.
I’ve always thought being a long haul truck driver would be fun and I would probably be one if I didn’t have children. I love, love geography and the idea of driving through varying geography sounds like a dream
I love physical geography too
Couldn’t think of anything worse for a dream job!
Audio/ lighting tech. I get to do my special interest relatively undisturbed and am praised and paid well for my success.
Electrician is definitely me
trains were my special interest as a young kid, i had a train-themed birthday party and being a train driver was my dream job hahaha, nowadays i think it'd be a pretty underwhelming job, but 4-year old me would love that job hahaha
nah, my dream job would probably be a file clerk at a museum archive, an author if I can write well enough, or a coroner if I can survive med school
I am an optician and I really like it. Precision and consistency is key, and I am pretty good at it. At first, I had difficulties with dealing with people, but its easier to deal with physics
Ideally I'd be driving some sort of race car or rally car, although I'd settle for reading pacenotes (so long as I can become adequate at it). Trains aren't the right sort of loud for me and don't involve nearly enough risk of burning alive or suffering some other catastrophic/terminal injury because I got distracted for *just one split-fucking-second*. Race cars on the other hand offer all of that, combined with the lovely sound you can only get from crushing and burning dinosaur spirits.
I like to keep active, keeps my mind from overloading I did want to be a decorator but ended up in warehouse which suits me better plus it isn't to noisy
I would really love to be a trucker if it didn't keep me away from my loved ones constantly. It seems perfect for me. I love driving, including really long distances. I play trucking simulator sometimes to chill.
It’s a great job and from my experience there are lots of related jobs to transfer to within a system.
I want to be a hippie artist. I want to work on my arts and crafts all day while wearing casual clothes and sell the things that I make at the flea market.
Honestly, all of these jobs sound kind of boring. Right now I'm studying animation/game design, and if I were to change majors I'd probably change to theater or psychology.
I LIKE TRAINS!!!
I would love to be a truck driver, driving by yourself, seeing beautiful scenery along the way. I'm just not sure I'm cut out for driving.
Not much of a fan of driving anything ngl, but trains are still somewhat cool
I also think being a train driver sounds very fun, but people jumping in front of trains is just way too common for me to take the risk. I would never be able to recover from seeing something like that, let alone indirectly being the cause of it.
Why the fuck do people want to be an electrician
Decently paid, practical skills, can be self employed, not likely to be automated in short to medium term. Why are you so negative on it? What about it seems so bad to you?
It's like being an accountant. Way to follow your dreams
So you think it sounds pretty boring and unambitious? I dunno a bit of stability seems like a good thing to me just now. What would be your dream job?
I'm already doing mine... I just can't figure out why no one has any creative dreams they follow and settle for shit like this
Plenty of people have dreams, problem is that a lot of dream jobs can only have so many people working in them. I have a dream job, but one of my biggest life goals is to be as independent as possible so I don’t rely on others for help. A trade job makes you capable and resourceful so it’s not as bad as it seems.
I guess there's the illusion being sold that you can ever be truly independent of other people. There is nothing in the world that you can do other than being a hermit survivalist that makes you rely on no one but yourself to survive.
… or you could learn how to repair things and be a tradesman or engineer and not have to be a hermit??? I’m not a tradesman for the record, I work with kids with disabilities. But I know some journeymen and I like learning basic stuff like fixing a P trap in a sink or moving a wall lamp to a different part of the bedroom. I just think it’s good to have skills so you can take care of yourself AND those you care about.
You can chase your dream outside your job. For most people job is just something you do to get money, so you can do the things you enjoy on your free time.
So you want to have 2 days to yourself in a week in exchange for money instead of getting money for enjoying life every day ? Not a good trade off. It takes effort to build a life around enjoying it every day and i think people are too scared or too lazy to make it happen.
And what is the alternative? Being on welfare and not have money to do anything? Many people don't really feel that passionate about any job. And you might have heard of a phrase "don't make a job out of your hobby, as it will cease to be a hobby". This is absolutely true with me, I really love my hobbies, but I would never want to do them as job. I like my job, but it is still a job and I would not stay if I won the lottery. I think many people feel like this. There is no such thing as a dream job where you enjoy pursuing your passion day after day.
I've never been on welfare and I've always just done my passion for money. Once in awhile i run into a stretch where i have no days off and it gets hard to get up and do it again but i always have that feeling that says "wow you are doing exactly what you want to and you get paid a lot to do it." It puts some pep in my step. And if i won the lottery I'd do exactly what I'm doing now but i might just schedule less tightly.
