What's your biggest regret?
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Going to college for a business degree where I'm now working a position that doesn't require it and still years away from paying my loan off.
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.
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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.
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Not living up to my own potential.
I've led a pretty uneventful life with few, if any, accolades. I know that I actually have the capacity to be excellent in certain regards, but I can't seem to force myself to actually put in the work. Doesn't help that I've been called lazy my entire life.
Some therapists seem to think a "fear of success" is part of the pathology but I don't agree. I've been extremely intimate with failure my entire life, success is like the one thing I've never had and am craving daily.I feel you.
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I let too many people tell me how to live my life and tried too hard for their approval for too long.
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Not fighting harder to buy a house when it was cheap. My SO hated the idea soo much. Now still living in same place I cant do jack to. And 10 years we won't have a home thanks to my grandma's stupidity and pride.
Sometimes I wonder if i chose the wrong person. I love my SO but our life goals are as different as can be. Took 15 years to convince to my side.
Yeah I wanted to buy a house 5 years ago, but my wife (fiance at the time) was too nervous. Home prices had risen 40% by the time she was comfortable with it.
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Put off transitioning waay too long
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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.
