<p>Just curious, if all salaries were equal, what would you want your job to be?</p>
<p>Mom.<br>
It’s the most fun and the most challenging one I’ve ever had.<br>
Good job security, too.</p>
<p>In college I used to work for a “jeans store”. A store that only sold jeans. At the time, the well dressed student rarely wore anything else. The job consisted primarily of two parts - stocking the shelves and selling jeans. I can’t imagine a job I hated more than the former and liked more than the latter. Selling jeans to other young folks was as easy as breathing to me. It was effortless. Helping them look as good as they could. Seeing what worked and what didn’t. Selling. And all the pretty girls. I digress. 
It was therapy to a law student and I was very good at it. </p>
<p>So based on that experience, and on the fact that a pretty girl would have no use for me anymore :(, and the further fact that jeans aren’t all that interesting to me in 2007 - I’d sell motorcycles for an enthusiast owned and frequented motorcycle shop with absolutely no desire to rise above that station.</p>
<p>Librarian.</p>
<p>It’s a job that always appealed to me but that I never seriously considered because of the relatively low pay.</p>
<p>I loved being a librarian, (I was head librarian at a professor’s library at Caltech for about a year), but my dream job is illustrating children’s books.</p>
<p>I’d be doing exactly what I’m doing. :)</p>
<p>LIghthouse keeper/ novelist.</p>
<p>MWFN
So, what do you do?</p>
<p>Teach English as a Second Language to adults. I’ve started doing this as part of a group of volunteers in my community. The students are amazing, they come from every continent and are among the most courageous, motivated and interesting people I have ever met.</p>
<p>I would teach. Probably English at the middle school or high school level.</p>
<p>I never considered salary when picking my career. I have never heard my kids ever talk about it in picking their professions either. Some just pick what they like for work, without regard to salary. It may sound strange, but that’s how we have gone about it. So, the answer to your question would not be different because salary was not considered in the first place in choosing the career field. </p>
<p>As far as my unpaid work, I agree with KarenColleges, the job of mom has been the most work, the most challenging, the never ending, and the most special and rewarding in terms of pay off.</p>
<p>“MWFN
So, what do you do?”</p>
<p>Educator and novelist.</p>
<p>I’m fortunate that DH has a more lucrative career than I, or else I wouldn’t have been able to pursue my much-less-lucrative one. I’d love it, though, if all professions earn the same.</p>
<p>I don’t know if I have the talent for the job, but I always thought it would be fun to be a writer or photographer for National Geographic’s travel articles.</p>
<p>A food critic. 
That would combine two of my strong passions…writing and great food! ;)</p>
<p>Chef - love to try our new recipes
Gardener - this is my passion since I was 10.</p>
<p>Iconoclast</p>
<p>*and the further fact that jeans aren’t all that interesting to me in 2007 *</p>
<p>Cur- you would not believe how much time & $$$$ some people spend on denim.
[not me!](<a href=“http://www.denimology.co.uk/”>http://www.denimology.co.uk/</a>)</p>
<p>I liked doing hair- but the pay is very low for all but the very highest end stylists.
I liked the people, I liked that they thought I was great,I wouldn’t work at a high fashion shop again, because I don’t like standing in heels all day, but it was fun.</p>
<p>Music is very important to me & while I don’t really play an instrument, the jobs where I could listen to music- working at a record store and the hair salon were the most enjoyable.</p>
<p>I’d do what I am doing: Librarian at international school.</p>
<p>A high school teacher. And when I retire from my current job, I plan to try to pursue that.</p>