Advice for a younger you

Learn to program, create google & facebook - trust me.

Also that girl in Benidorm, she may look nice and smell nice, but she isn't nice. Beware infections.
 
I would tell myself not to buy a car on finance and get myself into 5 years of debt and then change the car for another car that became a money pit

and try harder at school so I could have been doing a job I really enjoy
 
Don't listen to what you were told in school, and believe in what you were doing.
If I had done that, I'd be a lot further in my current career than I am now.

That said, I wouldn't have had some of the same experiences I've had, some good, some bad.
 
Matthew, Don't do a backflip over the bonfire. It doesn't matter who you're trying to impress.

Matthew, Don't swap your iphone and give your money to that spaniar for a moped.

Matthew, don't hitch hike from Barcelona to Lisbon. It will not be as fun as you think.

Matthew, don't do your impression of the worlds drunkest man when you have a flight tomorrow morning at 8am.



Matthew, when you go to Pamplona for running of the bulls. Don't run hungover.
 
Tefal said:
Don't go to uni, learn to ask for help when you need it
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Or dont just for to uni for the sake of it. Go to uni to get a career you will enjoy not just to make money.

Hades said:
Another one... don't work for someone else. It's not more secure. Start a business young. Fail at it and start another. Fail at that and then start the real business you want to do with the lessons learned.
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Yep. Agreed.

Begbie said:
Travel more, savings boring.
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Can do both, I did :) Even though I didn't go traveling till my late 20's. should have gone earlier.

One from my me, don't save money for the sake of it because you like it "just sitting in your bank" My friend is 31 years old. Has grands of money in his bank, average job, still lives at home with his parents. Doesn't drive, has no intention of moving out, never been aboard. Nothing to show for himself and wonders why he has never had a girlfriend.....midlife crisis waiting to happen.
 
I wouldn't go back and change anything, despite EVERYTHING I've been through, I still ended up where I am now, extremely happy :)
 
Hmm, I'm doing OK, good job, decent salary, loving wife and great son. But missed out on the housing con, pyramid err stuff.. so we rent so my regret now is not buying a house 10 or 15 years ago so I could steal, feel much richer than I am etc etc

Am I being cyncical.....

Anyway my advise to my son (and what I would have told mysefl) is do what you love to do. I used to programme all the time from ages 6 to 15 and could even write machine code back in the day but never really though about it is a job.

Come 20 years later when I reached 35 I found it again and wondered why I never kept on doing it and wonder where I would be know if I had actually become a professional.

So yes identify what you love to do and go for it!
 
I wouldn't tell me anything, I was a little $h1t and wouldn't have listened anyway as I already knew everything.

I had a spell of about 4 years where I was good at picking up women and god knows how...I'm no oil painting (maybe a Picasso or or a Pollock). I suppose I could tell younger me to capitalize on it a bit more - oh the nights I could have had.
 
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Well there were a few situations that I found myself in that I didn't capitalize on that wouldnt have made much, if any change to my life so I'd do that, other than that I'm ok where I am...
 
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