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

Head teacher to football coach
Model to doctor
And bank manager to dental nurse.

I used to be a glamour model and then settled down and became a nanny.

My friend is a pathologist, who got fed up with it, and is currently in the Middle East working as a hostess.

Policeman to DJ/Model

Radio Presenter to Tube Driver

I went from chef to financial services consultant with many professional qualifications and my mother loves to brag about it.

Also know:
Solicitor to teacher
Teacher to financial services compliance officer
Insurance salesman to mechanic
Vet to sales assistant
Complete bum to doctor

I'm an English teacher thinking of training as an accountant. Oh for a quiet life (if only literally).

Doctor (GP) to finance analyst and from there on to a career in the airline industry... Beat that

financial consultant, working in the City, to chiropodist

Oh and primary teacher to tattoo artist

Lawyer to TV presenter

Social worker to plumber ( a woman)

Admin assistant to professional jockey to chiropractor
Dentist to accountant
Mathematician to professional singer
Doctor to accountant

Vet to Librarian

Doctor (GP) to science teacher

Worked in Financial Administration, now teach Sex Ed

Architect to go-go dancer.

Cop to private investigator to manufacturer of sex toys for ladies.

Neither of them is me, but both were, um, intimate friends.

I know a prison officer who is training to be a paediatric nurse and a paediatrician who is now a florist.

Wow this thread is inspirational!

1. Complete bum to pilot
2. Software developer to teacher
3. Managing a band to landscaper
4. Property manager to working in Asda
5. Working in Asda to building military defence weapons
6. Mechanic to Maths teacher
7. Degree in pure maths to IT Manager

Stripper to Gardener
Working in IT to pilot
BA desk job to social worker
Probation to travel agent

Interior designer to candle maker

A girl who was on my PSychology degree course ended up delivering my baby. I was in that much pain I could not ask her how she ended up being a midwife.I really regret not chatting to her but I was in agony and probably would not have been able to take in what she was saying.

I heard of a lot about 'traditional' careers (need years of degree and training) going into 'simpler' or self-employed jobs (not as much time needed to train for).

(more common with mums)

• Like IT engineer becoming self-taught family and newborn photographer
• media consultant with some cordon bleu training done in spare time who now runs luxury chocolate business
• 15 years project manager -> turned La Leche leader and IBLC certified breastfeeding consultant on top of freelance translation work

(men I know)

• one going from completing medical degree and a few years beyond Senior Housing Officer to becoming a pastor
• also a laywer in the City to become a pastor in small village
• long-term unemployed (7 years on incapacity benefit in his 20s) turned into City banker after completing PhD in financial maths (his degree was social sciences, he's super brainy though)
• professional show horse jumper turned into uni disability officer after breaking both his legs in accident

At work we have had quite a few engineers and consultants become vicars/clergy or teachers.

I know a Montessori nursery teacher turned City lawyer. She would use her amazing toddler tantrum management techniques on stroppy clients. I watched in awe.