[cam0]

I had never seen that cartoon about the "dream job" before, but it's something I've thought about so many times as I've listened to people talk about their dream job or dream employer. It always struck me as strange to dream of labor / dream of being an employee - must be a cultural thing.

[quanticle]

Programming is a "dream job" for me. I'm getting paid to do (approximately) the same stuff I would be (and am) doing on my own time, and I have entire departments whose job it is to handle the boring drudge work, like accounting, taxes, billing, client meetings, etc. etc. Sure, there are trade-offs. I have to use a language that I'm not entirely happy with, infrastructure choices I don't fully agree with, pre-existing code, and meetings that I find irrelevant, but, overall, I'm happy with the tradeoff.

And besides, it's not as if you're free of those things as a freelancer.

[geysersam]

On the other hand, working is what most of us spend 8 hours a day on. It makes sense to make the most of that time, and not all jobs are equally interesting/fun/rewarding.

[randomdata]

There is value in dreaming about your options.

A dream house is another example of this. Let's face, housing is awful. The pie in the sky dream would dream of not needing housing at all, but more realistically I can also dream of a house that makes some things slightly less awful. Dreaming about that house provides me with information that I need to move towards it.

More likely it is a semantic thing. I imagine everyone does something like that, but may not call it dreaming.

[dinkumthinkum]

Not needing a house at all? Is that like dreaming of being a disembodied spirit?

[dinkumthinkum]

If it’s a cultural thing can you tell me a developed country that doesn’t have such things?

[nunez]

the "what do you want to be when you grow up" question kids get asked usually involves something involving labor (unless astronauts, firefighters, teachers, and police work for free!)

[intelVISA]

Dream 'job' is 404 for most I'd imagine. There's always the hardcore grifters who try and signal otherwise I guess.