What is Your Dream Job?
A Detailed Description of Your Dream Job
Once you have a detailed list of ingredients for your dream job, you need to see how to turn them into a detailed description of your own dream job.
If you have answered the quiz for discovering your dream job, you will have a list of 50 to 100 things that make up your dream job ... things like the people you want to work around or for, the places you want to work in, and the specific tasks you want to work on or solve.
Then all you need to do is provide your own ingredients and fill in the blanks below, and you have a statement of your dream job.
My Dream Job Is ..
"My dream job is work where I get to use my gifts and talents of ___________, __________ and _________ to excel at what I love to do, which is _____________, _______________ and ____________.
I get to fulfill my life calling of __________________________ and work in inspiring places such as ___________, ________________, and __________.
Surrounded by the people I love to work with and for, _________, ___________, and __________ ... I solve the problems, issues or needs I love to work on, such as ____________, ______________ and _______________ .
My workday is filled with amazing experiences, such as ______________, ________________, ___________ and I get to use my favorite things, like _______________, _____________, _____________ and __________.
I am finally able to afford the life I want, where I can be ___________, ___________, do _________, _____________ and have _____________, _____________ and ______________.
The Problem Is ...
It looks like a simple task. And if you know yourself really, really well ... it isn't that hard.
The problem is that most of us can't do it. We have no clue what are gifts and talents are, what problems we love to solve, what places inspire and and the types of people who bring out the best in us. We have no idea what amazing experiences we want to fill our days with and what our life calling is.
But don't despair. The reason you don't know this stuff is that you were never taught it in school. Most classes in high school and college focus on teaching you basic facts, theories, and what previous great minds have discovered. Few, if any, focus on helping you discover who you are, what your potential is, what you would like to do with your life, or what your dream job is.
So when faced with the above, we draw a blank.
But don't despair. There is a way to figure this out, and to inspire you and show you that it works, here is a before and after example.
A Before & After Example
You may be like this example .. stuck in describing your dream job in terms of your favorite school subjects and how you want to change the world.
My Ideal Job is .. (Before)
My ideal job would be working to on poverty and world hunger. I don't mean running a soup kitchen or cooking meals for the homeless ... but I would love to make a real difference that would help people around the world. In school, I was always good in math and I really like geography class, which was weird because I was the only one who did.
I have always loved maps of any kind, and reading historical novels about how different people used to earn a living, build a home and survive. I would also like to be able to travel to some of the places I have read about and seen on TV. And I love to fish .. so my dream job that would let me do that.
My Dream Job Ingredients Are ...
After working through the ingredients of your dream job ... by finding the ingredients for your bliss, you might end up with a list like this ...
My Gifts & Talents: What I Am Great At ...
- seeing possibilities where others only see problems
- watching nature and figuring out what is going on
- making people laugh
- finding great analogies that explain complex ideas and make them really simple to understand ... people get it
- working with numbers
- giving foot massages
- creating spreadsheets, graphs and maps
- writing about and noticing emerging trends
- making accurate predictions about likely scenarios
- choosing the right camping equipment
- deboning fish and making sushi
- throwing a frisbee
Things I Love: What I Want To Work With ...
- fishing gear
- hiking boots, rain gear and old compasses
- numbers, excel spreadsheets
- charts and graphs and PowerPoint presentations
- animated maps
- earthenware cooking pots
- historical novels
- computers and databases and graphic mapping software
- data about livelihoods linked to geography
- data and trends about natural resources, vegetation, weather and deforestation
- electric cars
- passports
- old coins
- calendars
- frisbees
Activities I Love: What I Would Love To Get Paid To Do ...
- fishing for salmon, steelhead and rainbow trout
- walking around forests and exploring deserts
- working with numbers
- tracking global rainfall and vegetation growth changes
- writing reports and making presentations
- forecasting and testing out "what if" scenarios
- talking about poverty trends and coming up with solutions
- mapping vegetation and forest changes
- surfing the Internet and blogging
- scuba diving
- watching the changes and predicting the growth of deserts, deforestation, urbanization and livelihoods
- tracking and mapping livelihood, crops, per capital income and poverty levels by region, landscape and environmental conditions
- eating cheesecake
Places I Love: Where I Would Love To Work ...
