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Let your next career move come to you.

If you could go back and do one thing in your life differently

what would it be?

I would, as stated before, not concern myself with Israel, jewry and my extended family from my father's side

if I could go back in time and do as stated above, my life would have been a *lot* better

I wouldn't have bothered with uni; would have joined an employer with straight out of school; would have purchased property earlier and would have done everything much earlier.

I definitely wouldn't have chosen the white jeans I wore to that party in 1991.

But on a more serious note, I would have been more outgoing at university, met a wider variety of people, got involved in things other than drinking, and would have actually studied something rather than relying on what I learned for A Level.

p.s. a  friend of mine got asked in a job interview “do you have any regrets so far?” and he responded “I’d like to have taken more drugs and had more sex at university”. It was for a junior tech job so the interviewers were on his wavelength

I would have done something different at uni. Potentially would have done something theatrical or artsy. Because I still could have just done the MA conversion afterwards and ended up in law if I really wanted to, rather than being miserable doing a really dull area of science.

Studied art history instead of straight history or possibly fine arts degree

Not let myself get fat

Not dropped the second and third tabs of LSD at the 1991 Halloween Grateful Dead show 

Set my bindings a bit tighter back in December of 1992, preventing the walkout and subsequent ACL and MCL tears.

I always say "nothing" to these things, but actually not falling off that horse in 2003 would have been good. 
 

it poss taught me more patience than I knew I had tho 

been more outgoing and got a lot more sex. cared less earlier in life what anyone else thinks about anything. 
“settled down” earlier in life - 54 year old dad and two year old boy is hard work!

I had a choice of a room in two different shared houses about 20 years ago and I chose the wrong one. Possibly the only sliding doors moment of my life. All good now but the intervening years could’ve been better.

Possibly not left the Army when I did but stayed in for another tour.

Mostly, however, not jumped a hedge and ditch on my horse and crashed a little while back. It made a bit of a mess of me.

 

Gone to another doctor for a second opinion when it could have actually made a difference.

I knew it wasn't the flu. Couldn't possibly be just the flu..

So why on earth did I just meekly go home and pretty much wait to die.

I feel your pain Mr B Iguana - so tired! Swings and roundabouts tho innit? Will be a better Dad now than I would have been 20 years ago (except football and tree climbing). 
Still I’ll be telling my boy to start earlier - always the option of a late trade in and round 2 if he wants it/can afford it at 50. 

Worked harder at school – both O levels and A levels (especially A Levels). It has turned out pretty well anyway, but I could have made it a lot easier for myself and avoided some harder years at the start.

More importantly –  more than 20 years ago I pulled a girl at the LPC Ball and, after discovering in the cab that all she was wearing was shoes and a dress, went back to mine. I was not prepared for the earlier ‘no knickers’ discovery to be topped. Imagine my surprise to find out she initiated and was obsessed by Alan. She left the next morning and then later that day called me asking what I was doing that evening and would I like to come over to hers or should she come round to mine. To my eternal regret I said I would come over to her place (she gave me the address). I fell asleep around 5 pm (being worn out after exams, ball and the relentless Alan demands of the previous night) and woke up at midnight. It was the days before mobiles and I did not have her number. Term then ended and everyone dispersed. I regret to this day not saying “why don’t you come over to mine”.

As an aside I was recently at a dinner party where her name, completely unrelated to above, came up in conversation. She had been a trainee with someone at the dinner party and he told a story where she had let slip that she had had colonic irrigation. Lady Long was present so, sadly, I could not add a marvelous foot note to his story. She will forever be associated with missed opportunities for me.      

Very little to be honest, but I might have applied myself a bit harder at getting that one year all expenses paid scholarship to an Ivy League university now that I know quite how daffy many American girls go for my particular  flavour of accent.

Bullace and Blue have definitely persuaded me I'm too old to have children.

Strutts I also wonder what would have happened if I'd gone with the advice of a Canadian friend of my parents and gone to university in Canada.

I left a good job to start a business with someone once - and that person turned out to be an utter, utter, bellend.

I wish I hadn't done that as it was horrible and also financially a bad idea. Nothing good came of that year

I tried pretty darn hard back in the day but have been rather more lazy in recent years.  Not sure what Pornhub has to do with it but I've enjoyed the variety.

Panicked when offered a 3 some from 2 female mates.  I turned into a News of the World Journo and made my excuses and left.  I since learned they carried on without me.

Heh jelly! V similar burning regret - about 1996 in Prague with v hot and “adventurous” (but bonkers) gf  - we got talking to v hot “exotic dancer” in a nightclub who suggested that the three of us get friendly back at the hotel (small fee involved) - gf was up for it but to my eternal shame I chickened out! 

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