Alexa

Image Consultant.
Basically I tell people what to wear and how to sell the image they want people to see.
Bit more to it, but that's it in a nutshell.

commander

that sounds a seriously cool job.

beats building oil rigs anyway

glynster

Before I came here I was a mast and tower steel erector/rigger.

Now I am tea boy,driver(delivery of materials and staff),resource manager,engineer,rigger,senior site supervisor and in my spare time project manager.

Brains1983

Kuehne+Nagel...

commander

we deal with you guys all the time.

Hello.Kitty

I'm strictly speaking an architect/ urban designer, although I'm going to move into Design Management when I return to work. Preferably on the Dark Side. More fun, fewer sodding roof details.

Aside from that, I'm currently a SAHM, MA student, cupcake baker and Facebook addict.

Oh, and BlueCat - a Landscape Architect isn't an Architect... and if you so much as utter the words "Landscape Gardener" when referring to them, they have orders to kill you - I think it's in their Code of Conduct. I had to convince Mr Kitty is wasn't politic to strangle his soon-to-be MiL.

The Dean

Running a Treasury department for a bank (about to start work with a new bank in Dubai). Involves foreign exchange, capital markets, money markets, investments, bullion, government bonds........

Bahtatboy

Blackjack

lionheart

Me. I'm just your average bank robber. So where exactly do you work, Dean?

Meow

Of course, chosen career is not always the same as what we are actually doing. I never actively chose finance, it just kind of happened and once you get qualified etc it gets hard to leave.

With hindsight there are other things I would have chosen.

lionheart

And your chosen career would be...arguably makes a more interesting thread.

Victor Meldrew

Teacher

When I was at school (as a pupil) we had our one and only careers interview in the 6th Form.

10 minutes. Consisted of:
Advisor Q. - "What is your best subject"

Pupil A. - (pick any one of the following)
"Maths"
"English"
"Science"
"Art"
"PE"

Advisor A. - You should be a
"Accountant"
"News reporter"
"Lab technician"
"Graphic designer/advertising"
"PE teacher"

And hence my 30 year career (so far) was forged - on a 10 minute interview.

Victor Meldrew

In hindsight my chosen career would have been in property development.

Anybody want to swap (Dubai property developers not included in this once in a lifetime offer)

Bahtatboy

I had a similar experience to Victor's: totally meaningless careers advice, ended up taking a vocational subject at university partly because it used the subjects I was best at, partly because the father of my then-girlfriend worked in that discipline and had a big house and seemed fairly relaxed. Later found out wasn't his money which supplied the house, and straight after university I joined the company he worked and was plunged into a Dickensian office (desks with inkwells) with attitudes to match.

Blackjack's much more fun (and lucrative), just don't get to play that often now...

Blue Cat

I am a qualified Medical Secretary and Hospital Administrator, I worked at a clinic (Allied Diagnostic) years ago but never worked in this environment since.