FabSwingers.com forum: What did you want to do?

By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Always wondered how people change from school. Obviously we had career advice and ideas of what we wanted to be when we grew up. But how many of us followed that dream/ambition/career? I wanted to be a butcher but I’m now an entertainer.

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By *ogNMuseCouple
over a year ago

Surrey

Was going to follow my old man an join the RAF, ended up in the print industry instead - money was much, much better

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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago

There and to the left a bit

All through school wanted to join the Royal Navy to the point that I didn't need careers advice - joined in November 1982 - stupidly left in March 1983 part way through training (partly because the options they offered me meant waiting 3-4 years to do what I really wanted to do) - of course then spent that time stumbling from one job to another as I had no clue what to do.

Eventually ended up in my current career almost by accident and ironically spent the first 8 years of that working with ex Navy guys!!

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By *alandNitaCouple
over a year ago

Scunthorpe

I wanted to be a doctor, but I just didn't have the patients...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I always fancied being an architect, but 7 years of school plus more training? When I knew that I knew it was never going to happen.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I never knew what i wanted to do..

Still don't

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"I wanted to be a doctor, but I just didn't have the patients...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Sas or pro athlete but ended up i chose poorly

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Archaeologist

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By *W ChapMan
over a year ago

Swindon

Wanted to join the Police but ended up in computing.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Still don't know at 40 .... no rush tho is there....

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By *im L FuckitMan
over a year ago

Dumfriesshire

I had absolutely no idea... was a very confused youth

Love what I do now

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I never knew what i wanted to do..

Still don't

Hotness isn't a career?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I wanted to be a professional racing driver. Nearly got there but getting the sponsor is crucial to get you there. unless your parents are multi millionaires.

I did win a championship in Europe though.

I’m keeping that option open while I’m still young.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Archaeologist

#indiana jones

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I initially wanted to be a pilot but was told I couldn't for health reasons, so I was supposed to then become a lawyer... which didn't happen. And I am still not sure what I actually want to do. What I AM doing just happened and I've ran with it for the last 20 years

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I wanted to go in the RAF from 5 years old until I broke my neck at 20.

They gave me a lifeline saying if I had ten clear years they would accept me (I had passed the entrance exam).

Went back at 31 ... Ten years later only to be told I was too old, I should have completed my basic training by my 30th birthday which nobody had told me ten years before.

Clearly it was never meant to be

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Spent all my youth wanting to be in the police only to be told I was too short at 5'4 at the age of 18.

Made my career choice impossible as that was the only job I'd ever wanted.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Always wanted to join the fire service, kept myself fit and reasonably healthy then playing rugby I tore my cruciate ligament and spent 15 months having physio, operations etc etc.

That dream went down the pan after that, I'm a team leader now at a shower manufacturer but hoping to join the ambulance service next year.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I wanted to be astronaut. Was never going to happen so I joined the RAF.

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By *hatYorkLadMan
over a year ago

York

I didn't really know what I wanted to do after school so just followed my dad into farming, did 3 years of college training in it then worked on pig farms for a couple of years before deciding I didn't like it. Over the years I've since drifted into fleet management and the reserves. Still don't really know what I'd like to do but I'm making decent money now so just kinda settled.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I wanted to be astronaut. Was never going to happen so I joined the RAF."

Not at all jealous

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Wanted to be child care assistant but ended up being a nurse

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By *orkie321bWoman
over a year ago

Nottingham

I still don't know what want to do when I leave school

I did plan on going to uni to study genetics although I was always a bit unsure on what I would eventually go on to do. I got a part time job when I was 16 and for the first time in my life I had money. I decided to leave school and work full time instead of carrying on with education.

I have always just drifted from one job to the next whenever I wanted a change. I have never had a clear plan of what I wanted to do - work was always just a means of paying the bills for me.

These days work has an entirely different purpose for me. I am a full time live in carer for my mum and I choose to work part time as a form of respite. It is my opportunity to get away from her for a few hours a week and be me. It stops me becoming isolated and gives me a break. I always joke that I go to work for a rest

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By *VineMan
over a year ago

The right place

When I was very young I wanted to be a farmer. Then as a teenager I wanted to be a photographer.

My first proper job was a physics teacher. But I don’t do that anymore.

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By *parkle1974Woman
over a year ago

Leeds

Always wanted to be an artist, guess I am doing that with my current business.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I wanted to be a teacher. Untill I realised I'd be having to teach little cunts like me

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"I wanted to be a teacher. Untill I realised I'd be having to teach little cunts like me

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I wanted to be a pilot (yeah that old cliche)

Being colour blind kinda goosed that one, as did being shite at maths & physics, but we won't ponder

I then studied business and logistics with a view to getting a road into airline or airport management.

That never happened either, so I have ended up with a very varied CV covering contract distribution, recruitment & HR, auditing, commercial catering repairs, disabled adaptations and quality management.

