If you had your time all over again what would you do differently?

Question

I suppose that this question is mainly aimed at the over 50's but please feel free to answer whatever your age.
Please include in your answer....your age, sex and the route that your life has taken you down.....any regrets? What would you do differently with the benefit of life experience and hinesight?

Answer 1

plenty

Answer 2

I would have listened more in school, as I wanted to become either an archeologist, or work in forensics, or become an airhostess!! Well, I married a wife beater, ran away with my small child and lived a hard life and have yearned to travel all my life. I am now single, happy and still love ancient things, watching forensic files on tv and love to travel when I can. So if I could have my time over again yep, you're darn right I'd do it differently. But it's been a learning experience all the same!! I am 54 single and female.

Answer 3

26 female, route in sum - brought up in foster care, left school before finished so no qualifications. had son when i was 17 his father left when he was a year (although still part of his life, weekend dad) i have since had a few short term relationships and one 5 year relationship and i started seeing my first girlfriend aboout a year ago i am now single. i have had some of the shittest jobs going from cleaning toilets, offices, bar work, catering to make ends meet, i went back to college and did an accesss course 4 years ago and have just finished a degree in psychology/ sociology, i have just got another crappy job to pay my way through a masters.

Would i change anything?? not at all. i realise that if i had done things differently and finished school, waited til i was older to have my son my life would have been easier and less struggling, i would probably be set in my career, would have had the girly holidays abroad and done all of the things i wished i could have done. but through all the trials and tribulations i have learnt things about myself and about life. they have given me the determination and insight that only experience can give you. i am a completely different person to who was years ago and i like who i am, i like that i have overcome all the bad years, i am strong and i know that i can get through just about anything life throws at me and becasue of this i approach new situations with confidence. i can relate to people when they talk of their struggles and hard times and i think that these experiecnes make me more empathetic and this has helped me relate to people.

Answer 4

I'm not over 50 but hitting near 40 it's amazing what you learn through life's journey, i would change everything about my life i would have learnt at school and got myself a good education and career, would have not married young and had children not that i regret my children but knowing what today is like i wouldn't have brought them here.

Answer 5

I can only think that I should of been as tolerant when i was young as i am now.I married young and still am very happily married so I don't think there is anything else I would change .Wish I had exercised more so I could be super fit.I am a housewife and worked in a nursing home until 12months ago,

Answer 6

I don't know that I would. I am happy with my life now, but I wasn't in my teens, so I really don't think I want to go back to that again. I t would be nice to be smart and have a good money making job, but then I wouldn't be a stay at home mom and I don't want to give that up for anything.

Answer 7

I am in my forties.
On the whole my life is okay but I would definitey not get married if I had my time again.
I would be less accessible to friends & relatives & would use the word NO much oftener in order to live my own life & not the life other people think i should be leading.

Answer 8

Age 52, female.
I'd have worked harder at my education so that I'd have had more options.
I'd have had more children (got two, but maybe should have had 3 or 3)
I'd have worked harder to stay married (I'm divorced)
I actually have my own business so life has been quite good to me. Maybe I should have taken it more seriously, but when it was A'Levels or 'going out', then my social life won every time.

Answer 9

If i had my time all over again, I would not have invented the internet and television. Few people know I invented both. But both have become the nemesis of both hard work and proper leisure time.

For the record, Izziere, Tim Berners-Lee and JL Baird are all pseudonyms for my real name.

Answer 10

My sometimes dreadful mistakes have led me in directions that i would never have gone. I have had a full and interesting life, people I tell my story to, never believe me, my friends say that their scepticism it is the highest form of flattery. My mistakes led me to the far corners of this world, I will die with the most memories and I will regret only those that hurt me and my love of people.

Answer 11

I made three bad decisions in College that changed my life course, so the biggest would have been to get a reliable car myself and not take one from my Uncle