Today's hugely important question
I can tell you've all been waiting for this with baited breath. If you could change one thing from your past to improve your future, what would it be? And no 'Oh I'd buy stocks in google' or 'I'd kill my boss at birth' type crap.

I'd have started my vet nurse training as soon as I finished film school, because although my degree has no relevance to what I do now, I really enjoyed doing it and I wouldn't have been ready to start nurse training as soon as I finished school.
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Wed 1 Jul 2009, 10:34, 21 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

not getting fat would've been good
then (in theory) I'd have got more action.

Truth be told though, I'm pretty happy with where I am now and most of the important decisions in my life have led me here.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 1 Jul 2009, 10:36, Reply)

Nothing.
Except maybe switch off that depression gene. But still, it made me who I am today *twitches*
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Wed 1 Jul 2009, 10:38, Reply)

not get
any credit cards
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Wed 1 Jul 2009, 10:40, Reply)

Getting a first at Uni would be nice
I think I'm eventually going to do a Masters though so no biggy.

Also I wish I could've stayed fitter over the years but theres nothing wrong with a bit of slobbery. I'm getting back in shape now!
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Wed 1 Jul 2009, 10:40, Reply)

I'd have
Not given up music when I did, and actually have learnt to play the bass when it was offered to me at school.

I also wish I'd not pissed the money I got for selling my house up against the wall!
(Herr Doktor Lemminge Is bored, so cheer me up!, Wed 1 Jul 2009, 10:40, Reply)

Taking no for an answer
When I was living Cardiff I went to my GP there with a letter from mental health team at home to the effect of "This bloke needs to be monitored so that we can work out what's going on" yet my GP said the mental health team in Cardiff wouldn't be bothered.

I should have kicked up a fuss and made sure I got to see somebody. I could've got the treatment I'd been requesting a year or so earlier if I'd done that. Life would be very, very different if that'd happened.
( Captain V, Wed 1 Jul 2009, 10:42, Reply)

Done music at school
Then a degree in music or sound engineering, rather than just picking the one that seemed easiest.

Still had a great time, but Im hating it now!
(Is this a good idea? ... Yes this is definitely a good idea, Wed 1 Jul 2009, 10:46, Reply)

I'd have cancelled all of my meetings in the last three weeks
That way I wouldn't be sat at work now with my thumb up my arse waiting for project details to come through. Because I would have been able to chase the applicants earlier instead of watching yet another deadline go whooshing by because some silly fucker decided it would be a good idea to take me away from my desk for inordinate lengths of time.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Wed 1 Jul 2009, 10:47, Reply)

I'ld probably follow up more girls when I get their numbers in bars and stuff.
And I'ld try to be able to talk-about-nothing on the phone, I wish I could do that.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Wed 1 Jul 2009, 10:55, Reply)

Back to when I was about 12, made sure
my homework was done BEFORE I went out rather than coming in at 9pm, ignoring/forgetting about my homework and watching telly instead until bedtime. And then making sure I stuck to that routine.

Oh, and taking advantage of all the girls that asked me out at school, but was too shy to say yes and/or too naive to reap the benefits.
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Wed 1 Jul 2009, 10:59, Reply)

Not much really.
Trying harder at school.
Trying harder at college.
Trying harder at losing weight.
Trying harder at not being an anti-social misfit.
Trying harder at keeping in contact with old friends.
Trying harder at not picking the wrong men.
Trying harder at life.
( girlinthehole, Wed 1 Jul 2009, 11:30, Reply)

Try not to be so hard on yourself and cross everything else off that list.
You're a lovely person and you are 10 shades of win.
(Poppet some assembly required., Wed 1 Jul 2009, 11:59, Reply)

I agreee
You are a lovely person and don't own a Honda Accord, plus, what’s wrong with being a misfit? I like being a social misfit, it makes life more fun.
(MichaelS wasn't picked again, Wed 1 Jul 2009, 12:26, Reply)

Sorry, anti-social misfit may have been the wrong way of basically saying a loner.
And thanks for the pandering : )
( girlinthehole, Wed 1 Jul 2009, 12:46, Reply)

Hmmm
Been less scared of everything
Done a vocational degree
Not wasted so long being in a relationship with a nutter
Not wasted time going out with a girl when I really liked boys

Actually, no. All those things *cliche alert* made me who I am. I'll have to just deal with it and like where it got me...
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 1 Jul 2009, 11:51, Reply)

Pretty much nothing.
I'm great.
( Cawl, Wed 1 Jul 2009, 12:05, Reply)

You should have been less modest
It could have feld you back.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 1 Jul 2009, 12:09, Reply)

One night
about ten years ago I would've stayed at home & not taken them drugs. Just that one night though.
(MyFakeName, Wed 1 Jul 2009, 12:09, Reply)

Gotten a 2:1
It irks me greatly that despite the work I put in in 2nd and 3rd year, I just missed out on a 2:1 (although I did fuck about to a large extent in 1st year, I'll admit...) It would make getting on to an MSc or PhD so much easier - sadly science is one of those 'no qualifications, no progression' type things.

Apart from that, nothing. There's lots of stuff I suppose I could change which would have made a big difference at the time, but if I changed it I wouldn't be who I am, and I'm actually pretty damn good right now.
(berk, Wed 1 Jul 2009, 12:34, Reply)

On thinking about it a bit less flippantly
Honestly? Nothing. Where I am today is the result of everything I've ever done and every decision (good and bad) I ever made. Wouldn't change it at all.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Wed 1 Jul 2009, 12:52, Reply)

Avoid credit cards
Get that girl on the train's number.
Stay abroad instead of coming back home.
( jim_bob can herd cats., Wed 1 Jul 2009, 13:08, Reply)