If you could turn back the clock....

NoQuarter · 20-08-2012 7:56pm #1

This time of year makes me reflect on my life all of the time because I see the little nippers getting offered all these fancy courses and heading off to college and it makes me realise how different my life could be had I just chosen a different route or a different course or had taken the time as a secondary school kid to take a step back and consider the future.

I've just qualified as a Barrister this year so there are some exciting times ahead and I've grown to love the law but sometimes I cant help wonder how on earth I got here! Why law!?? It was so long ago I cant really remember my reasoning.

IF I had the chance to go back to my leaving cert, I'd put in more work, go to a better school and apply for Physics with Astronomy & Space Science in UCD. I reckon that area would interest me and it looks like a great little course! Maybe even work toward becoming an astronaut! Would be a cool field anyways.

So AH'ers, if you could turn back the time what alternate route would you take in life? Solely work/education related I'm talking. I dont care if you wish you hadnt fingerbanged stacey from the block. Or if you are generally happy, is there even a "what if" in there somewhere?

Vent.

TL;DR - if you could turn back time, what road would you take? (No Robert Frost/Cher jokes please.)

EDIT - Come on folks, give us more that a 1 line answer, what do you do now and what would you rather be doing???

speedboatchase · 20-08-2012 7:58pm

Is the clock a metaphor??

Hardonraging · 20-08-2012 7:59pm

The one where i didnt **** **** up ...

El Guapo! · 20-08-2012 7:59pm

I'd avoid my current career like the fukn plague.

Ziegfeldgirl27 · 20-08-2012 8:00pm

I wished I stayed on in school and did something, anything! I am working in a post office now and i hate it. I wish I could o something I love. But I have too many bill to pay to give up work and go back to college.

NoQuarter · 20-08-2012 8:00pm

speedboatchase wrote: »

Is the clock a metaphor??

It's a metaphor for your digital watch.

ForeverYoung90 · 20-08-2012 8:00pm

NoQuarter wrote: »

This time of year makes me reflect on my life all of the time because I see the little nippers getting offered all these fancy courses and heading off to college and it makes me realise how different my life could be had I just chosen a different route or a different course or had taken the time as a secondary school kid to take a step back and consider the future.

I've just qualified as a Barrister this year so there are some exciting times ahead and I've grown to love the law but sometimes I cant help wonder how on earth I got here! Why law!?? It was so long ago I cant really remember my reasoning.

IF I had the chance to go back to my leaving cert, I'd put in more work, go to a better school and apply for Physics with Astronomy & Space Science in UCD. I reckon that area would interest me and it looks like a great little course! Maybe even work toward becoming an astronaut! Would be a cool field anyways.

So AH'ers, if you could turn back the time what alternate route would you take in life? Solely work/education related I'm talking. I dont care if you wish you hadnt fingerbanged stacey from the block. Or if you are generally happy, is there even a "what if" in there somewhere?

Vent.

TL;DR - if you could turn back time, what road would you take? (No Robert Frost/Cher jokes please.)

Thinly veiled 'I got over 500 points in my leaving cert' thread.

mikemac1 · 20-08-2012 8:00pm

NoQuarter wrote: »

I've just qualified as a Barrister this year

How much do you charge per case?

Do you prefer cash or blood? :P

20-08-2012 8:01pm

no change

AlmightyCushion · 20-08-2012 8:01pm

I'd turn it back 30 minutes, fecking missed coronation street.

NoQuarter · 20-08-2012 8:02pm

ForeverYoung90 wrote: »

Thinly veiled 'I got over 500 points in my leaving cert' thread.

Nowhere near it! I went the long route!

bobin fudge · 20-08-2012 8:02pm

turn back time to 1987 whenI **** myself in class and got bullied that I had to leave a year later aged 16 with no quals

had to leave town as was known as ****tycunt

25 years later and if I go back home somone will still call me ****tycunt

Cassidy28 · 20-08-2012 8:03pm

"If i could find a way "

phasers · 20-08-2012 8:03pm

I'm still feckin confused about what I want to do

I've considered doing a load of courses until something sticks but I'm too poor fo that.

