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Well... if I was 20 again.

Oh wait, I am 20, hahahah suckers!

:p

(I realise this post contributes absolutely nothing to the thread, and for that I apologise).
 
Andelusion said:
Well... if I was 20 again.

Oh wait, I am 20, hahahah suckers!

:p

(I realise this post contributes absolutely nothing to the thread, and for that I apologise).
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lol!

I'm currently 23 and I think about what changes I could've made to my life if I was 17 again. And quite a few come up.
 
Not much, my path from 20 to 36 has been fairly linear so not a whole lot of forks in which I might have chosen a different option.

If however we are talking if I could be 14 again...now that would be tempting. Could change a few things there and my entire life might have been totally different.

But it would only be a temptation, I would be interested to see the alternative life that might have occured, but I dont think I would actually choose to have it over the life I actually have. My wife and daughter mean too much to me for me to nullify them :)
 
To be honest - I screwed up a lot in me early 20s, got better towards mid 20s when my family life started on the up and up.

Learnt a lot, and I mean shed loads, from my late teens / early 20s - respect and laws were the biggest 2 things I learnt about ;)

Looking back I do cringe at some of the stuff I did, but would I change it - never :)
 
Kaiju said:
If you were 20 again, what would you have done differently with your life?
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If I could go back to when I was 20 again and a 3 bed house cost £40k, I'd buy three of them ;)

Nothing really I'm happy with how things panned out. I might have spent a bit more on holidays but that's about it really.
 
If i were suddenly 20 now with my current mind and knowledge i would work my ass off and buy property and do it up and sell it on safe in the knowledge that i had a good 10 years or so before the market crashed :p

I would also invest in areas i knew had big growth ( before the crash of course ).
 
If we could all go from 20 to 30 and then go back to 20 again we all be boring in what we did :p "not coming out tonight, got work early tomorrow" "I think i'll skip this weekend, need to save cash" etc etc

I think the one thing I would change though would be buying a house (I didn't). In this area you could get an avergae terraced for £25k, a fully modernised terraced for £35 and a semi from anything over £40k. And at the time I was earning 18k so would have been easy. But even saying that, how much less of a good time would I have had if I had bought a house at 20? who knows.

The reason I didn't was that house prices hadn't really changed in my adult life and so it wasn't something I saw as an opportunity that would not be around for ever. People didn't talk about house prices back then like they do today. It just wasn't a topic of conversation. I suppose it's similar to all the 22-25 year olds who bought a vastly over-priced house 1-2 years ago because, in their adult life, they had only ever seen house prices go up and up and up so, to them, it seemed a cases of the sooner the better.


.....we all live and learn
 
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Possibly gone back and done a law degree, but no, never, worked through some hard times and the rewards have been great. :)
 
I would have re-enlisted in the Army when the opportunity came. I would be retiring this year at 38 years old with full medical and dental benefits, a pension, life insurance, military store discounts, and no worries about job security. :(

This is similar to the "If you could go back and tell your 10-year-old self one thing..."
 
If I could go back now .... I'd still do the same degree as I did although I would have maybe worked a bit harder :) The biggest changes would be

(a) spend less on computer stuff over the next 10 years

(b) take redundancy in mid-2003 instead of relocating within my company ... would have probably had more career progression.
 
If i was 20 again i would have gone back into education and tried to rectify the mess i made at school (instead of leaving it until now at 36) and after getting some decent qualification tried to find something other than the usual dead end job
 
I would change a lot, but hindsight is always 20/20. As it is, I always made the best possible decision based on the circumstances and the information available, so I can't really complain. Plus if I hadn't done half the daft things I've done in the last 14 years, I wouldn't be half as wise as I am now :D
 
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