Biggest regrets of your 20s
I want to ask people that are a bit older about your biggest regrets in your 20s . What would you have done differently? Would you have focused on your career more? Do you wished you traveled or got married? I am graduating from college next semester, and I have a good number of regrets about how my college experience went. I hear your 20s are one of the most important periods in your life and I really don't want to fuck it up.
Not being more thorough with acne treatment.
not necessarily of my 20's but I wish I would have lost my virginity in college. I happened 1 year after with a girl I was really into and our sexual experience difference really hurt our relationship. I was bummed for months after that breakup.
any girl that would break up with you over sex stuff is not worth it, my friend
...If this is serious you are definitely the softest person i've ever "read" about in my 23 years of life.
...If this is serious you are definitely the softest person i've ever "read" about in my 23 years of life.
^if either of you are serious, kys
OP, you never know what you'll regret until later in life. Believe me you will always regret something! Relationship-wise it was not working on problems with shyness and ending up with people I didn't like instead of actively pursuing and getting to know the ones I did like. Career-wise, it was not figuring out what I wanted to do in life sooner and then not working harder to get to my goals faster. Life is short. Make the best of your time here! Also, work hard on keeping your best friends from college. It gets harder to find real friends as you get older. So you keep as many childhood / school friends that you can genuinely trust as possible!
I'm only 22, but I regret not figuring out what I wanted to do career-wise earlier on. Now I'm desperately clawing my way out of a dead-end gig towards my goal.
Pretty much this. I don't have any regrets but being a fresh 27 with an honorable discharge from the Air Force and a bachelor's from a decent non-target = The result of not jumping on a career track early on. I have a great corporate job in sunny socal but I'm wholly dissatisfied and making lateral moves into finance can be a hustle
OP, I'm still pretty young but I would advise you to think twice about the Audi/BMW and overpaying for rent, etc. These things are tempting when you come into some money for the first time, but will definitely prove to be more of a burden than anything. Uncle Eddie has some great posts on this.
As for marriage, I have no problem waiting until early 30's but most of the guys I talk to don't really "plan" marriage. I believe it is best to remain highly-mobile in your 20's & you have the world by it's balls right now.
squeeze those fuckers!
[/quote] I would advise you to think twice about the Audi/BMW and overpaying for rent, etc. These things are tempting when you come into some money for the first time, but will definitely prove to be more of a burden than anything. [/quote]
Can not stress this enough
Same here except I AM 23 going on 24 in two months. What type of dead end gig you got? I AM starting as a data analyst next week.
One of my biggest regret is not declaring my major in finance early on because I was afraid to take calc and thought I wouldn't do well in it and fuck my GPA. In the end I got a A which was in my second semester of junior year. If had I taken it earlier I would of at least had some finance related internships and been better off. Instead of unemployed for 5 months.
Another one relates to Compbanker, I wish had read more in college and HS. Just recently I bought a Kindle and started to books. I have long list of classics I need to read:
Catcher in the Rye, Clockwork Orange, 1984, Animal Farm, Catch-22 and Brave New World.
Better late than never.
Good list of books, especially Brave New World. I'd say Catcher in the Rye is overrated. Add Slaughterhouse Five and your list is complete. Add in Plato's Republic, Marcus Aurelius's Meditations...and you get the point. Also first 160 pages of Sapiens and Extreme Ownership.
That I didn't spend more time with my parents. One of them died, which hit me like a ton of bricks.
thats hard man cant imagine it... had somewhat similar xp, but with my grandpa
I had a similar experience ..
This is the correct answer and the end of the thread. Nothing else comes even remotely close.
This still hits hard bro. My condolences.
Not getting more internships (this primary applies to my teenage years).
Why -1 for that? FYI I graduated before I was 20 and a half years.
Great question. I wish I'd asked this as I entered my 20s. I'd say my greatest regret was choosing the easy way out in several areas of my life.
The top 1? I sought intellectual comfort. Don't ever stop learning. Habituate learning.
I wish I'd known WSO way earlier
Being in my twenties, I am not sure I have much regrets at the moment. I have been fortunate to things working out professional (even when I was in College four years ago wondering what the heck I was going to do after school). I guess on the personal side, I could say not taking more pride in who I am in past and getting more out of my comfort zone, but I have been working on that.
Who the fuck has time for regrets. Long as you don't get the AIDS you can fix it all with drugs and money.
Being in your 30's and dwelling on the regrets of your 20's is a recipe to wake up in your 40's dwelling on the regrets of your 30's. Break the cycle and enjoy yourself.
I don't necessarily have any regrets, however, there are some personal development things that I wish I had spent more time on. Particularly, I wish I had spent significantly more time learning a second language. While I learned a lot, I didn't really dive in headfirst until years later than I should have. Same goes for reading. I didn't start reading significantly until my mid-20s. I should have started immediately after banking once I had a lot more time. Now I am in my late 20s and am behind on these personal goals of mine.
I agree most with this in regards to reading. The more I read now, the more I realize how much more there is to read about. I think I've learned more, and thought about more, from personal reading than nearly anything I've read in school.
E.g. Reading anything written by Eco makes me feel like an utter dumb ass.
What kind of books are you reading these days? I'm trying to read more these days as well, but I need to come up with a better system for figuring out which books to prioritize.
Set up goals and accomplish/work towards them. Every new year of my life has been the best year of my life so far.
The only actual regret so far was not putting myself out there more in college and getting comfortable with just having a closer group of friends. It helps to know more people/make more friends in both a professional and a personal sense, especially with the school I was going to.
Also, experiences in life are much more rewarding than whatever money buys. Get outside of your comfort zone as often as possible and try new things.
You regret the things you dont take advantage of way more than you regret the things you tried.
Another one of my regrets is my obsessiveness with the academic side of my life. I did manage to complete an honors thesis in my teenage years. However, it left me looking like Reznik from The Machinist.
Focusing too much on work and not keeping up with the friends I cared about most since high school
-no ragrets-
-Getting too caught up in the small things instead of looking at the big picture.
-Realizing that there will always be someone more successful than you, luckier than you and richer than you. -Realizing that there will always be someone less successful than you, less lucky than you and poorer than you. Get over it and move on.
I regret eating a calzone for breakfast on Thanksgiving of 2013. I am going to be beyond stuffed by the end of tonight.
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