If you had a chance for a "Do-Over"????

Worknprogress

Worknprogress

Cathlete
If you could have done something different in your life, what would you have done?

As for me, I wish I would have gone on to school so that I could have had a career and not just "jobs." I have spent most of my adulthood raising children ranging from 21 y/o to 3 y/o. And not that I don't love them, I am weary from that being all there is to my life. I would love to go back to work but it wouldn't be worth it after I paid for daycare.

What about you?
 
I don't know that I would change much of anything because I've learned so much along the way. BUT, if I had to pick I'd say that I'd have gone for a different career. I'd still be a writer but I would have gone into conservation writing or been a farmer and written about it or something like that. When I look back at my career in the entertainment industry it seems like a really fun total waste of ten years. Ah well...

Sparrow
 
I would not have served my young children separate dinner at 5pm and then have dinner with my husband -- they would eat whatever we eat! I've often wished I could do this one over -- they are such picky eaters and I blame myself. Other than that, life is good......

-Beth
 
I would have gone to college. I really regret not going but it was not promoted in my house growing up. I also wish I had married later than 21 years old - I do not however regret my three wonderful sons that went with the decision to marry so young.
 
i could not have seen this question at a better time. i would NEVER had taken accutane to clear my skin when i was 22. paying for it with numerous side effects now (ostepenic, stomach pains and missing menstrual cycle, hurting me so far from getting pregno).
 
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I would have started weight lifting back in my teens or at least early twenties. Wish I had not waited so long to figure out the weight lifting makes you look good!

I would have started working in casinos right after school in order to work up to a management spot by now. I love casinos, the whole environment, not sure why I didn't think of it earlier.
 
been more focused

I would go back in time and tell myself to skip holly-weird and just focus on what I actually like to do. I actually like teaching piano. I actually like living here and figuring that out now is a little bit late. I could have been doing that all along and made some money. Instead, I tried three different careers that did not work and I have no money to show for it. :eek: Not to mention ten years of pretending I was something that I'm just not. :(
 
Dela said:
I would have started weight lifting back in my teens or at least early twenties. Wish I had not waited so long to figure out the weight lifting makes you look good!
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Same here.

I also would have kept in touch with friends from my childhood, adolescence and early adulthood.

I also would have agreed to date that guy studying truck driving at the vo-tech I was studying fashion merchandising at, rather than remaining loyal to my ended-up-being-a-jerk boyfriend at the time.

I would have started studying foreign languages earlier.

I also would have gotten into healthy foods (and stayed away from junk food) at an earlier age (which would mean I'd have more of my own teeth right now!)
 
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I would have listened to my mother and others at a younger age when she said not to care what others thought about me and to live life for myself. I never changed and now it seems I am too old and set in my ways and will remain sensitive and stressed out forever...

Clarissa
 
Kept in touch w/ friends from back in the day.

Often, I wish I would have stayed in school, I was a premed student. Again career vs jobs, although I've liked the jobs I've had. I left school after my mom passed away - just too much stress, etc at the time. I was engaged to DH, and I wonder had a finished school, med school, residency, would we have made it thru all that? We were young at the time. So while I regret not finishing, I wonder if finishing would have left me w/out my wonderful DH and DS. It may not be a bad thing afterall. You know, you change one thing, and everything after it changes, It's a Wonderful Life, ya know?

Nan
 
I wish I would have set my standers higher. Expected more from myself and not to settle for less. I'm a door mat!
Not that I am unhappy with life. I love my life! but you never know what could have been.
Maybe that comes with age though. Knowing you are more then you thought you could be.
 
Perhaps I would have stayed in college. I got pregnant with my first daughter at 24, so I could have finished and obtained a degree by that time.

Of course, I was without direction and desire, so the degree would have ended up being something generic and passionless.
 
Hmmm, well anything I would change would result in something else that I love and would not give up regardless, not being in my life. So I guess I'd not change a thing. Over all life has been pretty good.
 
I would have never smoked. If only I knew how addictive it was. I still reach for one (or 5) during stressful times. :(:(
ellie
 
Worknprogress said:
If you could have done something different in your life, what would you have done?

As for me, I wish I would have gone on to school so that I could have had a career and not just "jobs." I have spent most of my adulthood raising children ranging from 21 y/o to 3 y/o. And not that I don't love them, I am weary from that being all there is to my life. I would love to go back to work but it wouldn't be worth it after I paid for daycare.

What about you?
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I would retire from the military and THEN retire from the postal service, like so many of my co-workers did. I'd be absolutely set for retirement. I'd also have invested in a good retirement account the moment I started working. I could have gotten my college degree while on active duty instead of the long, drawn-out, expensive way in which I did, having paid for it myself. In the end, I wound up with a "job" instead of a "career" anyway. Unless I win the lottery or marry a wealthy man (each with their own bag of troubles, I'm sure), I'll probably die at work, a very old woman.
 
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I'm stealing from your ideas. I think mostly, I don't regret my major decisions. I do wish I had started working out earlier in life, and lived healthier for a longer time.

I TOTALLY agree with you , Clarissa , that is exactly how I am too. I'd wished I'd listened to my parents in so many ways. Why do teenage minds rebel so much? I hate that I did it, I hate that MY kids are starting to do it!
 
not to be too depressing, i would have spent more time with my dad. He passed away 6 yrs ago at the young age of 54. If i would have known life with him was going to be so short, i would have appreciated him much more and spent more father daughter time. Ok, now i'm getting teary eyed:(
 
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