What would you do if you were to start over? Work wise!

[Stars66]

I'm a social worker, I have days when I love it and days when I am worn down. I've been decorating our house recently and have got creative with a birthday present for dd.
I often wish I'd gone down the creative route work wise, being a graphic designer, or doing some sort of design.

What could you have done instead?

I would have been a nurse or a midwife. I was told because I was 'clever' I should go the academic route. I did and I was miserable. I'm on mat leave at the moment and working in a voluntary role supporting new mothers. I'm really good at it and it makes me happy. Wish I'd worked this out ten years ago!

Oooh that sounds good. Perinatal care is an interest of mine too. I'd of loved to have been a midwife too - after I had my daughter all I wanted was to do that.

I am doing this as we speak!

Was an events manager for a huge cosmetics company and although I love it, the pay is rubbish and my commute is 2 hrs so not going back after maternity leave. Instead I'm opening a coffee kiosk at a London train station and buying a van to sell mac n cheese and brownies at music festivals!

I do something creative. I hate it. I'm currently retraining to work in social care.

Appletini - really? You know paperwork and recording EVERYTHING is very boring Shall we swap?!

Lisa I know an ex-probation officer who did something similar. He loves it!

I would be a vet. I'd have to go right back to age 14 and take sciences for GCSE (and get As in them all).
My trouble has always been that I'm good at most things but I don't excel at one single thing.

I wish I'd gone into planning, but it required a post grad course and I was absolutely sick to the back teeth of education by the time I scraped my degree.

Mind you then I wouldn't have met DH, who I met at work, and that would be baaaaaaad!

That mac'n'cheese is a great idea. We were at a festival in the summer where they were charging £6.50 for a bowl of it. Printing money me thinks!

Mothership, I met my bf when working in a bar during my Uni years (as a mature student). How life would of been different if I'd stuck at my original degree, or stayed in one of the countries I lived in during my early 20's. Ah.

Stars66 happily. My old job felt so futile and pointless and I'm so much happier now...

I wouldn't choose a different career but I'd be a bit less flighty and take the opportunities for progression as they arose. I could /should/would be a step or two further up the ladder by now, earning 10-15k more, but I messed around being a job hopper and moving cities for a guy when it didn't work out, so now I'm stuck in an ok role but feels like I'm stuck at this level as it's dead mans shoes where I work, and I'll never get the opportunity to progress again.