Career Paths...

Isn't it odd how your life pans out. When I was at school I always wanted to be a Domestic Science teacher..never wanted to do anything else. now i went to a Secondary Modern School where you didnt't do things like go to University or College, you were factory fodder or at best became an apprentice..and I don't mean like Alan Sugar's ones either.
I can remember seeing the Youth Employment Officer at age 14 and saying that I wanted to be a D S teacher. he laughed and said I have a good job here as a Hospital Cook. Then we had the opportunity to do some ULCI exams and a couple of O Levels. We were the first to stay on to do those in our school. Went to Southport Tech College, and got a couple more, then got a job in the School Meals Service running a jkitchen. Decided to go to teachers training College, and off my own bat applied to one in Liverpool that specialised in Domestic Science. So I got there in the end..34 years of teaching later, I reckon it was a good decision.
Daughter hasn't been so lucky. She went to a good Private School..got a raft of GCSEs and A Levels and decided she wanted to do Theology. Totally the wrong decision..wouldn't listen to us and stubbornly went her own way. Didn't finish her three years and although she has grafted in a variety of full time and part time jobs she is now aiming to get a science A level and do a course in Radiography. Hope she gets there in the end.
VT's career path would have been so different if he had gone to the same school as Jane went to, he is such a clever man, and I am sure he would have made a good Pharmacist or something similar..but the opportunities weren't there for him. You always hope that your children do better than you did, but as the saying goes..You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink! So true.

He has been pl;anting today. He has done two beautiful hanging baskets for the back, and one with gorgeous little blue/purple flowers at the front. He went out to get some compost this morning and came back with a strawberry plant!! that's a first..Oooh I am really looking forward to my first bowl of strawberries with cream!! Yum Yum..
Tonight we are having:
Almost cheeseless pasta with butternut squash and spinach.
A little bit of garlic bread.