The single biggest regret in my life...

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Wow, chef!
Good read.
I failed my first attempt at a pet store. I was 22 & lasted two years. Learned a lot & maybe more If I attended 2 years of college? It was my 2 year degree. I also called it a divorce & she got me for a good few bucks, But I paid my debts so know once could say I owed them $!
Live & learn. Learn to live.
 
As far as Independents I never new any to pay a lot with Benefits etc.. Unless work for a big box store as a manager?
I have know many in the industry & I thought what I would do if I retired from the retail business. Being a rep would be easy because I know a lot of product but traveling a lot to trade shows on weekends etc.. you can get burn out. I have knows some to go through it & strain relationships/home life.
At lease I'm home every night & on most Sundays I have off even though I work on orders etc..Thanks to the wonderfull world of internet!!! Yeah make are life much easier, No make you work more! lol
I remember when I started sitting in my closet/office with a fax machine & hand writing orders going through books looking up numbers & best prices etc.. That sucked. Now work 12 hours a day & come home & do orders on the puter.

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i say you should stop looking back so much.. ... instead look at everything that is positive around you right now in the present... even a job you love gets routine after awhile.. all same old same old everyday.. all jobs get boring.. but i look at boring as a good thing .. i say if i am bored ..then i am comfortable and content... and all is well..and if you still need something else to keep you occupied try to get another interest .. theres so much in this world to do..learn about.. discover.. .... more hobbies and the more you know the better...i have many interests to keep me going.. and even when your working.. who says you cannot be planning for something interesting..
 
look to the future... be happy for what you have... you can always learn more. Knowledge is power... and you have to use that power to be succesful. Be happy...
 
im 19 and for me it is flipping houses and I self taught myself the stock market... We flipped like 6 houses.. I made about $150,000.. I bought a new car , and streetbike, and a bunch of other toys.. I invested 100,000 in the stock market in april.. For a while i was down.. but as of today i have made 300,000 in stocks. I plan to wait a couple more months and take my profits and keep a 100,000 in the market. Im now looking at a house of my own.. Maybe im just lucky but I sure love what i do.. I wouldnt mind opening a small pet store in the future..
 
Red Devil;3578206; said:
i say you should stop looking back so much.. ... instead look at everything that is positive around you right now in the present... even a job you love gets routine after awhile.. all same old same old everyday.. all jobs get boring.. but i look at boring as a good thing .. i say if i am bored ..then i am comfortable and content... and all is well..and if you still need something else to keep you occupied try to get another interest .. theres so much in this world to do..learn about.. discover.. .... more hobbies and the more you know the better...i have many interests to keep me going.. and even when your working.. who says you cannot be planning for something interesting..
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:iagree: well said
 
spiff;3577451; said:
You just need to change your perspective.

Our generation lives like kings and it might never be like this again. We have abundance of food and entertainment. This could be the pinnacle of human existence. The future can be bleak with resources dwindling, populations reaching critical mass, the environment saturated with poisons and breaking down- all this reaching a climatic head at the same time. And right now the technology that seems amusing now will be enforcing a Orwellian society in the future.

And the past, well there was plenty of starvation and disease. There still is today, but not for us.

FInd a new passion.
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I'm 23 and my generation I feel is a downfall. I see kids going to college to do nothing but party, get their degree and do nothing with it. I had to take a few years to find myself to actually figure out what i want and I went back to my original plan. Marine biology has always been it for me.

The OP said the being in N. America forces us into slots.............I can't agree more with that statement if i tried to. It does. I always feel the need to "rebel" when I can because it breaks the monotony of a crappy job. I always feel the need to fight for a dream these days because it seems no one else wants to.
 
i'm only 20 and in college so i have little idea of the responsibilities of kids, extensive bills, etc etc. but with that said i've already found most jobs will become repetitive regardless of what it is. i work at a petstore currently, i HATE the sales part of it. like it or not it's still a business and business is driven by money..it all just gets so repetitive and it does wear on my hobby at home. my second job (junior high basketball coach) i love, can't get enough of it. i'd stay in the gym all day if i could.

i'm studying to be an accountant, i knot not deemed the most exciting profession but i enjoy working with numbers and i feel it will offer me security in life. but who knows, twenty years from now i may have completely different thoughts.(and hopefully i can still be that junior high basketball coach)
 
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