If you had your time again as a teenager what would u change?

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1. Not hanged around with certain individuals

2. Went the IT route at college/uni and generally tried harder in school

3. Listened more to my parents

4. Stayed on the right-side of the law

5. Not had so many punch ups over the pettiest of things.

 

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See I find myself quite fortunate. 2 things I would have changed

1, IT, I would have gotten into that say 5 or 10 years earlier.
2, been a bit better with my money as at the moment my credit rating is really bad

Ed

 

I pretty much drank and took drugs up until my mid 20s, but I'm pretty happy with where I'm at now, physically, emotionally, not quite financially, but there's zero point in regretting anything in my opinion. Onwards and upwards.

 

Hindsight is a wonderful thing but also absolutely pointless.

 

I disagree, its good to look back on past errors in order to assess what went wrong, learn from it and never let it happen again.

 

That's one of the things I thought, think I took it too literally and now I don't hang around with anyone
on serious note I wish I have spent my time and money wiser, I don't have any debts but I wish I spent it on travel/following childhood dreams etc. Now I know it's all doable without winning lottery but having perm job/bills/relationship and 20-ish days of holidays a year it's waaay harder than back then...

 

Y'know what, in contrast to some of these posts, I would have gone out and partied just a little bit more in my late teenage years. Made more of an effort to make local friends, perhaps even chose to go to my local college rather than one that's an hour bus journey away.

But then also, focussed my weekday evenings on something more useful and productive than pissing my evenings away on MSN Messenger and Faceparty.

 

I was a total geek as a kid, buying computer parts, building my self a gaming rig. I think that kind of contributed to me moving into IT, so i guess i wouldn't change too much as to how i was when younger.

The one definite thing i would have changed is be more financially focused, i racked up 18k of debt by the time i was 20

 

Great question.

In all honesty, personally, I don't believe in regrets as such. But looking back, I made choices which in hindsight were wrong, but that brought me to where I am today. I have a good job, I earn enough money to have a nice life, I am healthy (that I know of) and a wonderful fiancé. If I had taken different paths when I was younger, then I may not have ended up here.

Saying that....

I wish I had spent my money better,
I wish I had saved more,
And I REALLY wish I had bought shares in ASOS, Google and Facebook when they first started out.

Everything happens for a reason and its defined by the paths we take in life. We are all here, we are all happy so to quote Frank....."Regrets, I've had a few, but then again, too few to mention"

 

My study habit and my fashion statement LOL

 

TBH I am not sure, I joined the Army at 16 but because of that I didn't study too well at school, not because I didn't understand it but because I knew I was going in to the Army for a long period of time (in the end 10 years but it could easily have been 22).

 

If I were a teenager again, I would haven't wasted my time in doing odd jobs at burger king and Wallmart, etc. Instead, I would've focused on primary things and most particularly be learning about technology, reading tech-magazines, watching sci-fi movies, lol.

 

I would have asked one of my high school crushes to go to the prom with me. She would have said yes.

 

Great shout. Imagine buying 10,000 BitCoins for a few quid all those years ago!!

 

Send it my way mate. I would invest it wisely ha ha

 

Seriously though, what's everyone's prediction for when the bubble bursts? the dot com bubble went to 5 trillion market cap.. which was primarily a US led bubble. Can crypto get to 20 trillion?