If only......
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I was going to university this autumn........hindsight is a wonderful thing!
Didn't want to call this "wasted on the young" or "if I ruled the world"! But I surely can't be the only one who sees them going off to uni and wishing it was me again. I know you can go as a (very) mature student but you are so carefree and without responsibility at that age.
Is this just Sunday evening'itis? What do others wish?
Didn't want to call this "wasted on the young" or "if I ruled the world"! But I surely can't be the only one who sees them going off to uni and wishing it was me again. I know you can go as a (very) mature student but you are so carefree and without responsibility at that age.
Is this just Sunday evening'itis? What do others wish?
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I wish that I'd trained as a nurse or a teacher or another profession that would have adjusted well to me working part time. That way now I could be at home for my children but still taking part in a career, not (gratefully) earning a very low wage in a job I am lucky to have, with lovel people, but that is so far removed from the lucrative career I spent 18 years in.
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There has been times, once or twice, over the years when I have often pondered how my life would have turned out had I known it was even possible to go to uni. In fact I wished I'd known that just about anything in life was possible.
But then I think of my three beautiful children and the life I have lived, and you know what? I wouldn't swap any of it, not a single second and I would have to, if I'd taken a different path in life as I would never have met my (1st) husband, etc etc etc.
But then I think of my three beautiful children and the life I have lived, and you know what? I wouldn't swap any of it, not a single second and I would have to, if I'd taken a different path in life as I would never have met my (1st) husband, etc etc etc.
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I'm entirely of a mind with Snowdrops. I wasted most of my time in education and could make SO much better use of the opportunity now (which is why I find our eldest, who reminds me horribly of myself at the same age, so UTTERLY FRUSTRATING ). But if I could go back and change things...I wouldn't, because if I hadn't taken that rather suboptimal path through life I would never have met Mrs 1880.
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Ah, that's where we differ as I would still have met Mr Doodles, but when I left uni I wouldn't have been persuaded out of teacher training and into the City. After 15 years of merchant banking, and yes I was very well paid, I was made redundant and that was the best day of my high flying career
Fast forward to 10 years ago and I retrained as a Nursery teacher and I'm now as happy as a pig in muck even if I earn a pittance
Fast forward to 10 years ago and I retrained as a Nursery teacher and I'm now as happy as a pig in muck even if I earn a pittance
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Touring unis with DD I am struck by how many interesting courses there are these days - I would have done a different course, but probably ended up in the same sort of career. I do have slight regret that I didn't do medicine, but not enough to ever have done anything about it!
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I always loved maths when I was in primary school but I didn't stay with it after having a bad teacher in secondary school who really put me off it. I went down the biomedical science research route instead but feel in awe of others who can do complex sums.
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If I were to go back and do it all again, I would make sure that I told myself that I got my place as of right and was just as good as the older and apparently more sophisticated types that surrounded me. (Then again, I couldn't do it all again because the changes to financial help for students then and now. )
It takes a village to raise a child
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Yes, Rosy Pippin good point - my parents would never have encouraged me to go to uni and take on a debt. Neither of them ever had a credit card or a loan; if we couldn't afford it we didn't have it.
So I don't have any 'if only' wishes.
So I don't have any 'if only' wishes.
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I flunked my A levels so never went to Uni, I eventually did my degree at the ripe old age of 35 and it was the best thing ever....I was the oldest on the course but the only one who got a First....I was very proud of myself!!!