Life not lived... What would you do if you weren't doing what you're doing now.

If I was 3 inches taller, faster, and had better hand eye coordination I'd be a pro athlete. Right around now I'd be retiring and transitioning into coaching and then management.

I kid, I kid.

I was pre-law all through college, took the LSAT and everything. My life not lived is as an attorney, or more likely, I'd be right here in real estate having been an attorney and hated it.

When I was a kid I wanted to be a paleontologist. I knew all the dinosaurs by name. I don't know why I thought that living in a tent out in the desert and digging for fossils would be my life, as it very much isn't, but I loved dinosaurs more than most things.

I would be attending a medical school. I’m very early in my career, so of course there is a possibility that it might still happen, but unlikely so.

Took all the pre-med classes, did really well in those, but literally had no money to take the MCAT, leave alone attend a medical school. I come from a very poor family from outside of the US, so no loan or military options. It was a bit sad to pursue a career for the money rather than a calling, but nothing beats being able to financially support family in my early 20s.

The original reason I transferred to the school I graduated from was because their Air Force ROTC program had a good track record of getting pilot slots. My dad flew jets in the Marine Corps and it always sounded bad ass doing low levels through mountains. I thought special forces would be fun too. I thought too much and made the practical choice of going to the business school because the career of a pilot long term sounded boring, and the family life of special forces sounded miserable.

The bottom line is that I am still trying to figure out what I am passionate about, it is a sucky place to be but trying to get there sounds right.

I decided in 2000 that I wanted to try to go be a pro snowboarder (boardercross). I didn't live near a mountain, so moved to the west coast in 2000 to get better. I won regionals that year in my age group and placed 34th in the nation at the time at nationals.

I got to SoCal and immediately latched on to the boarder group and had a season pass to Snow Summit. My group of friends all ripped. I was the fastest, but couldn't do anything cool on jumps. Then there was this other kid who was a geek with funky style named Shaun White and he legit kept improving and then started his snowboard career, also showing that some boarders could actually get paid. They paid even less in my specialty (boardercross) and I never made it when I was younger - so thought I was done.

Then in 2011, I went to regionals to see if I could qualify for nationals again and qualified, but didn't go. It is more just a hobby for me at that point. Then I qualified again in 2018 and 2019 for nationals and actually attended in the Open/Pro category in 2018 and got my ass kicked by all the kids who will probably be on the Olympic team (Australia's national boardercross team was there, as well as Canada national boardercross team). Everyone had black Kessler boards and I ride on a very unique Kessler / Palmer Platinum LE. The 2018 course was horrible for that board as it was so fast and my board is big and fast; unfortuantely,I didn't have another technical board I could go to that was shorter. I really got my ass kicked out there. They were significantly technically better than me and several groups had multiple coaches and would travel and train all season. It was an experience.

After that, I think I hung up my hopes of going to the X Games or Olympics in boardercross and pretty much knew that even if I did - it wasn't going to be for much money at all. So now I am just looking to freeride and go boarding casually with friends.

Wear a straw hat be a head coach of a big time college football program

Be an engineer, like a cool one, make like an Ironman suit or something

Captain of a cruise boat

Head idea guy at a major corporation (like head-head idea guy, Ie,my idea is to make money, someone else figures it out)

Something with golf

Sounds silly but a pro skateboarder.

When I was about 14, I was flow on a relatively known skate team and would get free boards, shirts, pants, and maybe a pair of shoes every now and then from the team and my local shop since I was somewhat sponsored. For those that don't know, being on flow is akin to an intern for an undetermined amount of time, trying to impress your team for a FT offer.

I was on flow for about two and a half years, busting my ass every day after school hitting the parks and streets, making video clips and sending them to shops like Anti-Hero, Baker, Girl, Nike SB, etc. I even went to LA once on a trip with my local skate shop which was such a blast. Got to see some actual pros skate and hit all the sick spots you would see in their videos.

By about 16-17, I started to realize when I would go to the parks that all these younger kids were just as good as me, if not better. I realized that some of them were probably flow too and trying to make pro at like 12-13 or whatever age they were. Couple that with me now being a junior in high school starting to find interest in the business world, I stopped skating all the time and making clips.

Soon after, just stopped skating overall except for weekends to focus on SAT and college apps. Skate team stopped sending me free gear, local shop said I wasn't motivated anymore, and I was officially no longer flow. At that moment, I gave it all up. Worst decision of my life I think. Honestly think if I had continued my hustle, I would have been pro at some point. Probably not a shoe deal with Nike or anything, but maybe on a team like DC or Emerica.

I get this isn't finance related, but the joy I had skating and making videos with my friends were the most fun moments of my childhood. And to be paid for doing something you truly love is unreal and I can't believe I gave it all up. But that's life and you learn and move on. Still skate whenever I can though to this day.

Currently attend a non target state school . Wonder all the time how things would have been if I had bit the bullet and taken out a $150k loan to attend a target school.

Probs a full-time bronchiosaurus. 6 y/o me thought it was a good idea, and now after some time in finance, that route sounds much more appealing

Damn, too many to count but any of those was at some point something I honestly considered: - Go into either biochemistry or engineering - Become a lawyer - Become a writer - Become a professional brass musician - Become a Catholic priest - Become as famous as @lloydblankfine on Insta" (just kidding, just kidding...)

1) Be a diplomat

2) Be an astronomer

When I was a kid, I wanted to be (in chronological order):

1. A professor.
2. A doctor.
3. A lawyer.
4. A politician.
5. A cop/militar.

I am really lucky, because when it came the time to chose what to study, I chose finance, without really knowing what it was all about (like most of the high school kids, I only knew what I had seen in the films, which is really far away from reality). I am lucky because I really love finance and I don't want to do anything else. I just realized how unhappy and how unrealized I would feel with myself if I had chosen to study any other thing.

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I played a lot of sports when I was a kid, especially baseball. I had some talent and practiced a lot. As a kid, I would have loved to have pursued a baseball career but I never thought I was tall enough to be successful. One of my favorite classes in school was constitutional law. There have been times (not recently) when I have thought about going back to law school but then life happens and you get too busy and have more responsibilities.