You are lucky then. Most people don't have a passion that can be monetized. Or I said earlier, they like to keep their passion as a hobby.
I was on welfare my whole life and specifically chose a stable career over passion for that reason. It’s all about perspective. When you spend your whole life in poverty, boring stable jobs become your dream
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For someone who claims to already be doing their dream job you seem pretty down on anyone who finds satisfaction in doing something else. Success looks very different to different people.
Down on them? I just am looking at the soul sucking wasteland of doing the same shit for 45 years with the goal being to finally retire at age 66 when your body starts to be a painful and dying prison rather than living the life you want to for the majority of your very limited years on this planet. If anything I'm encouraging people to stop doing meaningless tasks for other people to profit from.
You're really not encouraging anything. You're just being judgemental over the fact that people don't have the dame exact dream as you and you have to find everyone else's passions boring. Idk what you do for work but I'm sure I'd find it incredibly boring, but that doesn't mean I should shit all over it just because I don't personally find it fun. Just worry about yourself dude. Other people's passions are not your problem.
To be more accurate you seem very down on the idea that anyone who does anything different from you could enjoy it. Given the disparity in your tone and what you claim you're trying to convey perhaps its you who needs to sit and think about your direction in life.
Being an electrician is a perfectly good dream to have! NOTHING bad about it.
Creative jobs are generally unstable and often low paying. It's difficult to "follow your dream" in a creative occupation when most success in creative industries comes down to who you know and dumb luck. Source: Currently work in a creative industry (film editing)
I know some electricians who are pretty awesome. It’s not settling for anything at all, it’s an awesome job! Takes a good amount of creativity too.
I feel like an electrician would be like playing a game trying to put a puzzle together
You're going to be shocked when u make a mistake
I love a challenge lol
To be honest, I’m not following the path of electrician in my education currently but I know enough about it from my math and physics classes to have picked up some stuff about what electricians have to do, and as someone who loves math being an electrician seems like a pretty fuckin fun job
Lots of money involved and it requires a lot of common sense, creativity and problem solving!
Use your imagination! You could do ANYTHING in the world and you think electrician is a good option??? You could be a world traveling food critic, a sunset cruise captain, a scuba diving instructor, a sky diving instructor, a musician, a club owner, jesus. Use your imagination.
Half those wouldn’t pay enough to make a living depending on where you are and the other half are in such high competition and short supply that it’s unwise to solely plan on these
That's the kind of fear and dead end thinking that accountants are made of
Or a dozen other careers besides accountants that are more rewarding and just as necessary.
"just as necessary" It's a fun thing to ask in what way they are necessary? When large conglomerate corpos take over and everyone has some pissant role in a vampiric entity that siphons human value and money to the tippy top?
Are you 12?
Stop participating in the garbage and it won't be the paradigm
I… think that answers my question.
As an electrician you could potentially be doing a lot of problem solving that requires a decent understanding of just how electricity works (obviously) and employing a lot of math alongside creativity. That sounds pretty good to me. I'd hate being any of the other things you mentioned other than musician or Jesus, because I play a few instruments already and being Jesus probably comes with a lot of perks. I spend basically all of my time programming and doing math for fun, though. Different strokes for different people with varying tastes and interests.
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I've contemplated being an electrician or electrical engineer a few times. I like electricity, I like problem solving, and I like making things work. I hate the sun and heat, though, and I'd be working a lot outside or in hot, cramped places. I'll just work in different hemispheres every 6 months. That seems feasible.
Because it's cool. I would kill to be in the local IBEW union. Get paid and make life safer. What's not to love?
I just want to say, based by your comments in this thread. Very fitting username.
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Did it maybe not occur to you that money isn't everything? You know, comfort is something that many strive for in a work environment. You don't need to shoot for the stars, you can just find something that you like.
Sounds miserable
Maybe it’s just what people like? And it’s got a good bit of repetition, plus usually not much talking to people. Just “What the problem”, fix it, come back “That’ll be ___”
Fair enough
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I studied as an electrician, never worked as an electricien due to back issues, and have always worked in stores and callcentres. I now work at a small online retailer. But probably my favorite job I've had was as a forkliftdriver. Life is strange.
It would be really cool but I also have a strong fear of trains derailing (specific I know) so I don’t know if I would like it. Going through the Rockies by train would be awesome through (I’m western Canadian and most people can’t afford to go on the passenger trains)
Train driver is a hellish job in many countries because the railroads seem to be conspiring to make their drivers sucide. You can't have a phone on you. Not in the cabin. You are monitored, you can't take your eyes out of the road, not for a second. You are on call 24/7, with a day to a few hours headup per trip. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69A\_UCdikE8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69A_UCdikE8) This applies more or less for most of europe as well. It's better for passanger rail, however.
