What's your biggest regret?
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Waiting so long to cut off a toxic parent. Not spending more time with a good parent. Not going to therapy sooner.
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In 2018 I was offered a job managing a retreat center on the shores of Lake Superior. The job would have been to keep the place looking nice and, very occasionally, cultivate a restful space for people who needed it.
I went and got a PhD instead. Not a huge mistake, but I’d probably have been happier with the retreat center.
I don’t know, society might be better off with you doing science!
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I don’t know, society might be better off with you doing science!
Probably, but my PhD is in philosophy.
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I thought about buying about a thousand bitcoins when it would have costed me a hundred bucks. Never did though.
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Being born in the USA
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I regret surviving into the 21st century.
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I really should have learned to drive in high school when I had the chance. No money->no car->no job loops have bit me quite a lot as an adult.
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Probably, but my PhD is in philosophy.
Probably,
Checks out.
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not fucking , not having a gf , not configuring my system , not having real friends
not configuring my system
and not saaaving everything
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Trusting that my guidance counselors would do their job. Not switching high schools because they didn't look very different.
My school refused to let me in more difficult classes I thought I needed for college even though I requested them, was recommended them by my grade school and even tested into them. I only found out recently that I test advance proficient, but they lied to me about when I was a student.
All because when I was in kindergarten, someone decided I had a reading disability.
I have this same story
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I thought about buying about a thousand bitcoins when it would have costed me a hundred bucks. Never did though.
costed
cost
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I really should have learned to drive in high school when I had the chance. No money->no car->no job loops have bit me quite a lot as an adult.
That's interesting. Half of my friends are in successful careers without a license
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No regrats
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Not getting a job in my field after graduating. I was at a very low point in my life and let that window of opportunity go and now I feel like I can't go back because it's been quite a few years and nobody wants people like me. Oh well, I'll find something else to do, but it does sting a bit that depression robbed me of my future like that.
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I really should have learned to drive in high school when I had the chance. No money->no car->no job loops have bit me quite a lot as an adult.
Same here, I often find job postings asking for a driver's license for reasons. I'm happy as can be on my bike, though, I don't get the car hype.
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I regret surviving into the 21st century.
Akasha, is that you?
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Put off transitioning waay too long
Why the fuck are people downvoting this, seriously
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I'm right here with you. Went into Psychology but had no idea that I was screwing myself over on loans - I couldn't afford to continue into a Masters which is pretty much required to work in the field.
About 15 years out and I'm still dealing with the debt for a degree I can't use and can't afford to continue.
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I've heard that some people pay the absolute minimum on student loans and keep them for years and years. Some lady I knew was paying like $50 a month or so and she was like, fuck it, I can afford this and more but they're not getting their money any time soon.
Idk, I don't live in the states, so I'm kind of wondering how it all works.
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Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I've heard that some people pay the absolute minimum on student loans and keep them for years and years. Some lady I knew was paying like $50 a month or so and she was like, fuck it, I can afford this and more but they're not getting their money any time soon.
Idk, I don't live in the states, so I'm kind of wondering how it all works.
So it's complicated because it depends on what your loans are from - government loans, a personal bank loan, credit union, etc. There are student loan companies, many of which are extremely predatory and if you're 18 and just being told "you're smart, go to college", you have no idea what you're actually signing up for.
I was told through my teen years that I would "be able to pay my loans back based on how much I make". This is how government loans typically work. At 18 I was not aware that I didn't qualify for - so I went through college thinking I was going to pay my loans back based on my own income.
I was very very wrong, and had no idea until my first loan came in and it was literally more than I made in a month of work.
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Marrying the wrong person
