Dream jobs in your opinion, opportunity / qualifications / practicalities aside

[mikeymikec]

One thing that's occurred to me in recent years when seeing 3D animation in movies or - more so - games is that the designers often clearly haven't experienced the real-life equivalents of the environments they design, so therefore elements in the environment don't react the way they ought to. The idea of a job whereby a person goes into nature, recording and interacting with lots of these elements, and bringing back / selling this information to the developers so they can design a more realistic environment.

 

[Captante]

 

[biostud]

 

[pete6032]

One thing that's occurred to me in recent years when seeing 3D animation in movies or - more so - games is that the designers often clearly haven't experienced the real-life equivalents of the environments they design, so therefore elements in the environment don't react the way they ought to. The idea of a job whereby a person goes into nature, recording and interacting with lots of these elements, and bringing back / selling this information to the developers so they can design a more realistic environment.

Maybe it's a video game so they want it to be fun rather than realistic.

 

[nakedfrog]

If I could maintain my lifestyle playing one gig a week, that would be pretty dreamy.

 

[mikeymikec]

Maybe it's a video game so they want it to be fun rather than realistic.

Try telling that to the makers of AAA games for the last several years.

 

[Captante]

Maybe it's a video game so they want it to be fun rather than realistic.

 

[Torn Mind]

Direct a movie featuring a partial bio of Mariah Carey and time traveled Mozart or some manifestation....

The ending would involve the Clarinet Concerto of Mozart....Mozart back in his proper time, and moved to write his last work because his memories of the "future" were lost but something special about the clarinet reminds him of something and moves him to write it. (Totally not in line with actual history, but hey, they took EXTREME liberties in Chevalier and the Mozart in that film).

 

[yottabit]

One thing that's occurred to me in recent years when seeing 3D animation in movies or - more so - games is that the designers often clearly haven't experienced the real-life equivalents of the environments they design, so therefore elements in the environment don't react the way they ought to. The idea of a job whereby a person goes into nature, recording and interacting with lots of these elements, and bringing back / selling this information to the developers so they can design a more realistic environment.

Sounds like you should apply for a job with Quixel

Let me know if it's still your dream job after you take your 10 millionth photogrammetry image of a tree or a rock. I can't imagine the patience and attention to detail that team must have

This is more my speed:

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

My dream would probably be managing IT infrastructure on Mars. Complete control of all systems that enter the network, mandated inclusion on all expansions, and very few people prodding you for garbage.

 

[sdifox]

Sit in net meetings and tell people how to do it right. Wait, I already do that.

 

[Red Squirrel]

My current job (network surveillance), but being able to do it from home 100% of the time would pretty awesome.

 

[BFG10K]

Condom tester.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

A dream job is still a job. And a job ain't nothin' but work.

 

[mikeymikec]

A dream job is still a job. And a job ain't nothin' but work.

There's a big difference slaving away at a job you hate and working full-time with one that you get a reasonable amount of job satisfaction from. My wife is just leaving a job which has been a nightmare for her and <fingers crossed> is moving on to significantly greener pastures. I've been self-employed for just over twenty years now, and while I would have liked a better social life that could have come with generic employment, the sheer flexibility of my self-employment has been a huge benefit for me.

While I generally agree with the notion of a perfect way to spoil a good hobby is to monetize it, I do think there's a broad spectrum in which one can enjoy their work.

 

[lxskllr]

Dream job? Wood carving. Both with chainsaws, and normal tools. I'd like to make enormous sculptures out of dead trees in inaccessible locations , where people get rewarded for going off the path, and have something to WTF over. Problem is I have zero artistic ability.

My real job, and my hobby that eventually might pay for itself are alright. I see cool things, do cool things, and make America great. No real complaints.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

There's a big difference slaving away at a job you hate and working full-time with one that you get a reasonable amount of job satisfaction from. My wife is just leaving a job which has been a nightmare for her and <fingers crossed> is moving on to significantly greener pastures. I've been self-employed for just over twenty years now, and while I would have liked a better social life that could have come with generic employment, the sheer flexibility of my self-employment has been a huge benefit for me.

