I’ll start: My first GF and I didn’t use protection. We used the pull out technique. FOR AN ENTIRE YEAR! I was 19 and could have ruined my life then and there.
I’ll start: My first GF and I didn’t use protection. We used the pull out technique. FOR AN ENTIRE YEAR! I was 19 and could have ruined my life then and there.
I pursued a degree without really understanding what the one relevant job would have entailed until my junior year of college. Turns out, I would have hated that job.
To be fair to my past self, I was just a kid and I really wasn’t offered proper guidance. But yeah, wish I made different choices, so I didn’t have to go through such a huge quarter life crisis.
I don’t like how much society pushes kids to have their future chosen before they have any real idea of how the real world works. I did pick a good program to study straight out of high school and have a decent career from it now, but even then I dropped out for a while because I just didn’t have the drive yet.
I wonder how things would have turned out if I had pushed through instead of dropping out. Maybe I’d be farther along in my career, maybe I would have ended up at the same company and gotten laid off when they struggled during my “off time”, or maybe I would have burned out and ruined my career because I wasn’t ready for it yet.