To ask what job you should be doing?

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I should have been a high powered lawyer but was not clever enough so have been in supply chain for 15 years.

Being a billionaire

I think I would have made an excellent travel writer or maybe photojournalist. Alas, I am stuck in temping hell with no real idea wtf I can do to sort myself out. And I can't always manage to take decent pictures of the cat so photos are probably out. I'd rock teh travel though.

I should have been an archeologist. I should be digging for treasure somewhere, using the latest imaging technology to see inside something ancient and magnificent, or staring at old scrolls until my eyes go blurry.

I dropped out of school too early, (dropped out if A levels in the second year), I had a mundane job that I hated, and just when I was ready to go back to redo my A levels (in the hopes of doing well enough to so the degree I wanted to do), I fell pregnant with ds. I'll do all that someday, hopefully, maybe as a volunteer or tourist, but not yet. Ds is still too young.

*to do

i should have been a radio DJ. I work in PR now.

Should have been an archaeologist, but my dad said to teenage me: "There's not much call for archaeologists round [name of village we lived in]".

I have no idea why my younger self thought this was a convincing argument. I didn't want to live in that village for the rest of my life, I don't live there now, and neither, in fact, does my dad.

The demand for profession x in that particular village is officially The Worst Ever Test of whether it's a good choice of profession.

I also think I should have been a doctor, a nurse, a police detective, and work for the UN on human rights

I'm a qualified nursery nurse, always wanted to be a midwife

I now do charity work

Pharmacist. Or pharmacy technician.

I'm an admin temp with over 10 years of low level laboratory experience

Should have been an artist but also had that destroyed by my gcse art teacher (who said I couldn't choose akira toriyama as my artist to copy)

Picked up a paint brush for the first time in about ten years two weeks ago and it was properly wonderful. I was so happy and have churned half a sketchbooks worth of stuff since. Ten years of backlog to clear ya know!

I possibly should have been a physicist too but my maths isn't good enough. I'll stick to my telescope and watching sciency stuff on YouTube.

Trained to be a chef but the money is crap am a sahm until ds is in school (then will probably end up cooking in schools, not the cosy little cafe I had hoped for but one can always dream!)

I should have been a cowboy but was born in the wrong time, continent and sex.

Well I was going to go to medical school and becomes some kind of doctor but then I moved to England so quickly switched into law school instead. I must admit I had rather made my peace with the idea of working in a medical environment (obviously never wanted to work but needs must). Not exactly looking forward to spending the rest of my life working in an office of a fully commercial setting but there aren’t really any other viable options in Britain (short of taking the risk to start a business) so i’ll just plod in until i’ve Saved enough to retire.

I should have been a fashion designer, but thought scrap that, I'm better off doing something academic. So now I'm a psychology student doing an internship (that I hate) in human resources.

I should have been JK Rowling but I'm lazy and never had a good enough idea for a book.

I should have been the next JK Rowling but instead am doing a Psychology degree

Spent my whole childhood "writing books" but hardly get time to write my essays for Uni, let alone anything creative now with 2 kids

I like this thread I'm not alone

Or being James Herriot

I really should have been a Jedi. Or a sandwich designer.

I’m a scientist stuck in a dark room behind two enormous screens. I should have been a travel writer/tour guide for Hispanic countries.

I should have been a window dresser.

I want to be a lot of things... Florist, Family Law solicitor, Fiction writer, Youtuber maybe a makeup artist.

I have a chronic pain condition though so, I’m fucked.

Bramble71 they cant stop you. (Unless they catch you.)

Wanted to b a teacher. Dropped out of uni when i met my hubby. Now work in a shop and do voluntary youth work

I should be a psychic, solving murders and disappearances.

NobodysChild Are you psychic?

I should be a eccentric owner of a magical children's bookstore. With hidden rooms and a tree in the middle...

Owned a children’s book store or been a year one teacher