What do you regret not doing or starting when you were younger ?

[low-key]

probably like a lot of you, not putting money away in a 401 or something like that, I did, but wish I would of done it earlier and more

 

[Southernmiss]

I lack 28 credit hours from completing my four year degree. I had my valid reasons for not doing so at the time (working full time and raising a young family) and don't "regret" it because i have always trusted that I make the best decisions I can at the time I make them and do not look back. But it does still sit in the back of my mind.

I now have 2 in college and one entering college in 2 years.

I have thought that once I get some of that behind us, that I might dabble into going back. But I am not sure that I could do the studying anymore...

 

[Ben E N]

Investing money, especially into an IRA

 

[amberpi]

Learning multiple languages.

 

[Jennasis]

Learning a foreign language fluently. I was very proficient in Italian through high school when I was in the accelerated honors class, but after graduation I stopped using it so it's all gone now.

Also wish I'd learned to play an instrument. I could read sheet music as a kid when I played the clarinet but after elementary school I dropped band and forgot it all.

 

[tvguy]

Being too conservative with my investments when I was younger.

 

[Meriweather]

not going to school for something I really wanted to do
Waiting so long to start traveling.

 

[E&Cmom]

Travelling.

 

[low-key]

Travelling.

were you to mature to waste time and money ? (that was never my problem)

 

[Luv Bunnies]

I wish I had any clue that I would want to make a career out of working with kids. I also wish I knew that corporate work was not my thing. I majored in PR, but have found myself working in special education for the past 16 years. I wish I had become a speech or occupational therapist, but I had no idea in college what those things were all about. I could go back for a second degree or a teaching credential, but at 53, I feel like that ship has sailed. I could have gone back to school earlier, but with a special needs child of my own, I've never really had the time to focus on school. So I'm a teaching assistant who occasionally picks up a day as a substitute teacher. That will have to do for now.

 

[Party.Of.4-NY>>>FL]

Listening to the advice from those older and wiser than me.

....and to think, in most cases it was offered completely free of charge. Dumb!

 

[mrsheppo]

I wish I had started putting money away for retirement earlier. I didn't get started until 35 due to marital problems and having no money to put away until then

 

[DaisyDuck001]

I wish I'd been in a high school band.

 

[ronandannette]

probably like a lot of you, not putting money away in a 401 or something like that, I did, but wish I would of done it earlier and more

That's one thing I don't regret. We lost everything in the downturn of 2008 and had to start over from less-than-zero. Any extra we'd have had would have been swallowed up in the same big, black abyss.

I regret my misspent youth but God's redeemed that time. I wish I'd been more proactive about choosing a career instead of just kind of drifting into the one I have now. I wish we'd had another child, for the sake of the "only" we did have.

 

[Gumbo4x4]

I lack 28 credit hours from completing my four year degree. I had my valid reasons for not doing so at the time (working full time and raising a young family) and don't "regret" it because i have always trusted that I make the best decisions I can at the time I make them and do not look back. But it does still sit in the back of my mind.

I now have 2 in college and one entering college in 2 years.

I have thought that once I get some of that behind us, that I might dabble into going back. But I am not sure that I could do the studying anymore...

I lack 30 for similar reasons, and I figure it’s cost me close to 7 figures by now

 

[DeniseJH]

I guess my first thought was a lot smaller than you all - I wish I had learned to play the piano.

 

[Neesy228]

I wish I had gone to grad school and gotten my PhD as I had planned. I put myself through undergrad, and with so many school loans already, I feared the cost of grad school and never went.

I also wish I had traveled more before I had children. I was always so worried about money that I rarely went anywhere.

 

[JaxDad]

I’m not sure it’s a regret, but I didn’t become a father until I was in my early 40s. I definitely don’t regret the life I had before my children, and I LOVE having them now, keeping me young, but I do think about the time I will miss with them as adults and potentially with grandchildren.

 

[indimom]

Invested more.
Went back to school sooner.

 

[jrmasm]

I guess my first thought was a lot smaller than you all - I wish I had learned to play the piano.

I was thinking I wished I learned to ski when I was younger.