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It's weird looking back at life, and seeing all the paths I didn't go down (lemmy.world)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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I had this thought after remembering one time that my DT (digital technologies) teacher at high school suggested that some of the class could try join a hacking competition. Nothing ever came of it, but I thought it was interesting at the time.

What's really interesting is seeing the choices I made, and asking "what if I did the other thing". Just off the top of my head, I could be still at uni doing research on maths or physics, I could be working on designing new robots for who knows what, or branching off even earlier, I could have been a doctor like my parents.

I'm only 24, so it seems like I might be a bit young for this kind of thinking, but there's still a lot of things I could have done differently.

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[–] 6 points 11 months ago* (2 children)

This is definitely a shower thought. Good news, at 24 there is plenty of time to backtrack and reroute.

I'm a bit similar, I am only in my current career because I responded to an job ad email that was later rescinded.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    I get that, but this wasn't really a "look at the opportunities I've missed", it was more of "huh, my life could have been completely different by now". I like my job, I like my social life, and I have an amazing fiance that I'm marrying in less than 2 months. I don't know what would be on my other paths, but I'm glad I chose this one.

    There are some I'm glad i didn't take. I started a degree in computer science in 2020, and I had plans to focus on machine learning research. If I hadn't dropped it at the end of that year, I'd likely have finished my degree right at the start of the chat gpt shitshow.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago*

    I understand, I'm where I'm at by chance, and I wouldnt want to try a different path either. I did go down the robotics/compsci path, but didn't end up in either of those fields, so you never know how things will end up.

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