How do you grown ups know what you want to do with your life?

Casillas · 20-08-2012 8:04pm

NoQuarter wrote: »

This time of year makes me reflect on my life all of the time because I see the little nippers getting offered all these fancy courses and heading off to college and it makes me realise how different my life could be had I just chosen a different route or a different course or had taken the time as a secondary school kid to take a step back and consider the future.

I've just qualified as a Barrister this year so there are some exciting times ahead and I've grown to love the law but sometimes I cant help wonder how on earth I got here! Why law!?? It was so long ago I cant really remember my reasoning.

IF I had the chance to go back to my leaving cert, I'd put in more work, go to a better school and apply for Physics with Astronomy & Space Science in UCD. I reckon that area would interest me and it looks like a great little course! Maybe even work toward becoming an astronaut! Would be a cool field anyways.

So AH'ers, if you could turn back the time what alternate route would you take in life? Solely work/education related I'm talking. I dont care if you wish you hadnt fingerbanged stacey from the block. Or if you are generally happy, is there even a "what if" in there somewhere?

Vent.

TL;DR - if you could turn back time, what road would you take? (No Robert Frost/Cher jokes please.)

EDIT - Come on folks, give us more that a 1 line answer, what do you do now and what would you rather be doing???

You did law, you're progressing in your career and you love your job - what's the problemo?!

bobin fudge · 20-08-2012 8:09pm

WumBuster wrote: »

I wish id have kept at a certain sport that i was really good at and could have had possibly a career. But no, drinking, smoking, girls and teenage rebellion took over. Silly boy.

that old chestnut :rolleyes:

wonderfulname · 20-08-2012 8:09pm

ForeverYoung90 wrote: »

Thinly veiled 'I got over 500 points in my leaving cert' thread.

Evidently not if they didn't have the points for astronomy and space science...

I wouldn't change anything, but if it had all taken me a bit less time that would be great, I wouldn't say I wasted time but I did go about life thus far in a very roundabout way.

D1stant · 20-08-2012 8:10pm

NoQuarter wrote: »

This time of year makes me reflect on my life all of the time because I see the little nippers getting offered all these fancy courses and heading off to college and it makes me realise how different my life could be had I just chosen a different route or a different course or had taken the time as a secondary school kid to take a step back and consider the future.

I've just qualified as a Barrister this year so there are some exciting times ahead and I've grown to love the law but sometimes I cant help wonder how on earth I got here! Why law!?? It was so long ago I cant really remember my reasoning.

IF I had the chance to go back to my leaving cert, I'd put in more work, go to a better school and apply for Physics with Astronomy & Space Science in UCD. I reckon that area would interest me and it looks like a great little course! Maybe even work toward becoming an astronaut! Would be a cool field anyways.

So AH'ers, if you could turn back the time what alternate route would you take in life? Solely work/education related I'm talking. I dont care if you wish you hadnt fingerbanged stacey from the block. Or if you are generally happy, is there even a "what if" in there somewhere?

Vent.

TL;DR - if you could turn back time, what road would you take? (No Robert Frost/Cher jokes please.)

EDIT - Come on folks, give us more that a 1 line answer, what do you do now and what would you rather be doing???

My two biggest fears is that some day one of the kids will come home and tell me they want to study law or enter the preisthood. Both equally terrifying.

NoQuarter · 20-08-2012 8:11pm

Casillas wrote: »

You did law, you're progressing in your career and you love your job - what's the problemo?!

There's no real problem. More of a "what if"

That said, it would be nice to work in an area that is a hobby. Id never pick up a law book and read it for the crack but I would be interested in science. So if I could go back, maybe a science course would have been the way to go!

And you?

