Julio Garcia

What Would Be My Dream Job?

Since the holidays are coming up that means spending a lot of time with family members you haven’t talked to in a while. One topic that always comes up is my career and where it is going. George, a co-worker, pointed out that family members always think you can simply pick the company you should work for. “Why don’t you just go work at Google or Yahoo? Those are successful companies, you should work there” Right. Because getting a job at Google is as easy as calling 1-800-Google and telling them you want a job and you’ll start Monday.

One specific question people always ask me is “what is your dream job?” Even though this is an annoying question to ask (because you are already implying that I can’t have that job since it is a “dream” job), I normally stated it was a job where I made a lot of money doing very little. Well, that is certainly a dream, the loftiest of all dream jobs because it can’t happen. If you want to make money, you have to work. If you want to make a lot of money, you have to work a lot.

Having said that, I really don’t have a problem working a lot… on things that I enjoy. So now, I think my (realistic) dream job would be one where I would pull in a nice salary while creating web applications, web sites, web designs that I enjoy or will use. That sounds like working at a web development/design agency, but working for an agency wouldn’t be the same, because I would be working on other people’s ideas and not ones that I believe in.

So there it is. Basically my dream job would be to have a nice salary to work on my hobby of creating web sites. But be careful, this isn’t the same, nor will I accept it to be, as being hobbyist photographer and then working at a camera store, or a hobbyist musician working at Guitar Center. This would be doing the hobby for a living, and since my hobby is creating web sites for myself or friends or family, that is what I would want to do to earn a paycheck.

Too bad it isn’t that simple.