Dream jobs: IEEE's list goes to eleven

The latest issue of IEEE Spectrum (you don't read it? what kind of geek are you?) includes, along with a great story on the new breed of massive server farms, their annual Top 10 Dream Jobs list. We beg to differ -- or to amend, anyway.

There's no arguing with the picks; if you can't see why evaluating toys for Wild Planet or designing all-electric dirt bikes or bringing electrical light to remote South Pacific villages is a wicked cool way to earn a paycheck, we're going to pause here while you check your pulse. (You'll have to check the article for the other seven. We also recommend, for the commenters who just can't contain themselves about the DTV switchover, this month's article concerning antenna technology. The photos are gorgeous.)

But can it be that the engineers at IEEE Spectrum can't count? Or was there some editorial meeting in which it was ruled that there's a job so dreamy that it deserved its own article and needed no Dream Jobs! umbrella to make all the nerdim sigh with envy. Because six pages before the big article, there's a mini-profile with Dennis Hwang, and Dennis Hwang does these for a living. And he gets to do them job 50 times a year. Your writer would personally die happy to have done that job just once.