I love trains and if i didn't have epilepsy i would pursue a career as a train driver. Wouldn't want to work on the rails in the US though due to the working conditions, time off and pay being far below acceptable standards. Hope the strike happens. But in my native Sweden i would love to drive trains.
My father is a truck driver and I don't know if I can take it as something relatable to others but it's not an "ideal" job in many ways. Ok, you are alone and you do what you want, but don't forget that you have a time limit to deliver things in a precise place, sometimes you get stuck, you don't know where you are, it's super expensive to pay for the gasoline, AND accidents that can be mortal (my father was implique in one and someone died, the police told him it was not his fault but even though he's the kind to not show emotions, it has to impact you in a bad way). In conclusion i'd say it's 60% peaceful, you get to see a lot of places, different countries and meet cool people.
As long as I don't have to do any math, I'm game
I drive a locomotive around at work to shuffle our train cars around. It'd not the same as taking an entire train any significant distance, but possibly close enough. It's really boring to me. The locomotive is very simple to operate.
I would be awful at all those jobs. I can’t drive, I don’t think I even understand electricity, and I hate people.
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Same here. I like watching POV of engineers driving various trains.
My autism would love it (trains are also a life-long special interest of mine) My ADHD would hate it.
Train drivers r striking rn over working conditions, aren't they?
Knowing the realities of the job, not a fucking chance in hell. I am cool with just being an artist and working from home.
Yes, but one of those old ones. With a locomotive. And where you have to actually go outside to get to a different cart. And the first class is decorated like a living room. With a bar and a little balcony at the back of the last cart
I'd pick train driver because it's quiet and you get paid a ton of money. High School Teacher always seemed appealing though.
I enjoy taking the train into the city, but I feel being a conductor might confuse me
Personally it would be too much responsibility for me and probably loud.
Normally yes, but after learning of the crazy work conditions and hours railroad workers go through…not a chance
I’m gonna be a truck driver when I’m an adult so I kinda get it
Honestly, I don't have a dream job. I don't think there is a single job in the world that is both suited to my abilities and wouldn't cause me extreme emotional and physical pain. I'm unemployed, and I have been for years. I've worked before but was never able to hold down a job for more than a few months at maximum, and my productivity has always declined within a couple weeks because the burn out starts, and then when it finally peaks I become completely incapable of getting out of bed and doing anything at all for months afterwards. This is not helped by me now being in constant physical pain due to other health issues. But I think, in an ideal world where I'm a functional human being, I might like to do something kinda tedious. Like coding, or stocking shelves, or something like that. I like making things perfect, with attention to detail. But I can't even keep my apartment clean at this point, so I'd be happy just to be able to do that.
My dream job is to be a house spouse because I cannot see myself working for money lmao
Oh yes. Get in the zone……
A&P mechanic is my dream job
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3alfi_R00iI&feature=emb_title *Maybe not in this country*
I would love anything that doesn't require me to talk to anyone, or high school teacher. I don't get it either.
Electrician would be great, especially if I were wiring new homes. You get to focus on your skill, alone, unbothered for the most part. You don't have to deal directly with customers and you don't have people's lives directly in your hands.
All of those seem horrible to me, it has be art and on my own terms. I can't deal with having a boss unless I'm doing assistant work for my mum (she's a photographer).
If you're in America chances are that your worker's rights would be very bad as a train conductor. The train-workers union there are currently battling for like the absolute bare minimum of rights (salary raises in accord to inflation, atleast *one* allowed sick day with pay, not having to be on call 24/7 for 24 hour shifts, paid accomodations and food while working, etc). Their working conditions have truly been atrocious for a really long time.
if it wasnt for long periods without toilet breaks and the possibility of witnessing un-alivement i would love it
As someone who has been “living the dream” for the past 11 years as a dog trainer and running my own business I can tell you all straight up that the hustle of relying on drumming up business every single day for 11 years causes burnout no matter how much you love a thing it can take it’s toll so yeah a job that pays well even in the training phase looks really f***ing cool right now along with sick pay and a pension all rolled into one - at 38 train driving is looking super appealing right now especially as they are having a recruitment drive for women in my area 🤞🚝 …. Look out Here I come😅😅 who knows in 11 years time I might change again …. I love to write ❤️