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.
Same here, I often find job postings asking for a driver’s license for reasons. I’m happy as can be on my bike, though, I don’t get the car hype.
That’s interesting. Half of my friends are in successful careers without a license
You’re probably in a major city, maybe even a hip coastal one or a European one, and not from rural Canada. Good for you, we’re not all so lucky.
Moving to a place more like that immediately was the original plan, but shit happens. And, well, my whole support system is where I grew up or close.
I thought about buying about a thousand bitcoins when it would have costed me a hundred bucks. Never did though.
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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.
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.
Marrying the wrong person
Waiting so long to cut off a toxic parent. Not spending more time with a good parent. Not going to therapy sooner.
I regret surviving into the 21st century.
Akasha, is that you?
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
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!
Probably, but my PhD is in philosophy.
Probably,
Checks out.
Put off transitioning waay too long
Why the fuck are people downvoting this, seriously
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Being born in the USA
Not standing up to the so-called friend who stabbed me in the back.
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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.
Please correct me if I’m wrong, but I’ve heard that some people pay the absolute minimum on student loans and keep them for years and years. Some lady I knew was paying like $50 a month or so and she was like, fuck it, I can afford this and more but they’re not getting their money any time soon.
Idk, I don’t live in the states, so I’m kind of wondering how it all works.
So it’s complicated because it depends on what your loans are from - government loans, a personal bank loan, credit union, etc. There are student loan companies, many of which are extremely predatory and if you’re 18 and just being told “you’re smart, go to college”, you have no idea what you’re actually signing up for.
I was told through my teen years that I would “be able to pay my loans back based on how much I make”. This is how government loans typically work. At 18 I was not aware that I didn’t qualify for - so I went through college thinking I was going to pay my loans back based on my own income.
I was very very wrong, and had no idea until my first loan came in and it was literally more than I made in a month of work.
