h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Did a couple of years at a Swiss finishing school with no qualifications. Then did a post-graduate certificate in education specialising in TEFL, followed by university teaching in Ethiopia,Malawi,Lesotho (then Masters degree) Cameroon, Shanghai,Poland,language school in Australia, Bulgaria, and finally ten years at City UniversityHong Kong from where I retired four years ago.
This enabled me to bring up two sons on my own and buy a house in England. where I now live. I have paddled in the Nile and the Zambezi and spent five days on the road for a day at the seaside. I have eaten anything considered edible and quite a lot that wasn't.
My sons are "third culture kids", both successful and happy. We can all successfully order a beer in ten languages.
Although I wanted to be an engineer in my teens, this was not possible over fifty years ago for a woman. I can honestly say that "je ne regrette rien". Good luck to any of you who follow the advice in the above article,

Thanks for commenting, Wand'rin Star! Now that's what I am talking about. Except that I am slightly jealous of your career, because those are some interesting places. I made it to Russia and then settled in for seven years, and now I am back in the UK.

Still, there's time yet.