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Andrea Pauri

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What kind of job would you do if you were not worried about the income?

With a Basic Income and so with a economic-freedom, which job do u do?

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  • wu jianwen

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    Jul 13 2011: 111111111111112
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    Ehab Yassir

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    Apr 26 2011: Voluntary works while travelling around the world and i would enjoy that to be teaching

  • Christine Simard 10+

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    Mar 24 2011: I would do some good around me. I would dedicate myself in helping people who don't have the means to express their feelings and thoughts freely.

    I would help children and grown ups deal with mental illness because most of the time, this is still a big taboo and people who suffer from it can't talk about it. Nor do people who live with them. Children with mental illness are not even properly acknowledged for.

    I would also help people who are stuck in an unhealthy work environnement get the help they deserve. So many people are just helpless in a difficult job situation and just can't talk about it and don't know how to get out of it. Abuse in the workplace is kept silent.

  • Robertson Klaingar

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    Mar 23 2011: Professional Couch Potato (PCP?)

    Nah. actually I would try to go and help fight desertification by learning more about permaculture and the groassis waterboxx system. Try to re-green stuff so we could get more food to more remote areas.
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    Frederick Dsouza

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    Mar 23 2011: i will do all type of job whatever i know cause i strogly belief we dont need to have a degree of any skills cause we are born with skills and will learn more from others as i share my skills .Just beccause someone has degree does not mean the person know all in that feild as some colleges are fake and scam, but at present for past two years i am already working without money part time for The Freeconomy Community www.justfortheloveofit.org where everybody help each other just for the love of it .Its PAY IT FORWARD concept no barter and hoping one day if all work according to such concept of freeconomy we all wont need money at all as reward.People who do work just for the love of it ,usually do two persons work, rest can just sit at home doing nothing , however,its impossible for anyone healthy not to move their body cause then not moving body can cause some other sickness. Most of the job is done by machine .

  • Zach Goldie

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    Mar 23 2011: With a year left in my engineering degree, this is certainly something I've been considering recently. In the last couple of years I've gained an ever increasing love of music, and would love to dedicate my life to it. However, the work required to make a living out of music is long, hard, and unreliable, and may even drain the joy out of it. The big decision is whether I just follow my current engineering career path, with music as a hobby, or go all out and study music with the hopes of making it my life.

    One hell of a decision.

  • steven wright

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    Mar 23 2011: i'd have a hammer and a list of albanian sex traffickers in europe

  • Amandeep Panwar

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    Mar 23 2011: I would become a PRIMARY SCHOOL teacher... Nothing is better than spreading education...
    It will help the poor ones to break themselves out of the chains of Poverty...THE SUREST WAY FOR THEM is ONLY THE EDUCATION and MOTIVATION!!
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    Zanele Shongwe

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    Mar 23 2011: I'd be a plastic surgeon for burned children, at a Public Hospital! I would be changing childrens life in every hour of everyday of my adult life. I would be making a profound difference to the people who need it most but dont have money for private hospitals and doctors. Unfortunately my parents did not have money to put me through to University. I had to find a job and help raise my siblings, hence I had studied part time for both my degrees and paid for my studies all this time. Having said that, I have adopted two orphans through an "Adopt A Child Programme" here at work, who I support financially on a monthly basis. For me its about making a difference in the lives of those that are less fortunate, however small!
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    Linus Wong

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    Mar 22 2011: Actually this is a problem that worries me mostly these years. I think I've done so many choices on consideration about income that I almost lose my ability to think about a question like this. Maybe I would like to be an TV Tour Show host who can travel around the world. Hope one day I could realize my dream. Bless.
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    Ankur Khandelwal

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    Mar 22 2011: I would be either in social service or a researcher...

