occupation, if you had your time again....

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Following on from the post asking what everyone does for a job.

Just curious, if you could go back and choose again would you have chosen a different career? What would it be?
 
Should've studied more to become a Chiropodist but as I didn't would love to be an Estate agent.I'm naturally nosey and would love to see so many wide varieties of homes and how people live.I also enjoy selling...though not the targets you invariably have to hit to get a bonus
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Confectioner.

I love creating with sugarcraft.

One day, I'd love to have a top end coffee shop with beautiful cakes/cupcakes/petit fours with my sugar creations on.
 
As a very good friend of mine said to me recently : 'when are you going to decide what you want to do when you grow up?!'
(I am very nearly 50)

I think if I had my time again I'd decide on a proper career and stick to it. (whatever it is!)
 
I think i would have liked to have been a teacher because of the holidays, problem is I'm not that keen on kids !
Or i would like to have been a companion to a very very rich old person who had no family but not in a sexual way !
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I didnt apply myself at school the last few yrs..english was good,maths i hated so just didnt bother
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shame really as i wasnt too bad at it,other subjects average.Got me into bishop burton to do my stages and some diploma,which means i have something,what i dont know,lol!
I wish i had apllied myself and gone down the nursing route tbh,still not to old yet and that is the plan in the nxt few yrs
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I would have given up on the horsey jobs long ago and focused on getting myself into finance and accountancy via my education (so I could afford my dream horse, house and car
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As it is I shall just have to keep struggling on, trying to get a job to get me out of horses and in to finance!
 
I wanted to be a vet when I was younger, took all the right exams and then met my now ex husband (go figure!)
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and it all went out the window
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Hindsight is a wonderful thing!
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Im a vet. Would have been smarter to do medicine. I even got a scholarship to switch over after first year of vet. Definitely should have taken it, not because I dont like my job (I love it) but I know i would also love med (always wanted to be a state pathologist OR a vet when i was a kid) and the money is far far better - theres no comparison there really!! Or a dentist (purely for the money - id actually enjoy med, but wouldnt really fancy staring into peoples mouths all day!)
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Or Id have liked to be a journalist, but only in war-zones.
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All very different.
 
When I was younger I wanted to be a vet but now I wish I had either become a journalist or a laywer (criminal) I so didn't want to be an accoutant as most of my family are. I didn't go into the "family" practice but instead into industry and have had some brilliant roles over the years and travelled to places that I would never have been to so I guess its not been all that bad a choice
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Vet, my one big regret. I got the grades but just never really considered it, didn't apply to uni and didn't do work experience. About a year into my equine science degree based in a vet school I worked out that, yes I could have handled it academically, yes I was no worse than the people doing veterinary and yes I would have liked to do it. Too late now, it's the one thing if I had my time again I'd try and get onto veterinary.
 
still working on the first time.

Plan A was the vet thing, didn't work as didn't get in which is very frustrating when you know you could have done it and even more so when you hear of drop outs.

Plan B was never really planned so having done some lab work after my first degree I am now back, ironically at vet school though all my bits are dead, doing a PhD no idea what I'm going to do after that.

part of me thinks I should have done something with a more definite career path, its nice to have options but sometimes think I have too many! Dentistry would have been good for the money but urgh at peoples mouths!
 
Owner of a Funeral Parlour (just sit there and watch the money come in. Christian Ronaldo (loads of money and what a lifestyle). Kate Moss PA (bet that would be interesting). Lucinda Greens PA (would learn loads). Would really like to work at Coolmore Stud (always wanted to go there), working there would be a dream come true. Paris Hiltons mate (lifestyle only, dont like her).Loads more I can think of!
 
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I really wanrted to be a Social Worker, but somehow ended up working with horses! I now work as a support worker but am hoping to get into Uni and train to be a Social Worker next year.

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Snap on two counts!

I went to uni and studied child psych and education, then trained to be a teacher. I have worked as a nanny, supply teacher and now a support worker in residential care (for young people), and I'd like to go back to uni next September to do MA Social Work (with a 6 month old baby
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I wouldn't have changed a thing...of any of it, false paths or not.
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I have enjoyed everything I did, and am very happy looking forward to the things I am going to do in the future, too.
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