My big hope was to be a veterinarian.
Alas, that dream would never come to fruition as I can’t stand the sight of blood. In fact, I’ve been known to faint at the sight of it.
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Two careers which appeal to me are
art restoration I think I could have done this well or being a forensic artist .
Neither of this were ever mentioned when I was at school.
I was also interested in geology but at that time it didn’t seem to go any anywhere .
I liked science at school but was useless at physics and anyway at that time if you chose science you couldn’t do art which was my strong subject .
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I’d either applied to help susan in her Retreat, 
or worked with animals somehow - maybe either veterinary nursing or rescue work.
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I love the idea of this. I read a bit about it in a mystery series. The main character was in art restoration, but it was a very short jump to forger which had its own intrigue.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B074CFH4C6?binding=kindle_edition&ref=dbs_dp_rwt_sb_pc_tukn
When I left school my art teacher said you have a great future as an art forger !
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I never really wanted a career. I wanted to be a mum, an artist and a writer.
So all the jobs I’ve had, I’ve just done to earn enough money to do those other things.
Looking back, it would have been amazing to have a career in journalism
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Those sound like careers to me, although sadly the first one doesn’t pay well monetarily. I was literally just thinking about this before I saw your comment. One of the reasons I’m for universal basic income is because I think people who have the most important job in the world (and everyone knows it) doesn’t get paid for it. Mums of the world, unite!
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I guess a mechanic would have been a choice knowing what I know now, but I don’t look back and think what if, I’ve dealt with the cards I had and have arrived where I’m at, happy and content.
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I enjoyed being a sailor, in the MN, seeing a “Porthole View” of the world.
I enjoyed being a Support Specialist, on large Computers,
I enjoyed being a Manager, and working with people.
I have enjoyed being retired since 1992.
But, if I could have just one more career, it would be as an author of fiction books.
It fits most of my interests, but, sadly, my brain & memory are not up to it now, if they ever were.
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I sort of did what I’d wanted to do. I left school with no qualifications, but was fixed on working with horses, spent a few weeks at a racing stable, but wasn’t strong or experienced enough to manage the race horses, left there & got a job in a riding stable for a few years, loved that, but the money was awful & I wanted my own horse, so I left & got a job in a department store, I discovered I loved selling & was good at it, interacting with customers & helping them, so I stayed doing that in varIous places. I still like selling now, though Covid has slightly put a stop to that.
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A Historian in Scottish History, if lucky a sort of female Neil Oliver.
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I would have liked to be a scientist or psychologist. I’m particularly interested in biosciences. But not sure whether that satisfies the pays well circle in the venn diagram. I also enjoyed studying law but didn’t pursue it, then wished I had. But having heard accounts from those working in science and law, you start off as slave labour either working 24 hours doing all the technical law work for very little income yet generating vast amounts of value for whichever law firm or you end up spending all day filling petri dishes or test tubes with no opportunity to use your brain.
Funnily enough many people give up pursuing such careers and go into accountancy. Accounting for large organisations, working on big projects and developments is actually a very interesting job. You work with some very nice people, get to know everyone in the organisation so it’s very social, and although it can be stressful it’s also fun and very varied. But, I would still like to study biology.
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Tiffs I rode work for two weeks at a racing stable while the trainers wife who generally rode them while the trainers owner was having a baby
The horses were strong but once I got my stirrups up I could hold them and the trainer was ok however when the wife a very tough women got out of hospital she parked the baby in the stable yard and took up the reins again .
Time to depart
I have always felt sorry for racehorses much of their short lives shut up in boxes no wonder so many are ill tempered and difficult .
I just love that man’s voice 
He’s got a real soft accent and he’s a nice guy, I’ve met him a few times over the years. He’s up this end of the country a lot, last time I was over on Orkney I bumped into him at the Ring of Brodgar and we had a good old natter. 
I like his hair too 
Me too. My Partners hair is like that but he has it tied back most of the time.
Knowing what I know now … I would have spent 40 odd years as a property developer, buying run-down London houses restoring them to their former glory, retiring a Billionaire in 2016 (referendum year).
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You’d probably find most of the punters are atheists too. If the truth be told.
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I fancy myself as a bit of a Steve McCurry too.
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