What do you think is the best job in the world?
We may as well stop dreaming – The Best Job in the World has already been snapped up. It’s not a fire-fighter, an astronaut or a pro-footballer. Apparently the best job in the world is a six-month Hamilton Island caretaker contract getting paid a whopping $150,000. 34-year-old Brit Ben Southall is one lucky man!
It got me thinking though about other great jobs. Growing up, my dream job was a doctor which remained my goal until high school when I realised that to be a doctor, one had to be good at (and even enjoy) science. Since neither applied to me, that career plan was quickly quashed. Considering the intense training doctors are required to do, you’d want to be pretty passionate about medicine as an occupation.
It’s much easier to imagine what the best job in the world could be when you’re a child and your life is stretched out in front of you with endless possibilities. As an adult though, finances and practicalities all restrict our pursuit of that dream. And for many of us, we haven’t even worked out what our ideal job actually is.
Well Ben Southall’s got what he thinks it the Best Job in the World. Although spending six months on beautiful Hamilton Island would be pretty amazing, I’m pretty sure there are more jobs out there that could be considered the Best Job in the World.
So what do you think is the Best Job in the World and are you doing it? If not, why not?
Caitlin
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i think that people that work with little kids have the best job in the world
mine. i work from home.
Working at Australian Mint making money, and being allowed to take your work home
I ran a small, private safari camp in Zimbabwe for 10 years. That truly was the best job in the world, spending small select groups’ holidays with them
If you love your job and do it happily, then you have the best job in the world!
I would reckon being a pilot or even a doctor or specialist of some sort
I’ve got the best job in the world because I get paid for doing something I love and would do for nothing. I’m a successful career artist.
Teaching in special needs category is the best job in the world. These kids give unconditional love, and no matter if they have achieved anything in the day, always have a smile on their faces….and a HIGH FIVE to greet you!
Being A Mum
I agree with the above i work as a childcare assistant and i have so much fun and i feel really good when a child writes their name for the first time or runs to me for comfort because they feel safe. The children at the centre make me laugh, feel proud, astonished and have restored my faith in humanity with their open minds and unconditional love.
Being lucky enough to be a stay at home mum and apparently if we but a dollar figure on it the pay wouldn’t be sneezed at!
Whatever job you are happy doing, that would have to be the best job in the world.
Hmm! I could say on an Adults Only Forum, but definately NOT Here! hehehehe. (( Hint,, Ask Any Guy!)
My jog is the best– teacher. I get to educate young
people.
The best job in the world? Teaching languages.For me this is a most rewarding occupation, helping others develop new skills and gain confidence through language acquisition. My long term wish is to see language teaching in Australia given the support that it deserves.
Well for me the ONLY on -call giggolo to Hollywoods top actresses would come prety close to top job in the world. Failing that, then looking after/ training wild animals as in BORN FRE
the best job in the world is eating pie
I think that the best job in the world is to be the president of WWF or green peace:
It is most interesting and challenging job.
The best job in the world is being an Artist (Painter). W o r d s are not the way to describe the reason why, I enjoy narrative reading, but sometimes words ARE NOT ENOUGH!!!!!!!! Whether I paint, I study painting or I watch others painting I NEVER get enough of it. Besides, what other job in world passes on its passion so easily??????
The best job in the world is motherhood. It is so enjoyable to see most babies of next generation turn into decent and considerate adults.
jet fighter pilot is best job
i dont think hamilton island is a very nice place at all. heron island seems much better. hamilton island is like being on the gold coast. a dump in my eyes
Pornstar! you now the rest ,and make a few $mill per year.
‘Nice work if you can gedit ‘………………………………..!
being paid for sitting at home
Anything you love doing so much that it doesn’t feel like a job anymore is he best job in the world.
I was at Luna Park on the weekend and i thought the carousel conductor job looked like fun because you get a microphone and speaker but i’d imagine you’d get dizzy after awhile.
An Archeologist (Indiana Jones)
A Clown
An Architect (I could build my dream snail home like on the talk to the animals film.)
A food critic
A crazy inventor
A good will ambassador for the UN (it seems they take anyone “celebrity” on board. Feel good about yourself for not really doing anything for those in need yet get so much status?)
A mean judge at a talent show.
