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What job/ career would you do if you could start again?

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  • Wheresmeticket
    Wheresmeticket Posts: 17,304
    bobmunro said:

    All these wannabe fluffers - pah!

    I bet you didn't say that to the careers teacher at school!

    It was the careers teachers that put the thought in their minds.
  • DamoNorthStand
    DamoNorthStand Posts: 10,934
    edited September 2017
    MrLargo said:

    Airline pilot.

    This.

    I had the finances available when I was 18 to do my PPL or pay for a scholarship with one of the airlines. I applied and got through the first round with BA but stupidly decided to use the money to follow my motorsport 'dream'. My biggest regret as Lewis Hamilton I ain't. Don't race anymore but could still be flying. Had lessons on an off but with a mortgage to pay I don't have the finances now to do anything serious with it
  • DA9
    DA9 Posts: 11,091
    Some will laugh, but, Old Bill
  • blackpool72
    blackpool72 Posts: 23,667
    DA9 said:

    Some will laugh, but, Old Bill

    Hahahaha about as much chance as me
  • illichassavedit
    illichassavedit Posts: 254
    I'd like to do something a bit more unique. Set up a company selling electronic components. Make shed loads of cash and buy a football club. Show everyone how it should be run and go down in history as true visionary genius.
  • jamiebcool
    jamiebcool Posts: 592
    I just want to be a well paid rich person who works maximum 2 days a week. Just to get away from the wife.
  • eaststandmike
    eaststandmike Posts: 14,956
    Pilot, passenger or cargo, just so long as I am in the air
  • ashley
    ashley Posts: 531
    International arms dealer
  • Dippenhall
    Dippenhall Posts: 3,918
    Told careers officer i wanted an outdoor job, Forestry Commission, Customs Officer or Fireman and couldn't face being stuck in an office all day, so he helped me get a job as an insurance clerk.
  • cafcnick1992
    cafcnick1992 Posts: 7,413
    Pilot - but suspect in reality it may be very boring

    Policeman - Every day must be different and you must get some great stories

    Professional footballer - Even if I only made 4 appearances for Grimsby, would still be great.

    I say this like i'm a 60 year old. I'm only 25.
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  • cabbles
    cabbles Posts: 15,254
    I'd like to be a researcher for BBC London news. Help pick which is the most left wing/liberal story they can run with each night

    1. Cherokee native Indian girl becomes world darts champion at Alexander Palace

    2. Syrian refugee opens up organic kale bistro in Purley

    3. Transgender falcon campaigns for fair living quarters in aviary

    This is truly some of the hippy shit I believe they would run if they could get away with it
  • kings hill addick
    kings hill addick Posts: 5,781
    Greenie said:

    Absolutely wouldn't change a thing.
    Left school with 3 GCSEs and was told to go and work at the local factory but being one who never follows the norm,
    I got a job as a printing apprentice (compositor) at 16 which has lead me to a very long career in design which has lead me to my main career as retail design studio manager for the biggest company in the world, which is my main career and earner.
    Along the way (20 years ago) I changed for 5 years as a fire fighter (brilliant job) but left due to lack of money
    My main career has given me scope and time to follow my three main passions of music, Militaria collecting and martial arts of which I have done more than ok at (in my eyes) and I still pursue all 3, the plus of all 3 is that I earn from my passions, I'm lucky I get paid for doing shit that t I would do for fun.
    I have been made redundant 3 times and to pay bills I have sold my collection and rebuilt it 3 times, I have made many mistakes but have learned from them, the mob singer sang of regrets but I have none career wise, if I was to peg out tomorrow then it would be with satisfied grin on my mooey!
    Probably not what anyone wants to hear but that that's the Gods honest.
    To balance it a little I am bald and fucking ugly.
    Hey ho!

    I had a friend that used to collect World War II stuff and used to restore Jeeps. It was his passion. I went to a few events with him. I can understand the obsession, even if I didn't pick it up myself.
  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    I have been told I make a nice cup of tea.
    In the old days people would patrol offices with a tea trolley for those working, so that job I suppose, but I doubt it pays enough to live (or that the job exists anymore).
  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    What I'm going back to doing now, cabinetmaking and furniture design. When I left boatbuilding college 23 years ago, there weren't any openings in carpentry or joinery in London or the South East, so I went on site as an electricians mate and was a sparky for the following 16 or so years, save for the couple of years I spent running a sweet shop next to Grove Park BR Station, then I wanted a job "on the cards", so i joined Rentokil (Less said about that the better). But now I live Frenchside and my health is back on trackish I found myself with a 80m2 garage and a bit of dough to spend from a house sale, so it is now all kitted out with the machines and tools I need to carry on where I left off 23 years back.


    Either that or I'd like to run another sweet shop
  • cafcfan
    cafcfan Posts: 11,198
    SWEnglandAddick said:

    DaveMehmet said:

    SWEnglandAddick said:

    Why has nobody said Train Driver yet? Is this even a Charlton forum?

    Please refer to my post at 08:12 this morning.
    Dammit. You must be the only proper Charlton on here. You are our king @DaveMehmet
    Not really. Bad mistake: when using the 24hr clock, no point in adding "this morning" as it's otiose.

