What could have been career wise?

My mother talked me out of becoming a heart surgeon, many, many years ago. Back then, she thought I'd waste my years of schooling by marrying and having children to tend to. I became a teacher and have no regrets.

For ladies it was mostly being a teacher or a secretary. I opted for the latter but did climb up the ladder to be in the middle management cadre handling administration. I gave up my job while still young and started a business designing and executing landscaped gardens Once we shifted from the city I gave up doing that.

Yes there are moments of regreting things but since I can`t do anything about it better not to think about it and just enjoy what you can have atleast

My passion is to be a investor, trader and business man. I failed in my attempt which is why I have to take up job but there again, I will not give up. To be very honest, my life career is never great. It is just for a living.

Most of us, of an older generation, were influenced by our parents in our career choice. My father wanted me to be a bank teller, like which he had been, for example. Early in my life, at primary school, a teacher told my parents that I would make a good lawyer. She said I was fair-minded, and a good observer of others, in a non-prejudicial way. What job should I have done? I was also like you siva. I did not know much what I wanted to be, or to do. Should I have really gone to university, at all, as I did, and I largely only wasted my time there, bombing out after two short years, of non-interest, or of little applicationionary effort, on my part? What should I have studied anyway? At high school, I was good at basic maths, but was I really gifted at maths, or not, could I have gone on and been an actuary, or not then? This was the career that had interested me at high school, rather than the accountancy areas, because I didn't have any time for economics, only for figure/number manipulations. We all come into the world with some gifts or inclinational abilities gained from past lives, (if you believe in them) and also with some of these gifts, and abilities inbuilt into us too, as so-called starter coins for this life too. In my early life, music was all around me. My Father was a church organist, and a piano player, as was also my mother. My mother had a soft emotional way of playing though, and my father, a loud thumping mechanical way of playing his music. My father "forced" all of us kids to take up some type of a musical instrument too. He had left the choice of instrument up to us, but when I chose a little-known instrument called, a viola, a slightly larger instrument that a violin, he told me "bad choice son", and promptly got me started on a violin instead. He said to me, "you can always branch out later onto a viola, but start with the basic instrument first", so I had had no choice, after all, at all. I was annoyed by this, and so I played the violin without any feeling, only mechanically too, like my father did his piano. I had little real interest in learning it. My father had pushed any passion right out of me, by his forcefulness. I looked at maths in this same way, mechanically too, and this was a good enough way for me to look at it, and still be relatively good at it, in the beginning. I took up the game of chess, which to me mirrored maths in some ways, but also allowed for some creativity. During my schoolboy years, I was passionate, at chess playing then. That was my only passion at the time. I jumped right into that game. I didn't want to be limited by pure mechanicalness, in some ways, but I also didn't want to be practically involved in the world of applicative maths/physics either, such as applied maths, but creativity, self-contained, as in chess, was ok for me. I wanted a focus to my creativity. I didn't want to feel overwhelmed by the creativeness available in an open field. I hated the subject of English, all during my school-days, but now, at an advanced age, I fancy that ideal job for me would have been as a writer of short stories and poems. "Talk about a lost soul, going around in circles," that was me, and still is me to some extent now too. A riddler of contradictions. Photo Credit: The photo used here was freely sourced from the free media site: pixabay.com. Finding yourself, amongst all of the other questions, can be hard at times. We need to have our own questions answered, not to be hand-fed with answers, for other people's questions.

Yeah all have those regrets..but okay we can't do anything now.

I did not pick something and stay with it for long. I have often had the lower paying jobs. It seems I am destined to take care of people one way or another.

I am approaching retirement now and although I have enjoyed my career I wish I had taken further steps to study Medicine. My parents were willing to support me through med school but I wanted to go out in the wide world and earn my own money. You can't turn the clock back although if I could I would have definitely done it. I am quite happy with my lot but I would not advise people to follow my profession these days and saddle themselves with so much debt.

I studied for three careers that would have given me a good income, if there were jobs to be had for me in the field when I graduated. One was nurse, yes nurses are always needed, but for some reason, I wasn't hired, and it certainly wasn't because of my grades. I passed with an A in the class, though it was only as nurse aid. I wanted to pursue to the top of the nurse field, but that didn't materialize for me. The second job I had was offset press operator. Again, I did well in the course, but employers wanted experience, and men. Coming right out of school, I had no experience, and well, I'm a woman. The third area I received my Associate Degree in is Architecture. Great money in that, and I loved the program and got good grades. However, when I graduated, the field was overmanned, so no work. Hence that left me with bare minimum paying jobs.

I very much regret that I didn't go on to university after leaving school. I did do some courses as an external student later in life but I never obtained a degree other than in becoming a teacher of piano. That is my biggest regret.

I have accepted my career well. Earlier I used to have regrets but regrets won't change the past.