- honestly, in a nice computer office
- outdoors, in rain forests, deserts, mountains
- fishing villages and harbor towns
- mountain and ocean streams
- farmer's markets and organic farms
People I Love: Who I Would Love To Work With ...
- nerds who have a heart and care about the planet
- people who are serious about making a difference and ending world poverty
- staticians and other number people
- people who understand the power of trends and planning ... or need to know about them
- people with a good (twisted) sense of humor
- people who love to fish and talk about fishing
Experiences I Love: What Would Make My Workday Amazing & Meaningful ...
- go fishing around the world
- restocking a lake killed off by acid rain
- helping people "get it" and have a light bulb moment
- knowing I helped people stop going to bed hungry at night
- spotting an emerging trend and getting it noticed and into the hands / minds of someone who can make a difference
- walk in a rainforest I helped save by finding a way for it to produce a livelihood and food
- finding a way to turn forests into a living so we can stop global deforestation with the practice of slash, burn, graze and abandon
- predicting crop failures years before they happen
Problems, Issues, Needs: What I Would Love To Have An Impact On ...
- world poverty and people going to bed and waking up hungry
- sustainable farming, fishing and other livelihoods that will feed people
- see the world's oceans become sustainable food sources that humanely harvest its riches without leaving them barren
- saving the coral reefs and other ocean resources
Life Calling: What I Would Love To Work On ...
- see the world's oceans become sustainable food sources that humanely harvest its riches without leaving them barren
- helping people adjust to global landscape changes like deserts growing and forests dying off or being harvested and replanted so they become sustainable
- save the world's oceans, forests and farmland by making it sustainable for local livelihoods and the native species
The Life I Dream of Living Is Being a Person Who ...
- has an impact on the world in a small but meaningful way
- puts a love of numbers, poverty and maps to use solving global problems for farmers, fishermen, hunters and gatherers
- can smile when going into the grocery store knowing I help people feed themselves and not feel guilty eating a second piece of cheesecake
- travels to some of the places I map to walk the territory and get to meet the people I really like and work for
My Dream Job Is .. (After)
I get to fulfill my life calling of helping to save the world's oceans, forests and farmland by helping people learn how to create sustainable livelihoods from the landscape and its resources .. thus becoming its protectors instead of destroying it.
Using my gifts and talents of working with numbers, maps, data, trends, computers and software .. I get to create reports and give presentations about the emerging trends and propose solutions based on weather, geography, human use practices and other factors.
My dream job allows me to work in the places I love ...analyzing data in an office hunched over a computer and also being paid to travel to check out mountain streams, emerging deserts, re-purposed rainforests and restored farmland ... and get in some great local fishing.
I get to work around people who care deeply about using technology, forecasting and great ideas about sustainable livelihoods to end poverty ... even if I am the nerdiest number cruncher in the bunch. I get to solve the problems of world poverty caused by unsustainable livelihood and environmental changes by working to support sustainable farming, fishing and other livelihoods that will feed people and help them stop going to bed and waking up hungry everyday.
Using data, forecasts and trends in natural resource use and depletion, I can help farmers, fishermen and others make a good living while helping the planet become more sustainable and in harmony with nature and how it works to renew and replenish itself.
My workday is filled with amazing experiences, such as predicting crop failures years before they happen, coming up with ideas of how to re-purpose the rainforests, analyzing when it is appropriate to restock lakes, streams and the ocean with wildlife ... and saving the livelihoods of people around the world.
In doing this, I get to use my favorite things like databases, animated maps, graphic and presentation software to analyze, spot problems and turn them into opportunities and get the information into the hands of the people who care and can use the information to make a difference.
I am finally able to afford the life I want, where I can be a part of the solution and travel to places I only used to read about, meet the people I help and see the forests, oceans, reefs and farmland I help save. I could go to the places my coins are from, try out native cooking pots and wander around the local farmer's markets ... and make friends with and visit people around the world who I blog with ... things I only dreamed about being able to do.
Discovering Your Own Dream Job
If you would like to discover what your dream job is .. in this level of detail, try taking the Discover Your Dream Job Quiz ... and find your own ingredients for the perfect job.
If you have already done so, it is time to ...
