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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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..when you were young?
Did you follow dream career plan or are you a million miles from it now?
At crossroads re study and work and would love to hear if anyone really ends up where they want to.. |
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"..when you were young?
Did you follow dream career plan or are you a million miles from it now?
At crossroads re study and work and would love to hear if anyone really ends up where they want to.."
I was crazy into reading when i was younger (still am, just harder to find time) so i always figured my dream job would be a librarian  
Instead i fell into retail.. dammit!  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Started working in a kitchen to save for college to become a architect and never left it or looked back taken me over the world and I’m happiest in a kitchen lol had no intention of becoming a chef tho sometimes things just happen x  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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When I was 7 I seen a man welding and I found it an amazing experience so he let me have a go and told me the basics so at 16 I left school to start an Apprenticeship As a fitter fabricator which I completed Then worked for 10 years in the engineering Industry Before going it on my own. No different than motorcycle r fab lol when the bug bites it’s hard to get it out of your system !!  |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Apparently at the tender age of 5 I told my mother I wanted to be a stripper.
Maybe there's still time. 
Worldly 5yr old!
I dread to think what I saw to make me want that. "
Maybe you confused it with naturist??
(I know a great counsellor ) |
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"Apparently at the tender age of 5 I told my mother I wanted to be a stripper.
Maybe there's still time.
Worldly 5yr old!
I dread to think what I saw to make me want that.
Maybe you confused it with naturist??
(I know a great counsellor)"
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I really wanted to be a paramedic. Im not a paramedic but im in a job i love and im passionate about. Sometimes what we want isn't always what we get  "
Happiness isn't in getting what you want, it's about wanting what you get |
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"I really wanted to be a paramedic. Im not a paramedic but im in a job i love and im passionate about. Sometimes what we want isn't always what we get
Happiness isn't in getting what you want, it's about wanting what you get "
Exactly I'm very lucky .. we all moan but i really love my choosen career.. which i came to in my 30s btw. Not what i thought I'd do after LC |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I really wanted to be a paramedic. Im not a paramedic but im in a job i love and im passionate about. Sometimes what we want isn't always what we get
Happiness isn't in getting what you want, it's about wanting what you get
Exactly I'm very lucky .. we all moan but i really love my choosen career.. which i came to in my 30s btw. Not what i thought I'd do after LC "
Same, mine is neither what I wanted as a kid, nor is it what I studied at uni, but I enjoy it. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"As a small kid I wanted to be a soldier but learned that I'd have to do as I was told.
As a teenager I wanted to be a biotechnician but ended up a design engineer. "
Never wanted to be a pastry chef Laid? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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When I was just a kid I always dreamed of doing what I am...
Unfortunately what I do now isn’t as exciting as what it used to be.
31 years this year and still going strong  |
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By *adame BWoman
over a year ago
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As a child I wanted to be a teacher and here I am on fab being bossy
No I don't think we all know what we want to do or what we will be happiest doing...there is a huge difference between the two.
Best of luck with your career move op I hope you are happy in whatever you decide to do |
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"..when you were young?
Did you follow dream career plan or are you a million miles from it now?
At crossroads re study and work and would love to hear if anyone really ends up where they want to.."
Can't share specific details on forums but I was directed down one career path in late teens. I followed it for some time and got pretty much as far as I could. Took a big risk some years later, following what I felt was my forte and I couldn't have been happier. Was a while before I earned the same money, then more, though I was happy going to work almost every day.
Follow your heart OP, after you get your exams |
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I have been very fortunate I followed my dream and have been doing my choose career for over 17yrs I am a carer and I still feel as passionate about of today as I did the very first day I started it's Definetly not the most glamorous jo in the world but I love it it's always good to give something back yes there is the down side of my job where you see people at there lowest ebb only last week I was sitting with a man she he passed away yes if was very sad and yes I was upset but it actually helped me as well because now I know there is nothing to be scared of I think you and up doing a job that suits your personality I know I have |
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By *aid backMan
over a year ago
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"As a small kid I wanted to be a soldier but learned that I'd have to do as I was told.
