If you could have any job in the world........

[Wacky Racer]

What would it be?

Before answering, you might want to pause for a minute and think things through, for instance if you said a millionaire footballer or pop star, it might be a bit of a pain being asked for an autograph everytime you went out for a meal or visited Tesco's...........

I think a lollipop man is good.....you don't start till you're 65.......

[chr15b]

financially sound retirement

[Tycho]

Probably someone like Larry Ellison from Oracle. Wiki link

He could do whatever he wants but would be pretty much anonymous on the street.

[anonymous-user]

Valentine balbonie's replacement as lamborghini test driver

[GTO-3R]

Astronaut without a doubt

[SystemParanoia]

Prime minister.

Its obviously not a hard job.. they let any old one eyed idiot do it!

[evenflow]

snowy slopes said:

Valentine balbonie's replacement as lamborghini test driver

Beat me to it, that's what I was going to say.

Pedant alert! It's Valentino Balboni.

[Parsnip]

Pro cyclist or working on mythbusters - either will do thanks.

[Snake the Sniper]

Assuming that I had the skill set required to do it, and I don't currently, I would quite like to have a job along the lines of restoring vintage boats or cars. A nice relaxing job that would be more of a pastime or hobby, but with the added bonus of being able to stand back every now and then, seeing your skills allow an old steam boat fire her boiler and toddle off across the water. Or see a Aston DBR1 take to the track, having just replaced everything on it.

I can think of nothing nicer than seeing one of these peel off down the start-finish straight, having just been brought back from the dead.

[V8mate]

Wacky Racer said:

If you could have any job in the world........

I'd just want to be in charge. Of everything. Everywhere.

Just me. What I say goes.

[phr33k]

Surprised it's taken this long for someone to say they want Clarkson's job(s). While he does get alot of stick and some may not appreciate being in the public eye, he has a heck of a lot of money, he gets to drive awesome cars day in day out, if you read his columns/books, the once0in-a-lifetime opportunities he's had the good fortune to take part in have been immense. I know it's a cliché but I can't think of a better job.

[RDE]

GTO-3R said:

Astronaut without a doubt

This, but with the proviso that I can have a couple of decades as a fighter pilot and test pilot.

[Nolar Dog]

I always think being involved in either F1 or MotoGP in some capacity would be just about ideal.

[GTO Scott]

Any job?





I'd like to command a battleship. Unfortunately i'm about 60 years too late

ETA: Otherwise, i'd have James May's job.

Edited by GTO Scott on Tuesday 4th August 21:40

[SystemParanoia]

GTO Scott said:

Any job?





I'd like to command a battleship. Unfortunately i'm about 60 years too late

they're only mothballed, they can be re-commissioned easily in 12mths

so make the job military general, and you could get your wish!

[Simpo Two]

GTO Scott said:

I'd like to command a battleship. Unfortunately i'm about 60 years too late

Would an aircraft carrier do?

I think I'd make a rather good Victorian mill-owner. Or a fighter pilot. Or a bandleader. So many things to do, only one life...

[big dub]

[Jag-D]

I would like to have DONE something that earned me a lot of money and now be retired at the ripe old age of 28 and enjoying my riches and secure financial life while hooning around on bikes and in big wafty gentlemans express cars

[thinfourth2]

either one that pays stupidly well and then retire after a year

or if money is not a factor

Driving one of those big demolition machines with a big pincer grabby thing on the arm, how can work be stressful knocking stuff down all day

[GTO Scott]

Simpo Two said:

GTO Scott said:

I'd like to command a battleship. Unfortunately i'm about 60 years too late

Would an aircraft carrier do?

As good as an aircraft carrier is (they do virtually everything much better than a battleship ever could), as well as packing a much bigger punch, the battleship does do the whole 'power' thing much better, especially when it steams into view pointing 9 15" guns your way, each one capable of throwing a one ton shell over 25 miles.