What is the biggest regret you have in life?

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Is their any moment(s) you look back to on your life and wish you could do it differently? Any decisions that would have altered your entire life course in a completely differently direction?

Just curios.
 
Loads. But that's cos I'm an asshole. Not deliberately though. Most of them have to do with women I'm afraid.
 
Buying that half-assed GHB from that shifty dealer and then breaking one of my own rules (Don't get bold until they're out cold.).
 
yacobod said:
getting a bachelor's and master's degree in mechanical engineering, fuck
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Damn I knew you had a BSME but I didn't realize you stuck with it to get the MS in boring.
 
Discovering internet forums.

I know people said signing up for GAF but GAF wasn't my first. My addiction/regularity with forums was firmly entrenched.

Runner up would be not living up to my potential in my teen years. I did ok and this is probably related to my first regret but I could have done much better. Who knows what might have happened if I actually gave a fuck when I was 14-18.
 
bionic77 said:
The correct answer is joining GAF.
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:lol yeah :(, to add on that discovering the internet for me, I wish I was naive and didn't know what the internet was. I could be doing much more productive things then being on 5-12 hours a day :/
 
Phobophile said:
Damn I knew you had a BSME but I didn't realize you stuck with it to get the MS in boring.
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well it seemed cheaper to do that then to switch gears altogether and pursue something in the medical field like pharmacy or optometry

i guess i can always take the LSAT and try law school, but i have a friend who is an attorney working for the city of chicago making below 40k/year so fuck that idea
 
viciouskillersquirrel said:
Bad move there, mate.

Should've gone with electrical
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ya i sometimes think that too, but i have a good friend who is a EE from UofI who has been out of work for around 8 months now, the job market is fucked right now in chicago for engineering and tech positions
 
Not placing in the top 10% of my class in High School. Basically threw away a 4k a year scholarship by getting a few Cs my final semester while others were getting AP As to boost the needed GPA beyond 4.0
 
Not playing Luigi's Mansion.
Not playing Ico.
Not playing Okami.
Not playing Beyond Good and Evil.
Not playing Psychonauts.
Not playing Zack and Wiki.

OH WAIT! Thats you GAF. That's you.
 
yacobod said:
ya i sometimes think that too, but i have a good friend who is a EE from UofI who has been out of work for around 8 months now, the job market is fucked right now in chicago for engineering and tech positions
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Geez... That really sucks.

I'm having a hard time coming up with real regrets. Even the mistakes I made all either worked out for the best or taught me something valuable.

Actually, there are one or two things I did that give me douche chills from when I look back on them now, but I won't elaborate on them here.
 
yacobod said:
well it seemed cheaper to do that then to switch gears altogether and pursue something in the medical field like pharmacy or optometry

i guess i can always take the LSAT and try law school, but i have a friend who is an attorney working for the city of chicago making below 40k/year so fuck that idea
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Coulda gone aerospace and become a rocket scientist 8)
 
Finding some dog poop in a park during wintertime, and - with the help of a friend - rolling it inside a giant snowball and placing it on top of a water fountain where someone was sure to come and kick it.

I guess that was almost 20 yrs ago. I still feel bad for whoever found it first :(
 
1. Put me down also for not taking school seriously I skipped basically my entire freshman, sophomore and half of my Junior year, I graduated as a two year senior in alternative school was almost a three-year senior. :lol

2. Being anti-social, Video Games at least for me were the problem I would rather play video games than socialize, usual nerd shit like not asking girls out, I wasted my teenage years, and my twenties are almost done :( not really into Video Games anymore but I am still anti-social and don't ask girls out!

3. Don't have a career, I have only worked dead end jobs, and am forced back in college, no work in my area.
 
Probably ruining the best friendship I ever had with someone with whom I fell in love. It turns out he never loved me back, so everything I did and all the conflict was unnecessary. Now I can't get that back.

I also regret not researching and planning ahead for college a little better. It has screwed me over a lot.
 
Not applying myself in high school. Now I'm stuck in a shitty community college while all my friends are getting a real education at a university.
 
Pissing away my days in high school by becoming increasingly reclusive (read: emo) as I approached senior year.
 
In every other area I haven't done the best at I can basically still fix except this. Do NOT graduate college with a low GPA. If you're not doing well, slow down, take time off, whatever you need to do.

Even if you think it won't matter right now, you never know what is coming later on. Want to go to law school ten years later? By LSAC regulations, law schools have to use your first undergraduate GPA in calculating admissions. You could get a second bachelors degree. Nope, still have to use the first one. Sure, the schools say they consider experience, blah blah. But when it comes down to it, they (and everyone else) are rankings obsessed, and they're not going to let you drag down their average.

