My husband's aunt asked what I'd do if I won the lottery (after buying a massive house, car etc.) Apparently this is a good way of finding out your dream career, especially if you've never though about it before.

I would eat at a lot of very nice restaurants - so maybe I'm destined to be a food critic! But I'd also learn the bassoon...... so maybe I'd be an amateur player in my spare time.

How about everyone else?

I would buy a new violin Such a typical/expected answer really from someone on these forums But i would
I'd also open my own gymnastics club with all the best equipment there is

Which is weird cause i wanna be a violinist and a gymnastics coach

I think that I have my dream job already but given a few wishes and my youth and beautiful looks over again I would like to be a soloist with WNO. In my spare time I would like to be the Prime Minister of Wales!

I'd never win the lottery as I'd never enter it, but dream job - there's a thought! How could it exist? How can you find something that combines all the things I'm interested in, such as lots of people contact, using interesting software, needlecrafts and foreign languages?? I've come to the conclusion I'd better just find something I like and fill in the other stuff as and when!! I've been working in languages for a while and there's no money in textiles unless you teach, (which I won't!), so I guess I'll just have to make do!

I'd open a music editing/publishing company, and teach Piano part time

I'd probably still be a scientist.... Still hoping to win the lottery one day though

Teaching piano/flute/maths would be my dream job. I would return to that (I had to give up my students due to illness).
I would, if I won the lottery, by myself a house with a grand piano sized room, and use my "grand piano fund" to by myself the grand piano I have always wanted- so I could teach on a lovely instrument.
Ahh, just thinking about it makes me smile!

First and foremost, I would buy my dream oboe - cocobolo body with gold-plated keys - as well as a lifetime supply of both Fortay and Winfield reeds, and THEN i would try and get my novels published, whilst teaching the oboe part-time. Oh and I would have to perform Mozart's oboe concerto with the LSO at least once! But the key word here is dream, I suppose...

id pay someone to give me a record deal, become a world famous singer , and make even more $$$


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My job would be unlikely to change, as I love what I do.

I would look at setting up some kind of scholarship fund, so that keen pupils who could not otherwise learn an instrument would get the chance for some lessons.

That sounds like a great idea, something charitable like that would be good. Setting up music schools in third world countries would be a fun and rewarding project too, I think!

I'd get a vineyard in Germany and make wine
and I'd by a cathedral with a 5 manual organ

Based in a small detached house with separate music/recording studio in South of France
Pair of Bosendorfers

Spend my remaining years making the definitive recordings of the keyboard/piano works of:

Gibbons
Couperin
Scarlatti
Haydn
Mozart
early Skryabin

Host master classes every summer with visiting virtuosi

and take a couple of month long holidays each year to visit and explore a new part of the world.

In real terms my 'dream job' would be a professional artist... which is what I am Yayyyyy

But in fantasy terms, if physical circumstances could be altered, I would like to have been a concert pianist (a bit of me still grieves for the fact I didn't 'make the grade')

If i won the lottery, i would like to buy a big house in the south of France, and learn french properly!
I would have a seperate studio that looks out over the sea that i would put my 2 Steinway concert grands in (and by the sounds of it, i could invite MadTom over to play piano duets!)

I think my dream job would to be an international concert pianist, touring the world, going to lots of new countries and seeing new things, but i realise i'll never be one!
I think my slighty more realistic dream job would to work as a piano teacher/accompanist/occasional soloist with local orchestras, or maybe to teach music in a private school where they actually bother to fund musical education like it should be instead of funding all this sport!

Jacob.

I'd stop worrying about student debt! I'd live pretty much the same life, except that I wouldn't put so many restraints on my spending. I'd spend ages wandering round the supermarket (Marks and Spencers, in fact) actually putting things in my trolley instead of just wanting to, I'd spend lots of time in Banks music shop, I think... I'd go out more than a couple of times a week, and I'd buy people drinks more often. I'd still live in the same sort of house next year, but I would stop worrying about rent.

I think I'd stay at uni and do a masters degree, and maybe take my education even further. I think if I'd really won enough money to live on forever, after finishing my education, I'd buy a lovely house, and a piano, and take lots of music lessons and learn languages, since I'd have so much spare time, and every weekend I'd jet off to a country to practise a language, and maybe see an opera/musical/concert.

I don't think any of that equates to a dream job though!

I dunno Lucky, sounds pretty ideal to me. I'd also enjoy being able to go shopping, without having to stop myself everytime I think about getting something that isn't essential.

For myself, I think I'd still follow my current plan. But I might also forget the whole engineering thing, and concentrate on writing, which is what I've always wanted to do. I've never really had the confidence in my work though...

At the risk of sounding like Pollyanna, I think I am really lucky because I adore my job and always have (I'm a paediatrician). The only thing I might change is a bit more of a work-life balance so I could pursue my two hobbies which are music and creative writing more thoroughly. Oh and there has always been a tiny bit of me that yearned to be an actress, but that is never going to happen!