    The thing is surely, if you're trainspotting you can still go home at 16:30 so that you don't miss your Mum's tea. If actually driving a train you'd still be on some god-awful shift or sleeping off the last one.
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,841
    seth plum said:

    I have been told I make a nice cup of tea.
    In the old days people would patrol offices with a tea trolley for those working, so that job I suppose, but I doubt it pays enough to live (or that the job exists anymore).

    We still have tea ladies with trolleys.
  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,474
    edited September 2017
    You may find this strange and possibly hard to believe but working on the orangutan preservation project in Indonesia would be something I would love to have done.
    Not that one could make a living from it.
  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,728
    SoundAsa£ said:

    You may find this strange and possibly hard to believe but working on the orangutan preservation project in Indonesia would be something I would love to have done.

    Why not get a job as a steward at Millwall instead?
  • Horsfield9
    Horsfield9 Posts: 3,082
    Can't make my mind up, either a Sports Commentator ( preferably Golf as it's usually good weather ) , or a Coach for a Female Beach Volleyball Team.
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,587
    Horsfield9 said:

    Can't make my mind up, either a Sports Commentator ( preferably Golf as it's usually good weather ) , or a Coach for a Female Beach Volleyball Team.

    Surely the official photographer for the beach volleyball team would be a far more rewarding career?
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  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    DaveMehmet said:

    Horsfield9 said:

    Can't make my mind up, either a Sports Commentator ( preferably Golf as it's usually good weather ) , or a Coach for a Female Beach Volleyball Team.

    Surely the official photographer for the beach volleyball team would be a far more rewarding career?
    Or their Physio
  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    bobmunro said:

    seth plum said:

    I have been told I make a nice cup of tea.
    In the old days people would patrol offices with a tea trolley for those working, so that job I suppose, but I doubt it pays enough to live (or that the job exists anymore).

    We still have tea ladies with trolleys.
    Sexists :smile:
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,841
    seth plum said:

    bobmunro said:

    seth plum said:

    I have been told I make a nice cup of tea.
    In the old days people would patrol offices with a tea trolley for those working, so that job I suppose, but I doubt it pays enough to live (or that the job exists anymore).

    We still have tea ladies with trolleys.
    Sexists :smile:
    Not at all - they just all happen to be female :)
  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    bobmunro said:

    seth plum said:

    bobmunro said:

    seth plum said:

    I have been told I make a nice cup of tea.
    In the old days people would patrol offices with a tea trolley for those working, so that job I suppose, but I doubt it pays enough to live (or that the job exists anymore).

    We still have tea ladies with trolleys.
    Sexists :smile:
    Not at all - they just all happen to be female :)
    It is a woman's job
  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,474
    seth plum said:

    bobmunro said:

    seth plum said:

    I have been told I make a nice cup of tea.
    In the old days people would patrol offices with a tea trolley for those working, so that job I suppose, but I doubt it pays enough to live (or that the job exists anymore).

    We still have tea ladies with trolleys.
    Sexists :smile:
    To be politically correct and non sexist that should read tea trolleys with ladies.
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,587
    SoundAsa£ said:

    seth plum said:

    bobmunro said:

    seth plum said:

    I have been told I make a nice cup of tea.
    In the old days people would patrol offices with a tea trolley for those working, so that job I suppose, but I doubt it pays enough to live (or that the job exists anymore).

    We still have tea ladies with trolleys.
    Sexists :smile:
    To be politically correct and non sexist that should read tea trolleys with ladies.
    Women
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,587
    bobmunro said:

    seth plum said:

    bobmunro said:

    seth plum said:

    I have been told I make a nice cup of tea.
    In the old days people would patrol offices with a tea trolley for those working, so that job I suppose, but I doubt it pays enough to live (or that the job exists anymore).

    We still have tea ladies with trolleys.
    Sexists :smile:
    Not at all - they just all happen to be female :)
    All our trolleys are gender neutral (they make shit tea though)
  • RodneyCharltonTrotta
    RodneyCharltonTrotta Posts: 14,827
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    DaveMehmet said:

    bobmunro said:

    seth plum said:

    bobmunro said:

    seth plum said:

    I have been told I make a nice cup of tea.
    In the old days people would patrol offices with a tea trolley for those working, so that job I suppose, but I doubt it pays enough to live (or that the job exists anymore).

    We still have tea ladies with trolleys.
    Sexists :smile:
    Not at all - they just all happen to be female :)
    All our trolleys are gender neutral (they make shit tea though)
    Please don't generalise Dave...my tea trolley self identifies as a mantelpiece.
  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,142
    Actor or A&R man in the music industry. The latter I probably could have got into, if I had the slightest notion as a 17 year old that a lad from a one horse market town in Bedfordshire could actually have done that.
  • Gravesend_Addick
    Gravesend_Addick Posts: 7,299
    SoundAsa£ said:

    seth plum said:

    bobmunro said:

    seth plum said:

    I have been told I make a nice cup of tea.
    In the old days people would patrol offices with a tea trolley for those working, so that job I suppose, but I doubt it pays enough to live (or that the job exists anymore).

    We still have tea ladies with trolleys.
    Sexists :smile:
    To be politically correct and non sexist that should read tea trolleys with ladies.
    To be politically correct, they have to be called gender neutral tea people

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