whats the most surprising career change u know of?

[daisydee43]

hi

am abt to go full circle abd make my parents v proud at last by getting a job based on my degree in media. never bothered with it until now and currently have been working as a horticulturalist for last 4 years which most people blv i love but i dont

i know ppl will be shocked and just wondered whats the most surprising career change u kno of... heres some...

1. went to routinely book my hairdresser and shed left for an office job, was not prepared

1. assistant manager of a care home i worked in suddenly left to work on checkouts at tesco

Outing myself utterly if anyone knows me...

Scuba instructor to nanny then to technical IT now moving into IT management

This one is quite radical

What about Jo Brand? Didn't she go from psychiatric nurse to stand-up comedienne?

Pro Football referee, trained as an actor, - now a maths teacher!! (And a bloody good one at that!)

Train driver to politics professor (though obviously this wasn't instant!)

(Have to add, my post is not me, it's a collegue of mine!)

Maths professor to artist (in his 60s, never having painted before).

The male midwife (are they called midwives?) cheerily announced as I was pushing dd1 out that he used to be a fireman!

I'm a nursery nurse studying with the OU to (hopefully) become a biomedical scientist/engineer. I suspect a few of the parents will be surprised when I move on.

I have a lovely friend who went from childminder to structural surveyor.

SchroSawMargeryDaw Sounds like ex's friend was driven to insanity by the course!

My friend when from pharmacist to yoga teacher, and she seems really happy with the change.

I've got one. DS's swimming teacher used to be a research scientist.
I also used to know an IT consultant who used to be a train driver.

Marketing Director to lawyer at Crown Prosecution Service
Hairdresser to Optician (wonder if we know the same one mamushka...)
Journalist to pre-school teacher

Oh and furniture designer turned driving instructor

Caterer to midwife.
Fork lift truck driver to nursery school assistant (she's lovely).

Not really a career change but I was planning to be a linguist, possibly a translator/interpreter, and did languages (French and Arabic) at university. I did a full year, then decided I wasn't really suited to it and started again doing a maths degree. I went on to be a data analysis/statistician.

One of my friends did a business degree, worked in business management for years and hated it, then she retrained to be a teacher and she doesn't like that much either – sounds so stressful

I think a lot of people become disillusioned with working in money-oriented professions and naively believe that teaching will make them happier. From the ones I've seen, unfortunately it doesn't always seem to work out that way.

Secretary to sales assistant. Pastry chef, bakery manager, packer, housekeeper...

Just remembered another: travel rep to deputy-headteacher!

I was a computer programmer then became a reflexologist (after having children) but went back to web development after the kids started school.

My friend worked at an investment bank and is now a police woman.

accountant to room leader in creche....