A pretty long story, but the short of it, is that my brother has down's syndrome, was intending to be a teacher, but the social worker came and met my brother, asked me at the same time if I wanted summer work in a playscheme for kids with learning difficulties....which I did while doing my biochemistry, by the time it got to finishing the degree didn't want to do anything else but work in social care...
That was something like 16 years ago, never looked back, loved the work, never wanted to do anything else, its only now that the government legislation is saying that you need to have a professional qualification, that it was time to go and get the degree, all my other qualifications, are NVQ's etc...