I saw myself travelling the world so applied for an apprenticeship as a merchant navy navigating officer. As an added bonus I only needed o levels so escaped school a week after my 16th birthday.
It was good while it lasted but then the British Merchant Navy disintegrated in the early 80's and ships were sold left right and centre.
I jumped ship, got a job in a pub for a couple of summers, then sobered up and joined the Police. 20 years later was pensioned out on health grounds.
Since then numerous jobs. Sales, security, taxi driver, HGV driver, call centres, and other revolving door employers who like to think they hold all the cards and don't like it up 'em when they try to take the pish. Now handyman at a local care home which should do me another few years until I leave the rat race..