What your dream job was (after reading the "are you following your dream" thread).
How do you know what you'll like doing...before you do it?
Did you just always know? Did someone suggest it? Did you just stumble across it? Or a more methodical process?
(this thread may exist already, feel free to merge, lol)
I dont know what my dream job would be, sometimes I think I'd like to do a more clinical therapeautic, "counch and analysis" style job than what I'm doing, I'm a social worker so there's a bit of that but its also more basic assessment and problem solving to be honest.
I just started doing this by accident really, there wasnt anything else that appealed, it didnt particularly appeal either and I had lots of time before during which I considered it could well be a sell out of some of my core principles, although less so than joining the police.
Apart from some of the seriously career orientated types I'd say there are a lot of people in this field who have followed a similar route into the job as me, for a lot of people its a cash cow too, the amount of people I've met who combine both the sorts of disarrayed thinking and acting they are supposed to be counteracting and basic money or status grubbing corruption makes me want to stick it out.
The bible story about "one good man", ie God sparing a population because of one good man or the one good man being able to redeem a situation, appeals to me when I'm struck by how imperfect the world and my field of work really is. Mind you, it was the featuring of the story in Johnny Cash songs which brought it to my attention.