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To ask what job you should be doing?

129 replies

curiousbeak · 15/03/2018 22:31

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

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SoundofSilence · 16/03/2018 12:20

I wish I was an all the way scientist like some of my colleagues instead of a consultant applying the results of their work, but I never did a PHD.

I wanted to be a writer until a few years ago. Then I learned enough to realise that writing stories which entertain your friends does not mean you have the stuff to make a living at it.

NordicNobody · 16/03/2018 12:21

Awww forget doctor Kit2015, I want to do that bookstore instead!

CustardTache · 16/03/2018 13:07

mega billionaire.

Thekitten · 16/03/2018 13:24

I should've been a vet but I was hopeless at Chemistry, so I work in education.

Trillis · 16/03/2018 13:33

I still want to be an astronaut when I grow up. Or work at CERN. Loved science (particularly physics) at school, but the teacher didn't think much of girls doing his 'boy' subjects so I ended up dropping it and doing history instead. Still love science though. When working I mostly did educational admin - not quite the same as cruising round the planet on the International Space Station.

HottySnanky · 16/03/2018 14:20

I should have been a voiceover artist/professional mimic.

Instead I fill shelves at Tesco and frighten my colleagues occasionally by mimicking the "There is a call at the back door. Please attend." woman who announces the deliveries. (She isn't real. She's just a doorbell.)

WhyBeDennyDifferent · 16/03/2018 14:22

I should have been a penguin keeper or detective.

MabantoMoonface · 16/03/2018 14:24

I should be Empress of the Universe, with power of life and death over all living things. And a big gold throne. But I dropped out of evil dictator school

leccybill · 16/03/2018 14:27

Should have been a TV presenter but I'm just a frustrated teacher instead.

PoisonousSmurf · 16/03/2018 14:28

Self employed cleaner and gardener - should be living in a cottage, far, far away from the rest of the world and running my own farm.

gunnergirl · 16/03/2018 16:46

I should be a black cabbie remember doing knowledge question s every night with my dad over 35 years ago nth I know my way round London like the back of my hand just don't know the names of roads can do the route in my head !!!!!!

Writersblock2 · 16/03/2018 16:58

Writer or clinical psychologist, depending on which story you want.

Instead I work in an office and struggle to find time to write.

MrsOprah · 16/03/2018 17:40

Randomly - I'd not mind having a go at property development (Sarah Beenie and Phil & Kirsty, constant channel 4 property shows prob the reason why)

Proper Scientist - still possible i guess

I'd have been great a banker/trader i reckon

LoveInTokyo · 16/03/2018 17:42

I’m a lawyer but should have been a detective. Or maybe a midwife.

Not complaining though, I like my job well enough, all things considered.

InterstellarSleepingElla · 16/03/2018 17:45

I am now a SAHP (last job was in a supermarket) but should have been a physicist....though I am working towards that by doing a physics degree via OU.

AnaViaSalamanca · 16/03/2018 17:51

I should have been a witch. But I didn't hear from Hogwarts.

So became an investment banker.

8DaysAWeek · 16/03/2018 19:56

I should've been an accountant, but I'm a vet. It ain't all James Herriot these days, folks.

Uniglo18 · 16/03/2018 20:01

%HottySnanky% Grin Smile

frasier · 16/03/2018 20:03

I should have been a lawyer but had no confidence with public speaking. I could kick ass now, shame really.

frasier · 16/03/2018 20:05

*criminal lawyer that is.

soupmaker · 16/03/2018 20:17

I'm a trade union official. I've done all manner of odd things and loved them. But current role is so stressful I'm thinking of bailing out.

I wanted to be a blacksmith or HGV driver.

Ideally I'd have been a spy.

MarkBorrigan · 16/03/2018 20:22

I should work in LUSH!

OhHolyJesus · 16/03/2018 20:25

Olympic gold winning ice skater but I'm a SAHM, before that a PA. Not sure what happened really Wink

MarkBorrigan · 17/03/2018 19:31

You know how I posted that I should work in LUSH? I posted that because I had an interview today, and it turns out, I do now work there as of today!!!! It might sound like an odd dream job, but since I did a masters degree in international politics I've been craving something delightfully superficial!

8DaysAWeek · 17/03/2018 20:16

Good going @MarkBorrigan !! Hope it's everything you expect it to be and more Grin

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