My ideal job would be to do research in the recent line of animal genetic and trying to improve gene therapy in animals. For those who ignore the topic , this is a branch of medicine created about 10 years ago . The main objetive of the gene therapy is to cure hereditary and some acquired disease like Diabetes , Muscular Distrofia and also blidness by the introduction of healthy genes throught carriers ( that generally are virus ) in the target cells ( cell that have the faulty gene which expression create molecular disorders which together origin the disease) , this is a very dangerous practice because the virus do not always reach their objetive .
So far this line of investigation has had a great advance in human medicine ( see memories of the future , a very good serie of the BBC) but this has not been implemented directly on animals , wich would solve serious hereditary problems experienced by some pets , especially in purebreeds (remember the last video ).
Unfortunately for ethical and technological problems actually gene therapy could only act on body cells and not in germs cells , this mean that the disease can be cure individually but you can not prevent that this disease passed on to future generations .
About work , I think when someone do what he really likes , feels passion for the topic , and also he helps to crate a better world no matters hours or money
