The Biggest Mistake of Your Life (So Far, lol)

[chickenstrip]

What was it? I'm thinking something you did do, rather than what you feel you should have but didn't get around to for one reason or another.

Mine was to allow the RAF careers office to persuade me to take a trade I really had no interest in. I wanted to work on propulsion, but as a young and impressionable teenager, allowed them to convince me I'd be better off going for an avionics trade. I felt I barely knew how to wire a plug, but they told me I did better in the electrical part of the test than I did than the mechanical side. Then they said I'd be waiting for another year if I stuck with propulsion, as there were no vacancies for that long (I did score high enough to stick to my guns if I'd seen sense).

I was working as a labourer in an office furniture factory at the time and thought fk doing this for another year.

You might say avionics would have given me better, more useful skills for the future, but I think I would have applied myself more in a trade in which I was actually interested, and therefore got further with it.

Always time in life to make an even worse mistake though
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[RedPanda]

Took a degree in history rather than anything animal or conservation related. Now it’ll always be an uphill struggle to obtain a job that I actually want.
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[Whosthedaddy]

Moving to Australia and coming back to the UK
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[DRZ4Hunned]

Not running when I got arrested

[Iain.]

Took someone very special for granted for a long time & blamed them for my issues.

Money and work doesn't really bother me, it's more of an "Oh well, could've done better" sort of thing. You can always re-train, re qualify, go at it again & work your way back up through a clear easy to see set of choices. People & relationships are harder to fix.

[ScaredyCat]

Not visiting a friend in Alaska...


... finding out he'd died 2 weeks later from prostate cancer ...

... finding out he was dead when I did a google search on the project he was working on...
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[monkeybiker]

One of my biggest mistakes is finishing a Degree in Physics when I should have quit after the first year and done something else. I got a poor grade which has not really helped me and I feel I just wasted my time.

[Ribenapigeon]

Whistle blowing to the care commission about the management of a care home I worked in. Then spending the following four years trying to fight to preserve some kind of decent level of care for the residents. I should have just walked as soon as the abusiveness and negligence of the new management became clear. Frankly I think I have PTSD as a result.

[andyscooter]

Smacking a bloke in the nose with a toolbox on a mechanics course at collage(he was bullying me)

Or helping a girl one night and getting done for assault with a weapon(bloke pulled a knife and I hurt him with it) so couldn't join the army
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Putting the joint savings ISA account in my ex's name to show I trusted her....doh!
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[duhawkz]

Asking some bloke to stop parking his bike outside the shop I was managing in Aberdeen.
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[Ste]

Found some website called BCF... everything, good and bad, stems from that point.

[Clutchy]

Taking a full time, well paid job over university, under the impression the experience I could earn would benefit me more... Yet to know if was a mistake yet, time will tell
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[Lord Percy]

I honestly don't regret anything so far, including the bad things because I think they're just notches of experience to be learned from.

I have literally one thing that sometimes creeps into the back of my mind and leaves me pondering about what could have happened if I'd acted differently at the time.

When I was in Australia I was at a restaurant with a mate. The table next to us had a load of women sat there who I took no notice of at all. When they got up to leave, one of them accidentally dropped something near my feet, picked it up apologetically and hurriedly put it on my table next to me, then left. It was a bit of paper with her phone number on it. I was madly in love with my girlfriend at the time so just scrunched it up and left it there. I didn't even see her face but I'll never forget her name was 'May'.

Not exactly a regret or a mistake, but it's literally the one occasion I can remember where I outright closed a door on myself without even trying to glean more information. Probably made worse by the fact that I didn't even see what she looked like. Who knows what amount of potential I threw away there. That's the main thing that comes back to my mind when I remember it - the utterly unknown potential.

As I said, hardly a regret at all, but it's such a huge 'what if', which I just scrunched up and left on a table for eternity. Still, I really don't care that much in the grand scheme of things. Interesting to ponder over on occasions though.

[MarJay]

There are things that haven't gone great in my life, but I don't really regret anything to be honest. I used to regret not going back to University but I'd probably not be in the job I'm in now if I finished my degree, so I can't really complain too much about that.
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[Tamsin]

That I didn't acknowledge what I was feeling when I was in my late teens and bottled it up...

[GeorgeB.]

I inherited a large sum of money on my 18th and spent it all on takeaways, random shite and some skank I thought I'd spend the rest of my life with, when in reality she was banging my bestmate of the time.

Although, my regret is only with loosing the money, loosing the bitch opened brand new, much better doors.
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[KLR600]

I regret not acting on things more than anything else. I regret staying in an obviously failing relationship for about two years too long. It wasn't abusive or anything, just really dragged me down and made me doubt myself for quite a few years afterwards.

I regret not getting a driving license sooner whilst living out in the countryside. I reckon I would have been quite a lot happier in the countryside with the options opened with a driving license. Jobs, activities etc

Finally I regret not going to uni sooner. Said previous relationship really made me doubt myself and my abilities for so long that I put it off thinking only clever people go to uni. Turns out leaving North Wales and taking a leap of faith in myself was the best thing I ever did and I'm so much happier for it now. I do miss some of my friends from North Wales quite a lot but that's a small price to pay for being overall 1,000 times happier.
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[metalangel]

Moving to the UK and doing a worthless Journalism degree.
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[thx1138]

hmmm.. not sure I regret not doing a degree, as just went the long way round and ended up in the right job anyway, and the same one I'd probably arrived at at this stage in life with a degree.

Perhaps quitting my first job when I left school, only been there 6 months, decided it sucked, and that I would probably be better doing something manual.

D'oh!

Flexi time, pension, social club, subsidised canteen, civil service job.

I could've stayed there, slowly climbed the greasy poll, and had it fairly easy. Oh well.

oh and it had it's own underground car park where my motorcycle would be not only secure, but dry!

[scorpia4]

Missing about 60% of school because it was boring. I always passed my exams but the school eventually got tired of my wacky antics and outlandish heriocs and booted my ass out 12 weeks before the 6th year exams. So I potentially I wasted a year of my life for nothing. Anyways it was lame.

[N cee thirty]

Listening to teflon mikes advice as an impressionable youth and buying a cg125 to do tests on, should have just waited abit longer and got a ybr, save alot of fucking about and money down the drain
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[Eddie Hitler]

Buying Diet Coke instead of Pepsi. Has ruined my night.

[alexknight200...]

Mixing with the wrong crowd when younger. You think they are you friends but when the going gets tought they are non existent.

At 17 I ended up in hospital are a fight outside a pub. None of them helped and after 8 weeks in hospital only had a vist from one of them!

The experience helped me through life and helped make me who I am!
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