STORM2K

If you could go back to college or after high school, would you change your career ideals. Are you in the job you like or do you wish you would have leaned a different way?

Me..... I wish I had gone to nursing school, then studied more and moved up

Me, I'm still gonna persue my carrer as a meteorologist or a storm chaser. My mom wished she would've gone back to college and study forensics.

I regret not going to college as planned. And wasting my life away working at a low paying dead end job like Sears for the last going on 7 years. My main reason being self esteem issues, severe anxiety problems, and financial difficulties. I should of went to college and pursued a degree on journalism. I love to write and would love to cover weather stories. I know it is still not too late.

cajungal, you should definitely follow your dream and go to college. You can usually do a state school for pretty inexpensively. You can always get student loans to cover tuition. Take evenign classes and keep working while you study. Don't let anyone or anythign keep you from adving your education.

Remember, the longer you put it off, the harder it will be to get started.

I'd be a marine biologist instead of a computer dork.

I have several big regrets in life but if I could go back in time, that would change where I'm at today - happily married and the mother of two wonderful daughters.

If I could do it over again I'd go to college right after high school. Wait to marry until my late 20s or early 30s. Enjoy being single and I mean really single! (hint, I married my HS sweetheart at age 20, we divorced 8 years later).

As for a college major, at 22 it would be very different than now at 50 (if we had the means for pay for two college tuition bills). Back then anything would have been possible - I would have been happy being a nurse, a teacher, or go into horticulture. Today, it would just be a 4 year degree probably in History. Just for the satisfaction of finishing (I have several years worth of college credits, but no degree....yet).

This line of thinking is good and bad. When I look back at what brought me to this time in my life, sure I have big time regrets. But had I changed just one part of my past, I wouldn't have my family in my life. You change one aspect, and the whole thing changes. So in a nutshell, I'm happy where I'm at and with the decisions I made way back when. Some weren't smart, I'll admit that but they are what shaped the person I am today.

I try my best to look forward.

Mary

Miss Mary, may I just say that you rock? 'Cause you do.

My wife says that I should have been a weather man.

Well said Mary. Looking back at all the decisions that got me to where I am today, I look at some of them with satisfaction and some of them with horror. But they all got me here. I can deal with that. Who knows if a decision that would have been made differently would have ended in greater sucess, more satisfaction, less satisfaction, calamity, or 20 years in the big house!

What's even more mind bending is to consider all those decisions that you made, and the effect that they had on others. I think about the education, career, and relationship choices I made. They were all necessary for my own kids to have been born. Then I think about all those little decisions that were made by my ancestors. If any of their decisions were made differently, then POOF, I wouldn't be. That's when I go to the refrigerator and look for something to eat.

You look back and try to make sense of it. About the best you can do is hope that you've learned a thing or two and are a bit wiser. I know that the lessons from the school of hard knocks tend to stick with you more than most things that you learned in a classroom.

The past is gone. All we have is the present and the future. There's no use wasting the present agonizing over the past.

HurryKane - why thank you! Ed - not surprised you echo my thoughts. We old timers are wise-wise ya know..... Just kidding but it's true, there are many bends in the road ahead. You can't always be second guessing yourself but if you remain true to who you are, treat others the way you'd like to be treated, throw in good old fashioned honestly, you can't go wrong. Geez, I sound like Bill Cosby or Forrest Gump....LOL

Since my family is on a movie kick right now, still hibernating in this odd winter-like Spring we're having, a good movie to explain what Ed and I are trying to say is - Family Man, starring Nicholas Cage and Tea Leoni. An excellent, heart warming movie about what your life would have been like had you changed one little thing. I highly recommend it. Jeremy Piven is in it, he's a bigger star these days.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0218967/?fr ... ft=21;fm=1

Mary

I wish I had gone to college, I feel like I could do better with a degree