What did your school friends/year end up doing?

[Trampire]

Not quite an AIBU, hopefully it doesn't come across as a goady thread.....but I got thinking back to my school days recently after talk of planning a reunion was mentioned on FB.

Sometimes on MN there's a few Private v State threads where sometimes it's said that some state comps are described as having no ambition for their students and the students don't achieve their full potential etc.
So, as my youngest dc is about to go to our state comp in Sept, it got me thinking.
I think my friends and acquaintances from school have done quite well. I left in 1990. I have no idea if it was a 'good state school' as we had no concept of that. However, I suppose it must have been.

I'm still in contact with.....

2 MP's
Doctor
Architect
Actor
Fairly well known TV Presenter
4 x Primary School Teachers
5 x Secondary School Teachers
Nurse
Hippy (but happy) Dropout in Thailand
Award winning Author
BBC Radio Producer
Owner of Greeting Card Company
Carpenter
Astro Physicist
Product Designer
Independent Pre-School Nursery Owner
Veterinary Nurse
Stand Up Comedian

Obviously there's a vast amount of people I'm not in contact with anymore who could be doing awful stuff!

I'm quite proud of 'us'. But AIBU to think that it's not that unusual? I think my bunch have done well in a vast variety of subjects. Maybe not and my view is skewed?

Just interested to know others experiences.

It really is trampire none of them were at all bad people, but the lack of support and compassion shown by our school towards us was horrific. They very much made everyone feel they would never amount to anything, and when for many that was the only adult influence in their lives, it was no surprise they turned out the way they have.

I like to think at 25/24, they still have a chance to turn things around. I bumped into a girl who I went to school with, parents both in and out of prison, who had a baby just so she could get some kind of security and a council house. She's got three kids now, and is looking at becoming a veterinary nurse when her youngest starts school, so there's always hope.

I went to a state school until I was 16 and I'm not in touch with many from there but most are in fairly low paid jobs. A few dentists/GPs

I went to a private 6th form and most are in very highly paid positions
Solicitors
Doctors
Accountants
Finance
Senior management

You had to have good GCSEs to get into the 6th form and most came from an affluent background so kind of makes sense

State school, the ones that I'm aware of:
a few unemployed
a few SAHMs
the school bully was last seen begging
at least one hairdresser
a few shop assistants
a window cleaner
a carer
one footballer
one who was planning on becoming a Mormon missionary last time I heard, but I'm not sure if she did
a couple went into theater
one works on a holiday park
a few bar and waiting staff

No idea, I haven't kept in touch with anyone from school apart from two people, one's a nurse and one is a professional singer.

I went to a girl's school in a deprived area, notorious for truancy and pregnancies. More of us dropped out pregnant than went on to any form of post-secondary school education. I've lived abroad for decades and am only still in close touch with one friend, but because she has continued to live locally, I hear about other classmates. It's not pretty, by and large -- quite a few deaths, some from drugs, petty crime, and the girl I used to sit next to in Maths in my last year of school, and whom I liked, is in jail for aggravated manslaughter.

Nice Home Counties Catholic School-
A mix Friends and People I've still got on fb:

Doctor
Solicitor x2
Teacher x3
TA
Accounts Assistant
Student Nurse
Web Developer
Taxi Driver
Trainee SW
Early Years Teacher
Works at Sainsburies
Wedding Planner
SAHM
Midwife
Nurse

I mainly kept in touch with girls so it'd be interesting to see what the boys jobs are (solicitor and taxi driver are the only men in my list)

State school

Solicitor
Swanky home interiors shop owner
Head Teacher, secondary school
Marketing executive
Business owner
Investment banking
Geologist
Accountant
Teacher, senior mgmt team, secondary
Fireman

@Trampire mostly women too! The ones I'm in contact with are NHS, not sure about the others though. It was also a path I was heading towards before 15yr old apathy took over. We did our GCSEs just over 10 years ago and generally the results were of a high standard.
Again, a lot of who I went to school with came from money so they had an advantage from the start, mommy and daddy funded their lifestyles and a good portion went to university or travelling around the world. Definitely jealous I never had the opportunities these had.. I always feel a bit deflated seeing many of them because I was at their level and 90% of the class are now these high achievers.

Out of the 96 who left my not very distinguished South London grammar school with me, I only kept in touch with a handful:
one runs IT for an NHS trust
one has his own IT consultancy
one works for the second guy
two pilots (one RAF & one BA)
three are teachers
one is a police inspector
one runs a county council's surveyors dept.

Given the class that left the year before us produced three well known (well they were a few years ago) musicians, two guys who ended up with knighthoods and the editor of a major national magazine, I think we let the side down somewhat.

@Trampire, I forgot to say I think your group did very well with a great variety of interesting careers.

Private school.

SAHM
Curator at a museum
Doctor
Vet
Nurse
Administrator
Education professionals x2 (including me)
Occupational therapist
Project manager
Travel agent
Investment banker
3 x recent PhD graduates/ post docs

Quite interesting looking at that list, not all the higher/lower achievers went into the jobs you might expect.

Surgeon
QC
Charity CEO
Florist
Several administrators
Bouncer
Police officer
Yacht chief officer
Leadership consultant
NHS Manager

I went to a girl's school in a deprived area, notorious for truancy and pregnancies. More of us dropped out pregnant than went on to any form of post-secondary school education.

Mine was exactly like that. I ran away from the area as fast as possible so I don't know what very many people are doing at all.

I'd guess that at this point most are great-grandparents.

What an interesting thread. I think the OPs school seems to be unusual. I went to a bog standard state school, underfunded, disruptive behaviour, left 98. I'm a man so the list is biased towards men. Of the folk I know about

• 2 teachers
• 1 electrician
• 1 successful property broker
• professional poker player
• professional footballer, ex
• RAF air traffic controller
• pharmacist
• veterinary nurse
• 2 police officers
• NHS administration
• 2 University lecturers
• 1 fitness instructor
• 2 suicides, at least 2 in prison

My wife went to a posh, fee paying all girls school. There are 2 doctors, 3 accountants, 2 teachers and 2 Sahms from her school friendship group.

State school, pretty mixed bag.

Of those that I know what they’re doing:-
Several teachers
Lawyer
Military officers
Pharmacist
Charity workers
Social worker
Cleaner
Police
Firefighter
Cleaner
Doctors
Several financial analysts
Personal trainer
Minister
Musicians
Small business owners
Pilot
SAHMs/SAHDs
Nurses
Farmer
Interior designer
Paramedic
Management/ office jobs

I’m aware of 3 deaths, 2 from illness and 1 who was tragically murdered.

I come from a shit area, so its : drugs, death & dole for most of my ex school inmates!

Nurse
Dancer
Pub manager
Forensic accountant
Checkout at Asda
Farmers wife

I couldn't give a flying fuck! I'm not in touch with anyone from either of my secondary schools and TBH I never want to breathe the same air as those people again.

School was unremittingly awful, I hated pretty much all of it.