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pepperami wrote: | M.C wrote: | Would you tell him not to get into bikes? I might, it's too late now as it's under my skin, but I'd be a lot healthier and in a better position (work wise/financially) if I'd never taken up riding. |
Ok so no bikes, would you have not found another obsession?
Would that have not of got under your skin and cost you a fortune? |
Financial as in not being able to take promotions at work due to biking injuries. I'd probably have remained a cycling freak, nearly did, whilst mulling over getting a motorbike I decided against it (due to the cost) then that second the bike I wanted rode by (it was pure chance fate).
chickenstrip wrote: | I've had great times on bikes, so wouldn't want to deny him that, if that's what he wanted.
As for me, I've done what I've done, and am where I am. Regrets now are pointless. |
Don't get me wrong I've enjoyed it, but I can see how it hasn't been beneficial. Neither has doing a physical job for years. I'm full of regrets I'd probably tell my younger self to jump through the bullshit hoops I thought I was smart enough to avoid, do some bullshit A levels, a boring degree and then get a meh office job. |
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chickenstrip wrote: | I've had great times on bikes, so wouldn't want to deny him that, if that's what he wanted.
As for me, I've done what I've done, and am where I am. Regrets now are pointless. |
Don't get me wrong I've enjoyed it, but I can see how it hasn't been beneficial. Neither has doing a physical job for years. I'm full of regrets I'd probably tell my younger self to jump through the bullshit hoops I thought I was smart enough to avoid, do some bullshit A levels, a boring degree and then get a meh office job. |
Thing is, I don't know what else I would've done. I didn't get into long distance walking and fell walking until after I left the RAF. Bikes were my only interest since the age of about 15. I'd still be lost without them. It would have been nice not to have smashed myself up on them, and I should have got into touring earlier, especially when I was in Germany with the RAF. But that didn't really interest me back then.
I tried A levels, but had to switch schools to do them, and the school I went to had clearly done a lot of different stuff at O level to the one I did them at - there seemed to be a lot of gaps I couldn't connect between, so I jacked that in and went into the RAF instead. I'd have been no good at university, didn't have the self-discipline to study off my own back. But the RAF was by far a better option than the office job you're talking about I reckon, and without so much time studying and wondering how to scrape together enough money to live on. And as I went straight into tech level training rather than mech, after just 18 months of trade training I was on good money, aged 19 and a half years. Food and accommodation was ridiculously cheap too, so my pay was basically all pocket money. So it's really just a couple of details I'd warn a son to do differently, going from my own experience. But those details sure could've made a difference! ____________________ Chickenystripgeezer's Biking Life (Latest update 19/10/18) Belgium, France, Italy, Austria tour 2016 Picos de Europa, Pyrenees and French Alps tour 2017 Scotland Trip 1, now with BONUS FEATURE edit, 5/10/19, on page 2 Scotland Trip 2 Luxembourg, Black Forest, Switzerland, Vosges Trip 2017
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Oh dear, starting to think about mistakes or bad decisions I have let go by.
There's rather a lot of them
But then, if I hadn't have done some of those things, my life would not be how it is now.
If I changed even a small thing, I might have ended up not having had my lovely Anita and that would be just unimaginable. ____________________ Not nearly as interesting in real life. |
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nothing really just follow your instinct
I have had a few major changes of direction in my life that have came about from being in the right place at the right time and saying f*ck it why not
I have 3 wonderful kids that have their own life's now. a reasonable future and roughly where I want to be right now
53 years old kids moved out leaving me & the Mrs and the cats
better off than I was when they were here
get to go runs on the bikes with my sons no real debt to speak of and not many items on my bucket list to tick off
all in all if the 63 bus splats me tomorrow I don't have any thing's I would change if I could apart from not stepping out as the bus was going by ____________________ I have become comfortably numb
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Less drinking, more fecking and don't procrastinate. ____________________ '87 Honda XBR 500, '96 Kawasaki ZX7R P1, '90 Honda CB-1, '88 Kawasaki GPz550, MZ 150 ETZ
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hellkat wrote: | I would have done better with a bit of military training. |
Don't bet on it ____________________ Chickenystripgeezer's Biking Life (Latest update 19/10/18) Belgium, France, Italy, Austria tour 2016 Picos de Europa, Pyrenees and French Alps tour 2017 Scotland Trip 1, now with BONUS FEATURE edit, 5/10/19, on page 2 Scotland Trip 2 Luxembourg, Black Forest, Switzerland, Vosges Trip 2017
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I think there's two classes of advice one could give: don't do that bad thing, or do do this good thing.
Advice to not do the bad thing is predicated on it being done between younger you and you today, so that advice isn't broadly applicable.
Advice on doing the good thing is tough. If you had a hard time figuring out what to do with your life, what you were good at, then advice on what to seek out would help, but it's still not broadly applicable.
Time-travelling advice difficulty is compounded by the lack of context and agency that young people often have. It's all very well to recommend to make more out of opportunities, but often that takes skill and knowledge, not just a suggestion. You have to recognize an opportunity when it comes, and know that it's decent (to avoid opportunity cost), which requires calibration, which young people don't have until they're older. See the Secretary problem for a mathematical way to think about this.
On lack of agency: the standard treadmill for young people goes school, college (course chosen based on aptitude and interest), job (chosen based on education and interest), life partner, house, children, etc. What we do is path-dependent on how we arrived at that point, all the way back to choices our parents made. But you can't advise selecting your parents!
The single biggest thing that would have helped me in my early days isn't anything I could advise my early self to do; it would have been to be mentored by a well-placed professional in industry. What could have helped make that happen? Living in a different area, parents with a different social circle, going to a different school and making friends with children who had relevant parents, etc. There isn't much actionable here, beyond writing personal letters to people I had no personal connection to, or even knew how to find the addresses of.
But if you could choose your parents, that would be my advice: choose differently. Not because the ones I had did anything wrong in particular, but rather that their life choices were quite a distance away from what would have been best for how I turned out (not in any way they could have predicted). ____________________ Bikes: S1000R, SH350; Exes: Vity 125, PS125, YBR125, ER6f, VFR800, Brutale 920, CB600F, SH300x4
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 6 years, 319 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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