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

[kathryn]

not to be too depressing, i would have spent more time with my dad.

I would have with mine as well.
We really never talked much before he passed away in 1989, but since then, I've often thought of things I'd like to know about him, or talk to him about.

 

[pixiesis]

What an interesting thread. I have a few big ones of my own. I wish I hadn't dated my college boyfriend for so long--I spent all my time with him and he was a total jerk and I KNEW it. What was I thinking? I could've had more friends/boyfriends and much more fun.

I also wish that DH and I had been more frugal in grad school and not taken out so many student loans. It's what everyone else did, but looking back it would've been better to live very cheaply then so we could enjoy our lives more now.

Amy

 

[spyrosmom]

and I am going to address each of the posts.








Nan - Gosh - PreMed - that's impressive. I am so sorry to hear that the passing of your Mom changed your path at that time. Do you have any desire now to pick up where you left off?






Thanks my Cathe friends - life is a bit difficult now and this my post is a question I have been asking myself. Thanks for sharing.

I've thought about it, but I really wanted to be a nuerosurgeon, and thought of 10 years in school now just doesn't appeal to me. Although, I could be 10 yrs older w/out be a Dr or 10 years older and BE a Dr. Either way, I'd be 10 yrs older. The schooling just doesn't appeal to me at the moment. Plus we don't have the money for it. We can pay the bills on DH's salary, but that would be it. I finally finished paying off my 1st round of student loans this earlier this year, and I really don't want anymore. I think if I were to go back to school, I'd go for mortuarary sciences. Being a mortician would be a way cool, fun job. I've seriously considered that. If I had the funds, I would totally go. I'm only 30 so I have time. In a few years, when I can get some funds saved up and DS is a little older, I may do it. Then when they have parents come in for career day when he's in highschool, I can be the Undertaker! woo-hoo!


Nan

 

[Jasmin416]

I would have hooked up with that guy in college when I was being faithful to my jerk of a boyfriend

I would have majored in Marketing instead of being swayed to accounting by the jerk of a boyfriend.

I guess in hindsight I would have never hooked up to begin with with that jerk of a boyfriend...oh and I wouldn't have created debt like I did for myself.

 

[elliemom]

Debbie (worknprogress)

I loved how you replied to the posters. What a great thread. Thanks
ellie

 

[TeTe]

Yeah, maybe I should have let go of the old boyfriend who took up so much of my time in high school, or put more into studying and getting into a better school and getting my degree earlier, in a more lucrative field or something I would have been more passionate about. But, if I had, so much of my life that I like NOW wouldn't have come about: DH, the friends I've made from my various jobs and moves, etc. So, those things from way back when, those "mistakes" I wouldn't change.

The things that I WOULD "do over" are:

I'd have taken my dog Gilda to the vet earlier, and maybe saved her from having to be put down for kidney failure.

I'd have done everything in my power to convince my friends to buy the house next door that they were looking at instead of buying a house that ended up being the site of a random robbery that cost them their lives.

And, I wouldn't have taken the job that I got three months ago.

 

[Reese777]

I would never have married my first husband!

 

[Fit_mommy]

I am a SAHM to my 3.5 year old. If I could do it over again, I would have taken a leave of absence from my f/t time jpb after my maternity leave was up to stay home for my son for a little while longer and then I would have put him into daycare and gone back to work. I love my son and am thankful we've been able to afford for me to be home but I am really not cut out for the SAHM thing TBH. I think DH and I were making enough money combined to make the cost of daycare a worthwhile investment. When I was holding that little precious baby in my arms at the time though, I couldn't bare the thought of handing him over to strangers all day long. It's such a double-edged sword!!!! We are considering having another child soon so I have alot to think about. I don't want any regrets.....

 

[lala1]

I would have liked to have married SOONER! (unlike many of you). Then I would have had more kids.

I would have been nicer (that´s something I still can do!)

I would have spent more time with my Argentine friends when we lived there.