Career path less travelled: A food stylist, a pet-loss grief specialist and a taxidermist on their job

A career path isn't always clear cut

Sarah-Kim Watchorn, Food Stylist

How many of us had a vision of what we wanted to do when we left school? Maybe you grew up knowing there would be a place for you in the family business. Perhaps you skipped from job to job, before landing upon your vocation. Perhaps you made the tea for everyone, delivered the post, and worked your way up through the ranks, until you were the one broadcasting to the nation?

This June, more than 60,000 students sat the Leaving Certificate. Who among them knows what career path they want to follow and how many will go on to specialise in an occupation that has never appeared on any college application?