If you had your time again, what job/career/profession would you choose?

thinly veiled I qualified for a grammar school thread IMO.

soz..I felt that in relation to the thread it was relevant...

..didn't realise that, to some, passing a school test 49 years ago might be considered bragging...

lol you werent meant to take it seriously

Translator.

If you were interested in a career where you simply suck value from the process, adding absolutely nothing, being able to play God on a daily basis, then it's the world of recruitment consultancy for you

Saudi sword salesman.

A Gigolo....

In 1965 my sixth form master told me the future job to aim for was anything involving computers. Of course I didn't take any notice, regrettably.

"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
Thomas Watson, president of IBM, 1943

just checking

I spent five years as a translator back in the 1980s, lybertyne. Firstly as a patents translator (e.g. 500 pages of organic chemistry for a herbicide, or 600 pages to describe a cigarette-vending machine); then as a medical translator (e.g. 500 pages of blood pictures, or 600 pages investigating how much of a drug is required to kill 50% of rats).

That's the reality, I'm afraid. You can't make a living from translating books you like. And the pay was awful back then, even for the technical stuff.

I gave it up in November 1990 to go punting on the racecourse full-time, and despite how it's all ended up online in front of a TV screen, I wouldn't have changed those glory years on the racecourse for anything.

I wish I became a train driver. All you have to do is sit there all day, doing nothing.

That's a real quote portmanpark!

think he was laughing at your Saudi Swords salesman joke

I do it all again - Racecourse rep , lived the dream

Dentist or a Vet - rich robbing B`s the lot of them.

Vet I knew was on very surprisingly sh1t money. Also Dentist and Vets have higher suicide rates, vets having a suicide rate often quoted at 3-4 times the average.

Probably the same as anything else - working in a successful surgery pays less than owning a successful surgery.

On the other hand, you don't have all the start-up costs, red tape and risks to contend with, I suppose.

could take out a franchise.

Chief Punka Waller....

Vorderman's surgeon.

I'd be a Drug Dealer!

Id have fancied being a Bricklayer but the weather over here put me off but if I had my time over again id learn  Bricklaying and bugger off to Australia - I presume they need Brickies ?

County linesman?

chef or a physiotherapist

I went to a grammar school as well, Dulwich College!

If I had my time again I would have bought a hotel in Brighton and have made it a bit 'boutique'. That ship though has most definitely sailed now as I'm a bit too old for a project like that and prices in Brighton now are just way beyond ridiculous.

With the power of hindsight, making a lot of money would be fairly easy.  I reckon finding a job that you really enjoy and still pays pretty well is the trick.

I've enjoyed all my jobs bar working for Royal Mail in a sorting office.

what did you not enjoy about the Royal Mail , the early 5am starts?

It was part-time and shifts, not particularly early but just fecking boring.

MP; i'd have livened the House up

house of lords for me , probably just be looking to start work there at my age

My mother was given the choice of joining the WRAF or working in a Wolverhampton sorting office in August 1940.

She chose the sorting office for safety reasons, and regretted the decision to her dying day.

Thats the sorting office I was at, screaming!!!

Doesn't look like the Wolverhampton sorting office offers a rewarding career experience, then.

Maybe not rewarding, but fairly cushy given the literacy rate of Wolverhampton?

I'd be a public sector puke.
Those guys have it well sorted

"If there is reincarnation, I'd like to come back as Warren Beatty's fingertips."

Woody Allen