Same basic concept applies to MBA, MS, MA, etc.
 
My absurd ideological stance that I should work full time and only go to uni part time so that I could avoid taking loans. My grades were less than I'm used to (3.1ish) and I ended up having to take loans anyways (After wasting several years with few credits to show for it).

Also, community college. Yes, it was affordable. Yes, the class sizes were better. No, it wasn't worth missing out on the dorm experience and meeting the people that would have been my people throughout my trip as an undergrad. You show up to the scene and realize that the only people who don't know anyone are the transfer students who just don't have those multi-year friendships.
 
DOO13ER said:
Getting a BA in Journalism. Meh.



What are you studying?
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That reminds me. I ran into a friend from highschool (a few years younger than me) doing a Journalism degree. Apparently, during the first lecture, the lecturer gets up and tells them that of the 600 students enrolled in Journalism, only half would make it through their first year, only 150 or so would actually get a degree in Journalism and only two of them would actually get work as journalists.

It's the same story with Law (only Law isn't nearly as extreme since there are jobs for half of law grads here in Brisbane). Basically, they're glamour/status jobs for which there is a lot of competition - a veritable snowdrift of uniqueness.
 
viciouskillersquirrel said:
That reminds me. I ran into a friend from highschool (a few years younger than me) doing a Journalism degree. Apparently, during the first lecture, the lecturer gets up and tells them that of the 600 students enrolled in Journalism, only half would make it through their first year, only 150 or so would actually get a degree in Journalism and only two of them would actually get work as journalists.
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What pissed me off about my education was they really didn't think to mention just how fucking futile the search for a sustainable (not even cushy, just sustainable) income in journalism would be. The only thing they did was talk briefly about starting salaries in the $25K-$35K/yr. range. In my experience over the past year-and-a-half, even that was overshooting it quite a bit. It's downright insulting what reporters who don't get a big break make around here.
 
Wasting the first two years in university. I can either spend four more years in university to graduate with a SE degree or I can spend three years and come out with a CS degree.

The sad thing? I want to take the engineering route, graduating at 25 with a B. in software engineering. I would've been able to graduate at 23 if I didn't fuck up so badly.
 
Taking 6 years to do a 4-year degree. I should have just bit the fucking bullet and blasted through my degree. If I had, I would be finishing up my Masters of BEd instead of finishing up my BA :(
 
Wasting 5 years on a lying cunt. I could have a whole other social life right now, but I choose to devote myself to a woman who would later fuck me over just as we both were finishing college.

At least I am still young and there is time to make up for all the wasted years. Got my degree in Electrical Engineering Technology, so it isn't all bad.
 
DOO13ER said:
What pissed me off about my education was they really didn't think to mention just how fucking futile the search for a sustainable (not even cushy, just sustainable) income in journalism would be. The only thing they did was talk briefly about starting salaries in the $25K-$35K/yr. range. In my experience over the past year-and-a-half, even that was overshooting it quite a bit. It's downright insulting what reporters who don't get a big break make around here.
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It happens for professions where:

1) There is limited demand for people to do the work

or

2) There is a great oversupply of people willing and able to do the work

Any profession where both are present, you'll get really low-paying wages for the great majority of workers. Glamour professions like law, journalism and the arts (particularly the performing arts such as acting or singing) are really prone to this, as are "easy" jobs, like male pornstar.
 
Purchasing Psychonauts.

Hurrr!

Seriously, though...I wasted time and money on a failed business venture with a friend. Never again. Never. Doing business with friends is a mistake.

Edit:

To the poster below me: My failed business venture is pretty much exactly what you're planning on doing. Better luck to you.
 
That I didn't get into video editing much earlier. I've always thought about it, but never had the money or knowledge (didn't go to school for it) until now. Started fiddling around with my own video podcasts, and now my wife and I are starting a media company with the aim to provide production services for people, with a focus on building content later down the line. I've found that I enjoy shooting and editing as much as I enjoy writing novels and short stories, so it's like a match made in heaven.

Well, I guess I have two... taking so god damn long to take my writing seriously and try to find an agent to sell all of the novels I've completed but are just sitting around after years of edits. I guess I'm rectifying both things now. About damn time.
 
I never apologized for wronging my old best friend who I loved very much. I was not man enough to admit to my mistake, granted I was young and immature. She died in the 10th grade, and the last thing she ever said to me was telling me she hated me.

It destroyed me as a social person. I never got close to another person and pushed everyone out of my life and became a complete loner. Living in my miserable self loathing I became depressed and wanted to kill myself for a couple of years.

Luckily I am better now, after a lot of work and some medicine.
 
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