Have any of you ever changed career paths?

I love the sound of this

https://jobs.theguardian.com/job/6503373/rescued-horse-carer/

You take them out for the day, keep an eye on them and then take them home to the stable. That’s the sort thing I think I could just about manage, or counting sheep in a field, or waves on an island or something.

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I have. I worked as an application specialist at IBM for 4 years before going to law school to retrain as a solicitor. Good experience. Would do again, even with hindsight.

I don’t know if it counts as a career change because I was just pissing about doing admin jobs for Driving Standards and HMRC, but I did some work experience in a school with a view to teacher training which turned into what I do now (FE Lecturer.)

I can’t remember if there is a careers service for people outside of education but you could try talking to them.

become a farmer and you can work in a different field every day

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Career path to date (after leaving full-time education):

  • Junior accountant / auditor
  • Underwear manufacturer / wholesaler
  • Part-time badminton coach
  • Accountant / auditor
  • Financial adviser
  • Area manager
  • Trainer
  • Account manager

If you find something you want to do then I would recommend making the switch. Might have a little financial hardship but more often than not it is ultimately worth it

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Seven

Did you do one of those law conversion masters?

depends how many fences they’ve built i think

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It was called the Graduate Diploma in Law in my day. Just a one-year course to compensate for not having done a law undergrad degree.

going to be honest, i don’t care for horses.

cows - yeah. piggies - ofc. horses… nope

Oh man this is a thread in and of itself. Rough timeline for me:

Barman, job centre advisor, legal assistant, policy researcher, ice sculptor, barman again, legal IT assistant, gardener, barman the third, curtain man

I wouldn’t say I’m a big fan of them either but I haven’t come across any other jobs which involve taking animals out somewhere for the day.

A guy in work knows someone who got a job as vet, somewhere lovely (i forget where exactly) and she mostly looks after sea turtles.

I’ve thought about doing this too. Do a law conversion course. Get a training berth in a firm. Do STEP qualification. Become a TEP - have an easy life.

Probably worth it if you can find a firm to give you a training contract and pay your law school tuition fees, tbh.

Yeah although you’d need to offset it with the idea that you’re setting yourself up for a lifetime of boring work on the Private Client side. Pretty easy way to bring in £60k a year though once you’ve done the graft at the start though.

Someone I know left their job as an architect and is currently doing an intensive UX course, UX being very trendy at the moment. From my point of view it’s seems a little unusual at first because it’s so related to what I do and therefore I can’t see the attraction. That said architecture really doesn’t sound that great (soz marckee) although it depends a lot on the practice I imagine and she’ll be getting at least the same wage when she gets a job in UX, so far she loves the course.

Architecture feels like cooking to me, lovely if done by someone talented but probably for the best if it’s just done via some sort of mass production assembly line for the most part.

^This though

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If you have a bent for tax and estate planning, it’s a really nice career I think. My brother is a private client lawyer at a smallish London firm and seems that have a very cushy life. I think £60k is conservative - I’m sure you could do very nicely indeed.