If you were 25 again, what job would you do?

[Anonbee]

For context, I'm 25 and looking to change career. I own a house so already have financial commitments. No children. I currently live in NW England. I have a degree already so can't re-train, and have spent the last few years working in private nurseries, schools and supply teaching. I am bored and I feel so down that I have no career and I'm deeply unhappy with my working life/disappointed in myself for not choosing a degree that leads to jobs I could enjoy and earn well from. I'm looking for jobs that pay around 25k.
If you were 25 again, what would you do? What career would you have chosen?

I’d be looking for something that had a fair amount of open jobs in my local area.

Generally, the following pay well and seem to be a number of job ads frequently looking for people:

Quantity Surveyor
Project Planner
Accountant
Town Planner

I retrained at 25, was earning 26k at 27 and now on 60k+ at 31. But what I was interested in/am naturally good at will be totally different to what you have an interest in.

@MaverickDanger What do you mean by retraining, at degree level or through a company?
I'd definitely be open to retaining, but just complicated with having to pay a mortgage alongside this.

I paid for my own, but friends have used postgraduate loans, applied for grants or gone into schemes where they pay for them - ie Big 4 schemes.

What is your background & what are you interested in doing? Lots of schemes for example to get women into engineering at the moment.

I'd be an accountant. An easily understood job that my dad can understand, so he stops saying "tell me again what your job is....... no, still don't get it!"

What's your degree in? Presumably you have PGCE if you've been doing supply teaching? Have you not been able to get a FT teaching job or do you not want one?

I’d be looking for something that had a fair amount of open jobs in my local area.

I disagree with this, you are young (and single?) and should spend your 20s following the work. Plenty time to settle later on. I'd rent out the house to cover the mortgage and go and TEFL or something for a bit. Have an adventure.

I would still be an accountant if I knew how things would work out as I've always been employed on a decent salary and been able to challenge myself regularly.

If I followed a dream job it would be a midwife but that's such a difficult job which is made unnecessarily harder, I wouldn't change the choice I made.

I moved for work @JaninaDuszejko - come back to bite me now that we have settled down, away from family because of work, and it causes nightmares for having family support.

Perhaps I should have elaborated. Go into a career where there is a shortage of staff therefore plenty of jobs. Either locally or further afield. Then you have options for later in life.

I'd get into cyber security if I started again.

Currently a Buyer on £42k. I do enjoy it.

If any of these interest you, you could get full student loans for a second degree plus the NHS bursary.

www.healthcareers.nhs.uk/career-planning/study-and-training/considering-or-university/financial-support-university

As you are over 25, they wouldn't means test your parents income so you'd get the full amount of maintenance loan.

I'd be thinking about what you love, what interests you, when you feel the most alive. Then think about your skills, what you can get better at, what is unlikely to be digitised without human involvement in the next couple of decades.

I would've trained as a general nurse and not a mental health nurse. You can work in mental health as a RGN but not the other way round and I'd love to work in A&E.

That or something in IT that pays much better than a nurse!

Electrical Engineer. I have discovered I like working with wires. I can only imagine what I would be able to do if I had the degree to go with it.