If you could go back what would you be............?

Something to do with music and dance. However, I was persuaded to take a ‘reliable’ job with a regular salary.

I can't think of anything other than 'growing some' sooner rather than later.

Kim. I was a librarian and it was mighty boring. I tried to get away a few times and even got other job offers, but the pay always kept me in libraries. Pay was not wonderful but always better than that offered by other jobs. I did another job at weekends - self employed hypnotherapist, That was interesting and I did a lot of good, e.g stopped over 400 people smoking. Unfortunately had to give it up as I started getting terrific headaches at the end of the day,

In truth, I wouldn't change anything, neither the bad or the good. From every bad thing that has happened in my life, something(s) good have sprung and the good has been appreciated more because of the bad experience that preceded it.

i think i would like to be an archeologist.. as i like history...

I know it’s not fashionable to admit it, but all I ever hoped for was to have a happy family. I was not a career girl at all and only worked because I had to ( I was a nursery nurse and, later, a secretary).

At 24 I met the love of my life and my happiest years were being married to him and raising our four children. I didn’t expect to lose him so soon, but cancer had other ideas.

I wouldn’t change a thing, except to have had more time together.

I'm a therapist. I would have trained at a younger age and would have taken a different route.

I left school and went to secretarial college to learn shorthand and typing. I hated it, and wasn’t much good at it either, but as my mother was divorced my contribution to the household expenses were much needed. The pay was more than most of my friends were earning.

When I got married and had children I couldn’t face going back to an office, fortunately I didn’t have to as a lot of women didn’t in the seventies. No regrets there, I wanted to be home for my children as my mother never could.

Some years later we were having an extension built and had a JCB on site. I asked if I could have a go, and I loved it! I was a natural and I found it so satisfying digging foundations. I’ve always been a practical person, and I wish something like that was available for school leaving girls in the sixties. The only options for us who didn’t do A levels was office work, nursing, shop work or a factory or maybe hairdressing. How times have thankfully changed.

I would have liked to have done something practical like a joiner, plumber or interior decorator as I always loved DIY. Too late for that now.

Nothing much I'd change career wise (financial arena) but I've always been intrigued by the vast potential being a librarian could have. Too late now but doesn't stop me wondering.

A dairy farmer

I loved playing the piano and would have liked to be a concert pianist. Oh to dream, just wasn't anywhere good enough.

Definitely gone to art school and not got married so young and probAbly not to the same man, I have made some disastrous mistakes in my life but I do have two wonderful daughters and great grandchildren, and I wouldn’t swap them for anything BUT there will always be the what if’s had I been just a bit braver when I was younger.

Probation officer unfortunately life got in the way. Always wish I'd been stronger and followed my dream.

Either an archivist or a genealogist.
I originally wanted to be a hairdresser but considering seeing hair in a plug hole makes me heave, not a good choice !

Well leaving school at 15 and working in my offices till I had my children later on didn’t have time to think about it.
Now when I look back and think about what I could have been the most enjoyable time for me was working as a TA with primary school children I do miss it would love to go back to it but there is no fun in education anymore.

I too wish I'd been an architect. I spent my youth working in offices for architects, quantity surveyors and consulting engineers. It never crossed my mind that I could have aspired to being a professional.

Endocrinologist

BB49 - who would you have assassinated? Or is that perhaps another thread!

An Assassin like Villanelle

Learn how to manage money
To save Instead of spend spend spend !

Yeh!! Well said

Taller! Then I would have joined the wrens, I was filling out the form when I came across the height qualification. I would have had a different life.

I would have liked to have been a stained glass restorer, I did a degree in fine art, mucked around for a few years and then thought I will do a degree in nursing, the boyfriend at the time was a medical student. I was a ward sister for most of my career apart from 7yrs out as a medical rep. Everyone says what a worthwhile career but it wasn’t what I wanted to do. You get married have kids and the next thing you know you’ve got bills to pay! No I didn’t marry the medical student, I married the international manager for the medical company I worked for!

Apologies Anniebach