As a teenager I wanted to be a biotechnician but ended up a design engineer.
Never wanted to be a pastry chef Laid? "
That's one thing I never wanted to do as a job. It would take the fun out of it. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I wanted to be a works driver for Audi like Walter roul. In the mighty group b Quattro. Many years later I was lucky to meet the man himself at rally legends. I ended up selling tractors tho |
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By *oudicaWoman
over a year ago
Kilkenny |
I always knew what I wanted to study in college but never knew what career I would lead me to. So I did my degree and hoped for the best.
After working for a few years I went back to college by night for more qualifications which led to more job options, so I changed career a bit. After another few years I did another post grad and again had new opportunities open to me.
I swore I’d never study again but now I’m thinking maybe just maybe I’ll start something next year...
I gues what my experience has taught me is that you can always change your directon if you’re willing to try and that learning is never boring when it’s something that you want to do and when you know how much it can broaden your horizons.
Maybe those feckin nuns in school were right after all  |
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By *eys00Man
over a year ago
have boots will travel |
"I always knew what I wanted to study in college but never knew what career I would lead me to. So I did my degree and hoped for the best.
After working for a few years I went back to college by night for more qualifications which led to more job options, so I changed career a bit. After another few years I did another post grad and again had new opportunities open to me.
I swore I’d never study again but now I’m thinking maybe just maybe I’ll start something next year...
I gues what my experience has taught me is that you can always change your directon if you’re willing to try and that learning is never boring when it’s something that you want to do and when you know how much it can broaden your horizons.
Maybe those feckin nuns in school were right after all "
I'm similar, I'm happy in my career but finished my post grad last year and looking at doing more next year. It's always good to have an exit strategy! But my god the study is brutal  |
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By *oudicaWoman
over a year ago
Kilkenny |
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I'm similar, I'm happy in my career but finished my post grad last year and looking at doing more next year. It's always good to have an exit strategy! But my god the study is brutal "
Brutal doesn’t do it justice, but isn’t it amazing how you can forget the pain of something when you consider the joy it brings afterwards |
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I wanted first to be a solider but that didn't work out next I wanted to be a paramedic but as I didn't have a licence I did some odd jobs mostly construction. Still thinking of doing the paramedic course in UK. Need to get my C licence sorted first. |
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I am what I've always wanted to be , although it is a shadow of the job I wanted to join . So im keeping hope it will one day be even half of what I wanted . Then I will be satisfied with my decision . Otherwise I'll find a plan B haha |
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By *ir1967Man
over a year ago
in da sticks, london, amsterdam, madrid |
When i was a teenager i wanted to become a military historian , but in the country i grew up it would have required a military career path which was denied to me , So i studied winery . Those were the cheapest drinking years i ever had. After graduating i became a professional musician in a Salsa orquestra . Once i had my fill with traveling so many miles to make a living as a musician i became an accountant and later a business consultant . Still shut luads of mileage but better paid. Now I am in the process to become a luthier ...one day the travel will end and i just enjoy to make a new body of a guitar, forming the curves like the curves of the body of a luscious lady ...it’s living the dream for me |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"In 1994 I was in 1st year in school and we wrote letters to ourselves that were to be put in a time capsule and opened 10 years later in 2004.
I still have the letter. It's a funny read I have to say.
In it I wrote that "I want to be a rock star and fuck loads of bitches"
Well, I ain't a rock star and I don't fuck loads of bitches "
We did the same thing and I actually did what I wrote in my letter which was look after adults with intellectual disabilities. I integrate adults with intellectual disabilities into society and help them live a more "normal" life rather than living in a care home setting. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Notions on being an Aer Lingus Pilot @ 17. Ended up at 37 with a career in IT. Love what I do now and would likely have hated the Pilot job going by chats I've had with others that have been there. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"..when you were young?
Did you follow dream career plan or are you a million miles from it now?
At crossroads re study and work and would love to hear if anyone really ends up where they want to.."
I wanted to be a doctor or a nurse... My twin sister is a doctor and my job is thousands miles away different that I was thinking about it...   |
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