i wanted to do english, history, classics
an easy 3 A's.

my parents/school wanted english, french, latin. 1 easy A, 2 years of hard work. no thanks.

we compromised on english, history, latin - 2 easy A's and a fucking nightmare for 2 years to scrape a B because it was so bloody boring. i hate that B. it ruins my cv! it means i end up having to put down an A in general studies as well, which looks impressive until interviewers ask me what the subjects were...
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 19 Nov 2010, 10:10, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

English, C15th-16th History and Classical Civilisation
were the very 'A' Levels I chose!
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 19 Nov 2010, 10:13, Reply)

bugger
and i bet if your parents/deputy head (who clearly had a vested interest as she taught latin and they only had 1 pupil do it for a-level the year before) had tried to tell you what to study, you'd have told them to sod off as well!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 19 Nov 2010, 10:21, Reply)

My parents were of the 'study what you are interested in' school of thought.
I am now a financial train-wreck in a job I hate.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 19 Nov 2010, 10:23, Reply)

mine were a nightmare about exams and homework
but to be fair they raised a headmaster, a lawyer and an accountant, horrendously middle-class. i never even saw the law thing coming, one minute i was in the car with my dad and he was saying "don't you fancy this law conversion that evie is doing" and i was thinking about the guy i was shagging at the time, and the next thing i knew, i was back in london at the college of law.

you could change your job?
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 19 Nov 2010, 10:29, Reply)

Not easily I couldn't, sadly.
If I wasn't tied to London by my daughter and didn't mind relocating to somewhere where I know no-one (this would also have to be somewhere where being a non-driver wouldn't be an issue), then it might be a little easier, but only an idiot would run my kind of business out of London when warehousing and staff are so much cheaper everywhere else.

/dull, sorry
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 19 Nov 2010, 10:40, Reply)

i suppose on paper training as something else sounds easy
in practice, it's just not going to happen for most people, and quite understandably.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 19 Nov 2010, 10:49, Reply)