A zookeeper or wildlife care.
Philanthropist
Celebrity (get paid and given freebies for having absolutely NO talent)
A presenter at the Academy Awards (receive freebies)
Bono
I always wanted to work in an opp shop and discover hidden treasures.
A Member of Parliament. All the perks you’d receive.
being a mum is the best job in the world…
I would say being a male pornstar is the best job on planet
Being a Mum
My 10 year old thinks being an astronaut or AFL player would be the best job. I always dreamed of being a pilot but hated physics, can’t read maps and regularly have minor crashes trying to park my very small car so it’s probably a good thing I didn’t!
Any job that involves lots of travelling, good food and provide financial security without the need to “kill” anyone. Maybe a not-too-involved politican’s wife, just visiting school (kids under 12), cutting ribbons, keeping mouth shut except for eating and brushing off questions that could jeopardise hubby’s next election (stating that hubby has full support whatever that means), giving “prepared by someone else” speech and triple check it for the possibility to provoke unwanted questions. It fits the description very well. Multi- millionaires heiress also sound good.
The Best Job In the World Would Have To be Oprah
She Gives So Much To So Many People ,, ( she gives with her heart ,(more Then Any Giverment can Do At The Moment)
I think being a Mum and a Nana is the best and most rewarding job in the world, and you don’t get paid for it, instead you reap the rewards, and they are tremendous, nothing can compare to that.
i reckon the best job is a model coz you get famous, also get paid alot and best of all you get to keep the clothes. but u have to be skinny no anyrexic and you have to be tall not giant but the best thing is it doesnt matter if your ugly coz the proffesional people will make you look preety and thats anooother advantage. i’d love to be a model ( i dont think anyone is ugly i reackon everyones pretty though =)
Hi I work in child care and I totally agree with Judy we do it for the love of the job beacuse the money isn’t much
I THINK THE BEST IN MY SELF WITH MY LIFE I WOOD LIKE TBE TECHER SO BECOUS TECHER IS THE FIEST FOR EVRETHNG
According to this link its the best job in the world , Go figure lol
http://au.travel.yahoo.com/090506/4/265wj.html
getting paid to travel the world and learn new things as well as teaching others out there about your experiences.
I agree, working with kids is the most rewarding job ever.
The best job in the world, in my opinion, would have to be a tv motoring journalist. If you wanna know what they do for a living, just watch some episodes of TopGear and find out. But I’m at uni studying journalism and my reason for that is because I want to be the next-generation Jeremy Clarkson.
I mean, who wouldn’t want to test-drive exotic cars in locations around the world ( apart from the hippies who think that cars are “baby-killers” even though they go round in old bombs )? I certainly want to. It’s not everyday that you get to test drive a Lamborghini Murcielago? Or a Mercedes-Benz CLS55AMG? Or on the other end of the scale, a worn-out 1991 Mitsubishi Starion Turbo worth less than AUD$2000?
In essence, I believe that the three hosts of TopGear ( and I mean UK TopGear ) have the best jobs in the world because apart from getting shot at by rednecks in Alabama, it involves nothing but having fun and enjoying what’s coming to our roads in the near future. End of discussion.
The best job in the world is that of any mother who would do anything for her child/ren. Who else would dress up as a clown, go to the school and celebrate with all the children and Teachers, everyone’s birthday once a year?? Who else sits up at night and wonders and worries if she is doing the right thing for her child, when that child says “I hate you” because she put her foot down and did not allow the child to go to a party where she knew drugs would be passed around. And it is Mum, who, on Mother’s Day glows when her children give her burnt toast, runny eggs and coffee made up of six spoons of coffee, one spoon of sugar and more milk than water.
Good luck to the gentleman that got ‘the dream job’ but I wouldn’t go back and do anything different for my Mum and I hope my children feel the same way about me.
To score the best job in the world you have to be American. That’s the only way you can get to be a “Top Gun” U. S. Navy jet fighter pilot. Think about it. You get to fly the F/A 18 Super Hornet, one of the deadliest jet fighters on the planet (with more power than every car on the Bathurst grid combined – what a toy to play with), take off from and land on the most powerful ships in the history of the world’s navies, break the sound barrier and get paid for it! All the while getting to travel the whole world, food, health and shore leave into the bargain. What could be better?
