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If I could go back to my Junior year I wouldn't have purchased a sports car before the dot com bubble crashed and stuck me with a ridiculous car payment. 

Aside from that, I would do exactly what I did back than... live a life in pursuit of my various vices.

I didn't go to college but no regrets as I own two companies now

All my life I have done what I wanted so I have never felt as though I didn't get to do something. Life is too short to wait!

pottymouth wrote:

because maaaaaan, I sucked at blowing.

...that's what he said.

I suspect you'd go back and change that sentence if you could go back.

Anyway...  I'm sorry for the length of this, and I know it really doesn't have much to do with this particular area of the forum, but since it was posted, and since I've been contemplating this very thing...

I would not have done anything differently.  Sure, I've had some setbacks, some highs, some lows...  But the sum of them has led me to where I am today, and I doubt that would be the case had I done anything (of consequence) differently.

• I would still have decided not to take that place awaiting me at the Air Force Academy (my eyesight would still have hindered what I wanted to do).

• I would still have screwed around when I first got into (a really good) college, and would have eventually decided to have taken some time off to regroup.  I had some great times (those I can clearly remember, anyway), made some great friends (many with whom I'm still in contact 15 years later), and learned more about myself than I ever could have in class.

• I would still have played with that band that toured the Southeast playing small-to-medium sized gigs.

• I would still have worked for that software company that eventually laid me off (I got to meet and get to know some really cool people, including the likes of George Duke, Danny Elfman, Mark Mothersbaugh, and countless others).  Through this job I learned an intimate knowledge of all things Pro Tools (at least in the pre-HD days), MOTU, Steinberg, and that would serve me well later when...

• I would still have gone to work for that TV production company that eventually laid me off (mostly because I couldn't/wouldn't get my immediate boss the pharmaceuticals he desired ["Come on!  You're a musician!  Get me some weed!"]), as I was nominated for an Emmy, worked on some cool TV shows, and, most importantly, made some friends that I still talk to every day, got some great experience, and did some really cool things.

• I would still have gotten back into school to finish that degree, which led me to my wife, with whom I've had one beautiful, brilliant young son and with whom I'm soon to have another.

• I would still have moved 2,000 miles away from my "hometown" with my new wife, and transferred to the school from which I ended up graduating, and into the law school of which I ended up entering, from which I am now exactly one week away from graduating.

• I would still have played with a "Vegas lounge band" for the past five years for too many reasons to enumerate herein.

• I would still (this is prospective now, though) travel back to my/our "hometown" to study for and take the bar exam in July of this year, so that I can be a practicing attorney in a place where we want to be, in a place where we can afford for my wife to not work outside the home (her choice, by the way), where there's a sense of community (I couldn't even begin to tell you the names of the current occupants of the houses around me--there's been a revolving door on occupancy).  This is the thing that is hardest for me to swallow at this point.  My wife's pregnant, my son's 2.75 years old, and I'll be 2,000 miles away for 2 months.  But it's for the betterment of my family.

• I would still (again, prospectively) take the (minimum) $100,000.00 equity that we're going to make on our home once it sells and apply it towards a new, bigger, less expensive, lower cost-of-living home in a nice neighborhood back in our "hometown" where there are yards to play in, neighbors you actually get to know, and a nightly newscast that doesn't start with four shootings, two stabbings, a rape, and five fatal car crashes. 

Yeah.  I'm happy with where my life has taken me.  It's had some highs and lows.  And, to be honest, right now I'm kind of in a low.  I'm under a lot of stress at the moment with all the things that are going on, but I...  We will get through them.  And we'll be better for it.

What would I change?  Not a thing, if it meant I would miss out on any of the good parts of my life.  And there are far more of those than there are bad things.  Though this Disability Law Class final probably counts for more than one. 

Last edited by VegasACF (2007-05-03 1:49 pm)

I wouldn't have wasted my last couple of years in school attached to that girls' hip, sitting in a crappy apartment we couldn't afford with her every night instead of going out and having fun with friends who I've now lost forever, just to never get married to her and break up six years later.

Plus, yes, I would also have learned a little more about html and web design and tried harder to get one of those jobs right out of school back when you could get a web design job before everyone else in the world already had several years of experience. Because newspaper advertising design sucks donkey balls!

Same as most of us, I would have gotten into html and web when it was hot. Also, I declined an invitation while in university to enrol in the first computer graphics degree in France. what an idiot...

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Vegas can officially no longer talk smurf about me.