Just curious what you would do if you were 27 again, because that age is right around the corner for me.
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What would you do if you were 27 again?
- Thread starter The Sum of Awe
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I'd take the same road again, i.e. chase my dream and persevere with our (hubbies and mine) business venture.
Some things I'd change later in life but I'm not going there
PoetPhilosopher
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exchemist
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That was 1981. I'd do the same as I did then: take the job at the oil plant, ask the girl I loved out, buy the house I bought. In 1982 there are things I might have done differently, regarding a different girl. But not in 1981.
I don't keep track of my life in years like that, but that might have been around the time I finished grad school during a recession and couldn't get a job as a scientist in my field. It was one of the worst periods of my life because it taught me the hard lesson of "hey, you know how folks keep telling the story that if you are smart and work hard you get what you you have earned thusly? You know how how that's basically been true for your entire life up to now, so you believed it? Yeah, well, actually it's a LIE."
Not going to get into the details. What's important was two lessons.
One, when you recognize your mental heath has cratered, do whatever it takes to remedy that. Get help, and don't make excuses. Just get help.
Two, the number one maker of your fortune is your surrounding culture and environment, not you. Take advantage of this knowledge and use what little power you have to put yourself in an environment that facilitates bringing you your fortune. And know when to follow opportunities when you chance upon them.
Not going to get into the details. What's important was two lessons.
One, when you recognize your mental heath has cratered, do whatever it takes to remedy that. Get help, and don't make excuses. Just get help.
Two, the number one maker of your fortune is your surrounding culture and environment, not you. Take advantage of this knowledge and use what little power you have to put yourself in an environment that facilitates bringing you your fortune. And know when to follow opportunities when you chance upon them.
Secret Chief
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Dunno. Can't remember what I did do when I was 27.
Secret Chief
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You're practically a foetus
VoidCat
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Dude I wasn't even a thought yet 27 years ago. My mom was 20 when she had me.You're practically a foetus
Alien826
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27 was a bit too late as I was already married. Get divorced I guess before having a child made that too difficult.
Otherwise, invest in house property and the Stock Market much more than I did. Being rich doesn't bring happiness, but financial security sure does avoid a lot of unhappiness.
Avoid committed relationships. Make a large sign saying "Loneliness is better than misery" and hang it on the wall.
Stop worrying about things that might never happen. Discover meditation.
Get a vasectomy earlier than I did.
Cultivate friendships more.
Otherwise, invest in house property and the Stock Market much more than I did. Being rich doesn't bring happiness, but financial security sure does avoid a lot of unhappiness.
Avoid committed relationships. Make a large sign saying "Loneliness is better than misery" and hang it on the wall.
Stop worrying about things that might never happen. Discover meditation.
Get a vasectomy earlier than I did.
Cultivate friendships more.
PureX
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I would move to Australia and use my credentials and history as a Chicago artist to get a college teaching job. If I couldn't do that I would look for job or possibly start a professional fine art handling company building specialized custom crating. I also would consider moving to New Zealand. Either way, I'd be wanting to get out of the U.S. before this place completely implodes in a orgy of greed and stupidity.
27 was a big year for me. At 17, I'd promised my cat I'd marry him if I wasn't married in ten years, and at 26, things weren't looking in my favor. Time to pick out cat rings, I guess. My birthday is in September; over the summer I admitted it wasn't going to happen. Then I met someone in July, got married two weeks short of being 27. Sorry, cat!
Within 6 months of that, I'd quit the job I'd had for over a decade, and switched to domestic engineering.
The only thing I'd change was living in the duplex we did until we got chased out... that place was annoying at best(living in a duplex is like having roommates you don't get to pick), and ended up being quite dangerous without that. But, we didn't have that information going into it... the place was certainly both cute and roomy.
Otherwise, no regrets from that period of life.
Within 6 months of that, I'd quit the job I'd had for over a decade, and switched to domestic engineering.
The only thing I'd change was living in the duplex we did until we got chased out... that place was annoying at best(living in a duplex is like having roommates you don't get to pick), and ended up being quite dangerous without that. But, we didn't have that information going into it... the place was certainly both cute and roomy.
Otherwise, no regrets from that period of life.
I would spend more time with my kids.
Audie
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Stay away from the boys
Not sure this would necessarily apply to many but it just might - in that I would try to assess if there were any issues with my personality, behaviours, or motivations, and try to amend such, if possible, so that any of these weren't constraints on anything I might want to do in the future. So more about increasing one's range, or envelope, so as to enable one to do more than one might envisage without such changes. At the age of 27, change is eminently possible and perhaps producing a much better future for oneself.
In my case, I was far too introverted to socialise that much, apart from a smallish group of friends and where we often had the same interests. And this was especially the case so as myself not doing any searching for a female partner in life, and where any such mostly came from lucky encounters. I also might have changed my occupation if I had looked at the options more closely.
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
Scream and go "What the bloody hell"!
Trailblazer
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If I had it to do over again, knowing what I know now, I would not do everything that I did, but I might do some of the things I did when I was young, like going to college. But life is not like that. We have to do what we do with the knowledge we had at the time. I got a good education and I always had a good job, but I was a mess emotionally until I started getting treatment when I was about 32. That treatment lasted for many years till I could consider myself recovered from my childhood issues. I still have anxiety over certain things but that is part of my mental make-up, my counselor says.
Trailblazer
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I never made it to Australia, but back in my early 30s I went to New Zealand for an extended vacation and I really wanted to move there, but there were no jobs to be had in my field so I stayed in the U.S.
I would like to make it to Australia someday, because I could see myself living there, or in New Zealand, now that I don't need to depend upon work for income.