What Would Your Ideal Career Change Be For 2012?
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I would opt for for a career change in green energy.
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Well too late now but I have always wanted to teach maths .... I adore the subject and am so aware just how poor some people are at it. It's the basis of so much in life nowadays and only second to communicative english as a discipline. I went around the office once and asked people to confirm that 43% of £81 is exactly the same as 81% of £43. Not too many people agreed!
Like Snoops, it's too late for me too, but I would like to do what I originally wanted to do and be an art restorer/conservator. Oh, well, maybe in my next life!
Fruit Farmer.
Agrarian defintely with a few chickens.
One day!
Too late for me too, but I still sometimes think I should have followed my first instinct and studied medicine and become a pathologist.
Failing that, mattress tester in a bed factory would probably suit.
Its never too late - when you say "its too late" or "im too old" then you really are!!!
Well, I really am too old now, Omen. I can't retrain to be a pathologist at sixty bloody two!
However, I did actually enjoy my career and I'm happy being retired now.
You sound quite sprightly to me I would have put you as a 35 year old didnt realise you were a wrinkly crinkly!
>;o)
I didn't say I was a wrinkly crinkly, Omen, I just said I was sixty-bloody-two! ;-)
Wow you are pretty cool for any auld yin!
>;o)
Well, I'd give you a run for your money, Omen!!!!!!
If I was back at school, I'd go for medecine. I'd either end up as House, M.D. style misanthropic consultant or in a cushy GP role.
But as for me now? Maybe I'll try my childhood ambition of a novelist or comic book artist.
Not that I have an actual career, but my 'means of earning an income' I would keep exactly as it is now - but do it elsewhere. I have started the relocation already but doubt it will be finalised in 2012 ...... but soon though, very soon.
Interesting. At what age is it too late?
It could be re-training time (e.g. medicine takes 5 years at uni plus 1 year post uni), physical restrictions (e.g. the armed forces don't recruit many people who are over 30) or inability to take a drop in income while the new career is getting established (e.g. you have to support a family).
We live in a world where the decisions you make at 14 (choosing GCSEs, deciding whether or not to take music or sports lessons etc.) can affect the rest of your life. It's crazy! We all live too long nowadays to continue in such an antiquated way of deciding our futures!
You are so right, G-Man.
I wasn't allowed to take all of my preferred subjects at 'A'Level so my chosen career was closed off to me. If I could have postponed the decision for a couple of years, things might have been very different for me.
Its never too late!
Positive vibes man!
Give me those positive vibes.
No "but" , no "maybe" no "dont know"
Be positive
I can i will i am great!
You can tell Ive been doing the Anthony Robbins NLP course cant you and to be honest I htought they were a con until I actually tried them and they do actually work!
All good points G-man, when I look back at the choices I made I wouldn't necessarily have made the same ones with the benefit of hindsight. Being very principled at the time I turned down a very lucrative job because I thought I was being offered it because the boss fancied me and I wanted it on my own merits. How stupid was that??
I was far too young and idealistic, straight out of uni!
And what's worse is that although he did fancy me I was actually the best person for the job, or so he told me a couple of years later!!
He was probably just trying to get into yer pants.
Men are terrible its all they think about at least its the first thing they think about even at job interviews.
I wonder if I employed her what my chances would be!
Guaranteed.
Men are simple.
Its women who are complicated and tend to overcomplicate the simplest of issues.
I was already at the company OD, he was MD and wanted me to transfer to a different dept - would have meant lots of foreign travel together.
I've been on a few interviewing panels in my time, can't imagine all those men looking at me in that way! Ex says no one else will ever have me, but I'd rather be on my own than with the wrong one again!
Yes quite right nothing worse than being with the wrong person and knowing it.
Believe me the first thing a man of any age thinks when a female inteviewee walks in is her rating on the office totty chart - Every office has one - some like my last one even has one printed out!
lol
I wonder how guys would feel to see their name at the bottom of the womens office totty chart - itsd actually quite demeaning a bit like being voted out of that nonsense big brother knowing everyone hates you more than the next person.
I'm going to be paranoid next time I go to a job interview now you said that! Thank God I'm not in a job where I interview others any more!!
I'm retired now CS but if I was young and fit enough to start out again then I would reopen a bakery in my local village.
I live in a coastal area with a high percentage of retired senior folk who mourn the loss of our local bakers and butcher.
Both shops are empty but still there.
The butcher closed due to current market and fiscal problems but the baker died and his wife retired leaving the business as a going concern.
I'm sure someone eventually will get it going again, I do hope so but no it won't be me.
I took early retirement from teaching Art & Design and am very content but judging from all the property television programmes I watch/ interior magazines I buy/living rooms I peep into as we drive by on a dark evening/fun I have changing around the furniture in our house on a regular basis/ projects I create for myself/I think I would still be gainfully employed if I had done Interior Design. And reading through the Sunday Times yesterday I was gobsmacked to learn that someone can charge 350 pounds a day to consult clients on decluttering their houses...now that's what I can my line! I love transformation.
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