Contented With Your Occupation ?

[Bazile]

1. Are you / have you been in the occupation that you have always wanted ?

2. What job / career would you like / would have liked

[andy-hughes]

I am very lucky, I have worked at The Post Office - now BT for over forty years, it's only the second full-time job I have ever had, and I have enjoyed virtually all of it - very lucky indeed.

I would have liked to have been a full-time music writer - I am a part-time one now, and when I retire I will do that full time.

Other than that i would have loved to have been a successful TV actor, or a psychologist.

[2sp_]

Currently I'm a stay-at-home mother, so can't say I have an occupation as such (I think of it more as a punishment for having sex).

In a different dimension, I hope I'm a rodeo bull breeder. (Honestly.)

[Elina]

A fella in work said tome this morning ... it's a bit of a zoo here isn't it ... don't you just love it! :0)

[Greedyfly]

I am not in the career that I want to be in due to financial implications of training and the time it would take. I am in a company that I applied to be in due to convenience and I am now in a positon that I enjoy so it's a bonus. Unfortunately I will have to leave the position I am in due to no progression available and the need for an increased salary so that I can buy a house.

Ideally I would like to be a Meterologist. My current role has nothing to do with weather.

[excelsior-1]

1 no

2 diplomatic translator

[pixie373]

Yes....wanted to be a vet.

[pastafreak]

I'm a cook...and its not what I always wanted. I fell into it by accident.But...I feed people who really need feeding,and its gratifying to do something for someone else.
I originally went to a fashion design/art college,and I wanted to do fashion illustration. But when I left,photography had taken over,so I did page makeup,and ad design instead. Not sure what I'd want to be/do if I could do it over again...but it'd have to be creative.

[pastafreak]

Elina...I work in a zoo(sometimes)...love it. Heehee.

[thegreens]

1.Yes-I am a self employed accountant and I am very lucky to be able to say that every day, I look forward to starting work-even though I am long past retirement age

[Prudie]

I have been but am not now (although I like my current job). I also would have liked to have gone in the forces or be a flight attendant or a supermodel.

[berniecuddles]

prudie=supermodel=SQAD lol

[Cloverjo]

1. No.
I wanted to work in TV or theatre (behind the scenes, not on stage or screen), but never got even close to it.

[DaisyNonna]

When at school wanted to b e a lawyer.

[237SJ]

Yes - love it. There isn`t really anything else I want to do but I have always had a fascination for radio and the Coastguard so maybe something to do with that.

[anaxcrosswords]

1 – Yes.
From a ridiculously early age I discovered I could make crosswords and from the age of 10-ish I knew it was what I’d eventually do full-time. It took about another 35 years to get there but it’s been my full-time job since 2007 and I couldn’t be happier.
There are personal reasons for this contentment. Despite my skills being highly developed by 13/14 there was never any family encouragement or even interest which, perhaps oddly, made me even more determined. And, in my mid-20s, a girlfriend asked me what my professional plans were. I was already setting occasional puzzles for the Birmingham Post but was otherwise jobless – when I told her I would become a professional cryptic setter she said “You’ll never do it”. Needless to say that was the end of the relationship but, several years later, proving that she was so wrong to doubt me was pretty satisfying!
Beyond the personal, what’s ideal about this job is that I’m famous but completely anonymous – no-one’s ever going to recognise me in the street, so I get to keep my own life.
2 - This one, and I plan to keep doing it until I drop.

[corylus]

I love looking things up and searching through old documents, think I should've chosen archivist as a career but I was very happy working with children in the NHS and in schools for disabled kids.

[DaisyNonna]

Family backing can be crucial.
My father said I should leave school at 16 and work in his friend's office (friend was a solicitor). Big family row, I wanted University, not tea making and filing.

[sherrardk]

I taught for 16 years but it wasn't what I really wanted to do, I did it for the holidays. I don't currently work but I constantly think I should be doing something, but no idea what.

[China Doll]

1) No. I kind of fell in to it but I like and am very good at my job.

2) As a result of the job I now do, I think that I might like to be a detective or a solicitor specialising in the cases of child abuse. But I wouldn't have chosen to be that when I was younger - just have been influenced by what I do now.

[Psybbo]

Retired now but overall loved my work and 99% of the people I worked with, still meet up with them regularly, I think I was very lucky.