On the subject of careers/jobs....

[JP_]

Knowing what you know now, if you had your time over again would you make the same career choice or do something completely different?

Not at all! I messed up at school, and the school and parents failed to spot my strengths and see advise on career choices.
I was really good at Newtonian mechanics, and also technical drawing. But I was terrible at "pure maths", I pretty much failed maths at A level, even though I scored over 90% in mechanics. The only subject that I really got engrossed in was design - I would work all night getting my projects perfect before submitting.

Only after doing extensions on my own homes, I rediscovered an interest in designing and planning. I visited my first architect and saw them doing some work, and thought, that looks so easy now with their computers. I should have been an architect.

Or, I also discovered an interest in health later in life, and did a 2 year course with the OU, which I breezed through. Looking through old school reports, my biology teacher tried to encourage me to continue with biology.

But instead I took topics that were out of my depth (maths, physics, astrophysics) then got a degree that took me nowhere at first, and I fell into banking work in London, before becoming a web guy and writer, and finally where I am now. I am happy now, but I do wonder how things would be if I'd become an architect or industrial designer or something like that and actually followed a career from school/college. Many of my friends did this and have a lot more money than I do now, and don't need to do DIY at all!

 

[crystal ball]

Looking around at the millionaires in my area, I should have been a scrap man

 

[Mottie]

As it was it didn't but I'm not sorry for the life I've had.

I’m glad Conny felt this way. He's not been heard of for a while now so I can only presume the worse.

 

[denso13]

I’m glad Conny felt this way. He's not been heard of for a while now so I can only presume the worse.

 

[Deleted member 294929]

When I see a thread with Conny, I hope it's a new post.

Thinking of you Conny x

 

[charliegolf]

I squandered my education at school age. I wish I hadn't. All I wanted to do was fly in the RAF. I did, but not as a pilot due to a lack of some very low level quals.

 

[Wayners]

Yeah.
I'd go all out to become a deep sea welder.

 

[Deleted member 294929]

I squandered my education at school age. I wish I hadn't. All I wanted to do was fly in the RAF. I did, but not as a pilot due to a lack of some very low level quals.

Same same. I tell my girls to be good at school and learn languages.

It has held me back no end

 

[Deleted member 192609]

I wish I'd not been told at school that only straight A students who went to Oxford or Cambridge were able to be commercial pilots...

I found that was a load of BS five years later on my first flight as cabin crew when I was invited into the flight deck by two perfectly normal blokes, one of whom had been in the RAF, the other had dropped out of school and applied to a cadetship scheme!

Unfortunately at that point the cadetships had gone, I had no money for training and my eyesight needed some attention so I gave up all hope.

16 years later I tried again when I had the money for training and found that my eyesight could be corrected with decent glasses!

Unfortunately in the intervening years I'd had some issues with depression so I wasn't able to get a medical...

I now stick to sound engineering, it's not bad to be fair and it pays a lot better than the first 5-10 years of piloting would have!

 

[Koolpc]

I should have followed my dream and been a test pilot for Airfix!

 

[IT Minion]

Reported the Ai spambot. Do people not realise that's what's happening with these thread resurrections or do we not care?

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[JonathanM]

Reported the Ai spambot. Do people not realise that's what's happening with these thread resurrections or do we not care?

I didn't realise! Is there any risk in any way?

 

[Deleted member 192609]

Reported the Ai spambot. Do people not realise that's what's happening with these thread resurrections or do we not care?

How was anyone to know until the second post?!

 

[Mottie]

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Reported the Ai spambot. Do people not realise that's what's happening with these thread resurrections or do we not care?

I just think it’s either a troll signing up and trying to put a few innocuous posts in before starting their trolling or someone about to spam something.

 

[IT Minion]

How was anyone to know until the second post?!

Spend enough time with ChatGPT and you can spot them early.