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    Duntpasstome Well-Known Member

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    If you could go back and money wasnt a big driver for you what job would you have loved to do?

    Mine is probably a Social Worker i bet it is really tough going at times but i bet it is so rewarding as well.

    Or a paranormal investigator
     
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    Weirdly, I'd love to be a town planner or an urban planner or whatever they're called these days.
     
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    Loko the Tyke Administrator Staff Member Admin

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    I wanted to be a sports journalists. My Mum pulled some strings and got me my work experience in the press room of the Wakefield Express (rather than in the printing room like advertised on the school board).

    Loved it. Had a dozen or so short news articles published, went ‘on tour’ with the top journo including a couple of visits to court and some interviews. Then they sat me down and told me all the exams and courses I’d need to take……… at which point I gave up on that dream.
     
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    I did mine at the Examiner in 1996. Similar experience to you really. The crap starting salary put me off in the end I think. Enjoyed my fortnight there though.

    If I could wind the clock back I would have done either a photography or psychology degree. I got into the field I wanted though in the end :)

    Dream job would probably be freelancing around the world for National Geographic.
     
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    I'd been lining myself up to be a forensic crime scene investigator, then at 16 I had the most horrific and graphic nightmare about sifting through dismembered bodies in plastic bags in a meat warehouse.
    Went right off the idea and never wanted to do anything similar again.
     
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    Pilot. Always wanted to be one as a kid but never believed I was bright enough to do it, plus the costs involved in training are high. I sometimes just wish I’d given it a go, I might have failed but I’ll never know now.
     
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    A professional dancer. I can’t watch anything with people dancing without being filled with regret.
     
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    I am one, you're not missing out.
     
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    Ha, I'll have a rethink then!
     
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    I wanted to be a train driver.
     
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    Was always going to be a writer. Lost a lot of confidence in my own ability as I got older though. If I was any good at it I'd love to restore items like they do on Repair shop, that must be so satisfying.
     
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    Air Traffic Controller, got pillocked at school for saying what I wanted, even went to careers office and told them my ambition but sadly never saw it through, even now when I go to an airport I always have a little think of what could have been...........
     
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    Forensic detective or air crash investigation
     
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    Lighthouse keeper.. just me and a little dog and a few good books.
     
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    I went into careers said not bothered what job I get ,I just want to be outstanding in my field!

    ........ he got me a job as a scarecrow :)
     
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    My nephew passed his pilot licence before his driving licence - he now flies Russian oligarchs around on their private 737s... IIRC it cost my BIL around £100k to for the training to that level!

    As for me, at 15-18 I wanted to be an architect, but didn't have the drawing abilities or the right A levels to get into uni to study it. 30 years later I ended up an architect, but in IT rather than buildings...
     
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    I would not alter anything I did because I enjoyed working in the industry I worked in from 1965 to 1990 great people to work with comradery and all that.
     
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    I was a bright enough lad but a series of bad decisions and circumstance meant I went backwards in the critical 5th / 6th form years. I was good at French and wanted to be an interpreter in the EEC buildings in Brussels you saw a lot on the news back in the early 80's. Such was my feckupability, I got a job lifting heavy boxes and learnt to drive a forklift truck. .

    Many years later, I now have a reasonably well paid job in IT, but it is full-on, and more and more a younger mans game. Now I long for the pressure free days of driving my forklift around a big warehouse.
     
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    Mechanic. I was obsessed with cars as a kid. Not so much anymore, but I don't think I grew out of it as such.

    I wanted to be one when I was at school. My uncle asked me what I was predicted to get in my GCSE's and he talked me into accounting (despite not being an accountant himself). I found out very quickly when I was at college that it wasn't for me.

    Did a Business degree at Uni because I didn't know what I wanted to do. Came out of uni and couldn't get a job. Ended up at a betting shop, then a call centre.

    I'm now doing something which is vaguely linked to my degree, and earning alright money, but it's taken me the best part of 16 years to get here.
     
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    When pits shut in early 90s I took my dream job Motorcycle Courier and I loved it based in Leeds delivered to different locations in the UK daily did it for 9 years moved on to van then still miss the it though
     
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