El Weirdo · 20-08-2012 8:12pm

bobin fudge wrote: »

turn back time to 1987 whenI **** myself in class and got bullied that I had to leave a year later aged 16 with no quals

had to leave town as was known as ****tycunt

25 years later and if I go back home somone will still call me ****tycunt

One more post about crapping and you get a ban.

It gets very boring very quickly.

/mod

marshbaboon · 20-08-2012 8:13pm

I would try to ensure my parents kissed at their school dance so I would be born, all whilst trying to avoid the sexual advances of my own mother & the hostile tendencies of the town bully & his cohorts.

bobin fudge · 20-08-2012 8:17pm

marshbaboon wrote: »

I would try to ensure my parents kissed at their school dance so I would be born, all whilst trying to avoid the sexual advances of my own mother & the hostile tendencies of the town bully & his cohorts.

wtf?

Abi · 20-08-2012 8:22pm

NoQuarter wrote: »

IF I had the chance to go back to my leaving cert, I'd put in more work, go to a better school and apply for Physics with Astronomy & Space Science in UCD. I reckon that area would interest me and it looks like a great little course! Maybe even work toward becoming an astronaut! Would be a cool field anyways.

So AH'ers, if you could turn back the time what alternate route would you take in life? Solely work/education related I'm talking.

Sometimes you cannot separate the two. My career path was stunted by my ex and his feeling of financial inferiority and bitterness over it.

I've my mojo back however. I pity anyone that owes anyone I work for.

20-08-2012 8:27pm

bobin fudge wrote: »

wtf?

it's quoting back to the future

af_thefragile · 20-08-2012 8:27pm

I would have studied harder in the Leaving Cert and gotten into a better course I guess. I knew I was/am well capable of getting 580+ points in the LC, I just took it easy and didn't study as hard as I could have. I only really started studying for the exams like a week before and at that I did most of the study pretty much the day before the exam. Its something I still end up doing...

Casillas · 20-08-2012 8:30pm

NoQuarter wrote: »

There's no real problem. More of a "what if"

That said, it would be nice to work in an area that is a hobby. Id never pick up a law book and read it for the crack but I would be interested in science. So if I could go back, maybe a science course would have been the way to go!

And you?

You could maybe do a science course part-time in a bit, when the pressure is lifted with work. There's no reason you need to consider things as over. I'm pretty happy with things so-far, would like to get a Masters sorted though, probably something I'll need to do part-time too in the evenings. International Relations would be the one.

Butterface · 20-08-2012 8:34pm

I would have started studying my current degree a lot sooner. Spent too many years in my early twenties faffing about. I wish I'd managed to cop on a bit sooner, or listened to those around me who were trying to encourage me. I felt a bit behind in life going back to study in my mid to late-twenties in some respects, but very relieved to be doing something I love now.

Abi · 20-08-2012 8:35pm

bobin fudge wrote: »

wtf?

Earth angellll eaarrrrth angellllll....

Have to throw this in for good measure, I air guitared the sh1t over this song back the day. as ya do, yano. Watch for the changes :cool:

bobin fudge · 20-08-2012 8:36pm

in all seriousness, turn back time to yesterday and opened my account with a better username and not posted so much rubbish in afterhours

im going to take a break now

marshbaboon · 20-08-2012 8:37pm

bobin fudge wrote: »

in all seriousness, turn back time to yesterday and opened my account with a better username and not posted so much rubbish in afterhours

im going to take a break now

Best idea in thread so far.

Mr Benevolent · 20-08-2012 8:38pm

Casillas wrote: »

You did law, you're progressing in your career and you love your job - what's the problemo?!

He's Irish and he complains for a living. He needs to complain about this.

BrianD3 · 20-08-2012 8:42pm

A qualified Barrister wondering why he didn't do Astronomy and Space Science? :eek: I'd love to know how astronomy graduates get on when it comes to getting a job in Ireland or anywhere, very poorly I'd say. It's all very well having an "interesting" degree but if you then find you cant get a decent job (or any job) in the area you studied it quickly becomes a lot less interesting.

