Regrets

[BluePaul86]

Share your regret mate. Made a decent living over the years, but far from doing what I love. Currently trying to help my daughter to not make the same mistake, she’s been accepted at John Moores and Salford but considering taking a job offer! Life hay..

Main regret is not getting a degree in something I enjoyed learning about and also missing the lifestyle and making friends for life.

I've never really progressed in any career although I've got a steady job and I lost contact with some really good friends as they moved away and made new ones.

At the time I always planned to work for a year or two, make money and then go to uni but that never materialised. If I had my time again I'd choose education over the money.

 

[Bohemian Toffee]

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Any pics?

Mate.

Always for you x

 

[JimmyJeffers]

Main regret is not getting a degree in something I enjoyed learning about and also missing the lifestyle and making friends for life.

I've never really progressed in any career although I've got a steady job and I lost contact with some really good friends as they moved away and made new ones.

At the time I always planned to work for a year or two, make money and then go to uni but that never materialised. If I had my time again I'd choose education over the money.

I went to uni as a mature student in my late 20s early 30s. Was ace tbh. Was able to go out for beers on a Tuesday and not feel like a pig. Was people of all ages and walks of life on the course.
Definitely got more from the course than I would have done as an 18 yr old as well.

 

[Zezti]

Definitely Uni regrets for me. I have 2 degrees and neither have been useful in getting a job, and I wasn't terribly interested in them, either.

 

[Rita_Poon]

I was once a real prick to a support teacher I think she was, in fact, I'd been a bit dismissive of her for a while and then she got her own back by keeping me back after school on a Friday (supervised study or detention of sorts). I honestly wasn't all that arsed about that bit. But it was a Friday where the nearest building society (to home) was robbed at gunpoint by 3 blokes, and they'd legged it and dumped their masks and some other ephemera in the back yards where we lived at the time at just that point in the day I'd have usually been returning. They'd had a car waiting and disappeared. I could have been star witness number 1 or blasted into bits. Always wondered how it'd have gone.

+ Not applying myself to any endeavour or education ever, all told a wasted life.

@GrandOldTeam many thanks for this. Just the perk up I needed.

 

[Daveysgingerlovechild]

Main regret is not getting a degree in something I enjoyed learning about and also missing the lifestyle and making friends for life.

I've never really progressed in any career although I've got a steady job and I lost contact with some really good friends as they moved away and made new ones.

At the time I always planned to work for a year or two, make money and then go to uni but that never materialised. If I had my time again I'd choose education over the money.

I went to uni as a mature student in my late 20s early 30s. Was ace tbh. Was able to go out for beers on a Tuesday and not feel like a pig. Was people of all ages and walks of life on the course.
Definitely got more from the course than I would have done as an 18 yr old as well.

Definitely Uni regrets for me. I have 2 degrees and neither have been useful in getting a job, and I wasn't terribly interested in them, either.

Would defo argue for holding off until you know what you want to do for sure before going to Uni.

I know so many people who did what they thought would get them a good job but ended up detesting it/their career.

Getting harder to do thought, tbf with fees and cost of living etc.

 

[Daveysgingerlovechild]

Career related for me. More 'what might have been' actually.

Turned down a job at a very good organisation doing something really interesting. Not once, but twice.

First time was set in the context of my Dad having passed away a few months beforehand. My then employer had been great and it would have meant relocating, upheaval etc. Decided it wasn't the right time as my head was a bit caved still.

Second time was a few years on. But I'd got another offer from somewhere else paying more. Followed the money. Probably should have gone for the job content. The job I took sucked balls.

I also met my wife at the post I took up. Make your own jokes.

Anyway, my career has gone in a very different direction. Stable, but dull. Always have that wonder of 'what if...'

 

[COYBL25]

Career related for me. More 'what might have been' actually.

Turned down a job at a very good organisation doing something really interesting. Not once, but twice.

First time was set in the context of my Dad having passed away a few months beforehand. My then employer had been great and it would have meant relocating, upheaval etc. Decided it wasn't the right time as my head was a bit caved still.

Second time was a few years on. But I'd got another offer from somewhere else paying more. Followed the money. Probably should have gone for the job content. The job I took sucked balls.

I also met my wife at the post I took up. Make your own jokes.

Anyway, my career has gone in a very different direction. Stable, but dull. Always have that wonder of 'what if...'

The happiest person I know in their job, is my mates brother in law.

He works for the RSPB as a warden, earns a pittance, lives in a tumble down tied cottage with his family, on the moors of the reserve, but wakes up everyday a truly happy man.

I think he has a degree in zoology, but worked for a good few years doing low paid conservation charity jobs and volunteering just to get his foot in the door.

 

[Daveysgingerlovechild]

The happiest person I know in their job, is my mates brother in law.

He works for the RSPB as a warden, earns a pittance, lives in a tumble down tied cottage with his family, on the moors of the reserve, but wakes up everyday a truly happy man.

You know, I'm absolutely committed to paying off the mortgage in the next few years and doing something lower paid but fulfilling. Life's too short.

 

[Kurt.]

 

[Buckers]

Career related for me. More 'what might have been' actually.

Turned down a job at a very good organisation doing something really interesting. Not once, but twice.

First time was set in the context of my Dad having passed away a few months beforehand. My then employer had been great and it would have meant relocating, upheaval etc. Decided it wasn't the right time as my head was a bit caved still.

Second time was a few years on. But I'd got another offer from somewhere else paying more. Followed the money. Probably should have gone for the job content. The job I took sucked balls.

I also met my wife at the post I took up. Make your own jokes.

Anyway, my career has gone in a very different direction. Stable, but dull. Always have that wonder of 'what if...'

It’s never too late Mr Lovechild.

 

[summerisle]

Taking up smoking ; the git who offered me a ciggy stopped after a week as well.

 

[coollino]

I regretted uni in my first year loads, but never admitted it to anyone cos you're meant to love your first year. Didn't really like anyone on my law course, everyone seemed so much more motivated about jobs etc when I had no clue, and I had no interest in drinking snakebite from a shoe every single Wednesday. Everyone seemed so childish with drinking, and I'd been drinking in pubs from 16 so I grew out of that part I giess

Luckily near the end of the first year I found others like that, I was so desperate I went to a club night on my own, and there were others on their own doing the same thing haha, and I had a great second and third year.

 

[Rita_Poon]

I regretted uni in my first year loads, but never admitted it to anyone cos you're meant to love your first year. Didn't really like anyone on my law course, everyone seemed so much more motivated about jobs etc when I had no clue, and I had no interest in drinking snakebite from a shoe every single Wednesday. Everyone seemed so childish with drinking, and I'd been drinking in pubs from 16 so I grew out of that part I giess

Luckily near the end of the first year I found others like that, I was so desperate I went to a club night on my own, and there were others on their own doing the same thing haha, and I had a great second and third year.

regrets, not tales of redemption.

 

[Barnfred 55]

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