While I generally agree with the notion of a perfect way to spoil a good hobby is to monetize it, I do think there's a broad spectrum in which one can enjoy their work.

You're not wrong. I'm mostly being facetious about the term dream job. I mean who in the hell dreams of working? I sure as hell never did.

 

[mikeymikec]

You're not wrong. I'm mostly being facetious about the term dream job. I mean who in the hell dreams of working? I sure as hell never did.

My wife does (the at-night dreaming sort, that is). Not in a good way.

I suppose another potential dream job of mine would be to become the Sherlock Holmes of computer fixers, with international fame to go with it, just minus the cocaine habit Who would want to be my assistant?

 

[sdifox]

My wife does (the at-night dreaming sort, that is). Not in a good way.

I suppose another potential dream job of mine would be to become the Sherlock Holmes of computer fixers, with international fame to go with it, just minus the cocaine habit Who would want to be my assistant?

And be stuck with your hdmi hell? No thanks.

 

[mikeymikec]

And be stuck with your hdmi hell? No thanks.

I haven't had many HDMI oddities to be honest. I had a bizarre email problem that I fixed yesterday though: IOS Mail on an iPad kept saying "connection to server failed", to an outlook.com account. It even threw the Outlook app for a loop, but not webmail. Long story short, it was because the mail account had exceeded its quota (ie. outlook.com's quota). Filing under "error messages are sometimes complete bullshit".

 

[sdifox]

I haven't had many HDMI oddities to be honest. I had a bizarre email problem that I fixed yesterday though: IOS Mail on an iPad kept saying "connection to server failed", to an outlook.com account. It even threw the Outlook app for a loop, but not webmail. Long story short, it was because the mail account had exceeded its quota (ie. outlook.com's quota). Filing under "error messages are sometimes complete bullshit".

You going senile

Rant - If another customer talks about wanting a PC to connect to an LCD TV, I'm gonna cry / flat-out refuse / something

I've had two recent run-ins that would make me pull my hair out if I wasn't already bald. Both were new desktop computer builds by me (Ryzen-G), and I'm pretty sure both models of TV were the cheap and nasty sort, which probably plays a large role in this. In my experience there are usually...

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[mikeymikec]

You going senile

Rant - If another customer talks about wanting a PC to connect to an LCD TV, I'm gonna cry / flat-out refuse / something

I've had two recent run-ins that would make me pull my hair out if I wasn't already bald. Both were new desktop computer builds by me (Ryzen-G), and I'm pretty sure both models of TV were the cheap and nasty sort, which probably plays a large role in this. In my experience there are usually...

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I said "I haven't had many" as opposed to "any"

I thought you were talking about my more recent related-ish experience:

Question - Feasibility of Intel UHD Graphics 630 (apparently Intel 7th-10th gen graphics) and 4k resolution?

Is anyone here using this combination? I encountered this kind of setup yesterday (Intel i5 8600 CPU) and the mouse pointer (USB corded) wasn't super juddery but it wasn't anywhere near as smooth as I would expect for a 60Hz screen. When I first noticed the lack of smoothness I almost wondered...

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[Red Squirrel]

Dream job? Wood carving. Both with chainsaws, and normal tools. I'd like to make enormous sculptures out of dead trees in inaccessible locations , where people get rewarded for going off the path, and have something to WTF over. Problem is I have zero artistic ability.

My real job, and my hobby that eventually might pay for itself are alright. I see cool things, do cool things, and make America great. No real complaints.

There is this weird trend of people finding random staircases in the middle of the forest and they are apparently haunted. Could be fun just going around and building stairs to screw with people lol.

 

[MrSquished]

Porn star or ATOT mod

 

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