To ask what profession I can retrain in at 35?

[HairyHermanetta]

I say profession, i.e. something you study for a particular career e.g. teaching, nursing, accounting, etc?

What career can I enter and not be seen as too old/too much of a late starter. I have messed around for years, got half a floaty degree that trained me for nothing in particular. I wish I had put all my efforts into making a decision in my twenties to train for a career but here we are....am I too late?

Paramedic

Anything you want to. Honestly, you've got another 30 years at least

What qualifications do you have?

Nursing and midwifery have lots of mature students

Teaching. You have to really want to be a teacher though.

Ooh, watching with interest as I was thinking to post similar. 35 and wanting a change too!

@healththrowawayx

Paramedic

Are you a paramedic?

@Waveysnail

Nursing and midwifery have lots of mature students

How is the OP supposed to get the funding if she already has ‘half a degree’.

Software development. Usually graduate starting salary of £30k. They do a 1 year masters conversion in most uni’s. No previous experience needed.

Just about anything, you’ve still got the majority of your working life ahead of you. I retrained as a midwife at 34 and now at 49 am studying for my masters in medical ultrasound. I won’t get my pension until I’m 67 so they’ll still get plenty of years of service from me yet

Nursing and midwifery students get student loan funding even if they have a degree already. Plus there is the new grant from this September too.

But you haven't said:

What you enjoy doing

What you're good at

How free you are to relocate, if necessary

How much you want to earn ...

No real suggestions but also thinking of retraining.

I wish I had put all my efforts into making a decision in my twenties to train for a career but here we are...

I did that. I took a job in an area related to my first degree. Did a graduate degree in that subject. I’ve got a decade of experience in a very niche area. I still want to retrain. Don’t beat yourself up about what you could have done or that you should have stumbled on your forever career in your twenties. There are so many careers out there, it’s not uncommon that it sometimes takes a little while to find what your area is.

Probation Officer

I retrained as an accountant, in an audit firm. Did a graduate trainee scheme but worked with several people who joined at the "school leaver" level who were career changers with either no degree, or under the requirements required for the traditional grad scheme.
15 exams in 3 years, plus work experience gained while not at college. I did mine in a mixed audit stream, nowhere near big 4 but maybe top 25?

I think I actually found it by doing a quiz on the Prospects.ac.uk website about potential careers based on skills. Does that even exist anymore?!

Me too! Although I’m 36... got great academic results including BA and MA, but had kids in my 20s & moved around abroad instead of establishing a career, & now living in a rural part of the U.K. with more limited job options & retraining options. Feeling stuck...

Law? Plenty of people come to it at later starters, and a bit of life experience is often valued.

What interests you
Do you want to work face to face with public
What salary are you after
Can you aftord to go back to uni

Teaching. I retrained at 39 and I am now a full time modern language teacher and I love it! It is really hard work, but I think it might be more manageable for "older" trainee teachers with previous work experience in other industries.

Whatever you like!

My dad retrained at 50. And had best part of another 20 years of a new career.

You’ve plenty of time head of you.

To answer questions -

1. I am terribly awkward so preferably nothing face to face with public like teaching, nursing, etc

1. Salary not too important

1. I can afford to retrain

Social Work? You need life experience for this! And before WitchesGlove questions it yes I am a social worker.

Oh cross posted, not social work then if you don't like face to face (although I spend most of the time at my computer).

Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy.
Have had a few friends in their 30s and 40s retrain for these professions.
Also Counselling. It requires a certain level of maturity .
Good luck OP!

Accountancy.

Actuary.