Plan B Forum

I'd have completed my Zoology degree, gone on to a PhD program, and become a wildlife biologist - studying marine mammals or birds, preferrably in the field - with some teaching thrown in.

What would you have been, if not what you are?

This is a 'if not, then' thread - so we can all agree up front that we're perfectly happy with what we're currently doing, but still sometimes consider what might have been.

Boxer.

The only sport I ever had any real interest in but I knew for damn sure thet my mother wouldn't allow it.

Weather prognosticator...

Ski bum! I would have worked really hard to save enough money to spend an entire winter skiing, back when I had the knees for it.

I definitely would have done something entrepreneurial - probably build and fix houses.

By the time I realized how stupid it is to be an EMPLOYEE, I was too far in debt to consider going into business myself. Then I got comfortable and lazy, which is where I am now.

In fact, I think the worst product of American "education" is the selling of the notion that success is defined as getting a good "job." Statistically, this is the worst possible route to financial success.

I wish I'd not blow my time at school, and gone on to do a medical degree and qualified as a doctor.

Cetacean biologist. Or a park ranger. Or a racehorse trainer.


I really still don't know what I want to be when I grow up.

Mega Lotto Winner.

I'm with you Dales. I enjoy my job very much, but if I wasn't doing it I would want retirement instead.

Boring I know. But a life / life balance is something I am looking forward to conquering in just over 12 years time.

Heavy truck mechanic...or possibly heavy equipment mechanic.

Had a good friend that did that for years.

He's now 56 years old and his back is shot.

There are a lot of easier ways to make money.

Working on heavy equipment isn't one of them.

Am I alone in reading the title and thinking;

"If I had to do it over again, I'd do it over you..."?


I'll get me coat..

RAOF...nope not the only one!!


Hmmmmm don't know what I would have done. I enjoyed my time as a chef it afforded me to travel and work my way around the world. I have owned and operated my own restaurant.....wouldnt do that again. Far to much stress and worry on the Gold Coast...mebbe if I could open a Draculas http://www.draculas.com.au sort of restaurant in a city in the UK.....mebbe.

I enjoy my job now as a Medical Receptionist in A and E. Just hate the company I work for.


I always wanted fame and fortune as a little girl. So mebbe an actress.

failing that a Sports Masseuse .....massaging males only!

I might have stayed in music school and gone on to be an orchestral or small ensemble player (never had the ambition/talent to be a soloist). Or perhaps I'd pursue paleontology and dig for dinosaurs. Maybe astronomy and astro-physics. I'm not at all dissatisfied with the path I've followed, but there are so many interesting things to do with one's life.

Beach bum. Master gardner/landscape architect. Actress. Historian. Politician. Or any combination, therof . . . .



(who am I kidding, I was born to be a lawyer -- we get to be a little bit of everything)

If I'd done something differently I'd never have gotten together with my sweetie.

Couldn't be worth it.

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Oh, oh. I have one. Pastry Chef.

That'd be what I would've done.

Recognizing that we are all focusing on what we would do for a living, which is only a small slice of life,...

Have you ever read the book, "What Color is Your Parachute?" (which is republished yearly).

Very briefly, the book tells you to create your own career path by (1) identifying what you enjoy doing, (2) melding that with the kinds of things you do best, to envision a job, then (3) identifying a company who could use such a person, and (4) convincing someone in power at that company to create the position, and to hire you to fill it.

I have actually seen it work. Seems like a great formula to have a rewarding and enjoyable career.

If we're talking about really enjoying our work, paragliding instructor, professional mountaineer, Dartmoor ranger.

Geologist or journalist. However, I did really love my job on the rail road.