Regrets

MsGneiss · Aug 25, 2009

What are some of your biggest regrets, either professional or personal (although, I don't really care about all the sordid romantic details).

My own - Two years ago, I was offered a job at the ESRB, as a video game reviewer. I turned it down, because I was finishing up my Masters and starting on my PhD, and I needed the funding and convenience that my on-campus job offered. I think getting paid to play video games would've been super swell, but alas, that ship has sailed. Sigh.

Adam · Aug 25, 2009

Not staying on and furthering my education.

Ah well.

quickWit · Aug 25, 2009

Getting used to the idea that good is good enough.

kayleamay · Aug 25, 2009

I worked in telecom in the mid 90's. I had stock options.....lots and lots of stock options. I held on to them...too long. If I would have cashed out when the market was soaring I could of paid off my house and then some. Instead, I ended up with just enough to super-size my fries.

MsGneiss · Aug 25, 2009

kayleamay said:
I worked in telecom in the mid 90's. I had stock options.....lots and lots of stock options. I held on to them...too long. If I would have cashed out when the market was soaring I could of paid off my house and then some. Instead, I ended up with just enough to super-size my fries.

Yea. My lack of financial acumen is a constant disappointment to me. If, instead of buying my first iPod, I had instead bought $300 of Apple stock, I probably would've been able to pay off a lot of my student loans.

quickWit · Aug 25, 2009

...and quitting football in high school.

There, sheep. Happy now?

MsGneiss · Aug 25, 2009

quickWit said:
...and quitting football in high school.

There, sheep. Happy now?

"And deciding to go to college instead of the NFL" would've been better... but yea, I'll take it.

quickWit · Aug 25, 2009

Had I gone to college, I might have said that.

There. There's another. Not going to college.

Geez, this thread is bumming me out.

lucidzfl · Aug 25, 2009

Gosh. Well not to sound like a jerk, or a show off, but I don't really have any.

I have things I wish I hadn't done, and things I wish I hadn't said.

But every single piece of minutae in my life has led up to where I am and who I am and who I am with.

So I wouldn't change anything at all.

Yes, 6 years of hell with devil woman, even you are a part of this facade of mine.

Adam · Aug 25, 2009

lucidzfl said:
But every single piece of minutae in my life has led up to where I am and who I am and who I am with.

So I wouldn't change anything at all.

This is a very good point. I retract my previous comment.

MsGneiss · Aug 25, 2009

lucidzfl said:
Gosh. Well not to sound like a jerk, or a show off, but I don't really have any.

Clearly this thread isn't for you now, is it? Now head on back to the Insomniacs thread and gloat a bit more about your ideal sleeping habits.

Susie · Aug 25, 2009

Being a secretary for 21 years. I didn't like being a secretary.

MsGneiss · Aug 25, 2009

I don't think regretting passing on some opportunity in the past is mutually exclusive with feeling happy about your present.

kayleamay · Aug 25, 2009

sleepsheep said:
Clearly this thread isn't for you now, is it? Now head on back to the Insomniacs thread and gloat a bit more about your ideal sleeping habits.

Hehe...

I like my life as it is...but I still wish I was rich. Then I could work because I wanted to and not because I have to.

lucidzfl · Aug 25, 2009

sleepsheep said:
Clearly this thread isn't for you now, is it? Now head on back to the Insomniacs thread and gloat a bit more about your ideal sleeping habits.

Well shit, I could say, I regret not leaving that harpy ex of mine after 6 months with her.

I could say I wish I'd never left tennessee.

I could say I wish I'd never left college (where I was pre-med) to do what I'm doing now. (13 years into my career, so its panned out pretty good)

I have no idea where I'd be if I was a doctor living in the mountains of Tennessee.

But I am happy where I'm at. And thats what's important.

/tries not to gloat

quickWit · Aug 25, 2009

sleepsheep said:
I don't think regretting passing on some opportunity in the past is mutually exclusive with feeling happy about your present.

Wait a minute...there are presents?

How come I didn't get a present?

This. Is. Bullshit.

scarletpeaches · Aug 25, 2009

Leaving university.

But then, I was 17. Now I'm 33. Of course I'm gonna look at things differently.

quickWit · Aug 25, 2009

I can't believe no one has posted lines from "My Way" yet.

You people disappoint me.

lucidzfl · Aug 25, 2009

quickWit said:
I can't believe no one has posted lines from "My Way" yet.

You people disappoint me.

I'm just not a fan.

( I shouldn't say that 2 weeks from going to vegas huh )

MsGneiss · Aug 25, 2009

quickWit said:
I can't believe no one has posted lines from "My Way" yet.

You people disappoint me.

I am humming it, if that helps...

quickWit · Aug 25, 2009

You can't hum My Way, sheep. You've got to belt it out to the back row or do nothing at all.

Go ahead. I dare ya. I triple-dog dare ya.

MsGneiss · Aug 25, 2009

quickWit said:
You can't hum My Way, sheep. You've got to belt it out to the back row or do nothing at all.

Go ahead. I dare ya. I triple-dog dare ya.

I would, really and truly, but they have a policy against such things here. City government frowns upon song, wine, and women, and what you are proposing would need to be a combination of the three.

Millicent M'Lady · Aug 25, 2009

And now, the end is near;
And so I face the final curtain.
My friend, Ill say it clear,
Ill state my case, of which Im certain.

Ive lived a life thats full.
Ive traveled each and evry highway;
And more, much more than this,
I did it my way.

I regret that the bunneh seems to be controlling me...

kayleamay · Aug 25, 2009

Sing it Sheepy...we don't want to piss off da bunny.

Samantha's_Song · Aug 25, 2009

I regret not having a much better education than I did. Other than that, I don't regret anything, not even the bad things and all the mistakes I've made, as they've made me the person that I am now, and I actually like me.

Regrets

Not dead.

Totally Ninja!

I'm on the phone.

Totally Ninja!

Totally Ninja!

Back from the dead

Not dead.

Thanks, special friend for my avi!

I'm on the phone.

Back from the dead

Totally Ninja!

Totally Ninja!

Back from the dead

Totally Ninja!

Exploring the infinite abyss

I'm on the phone.

At least I don't need backing-up