Top Ten Tuesday: Fantasy Jobs edition

(you thought I'd forgotten, didn't you?)

I really love my new job, as much as I can love an 8:30-5:00 job in an office. I'm surrounded by beautiful wilderness with an animal refuge complete with owls, eagles, bobcat, lynx, porcupine, fox, an otter and horses. (They're all "special," which is another story.) I work with smart, funny people who are dedicated to what they're accomplishing. And, there's a cafe on the premises!

But sometimes I think about the paths not taken. Or not open to me due to lack of talent or independent income. Forthwith, my:

Top Ten Fantasy Jobs:

1. Backup singer for Stevie Wonder
2. Doggy daycare worker
3. Food & wine writer for a travel magazine, or travel writer for a food & wine magazine
4. Pastry chef
5. Mural painter
6. Voice-over talent
7. Yarn shop owner
8. Divemaster on a live-aboard boat off the Great Barrier Reef (wait - I did this already! But I'd do it again)
9. Goat farmer: you got your goat cheese, goat's milk and cashmere wool. No goat meat though.
10. Professional flamenco dancer

How about you -- what's your dream job?