There's a lot of propaganda out there about science careers, much of it emanating from vested interests like IBEC and the universities. Naive school kids are led to believe that if they do an astronomy degree they might become astronauts, if they do a biotech degree they'll be helping to discover cures for cancer. LOL. In my experience, most science grads regret doing science and wish they had chosen "boring" careers like accountancy etc.

And don't think that spending a few more years doing a PhD after your science degree is the path to an interesting and rewarding career - you'll be overqualified for most jobs and your career will probably consist of one short term academic postdoc contract after another earning a salary which is not much more than the average industrial wage.

Demonical · 20-08-2012 8:44pm

Butterface wrote: »

I would have started studying my current degree a lot sooner. Spent too many years in my early twenties faffing about. I wish I'd managed to cop on a bit sooner, or listened to those around me who were trying to encourage me. I felt a bit behind in life going back to study in my mid to late-twenties in some respects, but very relieved to be doing something I love now.

+1 Im in the exact same situation, almost 30 and going into my last year of my degree.

When I was 17 after my leaving I did 6 weeks of a degree thats similar to the one Im in now but I really hadnt a clue what I wanted to do and was over whelmed with it all so I quit. I needed a few years to get my head around things but still wish I had gone back to college earlier.

I always admire people who in secondary shcool know what they want to do and are very focused in their career path, I dont know how they do it..I hadnt a ****ing notion

dd972 · 20-08-2012 11:07pm

If you could turn back the clock

..I'd spend an extra hour in bed

NoQuarter · 20-08-2012 11:34pm

dd972 wrote: »

If you could turn back the clock

..I'd spend an extra hour in bed

Or read the OP properly!

starbelgrade · 20-08-2012 11:38pm

I'd go back to 8 O'Clock today and not watch the Everton v Man Utd game, thus saving myself two hours of torture.

xylophones · 20-08-2012 11:49pm

NoQuarter wrote: »

I've just qualified as a Barrister this year so there are some exciting times ahead and I've grown to love the law but sometimes I cant help wonder how on earth I got here! Why law!?? It was so long ago I cant really remember my reasoning.

ive just started my law degree, last year, please dont say ill make it to where you are and regret it all :eek:

saintsaltynuts · 20-08-2012 11:55pm

I'd do nothing.Waiting for tomorrow is way better than thinking about any fooked up crap you done in the past.

kincsem · 21-08-2012 12:01am

I'd buy shares in Microsoft.

NoQuarter · 21-08-2012 12:27am

xylophones wrote: »

ive just started my law degree, last year, please dont say ill make it to where you are and regret it all :eek:

Its a good job but after spending 5 years in college, the truth of the matter is it will be another 5 years before any Barrister is earning more than 20k per year. The first 2 years will be devilling so thats a total income of a big fat ZERO.

Funniest part is most people think we actually have money because of the 5% that are loaded! Tribunals etc...

starlit · 21-08-2012 12:32am

I'd turn it back 10 years and do things differently I suppose can't change it now.

emzolita · 21-08-2012 12:37am

I wouldn't study me hole off for the Leaving cert.
As I'd only have to sit it in hosp and never get the points i needed.

PK2008 · 21-08-2012 1:46am

When do the clocks go back?

Sarky · 21-08-2012 1:52am

You're asking if I could turn back time? Well, in the unlikely event that I could find a way, I guess I'd take back those words that hurt you, and you'd stay. Maybe.

Riddle101 · 21-08-2012 2:47am

Turn back the clock and repeat secondary school all over again. Assuming I still remember everything, i'd be a hell of a lot wiser and would be able to make better choices in my life that I failed to do.

risteard7 · 21-08-2012 3:58am

Sit my leaving cert again, and realise it is important. I was one of the "cool dudes" who laughed at the "nerds" listening in class, now there laughing at me!

I said im not going to college no way! Sure I'll go working on a building site. Now where am I?

