Mistakes you look back and kick yourself for

[amdhunter]

That one time, in band camp.

 

[Jimmah]

Spending every paycheck for 3 years on cars, never actually finishing a single one, then selling it all for a song. 15000$ worth in parts sold for a little over 4k because I was desperate.

Not going after this one chick who like another poster mentioned, was practically begging for it. Hottest most exotic girl I've ever known (at the time, she went fugly shortly after).

Not learning French (impossible to find work here if you're not bilingual).

 

[polarmystery]

student...loan...debt...

 

[Jaepheth]

stupidly passing on much of the tail that was sitting there, waiting for me, begging (srs), because I was far, far too shy in hike school.

This, but in high school.

Also about 1 in every 15 folded poker hands.

 

[zinfamous]

Same here... I was the dork in school who never had a gf because I was shy, but looking back, I had a shit ton of opportunities I could've capitalized on. But... I was too stupid to realize it at the time.

oh, i realized it...I was just, "too cool for most of them high school chicks."

what a fucking idiot.

 

[Bill Brasky]

Not banging my first girlfriend. Never made that mistake again.

 

[Texashiker]

When you found out, how did you react? What steps did you take?

It was not until years after the fact that I found out, and by that time the mother-in-law had died. I was rather pissed off, but what were my options, divorce my wife because she felt sorry for her mom?

My ex-wife and I always fought over money. She wanted to spend and spend like her mom did, even if it meant driving the family into financial ruins. We finally split up and divorced.

Now, instead of getting my whole check, she gets 25% for child support and that will be stopping in 3 years.

 

[ElFenix]

letting the one that got away get away

 

[Perknose]

That one time, in band camp.

You regret it was only one time, right?

 

[nanette1985]

Not divorcing my husband right away when he started getting violent, spending all our money and sleeping around.

We had 15 good years so I figured it was just a phase he was going through, better-or-worse and all that. Thought I was being a good wife.

Part two is not giving in to his outrageous divorce demands right away when we got to that stage. Instead I spent a fortune on lawyers, and he got it all anyway - the only way I could get him to shut up and leave the kids alone. It was hell on the kids.

 

[Mr. Lennon]

I'm 25, but I regret wasting 3 years of my life. Instead of going to school I partied, played music and wasted tons of time in WoW.

All of you guys talking about not getting chicks in high school...man that is one thing I'm glad I did. To be honest I don't know what the hell they saw in me either. I was skinny as hell and generally looked like an ass clown. I still managed to get one of the prettiest girls at our school.

 

[Regs]

I was dancing with this girl at a club and her hair is all up in my face. Not taking physics my senior year in high school, I did not realize the cohesive properties gum was to hair....

 

[thegimp03]

I had a best friend since I was 5-6 years old who lived 2 hours away and our busy lives with school (went to different colleges) and work didn't lend any time to seeing each other. I regret not seeing him more before he drove his Jetta under the back end of a big rig trailer on I-5.

 

[Juddog]

For me it was not diversifying my programming skills from mainframe to client / server when I had the chance. I was making really good money, was skilled at what I did, had a pile of recommendations, etc. and had too much confidence in the market and didn't go back to school when I had the chance.

 

[amdhunter]

You regret it was only one time, right?

It's kind of like eating hot sauce. At first it hurts, but sooner or later you just want more and more. :biggrin:

 

[TraumaRN]

Not waiting another 6 months to buy my house. Probably could have found a better interest rate and possibly a cheaper house.

Not going after this one chick in college(although I found my wife so I can't complain too much) And I at least did bang this chick a few times while I was single so again I can't complain too much...

 

[CrackRabbit]

1. Being to lazy to go to college, my life has turned out ok without it but I have always kinda regretted not going when I was young.
2. Spending a TON of money on things I shouldn't have and gettting myself in to deep financial trouble that I am just now recovering from.
3. Not really a regret, but I have a curiosity of how a relationship I was in would have been, had I not broken it off.

