If you could start over again from around high school (jobs, interest)

[Fearringtonflash]

I would go to undergraduate and graduate school and specialize in art history.

[Deja Vu Again]

I would have finished going to college instead of going back at 31 years old and finishing then. I would have been a veterinarian. I got married at 28 which was a good age but I wished I never married as he ended up being a serious POS down the road ( I divorced him 7 years later). I never had kids and never wanted them. I still am happy about that as I can do what I want when I want without being tied down.

I would have backpacked all over the world in my early 20's....it's just the perfect time to do that.

[RogueMom]

I would do EVERYTHING differently.

The first thing I would do is go straight into the military and make a career of it. There wasn't even a war going on then.That's what both of my siblings did, and they are doing extremely well today, while I continue to struggle - thirty years after graduation.

[proudmommy]

Originally Posted by TKramar

I wouldn't have joined the Navy, and I might have managed to keep the girlfriend I had. Instead I did join, and she got tired of waiting.

What a coincidence. The gal I married, who happens to have the same first name, birth date and year of your ex-girlfriend, told me she didn't want to wait around for her ex-boyfriend to leave the navy.

[proudmommy]

Originally Posted by Lou347

I would not have majored in science...
All you guys who are wishing for a science degree are nuts, the better part of my 20's destroyed by my science degree (MS Chemistry).

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[proudmommy]

Originally Posted by JS1

I should have gotten an engineering degree instead of this useless math degree. I should have never gotten married or had children.

You're probably right.

What do engineers use for birth control?

Spoiler

Their personalities.

[nimchimpsky]

Go to college? I would have applied to Georgetown University full-time as a Linguistics Major/Psychology Minor.
Not go to college? Definitely wouldn't have gone to community college.
Got married sooner? Later? Not at all? If it were legal I would have! Connecticut only legalized same-sex marriage 3 weeks before my 18th birthday anyway.
Married a different person? Definitely not. I love my wife and I don't regret being with her for a second.
Had less or more kids? Haven't gotten there yet.
Different college major? I still want to major in Linguistics.
Different career track? I still want to get a BA in Linguistics and go to acupuncture school.
Stayed with an employer longer? I would have tried harder to keep my job. Maybe by learning braille sooner. It was a cushion job with better pay than I'll ever have cause I got paid the same as the Ph.D's except I had a HS diploma. Lol.
Moved on to a different employer sooner? Or at the very least done that, but it didn't even occur to me at the time to job search since I had enough savings to live on for a few years.
Relocated? Would have loved to stay in D.C., just not with my parents. If I had applied to and gotten into Georgetown, I could have lived on-campus, though I don't know if they would have let my wife live with me in the dorms. We might have had to get an apartment off-campus and apartments in that area are not cheap.
Different college?
Community college then university?
Start university with no community college? This.
Saved/invested more? Spent more?
Military? Definitely not.
Lived at home longer? Moved out sooner? And definitely not. Moving out sooner would have probably been good. Letting my parents see me when I was very depressed was no good cause they still can't shake off the image of me as a fragile person who will never make it.

[gentlearts]

I would not have gotten married or had children until I was older. I would have finished college and become either a food writer, or a home designer/contractor.
Alas, we don't always know what we want until it is too late.

[jasper12]

I would have gone into the military.
I would not have been so crazy to get married. I was more in love with the "fantasy" of marriage than the reality.
I would have done college straight thru, instead of working and goofing off.
I would not have taken out student loans.
I would have studied harder, and taken school more seriously, rather than partied so much.
The best thing that happened to me was when I had a child, and realized, "wow, I have to support this little person...that really helped me focus on my career. I probably should have had a child sooner.

[TKramar]

Originally Posted by proudmommy

What a coincidence. The gal I married, who happens to have the same first name, birth date and year of your ex-girlfriend, told me she didn't want to wait around for her ex-boyfriend to leave the navy.

Yeah, right. Whatever.