What was your first career choice?

[EternalOptimist]

I wanted to be a field marshall in the army or a king of a big country. Unfortunately our careers advice department were so rubbish, I ended up riding shotgun on a milk float.

[Diver]

I've done just about every job I ever wanted to do, except:

1. Be an Astronaut
   
2. Be an Archaeologist
   
3. Be a Time Traveller

Oh well, maybe there's still time

[jimjamuk]

Brewer - they were hazy days - then the brewery was shut and everyone was made redundant - I quickly sobered up after that.......

[Jeebo72]

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.

Always regret not doing astronomy. I didn't do it because they weren't any jobs. Did mathematics instead and graduated into the worst recession ever anyway in the early 90s... ended up with a first job in a call centre!

[DieScum]

When I was a kid I somehow got the idea that I wanted to be in the navy. Then as a teenager the idea of being a town planner somehow took hold.

Then when I had to get a job I started in IT.

Ideally I'd love to do something really, really well paid, where I get to travel to lots of cool locations, live it up on expenses and mingle and sleep with lots of fit women. Oh and it should also not involve hard work and be fun to do but simultaneously grant lots of power and respect.

[Diver]

Ideally I'd love to do something really, really well paid, where I get to travel to lots of cool locations, live it up on expenses and mingle and sleep with lots of fit women. Oh and it should also not involve hard work and be fun to do but simultaneously grant lots of power and respect.

No!

You are NOT having my job

[DimPrawn]

Ideally I'd love to do something really, really well paid, where I get to travel to lots of cool locations, live it up on expenses and mingle and sleep with lots of fit women. Oh and it should also not involve hard work and be fun to do but simultaneously grant lots of power and respect.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/cop...ar-wedges.html

HTH

[Jeebo72]

When I was a kid I somehow got the idea that I wanted to be in the navy. Then as a teenager the idea of being a town planner somehow took hold.

Then when I had to get a job I started in IT.

Ideally I'd love to do something really, really well paid, where I get to travel to lots of cool locations, live it up on expenses and mingle and sleep with lots of fit women. Oh and it should also not involve hard work and be fun to do but simultaneously grant lots of power and respect.

How's your golf? We've got a vacany ...

[Churchill]

Urgent Pasta Takeaway Delivery Boy - Menelaus

[realityhack]

Wanted to be a pilot like so many others, wanted to be a pro artist too, but my first job was in photography, self employed. Studio, commercial and portraiture. Assistant and some solo gigs. Hated weddings. Loved studio work.
Discovered there wasn't any proper money in it long term unless you were a Bailey or Adams. Ditto for art.

Then trained in film post-production. Liked editing, liked timeline-based media - and lo and behold... into the fringes of IT I went.

Photography's a hobby. Art's my plan B. I know I can do a lot better than many successful artists out there, maybe one day, rodders...