Secret jobs.

[Tripster]

Thinking about this I actually retract my previous answer. I would have loved to be a Landscape Garden designer/ builder. Such satisfaction from designing a large garden and then beginning from scratch to make a really beautiful space to enjoy. Something about walking around the plant section of a good garden centre in summer

 

[Drago]

Flying those helocopters to round up the cattle on Australia. Apparently there really are no old, bold pilots, but it looks a hoot.

 

[Fnaar]

Gigolo to the rich and famous

 

[Archie_tect]

Legoland...

 

[Tripster]

Gigolo to the rich and famous

Think of some of the old, weighty, wrinkly rich and famous though......

 

[Edwardoka]

Alaskan charter/bush pilot.

Permanently disqualified from getting a PPL for medical reasons so that's not very likely.

 

[Tripster]

Gigolo to the rich and famous

The men with their captain Birdseye, wrinkle with a polo neck can’t discriminate now you have to take the men as well as ladies

 

[Darius_Jedburgh]

How do you fancy walking the length of this checking every wheel is OK and bear in mind there were thousands of Goods trains

At one time every mile of every rail line in the country was walked every day. Fishplate bolts and points were checked for loose nuts. Sleepers were inspected to ensure rails were still attached.
Every mile, every day.

 

[raleighnut]

At one time every mile of every rail line in the country was walked every day. Fishplate bolts and points were checked for loose nuts. Sleepers were inspected to ensure rails were still attached.
Every mile, every day.

Yep, safety was paramount and checked manually, nowadays they use train cars with cameras and sensors. Nearest depot to me is Derby where in the yards there are a bunch of track laying and inspection cars stationed in the sidings.

 

[slowmotion]

Alaskan charter/bush pilot.

Permanently disqualified from getting a PPL for medical reasons so that's not very likely.

Yes. That job looks fun.

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]View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0jx9ngqSWE[/media]

 

[Mike Ayling]

My dream job was always Paramedic. I finally got the chance to try it out at age 39 when I became a volunteer Emergency Response EMT with London Ambulance Service, attending calls to cardiac arrests, strokes, trauma cases etc on my days off from the day job.
I discovered that it would have been a poor... no, disastrous career choice for me. It kills you inside if you're not strong enough, and I wasn't. I lasted a year.
Be careful what you wish for.

Anyway, I have a new dream job. Shunter and / or wheeltapper. I have no real idea what those jobs entail, but they seem to have a nice social life.

Do they still have wheel tappers?

Mike

 

[Mike Ayling]

How do you fancy walking the length of this checking every wheel is OK and bear in mind there were thousands of Goods trains


View: https://youtu.be/FN73sLfIXY4

When I was growing up in South Africa the wheel tapper was stationary and tapped each wheel as a train slowed down entering the station.

Mike

 

[postman]

Not a job exactly,I want to be brave like my father in law.He has been married over 60 years to my mother in law.

 

[Tripster]

Not a job exactly,I want to be brave like my father in law.He has been married over 60 years to my mother in law.

Ooooh the do gooders and feminists will be all over your ass now

 

[Ste T.]

A writer. I always remember Roald Dahl describing how, every morning, carrying a pot of tea he would go out to his shed in the garden and sit in a comfy armchair with a tray like piece of wood to rest on his knees to write on and work (pencil and paper) until lunchtime when he would finish for the day. Heaven