Are you doing the job you wanted to do in your teens?

Sassers

Yes I am.
When I was a kid, I wanted to write and do art. I was offered a place at art college aged 14 but wasn't allowed to go by my secondary school headmaster! You must do your GCSEs (rolls eyes).
I wanted to write and illustrate childrens books or be a tattooist. I ended up being a journo, then went into PR and now marketing. So I am designing and writing all the time.
Very happy!

Deep_In_Debt

In my teens, I wanted to be an Air Stewardess and I achieved that in my 20's for several years.

For the last 25 years I've had mainly office jobs.

jackieblack

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Nope - didn't know what I wanted to do then, still not a clue now, and don't even know where to begin to work out what I want to do!

Same here!
Have been in current job nearly 17 years (mainly because it's convenient) and have resigned myself to (hopefully) being here until retirement now - only 17 more years to go (unless the government change the pension age again).

worried_jim

No, but I've been fortunate with almost all the jobs I've had. 44 now and been at current company (bank) since 2004 and there is a chance of redundancy with the onset of the bots and further automation as we all go digital which should if I'm lucky allow me to retire very early. For me, it's all been about the great people I've worked with.
I did want to be a quarry manager when I was 15, must have been the diggers and dynamite!

z1a

No .

PasturesNew

I didn't know of many jobs to ever have one I intended to do... as a girl I was told to choose nurse, secretary, hairdresser or work at the village factory. I chose secretary. They don't exist now. I had to give that up in about 1985 as they were dying off back then with word processors coming in.

I changed to IT in 1985. That was tough "as a girl" .... and once you're (well) over 40 you don't get picked any more

matelodave

Wanted to go into the RAF when I left school but couldn't pass the medical. Worked for local government for three years which I found pretty boring so I got a job with a large multinational telecoms company with whom I worked for 35 years before being made redundant in 2001 at age 54.

I managed to travel widely both in the UK and visited 45 countries throughout my time with them - it was a great job and I still meet up with a lot of my old colleagues.

Most of us are now in our seventies and eighties and living quite comfortably on our pensions to which we all contributed whilst at work. It's just a shame that the company eventually went bust in 2009 and pensions have been virtually frozen since then.

coffeehound

I’d like to get back to the job I was doing as a teenager! It was a technician in a government facility. Not so many of those kinds of jobs around today.

BookmobileBadGirl

Yes!

I wanted to be a librarian, and I am a librarian. At 30 I was earning about £39,000 so think it all went well despite the ribbing from my friends

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No.

I was adamant I was going to be a nurse in my teens, until my GCSE's results said otherwise.

In my 30's I've even less of an idea what I really want.