I think I’ll become a custodian in our local public schools. One gentleman made over $170k according to the published salaries.
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I did this for several years (trained and wrote courseware). It was great in the early 80s when companies didn’t think twice about sending multiple employees to our training facility. Then, that money dried up, and I ended up traveling to client sites to train and was often on the road three weeks at a time. And I hate to fly. Now a lot of corporate training is done online and via video. It’s not the gig it used to be. Stay retired. 
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I’d still be a librarian in a school…but I’d enjoy being a landscape architect!
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I would be a cat rescuer. I follow a young woman on Instagram that does amazing work rescuing cats and spaying and neutering them and adopting out kittens/cats in Brooklyn.
Just like @cinnamon1212 I would also like to be a rock star 
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I’d be a nature educator for the under 8 crowd. I miss the sense of wonder and enthusiasm that my kids had at that age.
One time I volunteered to teach my daughter’s 2nd grade class about directions and how to use a compass. I went to their playground the night before and paced out a course leaving little red round mosaic tiles at set intervals. The next day, I taught the kids how to pace the same interval and how to set a compass azimuth. Each kid got to pace one direction and interval along the course to find their “ruby treasure”. They loved it! One little boy couldn’t find his treasure (a before school kid probably found it) and he was really sad. So I had him close his eyes and I planted another treasure to find and he was happy as a clam.
Much different than herding cats at the Children’s Museum with my other daughters older crowd. I did that once and vowed never again.
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Oh, I would detest that! My family will even tell you that it’s on the list of 3 Jobs Mom Would Hate Most (along with jockey and stand up comedian.)
Personally, I would be a tile setter
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What a fun thread, I love all of your ideas.
I would be an executive assistant, to someone powerful. My skill set is in managing other people’s lives 
and I enjoy it!
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I know this isn’t the point of your thread, but I have thought that a nice volunteer opportunity in retirement would be to help people understand financial “stuff.”
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I would love to be a novelist or poet…Who moonlights as a Broadway singer/actress…And reads tarot cards for famous people and gives them all kind of wacky advice about how to live their lives.
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I’d love to be in a Broadway show.
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I think the other career I would consider would be working with guide or service dogs. I think that would be incredibly rewarding. I love dogs.
I spent most of my career working in the legal field with a short stint in financial services. I hated it! I had one client who called me every single day promptly at 8:30 to ask what his balance was. He could have checked it himself, but he wanted me to do it. Ack!
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Our S was an electrical engineer who worked for the fed govt. He quit and became a full time entrepreneur—buying & reselling items on Amazon.
I bet he works his you-know-what off. Probably works a lot harder than a guy making $170k pushing papers in an office so to speak.
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I am not sure if you would want to be a writer for SNL. I met someone whose husband is a writer for SNL. He only gets Sunday off. They have their first draft of scripts by Monday. They start to refine their scripts from tues morning until Wednesday morning. I think only 1/3 of the scripts make it to Saturday night.
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I’m well aware of how a writers room works. I would thrive under those conditions.
In my 20s, I was a principal in a successful startup. I lived on the adrenaline of deadlines, uncertainty, risk, and payoffs and disappointments. And I would have loved to have had a Sunday off. Those were heady times but best experienced when I could more easily deprive my body of sleep and sustenance. If you watch the insane chaos of the movie I linked above, you’ll see what I regret missing. Not something I could do today even if my mind were still rapidly firing on all those cylinders, which it most definitely is not.
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I was a Marketing professional and am now a copy editor, but I would love to either open up a small classical education school or open a business where I sell healthy prepared meals.
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I would like to write a Hallmark Christmas movie where the ending could not be guessed in the first five minutes. But Hallmark would probably not show it. Then I could market it to Lifetime.
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Ever since I saw Dorothy Hamill win the Olympics, I wished I could be an elite caliber ice skater. I even have dreams where I’m skating like a pro on an ice rink. I live in Texas. With few to no ice rinks. These dreams always impress me. How could I know what it feels like to ice skate like a top competitor?
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Queen 
But I can’t figure out a way to make that happen
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Berry farmer. Some of my best memories when young were picking berries. My mom and grandmother baked pies and cobblers. Best dough. Always light and flaky.
I’d probably have some fruit and nut trees too. Grandma cooking chestnuts on the stove are some great memories too.
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