Something you wished you had known or done earlier in life?

How money can be earned but happiness must be fought hard for., how life can be short, it can often be very hard and brutal.

That one must sit down early in life and think what you want out of it, what will keep you going when things are happening that are a savage hurt

No one really knows what they are doing

Money may not buy happiness, but it buys comfort and security.

Study for a career that pays well and you'll be insulated from cost of living, energy price hikes, mortgage rate rises etc. Issues with finance is the cause of most fights in a relationship.

Don't get married.

Buy Bitcoin early.

Buy MS, Apple, Amazon ... stock when it was cheap…

Buy houses when they were cheap.

Don't be afraid to apply for the extremely well paying jobs.

Money can't buy love, but **** it, you can ponder that in the Caribbean on your yacht.

Forget about blowing a fortune on rent and other crap like DVDs and start saving for a house as early as possible

You don't even need to study to become wealthy.

The person died alone in a boating accident whilst suffering with a STD.

I wish I knew when I was young, the amount of careers it was possible to have. In particular working with animals, would love to be involved in conservation.

Wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then.

Read more and watch less brain numbing tv

Nothing so interesting.

Alas most of life is lived in prose.

Only a few of us are lucky enough to remember in poetry.

I wish I could have appreciated the sacrifices my parents were making for me at a much younger age.

And the euro million numbers before they were drawn instead of after for the first 100m jackpot.

Be yourself.

Learn how to drive at 17. I was 46 by the time I learned how to drive. Laziness at the start, and then finances and babies and then a phobia of it got in the way.

My only regret - and one for the the "I wish I had known" column… Stay in college. Get that Masters. Maybe do a PHD.

I'm 45 and have a GREAT life. Both parents still around. Super family and friends. A gorgeous wife. No kids. No money worries. The house of our dreams. A monsterous garage for my DIY addiction... My health. A job I'm bloody well excellent at (which brings me to my next point).

I've had to work HARD for it. Because the career I picked is 'low(ish) paying'. I jumped at the money - fresh out of college.

I've always wondered, and this is going to sound cocky… I'm far too clever to be in this particular career (design/print). I should've stayed in college, gone into something engineering or mathematical, public sector, etc… earn more, working less.

But… the flip side is I'd probably have made different "life" choices and be miserable! And broke. LOL

Wish I had children earlier.

Now in fairness I hadn't met the right woman, but it would be much easier to be chasing after toddlers in late 20s that late 30s.

Fortunately no fertility issues, but some friends are going through rounds of IVF because they just left it too long to conceive.

somebody wrote that in my uncles autograph book

are we related so ?

I swallowed the blackpill in my mid 20s so I mostly checked out of society since then. That was my destiny so I can't regret not doing anything different. You can only regret things you could have changed.

Well I was a gambling addict during my 20s so I wish I had spent the money I lost on hookers or holidays rather than that.

I don't know, did your uncles people hail from the Ebro Delta by any chance ?

sadly boring old dublin :( ebro delta sounds like cool

I wish I paid a lot more into my private pension when I was young. The money invested during those early work years that has 40+ years to grow is one of the best financial investments anyone will ever make in life

I’m not mad about weights but fitness certainly. Growing up I didn’t know anyone who was into fitness beyond playing sport or going for the occasional walk or run which in the Irish climate isn’t exactly the most appealing idea a lot of the time. Was in my mid 30’s before I started exercising which was more out of necessity due to a pretty serious health issue that required rehabilitation….. prevention is better than cure….

Kept my PC DVD game GP 4 by Geoff Crammond.

Only now in 2024 do I have a steering wheel ( well, it's a Logitech flight yoke but it does have a switch to toggle it between flight and driving modes )

I wish I had learned to say 'no, it doesn't suit' earlier in life. I spent a lot of years being the doormat of my family and work places. Being the one that hosted all the extended family events at my own cost. Being the one that minded everyone elses children, even though I was busy with my own too. Always the one that stayed to clean up after others. Stepping in for colleagues who had to leave work early on Fridays and doing their work. I found out that this is not appreciated. People don't get remembered for helping others they just get remebered for the one time they say 'no'….and then they are the baddie. Now I just say 'no, it doesn't suit' and I get treated better.