What would be your dream job?

What's your Dream Job that relates to firearms?

  • Gun Store sales person

    Votes: 21 9.7%

  • Shooting Range officer

    Votes: 13 6.0%

  • In the Industry/Corporate (i.e. Glock, Hk, S&W, Armalite, etc.)

    Votes: 120 55.6%

  • Gunsmith

    Votes: 39 18.1%

  • Neither, I'd NEVER want to work with firearms!

    Votes: 23 10.6%
  • Total voters
    216
  • Poll closed .
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Actually, I'd like to train law enforcement and security professionals in gunfighting tactics and judgmental shooting.

Oh, yeah! That's exactly what I do! :what::D:D:D:D:D:D:D:cool:
 
Industry... or a job as sergeant of a three-man tactical team in one of America's largest indoor shopping areas.
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I'd like the be the instructor of those choices
 
Lottery Winner. (I'm greedy, so I want several hundred million)

Then I could fund a couple of good shooting sports programs (Hunt of a Lifetime, SCTP, Women in Outdoors, etc.) Get/buy lawyers to challange anti-2A laws. Politic/buy lobbyists and generally be an all around pain to the anti's.

Oh, and I'd shoot and reload more without worrying about the costs. Along with buying some really high-end guns. I think I'd like having to choose what to shoot from among several bespoke shotguns.....
 
Other Considerations would be: Firearms restoration, Punt Gun Tester, Punt Gun historian, The job that the big dude has at that Army museum in Kentucky, Firearm Finder (what did happen to Custis's firearms after he died), Rights Restorer (in places where the right to keep and bear arms has been stolen, seized by illegal parties).

LOTS of choices. Of course, I work in the Defense Industry, so there are some feasible options here...
 
Wonder why people are voting that never want to work with firearms????? As a matter of fact, I wonder why they are here at this forum???
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Someone could be: Older, retired, never wants to work again with anything (but may have to due to finances), only wants to collect pension and buy new toys with the money (oh please let the pension be enough), and wants to go to the range or afield with new toys and safely play and have fun. This will be me by January 01, 2009, maybe sooner.

All the best,
Glenn B
 
Another reason why not to work with guns....

I can understand why some wouldn't want to work around guns, because since it's a "hobby" it may cause overkill. The politics and "behind the scenes" can discourage the simplicity of gun ownership.

On the other hand, why not do something you enjoy and get paid for it?

For example, I love sports. I play and watch sports all the time. And guess what? I work in the sporting goods industry. Do I hate coming to work everyday because of the "overkilling" of sports? Heck no! It keeps me young and informed on the latest and the greatest toys.
 
I think I'm gonna be satisfied with the job I just got-hunting guide on a 40,000 acre lease with free room and board, free booze and ammo!
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TehK1w1 got the gig I want. Sounds like paradise!
 
I would want to be very successful at my chosen non-gun vocation, and have guns as something really fun to mess around with when I'm not working, or when I have a particular job for them like hunting. I like fishing too, but have no interest in being a commercial fisherman. The job I have is the job I want, and guns are a seperate thing.
 
Oh, I dunno. How bout a private free-lance, cash-only security guard. I'd patrol rural summer homes and hunting camps during the off season, Keep my own hours, and carry my own weapons.
 
Probably stay very busy, Building and restoring military arms, train military and LE personel, maybe do a lil importing and some selling of Milsurp guns, possibly even spend a few months every year drivin a truck for my own company gettin to see the country plus the company could pay all my bills if handled right so I could spend alota time on the net tryin to help out amature home gunsmiths ......... oh yea forgot am gettin ready to take off on the road for a few months next month after spendin the last 5 months restoring and building military arms ohhhh and spendin alota time on the net..... ;)
 
I am a fortunate man.

I HAVE my dream job: I am a mad scientist.

There is only one job that could possibly be better: To be a Myth Buster.
 
Since we're dreaming I'd like to be independently wealthy and run a gun store for fun just so I could talk about guns all day. Like Corriea.
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Uh... :uhoh: I'm afraid you're just a teensy bit off of the reality of the situation! Like, well, the wealthy part, the "fun" part, and the talk all day part. :D
 
My whole life has been a series of multiple blessings! I have had literally every, single dream-job that I have ever wanted with the exception of one, but that one I will save for my 2nd retirement.

I retired for the first time at age 36, with full-pay and full-benefits for 8 years. My sole duty was to recover my broken body, and be the world's very best stay-at-home Dad for my daughter's first 8 years of life. Talk about blessed! See, most people would consider an accident that darn near killed you a curse...that accident was a blessing. How many Daddies watched their little girl growing up, 24/7?! And besides, I literally recovered 98 to 99% of my former abilities. That is so rare that I call it a blessing.

I've been a professional martial artist and managed the organization's National Headquarters; I've been a Hunter Safety Instructor; I've had an FFL; I've been a teacher; I've been a junior high & high school principal; and now I'm a tenure-track, Graduate Professor who is fanatic about firearms. I saved my bragging for last: :neener:

To boot, I married that Latin Goddess, exchange student from my high school days, and she remains my gorgeous bride yet now, nearly 25 years. And, for our 20th anniversary, I proposed again, and she said, "Yes", for the second time in my lifetime!!! So, we flew back to Chile and renewed our vows. :D So, what is left for me to do?!

Someday I want to manufacture custom-made 1911s...one at a time. The next time I retire, I will enroll in a training program exclusively for 1911s, obtain my manufacturer's license and do that until I "retire" permanently.

Doc2005
 
Cool thread :D

I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to shoot ME :p
My user-name should give a hint of my dream vocation :cool:

I'm currently working into position to break into paid teaching, a little armorer work and maybe design, make and sell parts-n-bits. A dream unto itself. :D

Follow your dreams!
 
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My dream job would be something like working in the Sales/Marketing etc. Dep. of Glock or any other nice firearm company.
Just don't know how realistic that is...:confused:
 
My dream job isn't gun related, and I pretty much have it already. I get to fiddle with roller coasters all night long.
 
As someone mentioned way back earlier in the thread, Jim Scoutten has a great gig -- television personality who gets to shoot all kinds of great guns AND drive the latest cool cars'n'trucks ... I'd also have to say Michael Bane has a neat job too, going to shooting schools and testing lots of firearms for Shooting Gallery.

If you guys are reading, PM me if you need someone to fill in for you while you're on vacation ...
 
If I make it to retirement without getting maimed or killed, I'd like to work for the DMV. Specifically, the guy that takes pictures of people all day. No Fuss, no fuss, and at the end of the day, the job doesn't follow me home.:banghead:
 
always wanted to be a fish and wildlife officer . but my friend said theres a line as long as a mile waiting to get a spot where i live. hes a park ranger and wants to be one as well !
 
So I come off the road and I'm all tired and grumpy and I say something about my "job," and my Sweetie says, "Job? You don't have a job! You travel around the country and you shoot guns. Thats not a job! Hanging drywall is a job!"

She's right (she's a lawyer, natch)...I have the greatest...vocation...in the world.

Michael B
 
hmm.. its a tough choice, probly competition shooter i know that was mentioned before, but free guns and ammo, is a bonus for doing what i love to do all day every day.
 
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