If you could start over..

Kent Brockman

what would you do , or do differently?

My friend payed a dermatoligist 200euro for 12mins work!!!
I payed a consultant 150 euro to send me for an MRI and another100 to tell me the results!!!!

Seriously, with hindsight etc, what would you start out at if you had a fresh start?
Something from home?
Sometrhing part-time?
High pay/long hours/high pressure job or something that is proven to pay the bills but you'll never be rich?
Self employed or emplotee?

Interested to hear ideas.

maxwell smart

If I thought I needed an MRI and I needed an expert to read the results........I'd pay twice that!

I did spend over 2k on a suit in Milan once......can't find the receipt to bring it back:(

Trojan

I wouldn't choose to be anything different to what I am doing now - self employed, working on several different projects, life can be interesting but good. I am challenged, which is really important.

I would choose to do a few specific things differently - with the benefit of hindsight I would have turned down some potentially lucrative but ultimately distracting projects, and worked on more of my own stuff immediately from the start. But I wouldn't have learned what I did from those projects, so Catch22. I would have left full-time employment 2-3 years earlier - but I was afraid of the risk back then.

No regrets, you don't learn without a few mistakes here and there.

A saying my cousin once told me, don't remember the origin off-hand:

Learn in your twenties, Earn in your thirties.

Sounds good to me - though I'm still learning in early 30s.

Edit: I never, ever, spent 2 grand on a suit though

betonit

Trojan wrote: »

I wouldn't choose to be anything different to what I am doing now - self employed, working on several different projects, life can be interesting but good. I am challenged, which is really important.

do what Trojan's doing.

do you need help with anything

Lostinspace

maxwell smart wrote: »

I did spend over 2k on a suit in Milan once(

Two thousand Euros on a suit?? They spotted you a mile off!

dormant_co_acc

Sometimes I kick myself over the mistakes I've made and then I see the mistakes other people have made and instantly feel better.

Thanks maxwell smart - your 2k suit has made my day.

albacete

maxwell smart wrote: »

If I thought I needed an MRI and I needed an expert to read the results........I'd pay twice that!

I did spend over 2k on a suit in Milan once......can't find the receipt to bring it back:(

well at least you didnt buy a property in Ireland in the last 4 years? or did you???
If so, which is more painful?

Dubh Geannain

albacete wrote: »

well at least you didnt buy a property in Ireland in the last 4 years? or did you???
If so, which is more painful?

I suppose that depends on if the suit still fits :pac: