Are you or did you do the job you originally trained for?

I recently read a report that a very small percentage of people actually start/continue to do the job they received training for, either on the job training or tertiary education.

I thought it would be interesting to know how many POE folk actually worked at the job they had trained to do?

Through no choice of my own I trained as a Secretary and worked in that line for thirty years ending up as PA & Office Administrator.  I think I was pretty good at my job - but it was a only a job with little satisfaction.  Now I am doing what I am passionate about and wanted to train for when I left school!!!!

How about you??

Reminds me of the times they come it to tell you about the company pension plan and in the handbook, they give examples of what your pension might be worth when you retire and is invariably after 40 years service with the company. 

So, lets hear from all these people who have worked 40+ years for the same firm as its apparently quite common according to pension companies. 

I have a BA Degree in International Relations,but i have never worked in that field.I have been working as a computer programmer since i graduated from university.

I enjoy working as a programmer,however,i am confident that i would be more succesful at social subjects.

After arriving back in England in 1969, I wondered what am I going to do now?  I got a job in Hastings with an electronic firm as a wireman; on the same day I'd also applied for a job in the Civil Service.  After 3 months, the Civil Service job came through working in the Dept of the Environment's computer section with ICL main frame computors. After 18 months due to boredom, i headed to West London where I worked in electrical wholesaling for 13 years and another 5 years of the same in Berkshire.  I'd also played in a band and did wedding photography.

Got tired of electrical wholesaling  and then spent 19 years bus driving where I'd also won a first and 2nd in the national bus driving championships in Blackpool. Then 4 years ago, moved into the security industry. Well, that covers 41 years to date.