Life's biggest regrets?

Not trying harder at school. My Dad always used to tell me when I was at school age how he worked with so many guys who had said 'I wish I'd tried harder at school'.

It never sunk in. I was hanging around with the wrong crowd trying to be accepted. Looking back at the people I was trying to impress, they didn't actually give a **** about me.

Being a late-bloomer particularly with the opposite sex. If a girl did show me some attention, I was always completely oblivious. Only in recent years have I started to accept myself more and am now happily married.

Music wise there are concerts and certain artists I wish i'd seen. Wish I had started travelling in my early twenties but I've made up for that a bit since.

Ultimately I have my physical health and while always a work in progress, my mental health is the best it's being in years.
 
swordtrombonefish said:
Not taking 20 Bitcoin instead of the pick of some office furniture for some work I did in early 2013
I had no idea what the hell it was...
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Surprised that you haven't already " Necked yourself " mate. 🤣

I guess that I should have a rethink about what I posted earlier as that would have " Floored " me and that maybe my earlier post is " Flawed "

However, You are still " Alive and Kicking and also much more experienced ".

So maybe not too " Flawed " as it happens.🤣
 
Getting absolutely smashed in Singapore so I can't even remember staying at the Marina Bay Park Hotel!
 
It's career choice really. It's not a huge regret as I've done well out of the path i've gone down, but i sort of stumbled onto the uni course I took as I wasn't sure what I wanted to do, and my parents probably pushed me in the direction i ended up going in. I don't hate it but i can't say i'm too interested in it and i'd probably be better at other stuff. My best friends are those i met back at Uni, and i've got to travel the world but in terms of the job itself i wish i'd gone down another route. For some reason at 22 i thought that i was committed to that career by the uni degree, which wasn't really the case.
 
Family/Friends - regrets are too personal to think about.

Generally though, My biggest regrets are not trying harder at School and changing career 10-15 years ago
 
HarryVegas said:
Wasting years, trying to fit into crap jobs until my mid-30s.
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Exactly the same as me, although I was 30 when I had my light bulb moment.

I wish I'd made more of an effort to join the army when I was 18. If I'd stuck it out and got in I know I'd definitely still be doing it today.
 
Mate of mine had an interview with Statoil 30+ years ago for a very lucrative Contract.
It all got a bit management mumbo jumbo which is not what he expected and he thought he'd blown it so when it got towards the end he wasn't fussed anyway.

And the last question was...... what do you most regret in life?

He gave it a few seconds thought and said "Not shagging Shirley Bassey when I had the chance" The 3 Norweigans were a bit stunned then the lead one howled and the other two followed suit.

He got the job
 
I'm not sure that it's a regret, but in spite always of trying to keep in touch with friends and people I respect, three of them have died in last year or so. I haven't been able to attend their funerals - one didn't even have a funeral. The realisation sets in that not only have seen them for ages, I won't see them again. There isn't anything I can do, or could have done to change that, so perhaps regret is not the right word, but it's been a shock. Before the last couple of years, nobody of my age died, but now there's the nasty realisation that in fact they do.

I'm going to spend the second half of 2021 catching up with lots of people and making sure I don't lose touch with anyone I care about.
 
I was hell bent on leaving school when I reached 16 and I did - I had an apprenticeship waiting for me at ICI which was exactly what my dad wanted for me. However, a couple of weeks before I started, I tagged along with a couple of mates who had an interview for a position of junior clerk at a printers, I was also invited to be interviewed and I was offered the job. This was exactly what my mam wanted for me!
In hindsight I wish I'd of learnt a trade as I could have always progressed into office work later in my career if I so wished.

Still, to quote Mogga, it is what it is, I've still enjoyed my working career and made many good and long lasting friends....but I've always wondered how life would have panned out if I hadn't had that bl00dy interview!
 
Abel Tasman said:
Regret not buying a property in NZ 4 years ago when I was here last. Property prices have gone up 40% minimum.
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Bought my first house here in 1989 for $53,000, the same property sold last year for $525K.
Bought my most recent house here 4 years ago for $397K, latest valuation is $720K. Unbelievable rise, but the problem if you sell is that you then have to buy on the same market.
Rises like that are only good if you are going to downsize or move to a much cheaper area.
BUT, if you get chance get on that property ladder now as its only going to get more and more expensive as cashed-up Kiwis come home.
A friend of mine is a real estate agent here and they recently sold a very nice coastal property to a Kiwi in London for $5.7m sight unseen! The next highest local bidder was $3.8M so it's hard to compete with somebody spending pounds sterling.
The guy who bought it is just land banking it til he returns from London in a year or so to retire. The covid situation - and NZ's response - seems to be the push many need to return to NZ after living overseas for a number of years.
 
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