I need to know whether your job and your education match up

[andrewducker]

Where "Education" means a degree or some other specific higher-level qualification. Having taken French A-levels and now working in France doesn't count. If your life doesn't fit into nice, neat categories then leave a comment :->

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[ext_1558555]

I have a career. I just don't know if it's something I want.

[momentsmusicaux]

I wanted to be a writer. Then I said I wanted to be an architect, just to shut everybody up who kept asking. Then I sort of half-arsedly followed that, but soon realized that architecture involved years of really bloody dull training before you got to build cool stuff like, say, metro stations. So I did maths at uni just because I liked it, and figured I'd figure something out after that. Then I fell ill. Then I accidentally fell into developing webs and here I am today.

[guybles]

I actually intended to go into medicine, and chose my A-levels accordingly. Heck, I was even accepted on the course at the University of my choosing.

Turns out that it wasn't right for me, so I dropped out and pursued courses that I was both good at and interested in.

The career followed afterwards, similarly based on something else I was interested in and good at (which amounts to be nosy and telling people that they're doing whatever they're doing the wrong way).

[aiela]

To be clear, I left for college at 17, dropped out, tried again in my early 20s, dropped out, and then went back at 30 for the career I am in now.

[alitheapipkin]

My current job isn't really related to my education in that everything I studied from the age of 16 onwards was because I wanted to work in something environment related and now I work in scientific communication completely unrelated to anything environmental. But I would never have got it without the PhD and post doc experience, so it's related to the level of my education and only very vaguely to the actual subject area.

I never considered myself to have a career as a post doc because I've never wanted to be an academic but I seem to have one now

[alitheapipkin]

Also, while I started thinking about future jobs at about 13, what I thought about at that age was very influenced by a teacher of mine who thought I should go into Law. My passion for biology didn't come along until high school and when I first chose my A levels I had countryside planning in mind or I'd have done maths or chemistry rather than history. Not that I'll ever regret history, I owe my current career to my high school history teacher more than anyone else, he was the person who taught me to write effectively, my English teachers were all useless.