What is the name of my dream job?

Question

Hi all,
I have studied four years in order to become a programmer. I remember the excitement I had two years ago regarding programmer. I came out with ideas and developed them. Ok some of them where pure shit! But I use to enjoy that time and the things I used to learn! The thing I like most was the fact that I had time to develop my ideas!
Then I started working as a programmer! Worked abroad for some time, and was nice. I learnt a lot in two years time. Much more then I learnt in four years of study! However each morning, when going to work I feel sick because I feel this is not what I want to do!
The work of a programmer sucks! I have to spend 8hours a day programming something that I have no interest in!!
I would love to come up with ideas and develop them, have a team of programmers that help me develop that software, sell it, improve it, come up with new ideas, develop them, and so on!!
What is this JOB called??? and where can I find it?
I understand that it is impossible to get such a job only after two years of working, but I would like to know what type of job there is so that I can inspire out of it and know exactly what to search for next time I change work!!
I am a Java Developer, or so I like calling myself! I basically have learnt all I know in Java myself by reading tutorials and books. I know the basics of nearly everything in Java, but am expert in none, and most of the time I have to do extra research on the internet to get something done. I have worked with open source frameworks such as struts, spring and hibernate, but are not used in the country were I live!!
So what should I aim to become when I grow up? (Sort to speak)!! Since I definitely don�t like programming what other people want me to.
I am asking this here because here is a pool of a whole word of different jobs related with IT and thus I believe there are a lot of people that can add some comments on this.
Thanks for any comments!

Answer 1

create your own entreprise!indeed
I had a "dream" job for a while. a guy - who writes books on software process, and is a member of the agile alliance - had an idea for a product, sat on it for 15 years then left his job and started a company. he assembled his team personally, and 8 of us sat in a room and worked to make his idea a reality. he was the management, and he was also the most talented programmer of us all. the team ran beautifully, we rarely had a deadline to work to, save the odd launch here and there, and there was absolutely zero office politics. all we did was write code, toss ideas about, play with the development process and sometimes go karting, or to the pub, or for a curry or something. I actually looked forward to going to work every day, because of this free reign we had, and we all turned out orders of magnitude more code than anywhere else I've ever worked. but the investors got nervous and pulled funding, leaving the project somewhat crippled. nice while it lasted, though, and I learnt more in my short time there than I did at university, and across 5 years experience in other companies
so the answer is: come up with an idea, be expert enough to assemble and manage the perfect team and convince some rich people to lend you lots of money. simple. but be prepared. this guy was routinely doing 18 hour days, 6 days a week (he was a Christian, otherwise he'd undoubtedly be doing 8 days a week). he'd be out and about most of the day doing sales and marketing, flying around the world for meetings and stuff, then come into the office and code for 8-9 hours a night