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What is the unlikeliest career that someone you went to school with ended up doing?

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CatDogMonkeyPOW · 28/04/2022 09:00

Shamelessly stolen from Reddit. Did anyone you went to school with end up with a surprising career.

Girl I did my a levels with was a county athletics champion and one of the smartest kids in school. She went on to be a singer in a mediocre girl band.

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TheSummerPalace · 28/04/2022 09:31

Exotic dancer - and the most unlikely girl, as well!

Simonjt · 28/04/2022 09:36

Police officer, he used to sell drugs at school.

TeenPlusCat · 28/04/2022 10:28

I was at school with a girl who went on to arrange the murder of both her parents. (Not sure that counts as a career though).

And a girl about 4 years younger who I remember as very quiet and shy turned into a well know comic actress.

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fishingpaintings · 28/04/2022 10:45

Went to school with an absolute genius who was well into the Mensa category. They dropped out of uni a year in and started working at a fast food place. They're still there, 20 odd years later.

StrangeCondition · 28/04/2022 10:50

A very meek, quiet, shy girl in my class now teaches secondary kids in a not great school, still amazes me but bloody well good for her!

MaeveWiley · 28/04/2022 10:50

Someone who was in my class as school is a professional adventurer and happiness guru. He really is.

AnotherTroyforHertoBurn · 28/04/2022 10:52

In school on Friday, all over the News of the World or equivalent on the Sunday, didn't come back to school on the Monday.

No idea what happened to her.

We were a convent school. Grin

refreshingseahorse · 28/04/2022 10:53

A Vicar. It was a surprising turn of events because we all went to a Catholic school and our teen rebellion was largely atheism based.

PandemelonFelon · 28/04/2022 10:57

We had the school's ex drug dealer become a policeman too.

Quite a few of the rough and tough rugby players are nurses now; they would all make fantastic nurses.

I haven't kept in touch with many people from school so unsure about others.

MartinMartinMarti · 28/04/2022 10:58

White British rugby playing LAD is now an imam in Hong Kong.

TheFlis12345 · 28/04/2022 11:00

A reporter for the BBC. She must have had a lot of elocution lessons as her accent is completely different to the one she had at school!

Chemenger · 28/04/2022 11:01

Very famous dancer with his own modern ballet company.

purpleboy · 28/04/2022 11:17

Mine is the current chancellor of the exchequer Grin

Lapwingslore · 28/04/2022 11:17

Ballet Dancer with the Royal Swedish Ballet Company and the Bolshoi.

I knew she loved ballet, but to me she was just the girl next door but three.

CornishGem1975 · 28/04/2022 11:18

Las Vegas show girl.

PaddleBoardingMomma · 28/04/2022 11:21

A great friend of mine really struggled at school due to dyslexia, had many many mental health issues along the way and we were worried about her for a long time. She is now a senior mental health nurse about to finish her PhD and is married to a neurologist with two beautiful kids. Never would have guessed 15 years ago, couldn't be more proud of her.

Puffalicious · 28/04/2022 11:22

CornishGem1975 · 28/04/2022 11:18

Las Vegas show girl.

LOVE this!

Mine are all quite average. Most interesting: DJ and recording studio and record label owner.

Ihatethenewlook · 28/04/2022 11:26

Very shy, smart, quiet boy came out as gay and now performs drag shows on stage.

RhubarbFairy · 28/04/2022 11:26

Both in my form.

One was captain of the England football squad (not anymore).

The other is a UFC ring girl. Whose entire online profile claims she's five years younger than she is. She still looks incredible though.

dontknowhow2help · 28/04/2022 11:31

TeenPlusCat · 28/04/2022 10:28

I was at school with a girl who went on to arrange the murder of both her parents. (Not sure that counts as a career though).

And a girl about 4 years younger who I remember as very quiet and shy turned into a well know comic actress.

Was girl 1 successful?!

custardbear · 28/04/2022 11:32

Few Footballers, a porn star and I think a rugby player too

TeenPlusCat · 28/04/2022 11:35

@dontknowhow2help Oh very much so. Just looked her up, served 32 years in the USA, being released on parole only recently.

MamboMambo · 28/04/2022 11:40

A girl I knew from nursery age, then all through primary and secondary school and then through college became a pole dancer/stripper for a few years, then out of the blue converted to Islam, married a Muslim man and moved to his home country.

I also know someone who became a pilot, though he always said it's what he would become, it's surprising because he did come across as a bit of a fantasist so no one ever actually believed him.

DreamingOfTowels · 28/04/2022 11:42

MMA fighter, full time influencer and guitarist in a well known band.

most were the sort to not end up getting jobs tbh.

turkeyboots · 28/04/2022 11:45

Founder of a famous computer game company.

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