IN THE FCUKIN GUTTER!! Thats where!

Riddle101 · 21-08-2012 4:00am

risteard7 wrote: »

Sit my leaving cert again, and realise it is important. I was one of the "cool dudes" who laughed at the "nerds" listening in class, now there laughing at me!

I said im not going to college no way! Sure I'll go working on a building site. Now where am I?

IN THE FCUKIN GUTTER!!

With the rest of us:(

asherbassad · 21-08-2012 6:06am

NoQuarter wrote: »

This time of year makes me reflect on my life all of the time because I see the little nippers getting offered all these fancy courses and heading off to college and it makes me realise how different my life could be had I just chosen a different route or a different course or had taken the time as a secondary school kid to take a step back and consider the future.

I've just qualified as a Barrister this year so there are some exciting times ahead and I've grown to love the law but sometimes I cant help wonder how on earth I got here! Why law!?? It was so long ago I cant really remember my reasoning.

IF I had the chance to go back to my leaving cert, I'd put in more work, go to a better school and apply for Physics with Astronomy & Space Science in UCD. I reckon that area would interest me and it looks like a great little course! Maybe even work toward becoming an astronaut! Would be a cool field anyways.

So AH'ers, if you could turn back the time what alternate route would you take in life? Solely work/education related I'm talking. I dont care if you wish you hadnt fingerbanged stacey from the block. Or if you are generally happy, is there even a "what if" in there somewhere?

Vent.

TL;DR - if you could turn back time, what road would you take? (No Robert Frost/Cher jokes please.)

EDIT - Come on folks, give us more that a 1 line answer, what do you do now and what would you rather be doing???

FCUK YOU OP,

I studied Science, Advanced Mathematics and Engineering and now all I want to do is read law books and be Judge John Deed.

Plus I bitterly regret not asking Cath Ftz P to go to the Debs with me coz I had no balls, so I stayed home and dreamt of snogging her.

Napper Hawkins · 21-08-2012 6:29am

If I could go back to 20/21 I would swallow my pride and join a ****ty band playing ****ty music just to make some easy cash, but no I had to take the hard route because **** the mainstream, man.

Ah screw it, no regrets.

Diapason · 21-08-2012 10:02am

OP, I studied Theoretical Physics and now spend (a small amount of) my time wondering if I should have done law.

Anyway, I probably wouldn't change my degree, although I really wish I'd studied something that wasn't a sausage-fest. If I could turn back the clock, I'd definitely have taken some time off at some point after college and sodded off somewhere else. I was always too sensible.

NoQuarter · 21-08-2012 11:05am

asherbassad wrote: »

FCUK YOU OP,

I studied Science, Advanced Mathematics and Engineering and now all I want to do is read law books and be Judge John Deed.

Plus I bitterly regret not asking Cath Ftz P to go to the Debs with me coz I had no balls, so I stayed home and dreamt of snogging her.

Diapason wrote: »

OP, I studied Theoretical Physics and now spend (a small amount of) my time wondering if I should have done law.

Anyway, I probably wouldn't change my degree, although I really wish I'd studied something that wasn't a sausage-fest. If I could turn back the clock, I'd definitely have taken some time off at some point after college and sodded off somewhere else. I was always too sensible.

Whats the career status now?? Is there money to be made and do you enjoy the job? Is the only viable route a PHD adn then years of working for feck all?

Come to think of it, is there any job in Ireland where you go do your degree, and then get a well paid job straight from college with career progressions available?!!

Law is in shambles now so dont ponder too hard. A law degree alone is useless in the current climate. After law school you need to decide what route to take, go the solicitor route and you are dependent on getting a job in a firm to progress. Go the Barrister rute and while you are not dependent on anything, the work just isnt there in the early days. And the biggest hurdle is sticking it out for literally, years! If you manage that then hopefully there is reward!

Maybe accountancy was the way to go!

If you could turn back the clock....

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