Teaching people who really want to learn
Working with and for endangered wildlife. It is what I do and it is the most rewarding job in the world. Being a mum is pretty great too though
Money is everything in this century. no money in your pocket, any best job also will not enjoying your life basic needs
definitely being a porn star!!!!!
i think the best job in the world is being a mummy i love it and its grate fun
i have the best job ever a stay at home mum with 6 childs.
Bit corny, but as a new mum….. being a parent is the best job I have ever had!
Any job that fulfills your requirements is the best job in the world.
I think the best job in the world is that of a traveling food TV journalist or just being a TV journalist who gets to travel all over the world.
The best job in the world is the one that makes you happy to get out of bed in the morning and sorry to leave in the afternoon
I have the best job in the world…. a stay at home mum to my 7 1/2 month old baby girl
Realestate agents- the most overpaid underworked, underachieving profession ever.
..is no job….being on a pension! True, the money is not that much, but there is more to life security and freedom than money. If you accept the lifestyle a pension financially resticts you to, and to many this is extremely difficult, but it is attainable, this form of income permist you completelt freedom in life. There is no worry in becoming unemployed…no worries in being commanded by ‘bosses” in doing something lest you get fired and it’s your choice to either sleep in in the mroning..or not. Ah….complete freedom!
Being a stay at home mum. Knowing that you are the heart of the home is just ONE of the many rewards.
best job in world
Archaeologist/Historian
Best job in the world is being a Dad. I love it!
TO ME THE BEST JOB IN THE WORLD IS TO HELP
POOR PEOPLE WHO NEED LOVE, CARE AND COMPASSION.
I reckon the best job in world would to be an ex-Spice girl!! All they have to do now is show up somewhere random and I bet they cop a pay check for it!!!
I agree being a mum must be the best job in the world because looking at the appalling way kids behave you must not do anything!
LOOKS LIKE THE MUMS HAVE IT according to comments made in the above
My dream job is to become a composer for music in the video game and multimedia industry, a job I’m actively working towards with school and real life experience.
For me the best job I have ever had was working on a cruise ship. I got to travel the world, earn lots of money and made lots of friends….now for me the best is being a mother to my kids.
The best job in the world is when you enjoy it, go to work happily every morning and get job satisfaction. Money is secondary.
i run an independent record label, if i could afford to step it up a wee bit id say mine would be the best job in the world. that or a rock star pre 90s.
I think any job that makes you happy to be there! doesn’t matter what the job entails, I think just because on TV, with that job on Hamilton Island, it shows out to be perfect – no job is perfect.
Doing voluntary work is also very rewarding and you can get a lot of pleasure out of doing that, you don’t have to be in a highly paid job to have the best job in the world, I have to rely on a pension and I must agree, with a previous comment about pensions, as much as I would like paid work, it dosen’t bother me one way or another.
Elle McPhersons bikini line wax supervisor
Being a mum!
I would absolutely adore to live in New York City and work as a writer for a newspaper. But when you have a name like mine and you are a 13 year old in australia, it can be hard :SS
Doing what im doing right now….. stay at home dad who looks after and runs around after his kids while the wife works… thats the best job in the world…..
Tank crew, I think, especially inside the world’s greatest main battle tank, such as: Merkava Mk4, M1A2 Abrams, Leopard 2A6M, AMX Leclerc, Challenger Mk2. But definitely not inside the Soviet era Tanks. I believe tank should be used against tank, not against civilian. Btw…Mack, you’re fired!!!! LOL
being a father and husband does it for me…………
Best job in today’s recession era? Has to be any job that pays ur expenses and have a decent life. Once u have a stable work market, it’s easier to say that being a lawyer, a nurse, a doctor, an engineer or a scientist or any damn job that u grew dreaming about is the best job in the world.
Mine as a director/producer, because I can sit around all day on my fat lazy ass bangin’ in the board room, and because I created Star Wars & Indiana Jones!! All u people r working for peanuts!!
Police Officer
definitely a hedge fund manager…especially when ur employed at this time of economic downturn…
ur gona get whoppin huge profit as soon as the economy goes back to normal…
i’d love to be one for a few years..and use the tens of millions of salary to setup my own business or just put em in bank and i can jus kick back and live off the interest..