Yes, they're fine. You can wish that people wouldn't do something, in the same way that you wish people would do something. You can wish you weren't somewhere as well as wishing you were somewhere else.
I am a teacher.
I wish I weren't a teacher.
I wish I were a doctor.
(Note you will hear "I wish I wasn't/was ..." in the last two sentence.)
I am at work.
I wish I weren't (wasn't) at work.
I wish I were (was) in the Maldives.

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