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...

[VivaLeBeaver]

Olivio, I'm a midwife and often think I'd like to be a teacher. Maybe we should swap lives?

[Moreisnnogedag]

Ooh if i couldn't do my job and needed something less physical, I'd either open a quilting/craft shop or be that person who puts together the skeletons for the natural history museum.

[Musicaltheatremum]

I'm a GP but would love to work in an airport as a dispatcher. My brother is a performance engineer in the airline industry and I think I got his love of aeroplanes from taking him to the airport every weekend when he was young (in the days when you could watch the planes from the roof)

[BiscuitMillionaire]

Speech and language therapist. Or paramedic. I also did a useless arts degree and am now too old.

[Bunnyjo]

I have always wanted to do medicine, but never had the self-belief to pursue it.

I went to college to do an access course with the aim of going on to study midwifery, but I had a very encouraging tutor who completely believed in me and he persuaded me to go for my original ambition. I am so glad he did, because I am now in my second year of a biomedical science related course at an RG university and loving it.

My original plan was to apply for graduate entry medicine, but I have had my head turned by the prospect of research...

So now my ambition is to do a PhD after graduation!

Oh and I am 36 - age is only the barrier you make it out to be!

[Siennasun]

I'd love to be a cellist, but seeing as I've never even touched a cello I think that is unlikely to happen for me now
I work as a therapist in the NHS. It's awful. I'd love a job that involved no contact whatsoever with the public; research or something analytical. Somewhere I could get the train to work, and have a lunch break, and my own desk, with a plant on it....

[GotTheKey]

Currently a nurse but would love to be a police woman and work on child protection cases.

[Ohanarama]

Art teacher. So I could wear floaty hippy clothes and have easy marking to do.

[Bunnyjo]

GotTheKey, my friend is a DI in the PPU and she wants out. After the birth of her 2 children she finds the job almost intolerable at times

[VetNurse]

I honestly don't know what I would do instead of being a vet nurse. The hours are long, money isn't great and I get vomited/urinated/defeated on and scratched and bitten but it is the best job in the world :)

[LolaCrapola]

I retrained as an Occupational Therapist and qualified at the age of 44! It's not all baking cakes though and still lots of paperwork and not brilliant pay....


Ideal world I'd be a yoga teacher :)

[frumpet]

When I was at school I really wanted to be a pig farmer , eventually trained as a nurse . Would love to own a wedding venue or be a writer , no money or ability so will probably stick with what I have for another 20 years !

[TheRealAmandaClarke]

Pastry chef

[hmm2]

Swimming coach or clothes designer

[OublietteBravo]

I'd like to be a perpetual student please. I think I could find plenty of interesting courses to do.

[OVienna]

Mounted police. 100%.

[poorbuthappy]

Instrument Engineer...
I'd be a damn good 1 too.

[DecaffCoffeeAndRollupsPlease]

Perpetual student here too.

[70isaLimitNotaTarget]

I'd like to own and run a naice B&B

or

Social Worker

But my Dream Job ( or one I could fit in with my current job which I do part-time) is Traffic warden (or Parking Enforcement Officer)

Uniform, excercise, I'd be round the schools ticketing people

"Is your mother proud of you"?

"Hell, yes"

[chickydoo]

Travel journalist, failing that an actress

[Selks]

Biologist / environmentalist / working in wildlife conservation. I wish I had gone down that path. I didn't have the self confidence at 18 to apply for an ecology / zoology degree although I very much wanted to.

[Catsrus]

I spent 20yrs studying and teaching a humanities subject. In my late 30's I started a p/t degree to keep my brain alive when I had three dc under the age of 4 and got so involved I ended up doing an MSc and then PhD in computer science. Got the PhD in my early 50's, now work as an academic in that field. As I'm approaching retirement I'm thinking about the next 20yrs (fingers crossed) and soooo many interesting things to choose from. Ironically I quite fancy art history

[cerealqueen]

A herbalist specialising in skin conditions.