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

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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.

Year above me, a distinctly average and not exceptionally willowy girl became one of the original 90s supermodels....

so was it
Cindy Crawford
Linda Evangelista
Claudia Schiffer
Elle McPherson
Naomi Campbell
Kate Moss or
Christy Turlington or
Paulina Porizkova?

I think it's fairly obvious!

The good looking rebel who never did any work and frustrated the teachers by failing / not turning up to all his exams went on to be very successful (and as far as I can see have a brilliant time) working for the music industry.

I would describe every one of them as exceptionally willowy

And stunning

It reads as not exceptionally willowy.....

That’s so sad!! I knew bullies were often attracted to police careers but I didn’t know they also liked teaching. I guess it’s that yearning for a power trip 😭

I think you should have to get signed off by a psychologist before you can teach or be in the police.

I thought you were going to say Boris Johnson 😯

Exactly. So none of them match your description

A pop star! Well known bad, doing a turn still at retro festivals.

That’s interesting, two of people who went on to become teachers or head teachers were among the more dominant bullying types in my class. Nothing physical, just being a bit of a ringleader, helping themselves to your crisps without asking, etc.

@Silvercatowner she'd been expelled from school and was working in a circus being fired out of a cannon.

This has had me laughing so much.

Not me but in my dc’s primary school class of 23 kids, one is a ballet dancer and another plays for Man United! Both not unexpected but a bit out of the ordinary for the area we live in.

Yes I love this one as well. Props to your ex peer for cheering us all up 😂

It's not exactly about her career but more of a 'where they ended up' story. I went to a rough comprehensive school in a big city. But there was a gaggle of posh girls who inexplicably went there too.

One of the cleverest, most well-to-do of these girls had very sights set on being an architect. When we were messing about during lessons, she'd be spending time drawing (and I mean technical drawings, not doodling) new buildings and making lists of building materials. When we had to bring in the book we were reading at home for an English lesson, she brought in a book about concrete and its use in building.

At some point along the way (no idea when, where or how) she developed a crippling heroin addiction and became homeless. I've seen her a few times over the years when I've visited my home city. She's unrecognisable, clearly neurologically scarred from the drugs she's used, and eeking out an existence any way she can. It's very sad. I don't see her making it to 40.

My shy, lovely and kind but not particularly academic friend became a croupier at 20, working 9pm-5am and now runs a casino in Marbella with her husband. I’m still slightly stunned.

Just remembered, someone I was at school with at about age 5 went on to be leader of his party, deputy PM, and now works for Facebook.

I went to school, same class with a well known boxer.

I just read through all post to check no one had posted form my school/year group! 🥴🙄
A close friend of mine was very good at languages. Bilingual anyway in one language from her mum form early age and very good at picking up other languages. She was highly intelligent and was known for her good behaviour (though I do know she did do a couple of quite risky things that she kept secret from most people and her parents when at school) . Definitely head girl sort of person.
She then went on to study Russian at uni as well as other languages at time when Cold War was in its final throws and USSR still existed. She then took jobs as a simultaneous translator.
I lost touch with her, but through another friend found out that she’d appeared in court for breaking the official secrets act. I don’t know any of the exact details, but she was passing official secrets to the USSR. she must have been in her late 20s.
we have small gatherings of our old friendship group every now and then. No one mentions her, she’s never there…so don’t have a clue what happened.

so basically she became a spy!

@Comvit That's incredibly sad. There's another life out there that that poor girl could have had.

My school bully is a psychiatrist. Go figure!

Quite a few people I went to school with went on to be famous/public figures but I wouldn't describe their careers as surprising.

The sweet, shy, evangelical Christian boy from primary school whose parents moved him to a religious school that taught creationism that became a gay BDSM icon was more surprising.

Some of my schoolmates were very predictable.

One boy who was very full of himself became an estate agent.

Another boy who was bossy and interfering became a police officer.

However, a tough, rebellious girl I knew well, also became a police officer. I can see her being very good at the job; I just don’t know why she chose it.

The third schoolmate who became a police officer was a snooty, princessy girl who often turned up her nose at people. She also hated sports and getting her hands dirty.

One girl who wasn’t very nice and who loved to wind up the teachers, became a teacher herself. I briefly worked for the same organisation as her, and when her students played her up, I had to smile. Karma.

@TheFlis12345 , same here.

The girl I knew at school was a chaotic, troubled bully who is now a BBC reporter with a completely different accent to the one she grew up with - think more “refined” though, rather than location based change.

It would be funny if it’s the same person.