On Nursing: When I was 17 I went to a career aptitude testing centre and the result came out that I should be a Judge. Personally, i have never been interested in judgment. I tend to think that they laws are somewhat grey obstacles throughout life without any particular meaning at all. I investigated Journalism because I like to write things but the problem with Journalism is that you are always writing for an Owner, a newspaper, or whatever...and that didn't interest me. Anyway, leaving school at 18 I became an editor for a multi-cultural multi-lingual publisher for ten years and that was quite good. The publishing world changed, some colleagues had died, and so I went and did Nursing...and specialised in terminal care pain pathways and potent therapies...and did that for 30 years...and did it well enough...two years out of College, I was a DON, then a DON somewhere else etc..then senior project writer etc...contributor to the Government on Health etc...then set up systems of care etc and it was kind of worthwhile to me, but I was never interested in management at all. It was and is just tedious and repetitive and boring.. Now I'm doing some Mental Health nursing, and it is ok. On the whole, looking back I think I have contributed more to Care than care has given back...and I don't mind that.That's the Old Philosophy of it anyway. Would I do it all again? None of it...maybe the Editing for a decade, sure, but beyond that I think I would have preferred a late apprenticeship in Welding. True. I like welding. Lighting up an arc in a crowded underground room, fixing something permanently, then drifting from trade into sculptures, then gold smithing...that kind of thing. As the best writer of the English language living, Kazuo Ishiguro noted "I could have had another life, but I am having this one." I agree.