Question: what is your dream job

Charlotte Slade answered on 2 Jul 2025: last edited 2 Jul 2025 11:47

My ultimate dream job is to be the founder and head chef of my own special kind of restaurant.

But instead of serving food, this restaurant would serve inventions.

Here’s how it would work:

The Menu (The Ideas): The menu would be filled with big, important problems that need solving. Things like, “How can we make learning science easier for everyone?” or “How can we build a tool to help doctors diagnose illnesses faster?” I would get to choose the problems I’m most passionate about.

The Kitchen (The Team): This is the most important part. My main job would be to build the happiest, most creative, and most supportive kitchen team in the world. I’d find amazing scientists, engineers, and designers who are all excited to work together. My dream is to create a place where people love coming to work, where they feel safe to try wild new ideas (even if they fail!), and where everyone helps each other succeed.

The Food (The Product): Together, my team and I would invent the solutions. We’d build the new educational tool or the new medical software. We’d design it, test it, and then “serve” it to the world to make people’s lives better.

So, my dream job is to have my own “invention restaurant” where I get to decide on the mission and spend my days making sure my team has all the ingredients and support they need to cook up world-changing ideas. My current job is teaching me all the skills I need to one day open the doors.

P.S. Plus, in my restaurant, there would be a mandatory “walk the dog” break every afternoon and an unlimited supply of green tea and my (somewhat experimental) lemon drizzle cake. It’s all part of the blueprint for success.