If you could retrain as anything what would it be?

[BlairBass]

I'm a PA and a bloody good one (if I do say so myself) - am on mat leave from being PA to a Director... there's some satisfaction in what I do (I manage some projects solo, etc.) but most of my role is frantic last-minute activity for someone else, in office 8am - 6pm and contactable until 10pm (US company)...
I'm just wondering if you could retrain as something else, what would it be??
Money being no object (ha, wouldn't that be nice?!)
I wish I'd taken my degree more seriously (not majored in art history! why???!)
I think I might have enjoyed graphic design... maybe even accountancy...

Watching with interest. I'm a paediatric nurse which I enjoyed for many years but due to some health problems am currently not able to do. But wondering where to go next!
Teaching?
Something gardening related (within the limitations of my health)?

Umm.. Bit stuck actually!

If money was no object I would love to train as a GP.

Sign language interpreter.

Definitely doctor or physio. Only if both time and money were no object though

Goringbit - me too.
Or something outdoors and with animals

Mouldypineapple both my dc will soon be in full time education/childcare and I'm going to retrain as a paediatric nurse. I've been researching what I need and how to go about it.

Sign language interpreter.

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48% of whom are currently considering leaving the profession according to recent polls, so maybe you were better off not pursuing it after all.

Zookeeper.

Master blender of a distillery. Dh used to work for a whisky company and their master blender HAD to drink four of five drams a day in order to do her job properly .

She was amazing at her job though, could identify whiskies by taste alone. But perhaps if I drank enough I'd get that good too?

What I'm studying right now :D

i would love to do something like being a zookeeper, something outdoors and with animals... or even a gardener, but i don't think that would be as rewarding. i am also very interested in social work but think it would be too difficult emotionally.

I'd love to go to medical school. At 36 and with 4 kids I suspect it will remain a pipe dream though

Something office based, preferably with no interaction with the general public. Some sort of research role might be nice...with my own desk...with a plant on it...

currently staff nurse in the NHS and it's killing me

Midwifery. Would love to be a midwife. Wish I'd known in my 20s. At 42 with three children it's definitely not possible now sadly

If I was starting again as a teenager I'm pretty sure I'd study medicine.

Chicken sexer

If I was starting again and money was no object I'd study law.

I would be a history teacher or lecturer. Instead I did a degree in cultural studies and now work in a call centre

An Art Therapist or Occupational Therapist. I nearly did it but crappy life got in the way again.

Law - probably with the aim of being a family solicitor.

I wish I had taken school seriously and thought about law sooner.

Forensic pathologist... Anaesthetist... Or maybe looking after elephants!

Doctor here too, though am toying with speech therapist as an actual realistic possibility.

I'm a lawyer.

A banker so I could be stinking rich

Good grief, Pumpkin, you might be right... 30 years in banking was probably 25 too many, but it was very easy to stay put. Well done to those who dare to make a change.

Wish id been either a paediatric nurse, midwife or social worker. I'm actually looking into studying and maybe one day will be a social worker