  • Ryan Clark

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    Mar 22 2011: I think I'd continue in my chosen profession as an ESL teacher. I enjoy working with kids and seeing them progress from using mostly L1 into varying levels of English competency.
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    Anna Novikova 100+

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    Mar 22 2011: I'd continue to be a translator, because I adore this kind of job. My dream is to translate fiction. Also I'd like to be a consulting psychologist that is not very popular in Russia now. And much of travelling, reading, thinking and volunteering!
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    Pranay Bhatia 500+

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    Mar 22 2011: I would become a traveler and explore the world...or an organic farmer

  • Antonio Maurtua

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    Mar 22 2011: If you have a "vocation" and that is how you choose your "job" which means your are doing what you like to do to begin with, and you're happy when your doing it, then income becomes a secondary issue. So to answer your question directly, I would continue to do what I presently do. I do not consider it a job. It is much beyond that. I only wish that more individuals would subscribe to the fact that money is not the deity that many would have us believe and that it does not make the world go around rather it causes the tail to wag the dog. Doing what you like is a gift to society.

  • Jon Wolfe

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    Mar 22 2011: I would own and operate and Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) farm. As soon as I have enough capitiol I will do just that.

  • SL Chapelle

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    Mar 21 2011: I would conduct laughter workshops at High Schools throughout the world
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    M.A. Lucas-Green

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    Mar 21 2011: Okay, an adoptive parent and an organic farmer.
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    John Bulmer

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    Mar 21 2011: Thank you for the question. I am at the point in life where income does not matter to me. I am not wealthy but I do have the resources to survive - in the financial, mental and physical sense.

    For now, I continue to work at my present job. Not for any love of the work, but because it is what I do. Today mind you I spent hours following various TED conversations. Tomorrow it will be deciding on whether to pursue another job while continuing to spread the sustainability message.

    I will continue to explore new areas and new opportunities in my profession by following the basic requirement I have established for a new job - of which the income level is not on the list.

    My present interest is on sustainability and spreading the message that Our Planet needs Our Help. The only thing we need to survive is the one thing we purposely destroy.

    I find I devote more time to promoting a paradigm shift in thinking and perhaps that is what I will do once I decide that working is hindering me from positively promoting the message.

  • Aude Wilkins

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    Mar 21 2011: I would be a humanitarian developement worker. However instead of jumping into it, I am actually working now to put money on the side for in 10 years take a pay cute and to be able to travel to aid camps.
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    Jenn Gbur

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    Mar 21 2011: I'd become a student of the world..explore new places, meet new people..then share what I learn (via a book, blog, teaching, etc).
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    L Martin Reed

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    Mar 21 2011: I would want to go back and be a homesteader as I did in my twenties: milking goats, gardening, making cheese, planting edibles, stalking the wild asparagus and sell the extra produce at a farm stand but the new twist is to do my acupuncture out of the house.
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    Anna Hoffmann

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    Mar 20 2011: I would create enormous sculptures, made of all kinds of scrap, so big that I would have to have a crane in my studio.
    It would be fun to have it in a building were my husband could have his chemistry lab next to my studio. We would have our own entrances and back yards. In that way we could easily choose when to dive into a project, with no contact between us and when to connect at breaks.

  • angela barretto

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    Mar 20 2011: I would like to be a publisher's reader.
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    Qazi Fazli Azeem

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    Mar 20 2011: If this was the case, the best pastime for such a person would be to make it happen for as many people as possible, as with groups and large numbers of interactions and cross-exchanges in ideas, we could collectively achieve in 2 years what takes 20 years to do, in reference to advances in art, design, technology and culture. Humanity would be free of the shackled of consumerism, capitalism and start thinking in terms of 'we' rather than 'me'. Lets work for such a goal. We dont have any alternatives, the way things are going.
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    Timothy Cobbs

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    Mar 20 2011: I would continue on the path of being an inventor, but I would add in public activist. I just want people to be more aware, just in general our society, more in america than most places, we are covering everything up with mass media garbage and it annoys me, so I would like to shed light onto what is good, what we can make better and hopefully bring people together to create a better more stable world we live in.
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