if you could start over again..what would you do?

missindecisive

Id be a veterinary nurse, Rspca inspector or certainly something to do with animal welfare. As a school leaver, the interest in this sort of thing was there, but I simply had no ideas about potential jobs/careers. Even after my A levels I just drifted into the first thing that came along and was miserable for years. I had no help or guidance or support from my parents.
Im too old now to start over and too tied down with family commitments. The best I can do is give my children all the support they need to make the right choices.

bugslet

I took up bellydancing about 10 years ago, since then I've been to festivals throughout the Uk and been taught by people from America, all over Europe, Brazil......they make a living doing that and performing of course. Wish I'd known about it when I was a lot younger!

pinkduvetdiva

Ideally I'd pursue my first love of music.

InsideInsurance

I'm not unhappy with where I've ended up so wouldnt necessarily change anything.

Now maybe start my career a little earlier rather than spending 10 years in call centres (from 15) or I may look to be in a more glamorous part of Financial Services but in theory I could move across even now if I was that interested to do so without a terrible amount of effort.

Hillbilly1

I am a Vet Nurse and it's never too late OP! I teach now and my oldest students have been 64 and 65!

I'd be an accountant, make my money semi retire at 50 and retrain as a vet nurse, or museums and archivist type role..

missindecisive

Really Hillbilly? I wonder if your older students had serious intentions of getting a job out of their training or whether they did it just for something to do ( like a hobby?). Do people stand just as good a chance of employment in their later years? Please I am not trying to offend any one here x

t0rt0ise

I became a nurse but should have become a doctor. I'd have enjoyed the job and the money.

DKLS

I don't think I would change much, other than get a better understanding much earlier on how business actually work, and especially for large corporates and how I fit into that.

Zyx

I work in accounting but should have just went with IT and learned programming early on. I built my first computer and learned HTML when I was 13 and was self-teaching myself a lot in my free time after school but then I just focused on business instead. I'm very creative and smart and could have probably started good making money with apps from a young age. Not Snapchat money but enough to make a career in accounting look like a joke.

elsien

Leave off the drugs, booze and general misbehaviour until after I'd done my A levels. Then I might have actually have passed them and got into my career of choice.

Mrs_Ryan

Worked harder and got into physio. That was what I really wanted to do but I got my first proper boyfriend around the time of my GCSE's and they went down the khazi somewhat...