I didn't realise it meant starting from today...

Also, lets say you live to 90yo+. Do you really think you'd still want to have to get up and go to work in the morning?

If it's a dream job, sure.

I'm all for doing a dream job for a long time.
But still, 5 days a week for the rest of my life? No.

By the time I'm 70 I want to be taking multi week vacations to random places.

I don't remember any of the questions!

D1iab and irtm seem to have pretty lame and rigid dream jobs.

What are you gonna do with your early retirement? Try to do your dream job obviously!

Playing along and that one the one that surprised me. I guess being sick wasn't that well defined. But then again that is a part of the game

Flu vs staying at home, I'm taking staying at home
Common Cold vs staying at home, I'm travelling the world

Well my dream job would give me multiple week vacations to random places.

The read mind questions said

"Be able to read minds"

not

"Be forced to read minds"

Yeah hearing what everyone was thinking around you at all times, god no. Picking when you can read a mind, yes please.

Maybe, maybe not. The point is you wouldn't be tied to doing it for the rest of your life.

There comes a point in everybody's life when they either physically or mentally can't work anymore (assuming you live long enough). Even people with their so-called "dream job" end up retiring eventually. At some point, almost anything will feel like a grind.

What if your dream job is some sort of professional athlete? Now you're in your 50s/60s and still having to run around kicking a ball or whatever with people 30+ years your junior. Sounds great!

Or you're an 80yo commentator who has just been diagnosed with dementia. Now get out there and call that game for another 10 years whether you're coherent or not!

Or you tough out being a janitor or whatever for 10 years, retire by 30 and have the rest of your life ahead of you to do whatever the **** you want.

Pretty easy decision imo.

I was going well there for a little while but then it all seemed to fall apart

congrats derwi and thanks for the game JM3

I like all this debate and I might join in later when I'm meant to be working

This was an amazing game. Now run it again where I lose!

Started out quite well, crashed and burned as expected. Big wtf at not restarting your life, but maybe I read the question differently than everyone else (I figured you could change things along the way, not live the same exact life again). Cost me a lot.

Thanks for the game and congrats to the winners.

These are hypothetical scenarios and you have to take them at face value.

If it's a dream job then you love it and you want to do it every day. There's no getting sick of it or too old for it. It's a dream job. I think of it as a really fun hobby. The sort of hobby that you'd do once you retired. Except instead of waiting 10 years to do it you get to do it now and people pay you to do it.

The ruling the world one is a no brainer too: Ruling the world is a tough job. If you put in a lot of work and you're lucky then perhaps you can get to the point where you've got a world with no problems. In the other scenario you get that without the effort. If you think "Well I would be able to do this if I ruled the world and I couldn't otherwise" then that just sounds like a problem which by definition doesn't exist in the other world.

If we're going to debate these more, I'd love for someone to explain choosing to lose a hand over a foot.

With prosthetics, I think you could recover about 90% of non-athletic functioning if you replaced a missing foot. I think you could be living your life more or less normally quite soon, and most people you met would probably never realize there was a problem.

With a missing hand none of the above is anywhere near true. You'd have to re-learn how to do nearly everything.

Seems like an easy choice to me. Take my foot, please.

Yeah, the hand sheep was bizarre.

Examples of jobs you can't get too sick or old for?

Also, have you ever heard of having too much of a good thing? It might be great now, but in 50 years time, you might have had enough and want to find something better to do with your time.

We can say 'dream job' and that my dream job would allow me to travel a lot or take lots of time off. But at what point is my 'dream job' not really a job and just screwing around all the time?

hypothetical jobs

if you've had too much of a good thing then that doesn't sound like a dream job and therefore wouldn't happen

if you got too old or sick and didn't want to work then that doesn't sound like a dream and therefore it wouldn't happen

Alright, well you appear to be coming at this from a completely different angle where a "dream job" implies you live in some fantasy world that allows you to stay insulated from all the things that can and will happen to you that would affect your work life. I think that pretty clearly wasn't the intent of the question.

Give me retirement in 10 years. Not working is my dream job.

I'm most concerned for people who want to fight a horse-sized duck, though. That sounds dangerous af.

If not working is your dream job then why wait 10 years? Do it now.

Also people generally don't like swarms of things

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Money?..

His dream job is getting paid to do nothing

Part-time beer taster on ceo wages sounds fine til the day I die.

And ya, the foot/hand thing probably tells you more about people's hobbies than anything else. If I can't play football (soccer) at a decent level then I would be an unhappier person. The hand I would just get on with it and do as many practical jokes as possible.