If a Time Machine Was Built?

If you had the option to go back in time and restart your career, would you change your career choice or would you keep it the same? If you would change it, what area of finance/banking would you get into and why?

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I would have bought credit default swaps on MBSs.

I am not cocky, I am confident, and when you tell me I am the best it is a compliment. -Styles P
 

I would have bought as much gold as possible when it was at $400. Also, I would never have bothered networking into Lehman. Oh, and I would have gone to a private school instead of state school, and done ROTC while there.

Live and learn I guess.

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