If you could go back and choose a different career, what would it be?

[meateatingveggie]

I'll start. I'd do medicine and become a coroner

Mechanical engineer

Nurse or police

I’m a Midwife but would love to be a photographer.

Dentist

Sports journalism in the real world but I always wonder about law mainly inspired by wanting the lifestyle in This Life!

That’s what I did. I’d be a train driver instead.

I have a few that over the years I wish I’d gone into. Archaeologist, museum curator, librarian, florist. Or owner of a bookshop, including second hand books.

Palaeontologist, journalist, author

Fantasy ones would have been racing driver or rock drummer

A historian in a very specific field - I hear them interviewed on Woman’s Hour: “Heidi is a textile expert specialising in raffia baskets who has spent her 30 year career researching shopping bags of the Edwardian age…” or similar. something where I could be left alone to get on with a subject I found fascinating and everyone would be in awe (from a distance).

Either a criminal lawyer or a historian.

I would have gone and trained at Kew when I was young and then got a job where I could continue to train. Then I'd have done a design course and ended up designing gardens. Big dream to design show gardens at the big horticultural shows before starting a design company. Far too old to do it now but wish I could go back and do it.

Makeup artist, banker, speech therapist, radiologist, something techy. Anything frankly. Instead I'm stuck in admin and hate it.

Dancer. Beyond a shadow of a doubt.

Jinx!! I'd love to have been a historian, but more along the lines of a political historian, like Michael Beschloss or Doris Kearns Goodwin.

Florist

Astronaut.

In the UK, most coroners are actually legally trained, and not doctors.

Sue Perkins’s career would do me nicely.

I’d quite like to be an expert in a very narrow, specialist field, just like the academics I’ve seen in National Geographic documentaries. I’d sit in my study surrounded by drawers of artefacts and answer a question that’s been puzzling humankind. For example, my analysis of different samples of magma would pinpoint the time period of a historic super volcanic eruption. Or, my knowledge of how palm nuts travel around the world in the ocean’s currents would reveal the migration patterns of the ancient peoples of Oceania.

Wish I'd of joined the army. Retired / Pensioned at 40.

Then property developer

Forensic scientist

I'm very happy with what I do, but I'd be a Chartered Surveyor if i had my time again. I love properties and architecture, and would enjoy working on a range of different sites and locations. I'd try to work on National Trust properties in stunning settings.

Working with animals, any animal but not in a vets.

If I was independently wealthy - illustrator, librarian, independent bookshop owner, something with animals.

Since I am not, I don’t think I made the wrong choice to go into financial services, sadly.

Something medical as it's always fascinated me. Too old to train now.