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By *eah BabyCouple
over a year ago

Cheshire, Windermere ,Cumbria

Army until my mum told me it was nothing like the TV programme Private Benjamin and I had to get up early and do as I was told, two things that are not my strong points in life lol

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By *iss SJWoman
over a year ago

Hull

I wanted to work with children but then discovered sex and drugs and rock and roll and things kind of took a different turn.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Always wondered how people change from school. Obviously we had career advice and ideas of what we wanted to be when we grew up. But how many of us followed that dream/ambition/career? I wanted to be a butcher but I’m now an entertainer. "

Professional footballer or golfer, but got talked in to getting a "proper" job, what a mistake that was.

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By *hatYorkLadMan
over a year ago

York

I always wonder why people say they wouldn't join the army because they don't like being told what to do, how do they manage in a civvy job if they don't do what their boss asks them to do? It's no different!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I didn't know what I wanted to do when I left school.

I'm now 54 and still don't know what I want to do.

I'd love to have my own business though

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By *elma and ShaggyCouple
over a year ago

Bedworth

My first ambition as a child was to work in a butchers shop and maybe train as a butcher. I got a Saturday job in one aged 13 and aged 16 they told me they wouldn’t give me an apprenticeship as it’s not a job for a woman, we’re not physically strong enough to do it. I left soon after that.

My second ambition was to join the RAF which I did aged 19.

When I left I had no idea what to do with my life and still don’t. My last job was optical dispenser and I had decided that this was something I could make a career out of. I had started to study to become a dispensing optician when I left. I left because of poor management and bullying within the company. My experiences were so bad that it has soured optics as an industry for me, i will never return to it.

As for now, I’m happily working part time in a call centre which suits me for now

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By *he Mac LassWoman
over a year ago

Hefty Hideaway

When I was little I aspired to be an astronaut. Then a baker. Then a journalist. I studied journalism and hated it. I’m now a PA to a man who doesn’t really need a PA and I just fanny about. To be fair it’s much more fun than baking.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I didn't want to do what Im doing now but was in the same sector. Just the less physical side of it.

I want a major career change with something that earns better to be honest but I'm not sure where to start

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By *wisted999Man
over a year ago

North Bucks

Always wanted to do what I do now since about 19. I continue to enjoy it and get great job satisfaction. So I’m probably going to stay until I retire at 55.

Then I may do something else. Plenty of time to train in another career then.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I wanted to be a mermaid or breed dragons.

Guess what, I am/do neither

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I wanted to join logistics in the army but didn't get passed the medical.

Then applied for territorial army, lied on the question that failed me first time round, and joined the Royal engineers and did 5 years.

So sort of did what I wanted to for a short while.

Now I do maintenance.

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By *wisted999Man
over a year ago

North Bucks

"I wanted to join logistics in the army but didn't get passed the medical.

Then applied for territorial army, lied on the question that failed me first time round, and joined the Royal engineers and did 5 years.

So sort of did what I wanted to for a short while.

Now I do maintenance. "

I wish I had joined the TA something like the REME would have suited me. Plus it would have kept my weekends busy

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By *ottie_84Woman
over a year ago

Nottingham

Originally wanted to join the army as a chef- didn’t happen thanks to an ex

Spent the last 18 years in hospitality & catering

Changing my career & doing my bachelors in psychology

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By *alking DisasterWoman
over a year ago

South Oxfordshire

I grew up wanting to be a chef, even went to Uni to do a HND in Hotel Management.

Hated the industry and found I had the wrong qualifications.

So I have drifted from one admin job to another, never finding anything that holds my attention or stops me from being bored.

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By *alking DisasterWoman
over a year ago

South Oxfordshire

"I wanted to join logistics in the army but didn't get passed the medical.

Then applied for territorial army, lied on the question that failed me first time round, and joined the Royal engineers and did 5 years.

So sort of did what I wanted to for a short while.

Now I do maintenance.

I wish I had joined the TA something like the REME would have suited me. Plus it would have kept my weekends busy "

You can join the TA until you are 50.

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By *wisted999Man
over a year ago

North Bucks

"I wanted to join logistics in the army but didn't get passed the medical.

Then applied for territorial army, lied on the question that failed me first time round, and joined the Royal engineers and did 5 years.

So sort of did what I wanted to for a short while.

Now I do maintenance.

I wish I had joined the TA something like the REME would have suited me. Plus it would have kept my weekends busy

You can join the TA until you are 50."

I have a leg condition now that would rule me out sadly.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Always wanted to be a fireman or a stuntman as a kid, parents wanted to go college and uni and they didnt do courses in either, so I switched it up

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By *eah BabyCouple
over a year ago

Cheshire, Windermere ,Cumbria

"I always wonder why people say they wouldn't join the army because they don't like being told what to do, how do they manage in a civvy job if they don't do what their boss asks them to do? It's no different!"

I've always had a job where I pretty much got free reign, bit of a wild child in that respect, lucky for me I found people this worked for I was good at what I did so was just left to get on with it, as long as the job was done and it was usually changed to my way lol, so there's the difference.

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By *andm288Couple
over a year ago

oxford

Wanted to fly jets whilst at school but didn’t have the aptitude or the want to apply myself better

Went along to the schools careers evening at school with my dad

Who clearly pushed me into the direction of construction

Haven’t looked back own business relatively successful and now apply myself more

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