If you could start over part deux

faceintheclouds

Like the last thread but career and life on this one.
If you could reverse time and do it again what would you change?
I sure as shit would not be at work on a stupid weekend shift missing my kids on this awesome day.
I'd do way better in school and be a dr or nurse. Something in the medical field. And I would have never started smoking. And not fucked up my credit. And not ever put up with bs from a gf or spouse.

comebackgirl

I would have worked less and played harder. I would have been less responsible and lived more in the present tense. Still working on that one. I want to be completely undependable and irresponsible I don't want to be counted on for a damn thing. I wish someone had told me that no one would give a shit about my GPA once I graduated I still would have chosen this career, but now I kind of want to do it on the side and do something less "serious" FT. Still exploring that. Everything has chains...absolutely nothing's changed

pinkbutterfly

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CorduroyGirl

I wouldn't have gone for an engineering degree (wtf... I hated computers! lol), I'd go for a veterinarian one.
I wouldn't have started smoking.
I would have gone for at least one more interrail (train trip around Europe).

stargirl69

I'd travel more
I'd be far less responsible
I'd do what I want to do,not what others think I should do
I'd have children
I'd have my one love last a lifetime
I'd laugh more and cry less
I'd have less struggle with poor mental health
I'd have a dog

PJ-Cubs

comebackgirl wrote:

I would have worked less and played harder. I would have been less responsible and lived more in the present tense. Still working on that one. I want to be completely undependable and irresponsible I don't want to be counted on for a damn thing. I wish someone had told me that no one would give a shit about my GPA once I graduated I still would have chosen this career, but now I kind of want to do it on the side and do something less "serious" FT. Still exploring that. Everything has chains...absolutely nothing's changed

Wow. You almost nailed my exact response. I would have also taken more risks when younger and realized that you are allowed to get into some trouble when you are young. Its much harder to do when you are older and have others counting on you.

faceintheclouds

comebackgirl wrote:

I would have worked less and played harder. I would have been less responsible and lived more in the present tense. Still working on that one. I want to be completely undependable and irresponsible I don't want to be counted on for a damn thing. I wish someone had told me that no one would give a shit about my GPA once I graduated I still would have chosen this career, but now I kind of want to do it on the side and do something less "serious" FT. Still exploring that. Everything has chains...absolutely nothing's changed

Ok. You and I should go back and switch lives. Cause I've done all that stuff and more.

mikalina

Some type of college degree -

That alone would change so much in my life - all for the better. So many more opportunities.

rollings

mikalina wrote:

Some type of college degree -

That alone would change so much in my life - all for the better. So many more opportunities.

what would you like to be?

comebackgirl

PJ-Cubs wrote:

comebackgirl wrote:

I would have worked less and played harder. I would have been less responsible and lived more in the present tense. Still working on that one. I want to be completely undependable and irresponsible I don't want to be counted on for a damn thing. I wish someone had told me that no one would give a shit about my GPA once I graduated I still would have chosen this career, but now I kind of want to do it on the side and do something less "serious" FT. Still exploring that. Everything has chains...absolutely nothing's changed

Wow. You almost nailed my exact response. I would have also taken more risks when younger and realized that you are allowed to get into some trouble when you are young. Its much harder to do when you are older and have others counting on you.

So true. Except all the people counting on me are adults, so they are just gonna have to deal.

faceintheclouds wrote:

comebackgirl wrote:

I would have worked less and played harder. I would have been less responsible and lived more in the present tense. Still working on that one. I want to be completely undependable and irresponsible I don't want to be counted on for a damn thing. I wish someone had told me that no one would give a shit about my GPA once I graduated I still would have chosen this career, but now I kind of want to do it on the side and do something less "serious" FT. Still exploring that. Everything has chains...absolutely nothing's changed

Ok. You and I should go back and switch lives. Cause I've done all that stuff and more.

oh man wish it were possible to go back and *switch* You can do all the right things and life can still suck

mikalina

Rollings wrote:

mikalina wrote:

Some type of college degree -

That alone would change so much in my life - all for the better. So many more opportunities.

what would you like to be?

Thats a good question - I"ll have to get back to you. I guess its never to late to go back to school...

pjtradeking

There is not enough room or time to write what I would change...the cliche that "hindsight is 20/20" has never been more apparent to me than the last few years... :shock:

faceintheclouds

mikalina wrote:

Rollings wrote:

mikalina wrote:

Some type of college degree -

That alone would change so much in my life - all for the better. So many more opportunities.

what would you like to be?

Thats a good question - I"ll have to get back to you. I guess its never to late to go back to school...

I beg to differ on that. If I went back to school I would loose my house. I could not afford to pay for it if I was in school full time. And really, what kind of job could I get out of school that will pay as much as I get now. I dunno. Seems not possible.
Plus there's too many hot girls in university, that would cause problems.

Nothingman54

I had a job a few years ago that I absolutely loved. I was very good at it and the owner and everybody else knew it. But I had to quit on the 6th day. I didn't have much choice. It was the first job I had had in a long time and I loved it. I would go back and get that job 4 years earlier.

hostis

I wouldn't change a single choice. ever. (even the ones I knew were worng at the time). I love and appreciate where i am now and any changes in choice would mean I am not right here, right now, being the person I like to be.

pjfan31

I find it amazing to think about if things were done differently.. There's a good chance if it were, you wouldn't be sitting here reading my blabberings...

First started when I was thinking 'I wonder if my parents stayed in the blue mountains and never moved to Sydney... I wonder how different I would be'

THen I thought fuck... I wouldn't be.... What would have been the chances of me being me... circumstance change...


That was the first time I thought about it...

I don't know if I would change anything... Cause as I say, there is a chance I wouldn't be here...

CorduroyGirl

hostis wrote:

I wouldn't change a single choice. ever. (even the ones I knew were worng at the time). I love and appreciate where i am now and any changes in choice would mean I am not right here, right now, being the person I like to be.

This must be such a good feeling

dimitrispearljam

i would give more love to people that i already gave

BoltOfLightnin'

I would NOT have gotten pregnant at 18 or stayed in a relationship that I wasn't truly happy in. I would have gone to culinary school, or been a flight attendant and traveled. And I too, would NOT have started smoking.

But, the grass is not always greener. I remind myself every day not to dwell on the 'what ifs' and make the best of the choices I've made.

pandora

I'm not so into regrets or changing anything...

change something you might get hit by a bus

I like me and my life and all the love that is saved

blackredyellow

hostis wrote:

I wouldn't change a single choice. ever. (even the ones I knew were worng at the time). I love and appreciate where i am now and any changes in choice would mean I am not right here, right now, being the person I like to be.

That is pretty much where I am at... Did I do some dumb things? Of course, but all of the choices I've made along the way have made me who I am, and have gotten me to this point in my happy life.

I just never understood the people who live in the past and spend so much energy, time and stress on regrets. I'd much rather focus on the good things in life everyday...