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

I don't make mistakes.

Numenorean doesn't make mistakes. A mistake made him -j/k

 

[JEDI]

When I was 19, 20, 21, 22 years old I worked a lot of overtime, and I mean a lot of overtime. Sometimes I did not get a day off for 4 - 6 weeks,,, sometimes 8 weeks at a time. The average work week was anywhere from 70 - 80 or more hours.

With working the 12 hour shifts, I let my wife manage our money - big mistake. For some reason we were always broke, and my wife (ex-wife now) did not want to talk about where the money was going.

A couple of years later, I found out my wife had been giving a good chunk of my check to her mother. The mother-in-law had run her family into serious credit card debt, say in the $25,000 range. So my wife being the good daughter (and naive) that she was, she was giving her mom anywhere from $200 - $400 every week to help her mom pay her bills.

I regret not taking responsibility for my pay check and the bills. I should never handed over control of the family money like that.

Yankees offered me tryouts as a pitcher. I was going to Hawaii with twins that week. needless to say the wrong head made the decision to goto Hawaii.

Yes had a great time w/the girls, but now i have WHATIF for the rest of my life. renting girls are a dime a dozen nowadays

 

[TridenT]

Your regret wasn't getting married before you hit 20?

LOL THIS. Srsly OP. :awe:

 

[goobernoodles]

Taking out a small (2k) student loan to pay for college fees. Spending money on speakers instead of paying the fees "because I would get paid next week". Didn't pay fees. Went to collections.

Followed that up by buying more speakers on a credit card and letting the balance get too high. Went to collections.

Almost done paying that crap off. I try to not be AS stupid financially anymore. lol

 

[goobernoodles]

Yankees offered me tryouts as a pitcher. I was going to Hawaii with twins that week. needless to say the wrong head made the decision to goto Hawaii.

Yes had a great time w/the girls, but now i have WHATIF for the rest of my life. renting girls are a dime a dozen nowadays

The Yankees suck. See avatar for my credentials.

 

[TridenT]

There are MANY regrets, but they all are not something that was a legitimate mistake. It's usually me not knowing the consequences of the actions at the time. (e.g. not seeing a dermatologist as soon as I got acne. Now I have lots of scars on my face. I didn't know at the time.)

Things like not pushing my parents for a car at age 16. (I didn't think they had the money. Knowing what I do now, I know they could have gotten it if I pushed them hard) Not getting my license ASAP(This is because knowing I wouldn't have a car. It felt useless to get). Not taking the opportunity that my parents gave me to go to college instead of high school at a young age (I felt like I would lose everyone I knew, again. Those people I ended up knowing in high school were worthless to know anyway. I had almost no friends anyway. College would have been a MUCH better choice)

I regret not doing the homework in high school because I came out with a really low GPA in the end because I just didn't apply myself at all. I didn't see the point at the time. (Didn't know the consequences, again.)

Not getting some kind of mentor to positively influence me and guide me. (Not like that's something easy to come by...) My parents were not of much help when it came to making life choices or figuring things out.

Plenty more, but I try to forget by not remembering.

These are huge regrets for me because they could have lead to me going to a nice Ivy League school with a full ride. Now I am stuck with the idea of going to public ivy in a top 10 program. It would have been nice to go a top 3 instead. Graduate by 22 with Masters instead of graduate by 24 with a BA.

 

[HAL9000]

I have on regret, in my entire life only one. I'll never talk about it on here though.

 

[AyashiKaibutsu]

For me it was not diversifying my programming skills from mainframe to client / server when I had the chance. I was making really good money, was skilled at what I did, had a pile of recommendations, etc. and had too much confidence in the market and didn't go back to school when I had the chance.

Eh, there's tons of mainframe work around where I am still. I don't work on that stuff (I maintain their configuration management software), but like 3/4s of the programmers in my building do.