If you could start over, what would you do?

[lennyhenryslaugh]

If you were 40, no money, no kids, no job and you had the opportunity to start over completely , what would you do?

Watching with interest, op. In the space of a few years I've lost my home, my job, my employability (apparently - I've applied for hundreds of jobs, I have a master's and nearly 30 yrs of work experience, I'm about to start a temp Xmas job at £8.40 an hour with a 60mile commute). I'm searching for inspiration too!

No money to retrain
Or move ?

I guess you'll have to get any job you can get and earn some money before you can think of doing anything else

I'd get bar work

You'll make friends that way too

I’d see if I could do volunteer work overseas. Hopefully seeing first hand the type of lives many people have to live would help me count my blessings.

Failing that, I’d try to get evening work (maybe in a bar) and then use the day time to study or volunteer to work with animals or children.

It would depend on how I ended up in that situation for me.

Why would it depend?

I'd assume you had a shit time to have no job and money at 40 so do you want to stay near family and friends ?

Why would it depend?

Because it might tell me what my priorities are. Is my housing at risk and I need to take any job to have an income? Am I recently single and wanting children before it’s too late? Am I capable of further education?

It’s a fairly drastic situation and it depends how urgent everything is.

The thread was more a chat, theoretical, pie in the sky. If you could, what would you do?

Oh theoretically?

I'd find the love of my life and be happy ever after , have fantastic sex and money pouring from my ears , lots of holidays to see the world , spoil my family etc

I'd buy an idyllic cottage in the Lakes and hide away there reading as much as possible

The problem with that scenario is that you need at least some money to be able to start over completely. Otherwise you’re stuffed.

I’d think about WWOOFing for a while although if BREXIT happens, that would be a lot harder logistically. But I’d still need some cash.

What is WWOOFing??!

Ah googled :
There is no international WWOOF membership, so you'll have to buy a membership from each WWOOFing country's organization (WWOOF is made up of almost a hundred organizations). Annual membership usually costs around $30 USD per country. You don't need any previous experience in farming to do this, just a desire to work.29 Dec 2018

Even for that you need money

Yup. And for travel and incidental expenses.

Maybe I’d seek a position as live-in help. Preferably for a rich person, who is grumpy and introverted but gradually I win them over, they thaw and show their true, kindly nature... we fall in love, marry and live happily ever after in their beautiful country mansion. We have many animals. Perhaps we take in an orphan or two, who delight our simple hears with their merry ways.

*hearts