What was your first career choice?

[Flubster]

I wanted to be taller when I grew up. It worked...I'm 6' 5".

Always wanted to be a copper, but failed the entrance exam at the last hurdle (fresh out of school, didn't know my @rse from my elbow), so got some temp work doing data entry. Sat near a contractor, learnt some stuff off him and got into IT myself....never looked back.

I still wonder what a different path I would've led if I hadn't fluffed that police interview though.

[Lockhouse]

I never knew what I wanted to do apart from as little as possible for the most money. For some reason I ended up as an IT contractor. Strange how things work out eh?

[threaded]

I never knew what I wanted to do apart from as little as possible for the most money. For some reason I ended up as an IT contractor. Strange how things work out eh?

WHS

[ctdctd]

Starting working in the repair workshop of a radio and TV shop when I was thirteen back in the day when most TV's still had lots of valves and went wrong often enough to keep engineers employed.

Gravitated into electronic engineering as a degree and stuck it for 14 years before move to IT.

[Halcyon]

I loved astronomy but I never considered a career in it. I didn't know of any jobs in it. I was scared of heights anyway.

I didn't know of any jobs in IT

FTFY, not a lot has changed...

My degree was Civil Engineering, but even then I found that I preferred sitting up all night to write a GEM basic programme for my old Amstrad to do my coursework rather than doing it myself.

I got paid a week to go away and "do the calcs" for a housing site in Sutton (convert the rectangular co-ordinates on the plans to polar co-ordinates for setting out the houses on the ground), spent about an hour writing a programme for my little Casio calculator, another hour "doing the calcs", and four and a half days on the p155 on a very good rate. Went back to the site and "sold" the programme to another engineer who dutifully copied onto a piece of paper to go and type it in later.

The last big recession (1990 for the children) stuffed my career in Engineering, I wonder if this one will stuff my career in IT as much of it gets outsourced when we recover (my "plan B" is a process that helps companies outsource work, am I signing my own death warrant??)

[Doggy Styles]

It's remarkable how many posts we've had so far, and there's no mention yet of wanting to be a porn star or a prostitute.

[Diver]

It's remarkable how many posts we've had so far, and there's no mention yet of wanting to be a porn star or a prostitute.

Porn star by the way

[DimPrawn]

It's remarkable how many posts we've had so far, and there's no mention yet of wanting to be a porn star or a prostitute.

I wanted to be a porn star, but failed the entrance exam.

[Diver]

I wanted to be a porn star, but failed the entrance exam.

Length of service counts a lot in that industry

[DimPrawn]

Length of service counts a lot in that industry

It's a hard job and you have to bust your balls to make ends meet.