To ask what your dream career is?

[TheJoxter]

I’ve never known what I want to be ‘when I grow up’

Now I’m grown up and I still don’t know!

AIBU to ask you to tell me what your dream career is? (And hopefully inspire me!)

@QuaterMiss I really am too old! I'm nearly 50, and have already had 5 student loans, so I'm not allowed any more. I can't afford to study, and you need a 3 year degree at the very least, and as you say, some actual experience, which I don't have. It's definitely too late now. It's ok, I've accepted that.

I have my dream career but I'd like to be able to spend a couple of months a year moonlighting as a National Geographic photographer.

I also wouldn't say no to being a billionaire philanthropist

Professional chimp tickler. They love it

I've always loved tinkering with computers and making programmes. I ended up in a medical career but still love data and building databases , its all been self taught - both are handy skills in my current research jobs. However, I'd love to do it as my main job but I'm a bit too old now to train properly :-(

Accountant

Coleen Rooney's lawyer

Love this thread as I still feel like the 14 year old girl sat at school not knowing what to pick for work experience and unfortunately 20 years on still don't know!!

Few more years till kids are both are school and I'm tempted to do something in healthcare (midwifery would be the dream) but everyone seems to be wanting to get out of NHS so I'm a bit scared of working all hours missing out on family life to get into it if it's going to be hell, short staffed and also fear I may by that point be a bit too old!! @AlletrixLeStrange hearing you are managing to do the training with your kids too just sounds amazing and I don't know how you do it! Well done you. @00deed1988 Congratulations to you too. You midwives amaze me and I think it's incredible you are following your dream jobs.

@ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia I have the same dilemma with dropping salary from business admin to consider HCA. It really plays on my mind. So easy to just get stuck in a job when all your bills are reliant on that wage. With kids I'm finding it even harder to take that plunge because now I have the childcare to pay for too!

Not sure it's a job as such but I want to be a witch ( some may say I already am )
Not an ugly old hag type of witch but more of a high priestess of Avalon type of witch. Failing that a paranormal investigator would be good.

I've always loved tinkering with computers and making programmes. I ended up in a medical career but still love data and building databases , its all been self taught - both are handy skills in my current research jobs. However, I'd love to do it as my main job but I'm a bit too old now to train properly :-(

Have you thought of being a statistical programmer in the medical/pharma industry? It's really easy to get into, you basically just need a numerate or scientific degree. You program datasets and results tables/graphs from clinical trials.

Wasn't my cup of tea but sounds like it would be up your street.

I would have loved to be a dentist but I'm not smart enough.

All things aside I would love to be a nanny to under 2’s. I can’t think of a better way to spend my time (and I’m into painting, literature etc so it’s not like I don’t have interests that correspond with the usual dream careers). But sadly that isn’t going to pay the bills.

FOOD CRITIC. But instead I’m a doctor 😂

Data Scientist. Im on the right path but need more studying. Im looking of ways to fit that around being a mum to 2 kids. I will get there though, somehow.

Home stager. Or someone who presents on a tv show with a title like “Home Heroes”, where the sun is to edit and redisplay a persons existing furniture and wares in new, better ways. Lick of paint, new curtains, cushions and presto, a better home.
God I would love that.

Aside from that I’m living my dream life. Maybe I might write an economics text book one day.

Film/tv location finder
Restaurant/hotel critic
Baby Panda nursery nurse
Baby orang utan nursery nurse

In no particular order.

Film critic
Travel writer
Author of children's books
Professional declutterer
Work in an animal sanctuary/shelter
Archivist

Forensic Psychologist

That or be on the police. My parents were totally against it because they thought it was dangerous, so I went through college and uni studying a subject I had minimal interest in and eventually dropped out. I'm in my 30's now and still gutted that I don't have a career :(

I'm 53 OP and just starting out on mine. I must add though it's something that has always been in my life, so whilst there are challenges it's not all completely new to me.

It doesn't really have a title but it's my own business, I'm a storyteller and hope to use various topics to entertain audiences.
My goal is to have the first project up and running for summer 2021. I'm finding some things easy, others are challenging.

So many brilliant ideas here!

I’ve thought of a few now.
The unlikely ones include

• building the Lego models for legoland
• being a full time and somehow well paid artist/poet/author
• being the person who looks after animals on film sets when they’re not being used in a scene

More realistically though I’ve remembered what I wanted to do before I had kids and am starting a counselling course next year!

A lighthouse keeper.

By myself.

Because of work bullies, I don’t do people any more.

So a lighthouse keeper. By myself.

I'd love to be an FBI Profiler. Preferably without talking to criminals, just working from reports and making astounding deductions.

Or I'd like to be a carer, but not the time pressured type where you only have 15 minutes. I loved looking after my Dad and felt bad for people without company in their last years. But the money wouldn't be enough i don't think.

When I was younger my dream career was to be a forensic pathologist.

That has recently changed, now my dream career would be to drive the little train which escorts people from the car park to the Disney parks in Florida.

In reality I am studying to be a primary school teacher.

Jewellery Designer with my own studio! Playing around with metals and precious gems everyday... I was going to do a silver smithing course at university but it meant moving to another town and I wasn't ready to leave home.. part of me still regrets it massively, but now I have a fiance, are 17 weeks pregnant and getting married in 2021 and are truly happty.. that would never had happened if I'd have done the course!