My dream job

Dream to Live

I guess I've never really had a dream job per se. When I was a kid, I wanted to be a lot of things: an astronaut, a forensic doctor, or a filmmaker. I might've even considered being a journalist, just a bit. Those careers seemed cool to me as a little future adult.

Now, working at McDonald's and studying journalism, I think my idea of a "dream job" has evolved into something beyond just the job itself. My dream job is one where I can be around friendly people, not feeling like I'm back in school all over again (do you understand what I'm talking about?) . It's a job that allows me to grow and learn new things every time I put on that worker badge. Even though it leaves me dead tired at the end of the day, I wake up the next day feeling motivated because I genuinely enjoy my job.

I'm really tired of this society I was born and raised in, where adults work in jobs they hate just to, hopefully, survive. I want to love my job, whatever it turns out to be. I can't even imagine myself as a journalist because I'm still not sure what I want to do with my life... The only thing I'm clear about is that I want to love my dream job.

And, while I understand that you can't live on dreams alone, I don't want to stress too much about the money. I've shown myself that I can live my life as a 'semi-independent, working, studying young person' on $450 a month, which is roughly the minimum wage in Chile. As long as I can keep focusing on myself, I know any job will make me deeply happy as long as it's a place where I feel comfortable and useful. I don't want to live to work, much less work to survive... I just want to work and live happily, whether I have a little or a lot in my pockets, it doesn't matter. What matters most to me are the values I can find in that dream job.