I’m obviously not looking for inspiration for potential career routes or anything, Just interested. SO what you retrain as and why?

GP, I have good medical experience and love working in medical environments.

If I was young enough to fit in all the training and clever/skilled enough I’d like to be a neurosurgeon.

Vet, always fancied having my hand up some cows…….. 😯

opps too much beer, time to log off I think 😉

Probably a plumber, given that I’ve just found out first hand how much they charge.

A capable cyclist

Mechanical engineer, ideally in renewable energy.

Architect

State Enrolled Nurse, if they still existed.

Librarian… this might still happen. Just to, y’know, be around books.

Some sort of teaching or training

Some sort of contract software developer type person after seeing their day rates being signed off!!! 🙂

Either a fireman or work outside something like National Trust, ( currently office bound )

Doctor of some sort I think.

Hmmm, possibly with the elderly, in particular dementia. Or social work of some description.

Think I would be rubbish though!

Fancy being a paramedic.

If I had my time again I’d have done Civil Engineering at uni instead of Geography, but if money wasn’t an issue I’d train as a Gamekeeper!

Doctor, when in the Army way back i was on a hospital attatchment and was advised by a wisen old Consultant that i should leave the Army and go to Med school as i showed “considerable promise” what did i do, stayed in the mob.

Car mechanic … you pay or you are not going anyway … 😈

Relationship therapist.

teacher.. and do something worthwhile with all my spare time/ holidays and early retirement

gymnast

Either a fireman or work outside something like National Trust, ( currently office bound )

If you hate being stuck in an office you might want to forget being a firefighter. What?

Freight train driver

Not sure it counts as retraining seen as I haven’t actually done anything with my chemistry degree…but I’m applying to do medicine.

Architect +1

From working with several over the last 18 months I’ve no doubts I’d be up to it.

Given the right training of course, but then I was never academically interested when I left school.

Just now when I’m in my forties.

Landscape gardener or Electrician, currently a bored civil engineer.

Full-time conspiracy theorist. I believe there is an opening.

Teacher.

Alcoholic, this damn cycling takes up too much of my drinking time.

Freight train driver

Ditto.

Wildlife cameraman

I’d be reborn as a tory mp

F1 racing driver or international man of mystery.

Criminal law barrister

Frame builder.

GP, seems one of the few reasonably secure fields and unlikely to be out sourced to China any time soon….

Slaughterman

considerable promise

“Take two aspirin and call me in the morning” – job’s a good ‘un.

(My dad was an MO in 7RHA – and this worked for everything, with the notable exception of his own broken leg… 😀 ).

unlikely to be out sourced to China

Don’t bet on it.

teacher.

Entomologist or palaeontologist or paleoentomologist