Give up on my dream to be a doctor, turned out pretty well I’ll be financially independent much earlier and I don’t have to necessarily dedicate 10 yrs of my life to just pure studying(I can do that but without compulsion).
Sneaking into a huge abandoned mall to film for school. It was great until a loud alarm went off and we heard a bunch of security with golf carts driving everywhere. We were teenagers. It was scary
Long time ago, I was rapidly burning out of grad school and had a moment sitting on the beach in Santa Monica like “literally the only thing that is going alright in my life is my relationship with my girlfriend. She just got a job in Austin, I’m going to go there and get my head screwed on straight”
Never looked back. We are married now. But I still chuckle about explaining my lack of a plan beyond “I’m going with her, ride or die” to someone at a dinner party about 6 weeks later after deciding to go. A real moment of “saying that out loud, it sounds a little crazy.”
Me and my friends meet up for an evening meal. Its around 7pm and we don’t hang out often since we all have our priorities. It then hits 11pm and we wrap things up, we all have work in the morning after all.
Suddenly, we then have a realisation that we probably won’t hang out for months, maybe even a year. One of us is married already. Screw it, the night is young and we stay out.
I get home at 4am. Wake up at 6am for work. Worth it.
Going into the military recruiting station! It turned into a great career. Still thankful I did it. Pulling myself and my family out of poverty and earning my college degree was the result.
Went for a job I didn’t think I was qualified for. Paid 2x the amount of my old job. Required a lot of experience I had my BA and some experience but went for it and got it. No I am doing really well and get to travel more often and I am paying off my debt way faster.
Hmm. can’t say it was the absolute best decision, but saying fuck it and buying my first anvil as an incentive for me to get into the hobby. I really needed a hobby to beat out my frustrations and get out of my head.
Been having a blast with it. I started last April and already have 12 knives and a bunch of other little things.
When I got into my first for real toxic relationship, I was 23 (I’m 27 now) and I dealt with it for 2 years. I finally got tired and he left for work one day and by the time he got back I was gone. That was probably the best decision.
Walked out of a Team Leader/Supervisor job in a Residential Care Home. When leaving jobs in the past, I always made sure that I had something else lined up first before handing in my resignation but this place was in such a damn mess in so many ways and I already had enough money put aside that could see me through for a good few months quite comfortably. Got a new job just over a month later and now spend most days amazed that I get paid to do what I do. Love it!
My boyfriend was just a sweet, handsome guy I was avoiding because he was too young and I didn’t entirely trust men or have much faith in love. I had a sudden realisation that I wanted to be with him while I was drunk. He was sleeping upstairs at a party we were at, and I went in, woke him up, asked him if he minded me sleeping next to him and cuddling me, and we ended up sleeping together and spending the early morning until about midday chatting and cuddling in a friend’s single bed.
I avoided him a little for the next couple of weeks, but it made both of us realise that we were really in to eachother and wanted to give us a go. A cinema and food date a couple of weeks later cemented it and it is the most loving, warm, mutually committed relationship I have ever had. I hope so much that we last, but if we don’t he will be the standard for all future relationships.
I was working at a job I loathed but stayed because I was next in line for a huge promotion. The department head was dragging her feet about doing interviews for the promotion. Finally she, another department head and HR did the interviews. I was passed over for the position in my department that I had already been doing just without the increase in pay and title. They picked the other department head’s “choice”. Turns out he had had filed a HR complaint about something and they promoted him to keep him from suing.
L (My boss) finally told me a week later that I didn’t get the job. She was a real coward about it, despite I saved her bacon more than a few times. It was 1:17pm on a Tuesday when she told me, 1:37 I handed her my resignation letter said my goodbyes to co-workers I liked and was out the door. 2:15 I was home going through my mail and a travel brochure was mixed in. I went through it and they had two tour group specials that caught my eye one for Western Europe and on for Central Europe. I booked both and a month later I spent six weeks traveling around Europe with no job to come back to.
Best decision ever because it totally changed my mindset about life, myself and my career. A year later I got a job at a company that I truly enjoy working for and have just been so much happier.
I was asked by a girl that was interested in me (we barely knew each other) to go out in the middle of nowhere with her family and hangout. I am a shut in, but against my own nature I said yes since I really liked her.
It was the best night of my life, no contest. We talked and cuddled all night. I haven’t felt that same level of comfort or peace since. I still miss her everyday 6 years later
Me and a college buddy decided to ride down to Key West just for the hell of it. He had no a/c in his car. Damn, that was a long, hot boring drive. Took way longer than we thought and we pretty much had to turn around as soon as we got there.
A buddy and I were headed to a bar to meet our friends. Waiting in line, they called us to say they were at a different bar now, that was much farther away. My friend and I were headed towards them when we were like you know what, fuck that, there’s a place we like nearby, let’s go there just the two of us and just get fuckin black out. So we did. I got a girls number that night. We’ve been together for 17 years and have 2 kids.
Was visiting my ex-boyfriend to give him back his car after he came back from a deployment. We wound up reconnecting and I never left. We said fuck it and got married a month or two later. It’ll be 17 years this June 🙂
I often play amateur VN games. Some are amazing. But it’s always, almost, aaaalmost perfect, but not quite. And also, there’s a tons of parody but never around the stuff I want to
Maybe… Maybe I could try. Make my own game. Sounds crazy, but well I need a hobby for the covid
Best decision ever. You miss 100% of the shot you don’t take. Try your luck. Doubt kills more dream everyday than faillure even will.
I sunked 1.000$ in it and the game is rolling, with a comfortable $200/month Patreon supporting the bills now. It’s still a small amateur game, I’m not the new Mario Kart don’t worry. But it feels great to see yourself accomplishing what you wish others did. Even if you often only understand why no one did it either… It’s not always easy
Fuck it, lets solo travel the world, never regretted any of my solo trip. If i had waited for people to get their sh*t together to finally go with me, i would have seen nothing.
About a month ago when we decided to pull the trigger on purchasing a huge ranch out in the middle of nowhere, leaving behind the comfortable life in the city along the coast. We took a leap of faith and I’m so glad we did because it really was the best decision we ever made.
When I was 19 and in college, I met two Italian girls at a coffee shop in San Francisco. We hit it off, and after spending two days exploring the city together, they jokingly told me I should visit them in Italy for a month.
A few months later, they actually invited me. The plan? Start at a music festival in Gallipoli, then travel north by train to Bologna, stopping in every major city along the way. I barely knew them, but I packed my bags, and spent the entire month of July traveling across Italy.
They welcomed me like family, and many of the friends I made on that trip are still in my life today. Now, at 28, I’m heading back to Italy this September for one of their weddings.
It’s amazing what a simple “fuck it, let’s do this” can lead to.
Randomly deciding in the middle of a workday to book a solo trip to South Korea! It completely changed my mindset and made me so much more confident in my own abilities 😍
Met a guy I wouldn’t usually go for (he’s 10 years younger) on facebook dating, got a little tipsy and was texting him around midnight, knowing he lived an hour away and wouldn’t come over anyway.. sure enough, he did. A little over a year later and we have a beautiful little life together with three dogs. Best (not so smart in the moment) decision I’ve made.
Last year, I said fuck it let’s go to the Final Four and watch Purdue. Turn out to be worth EVERY FUCKING CENT I SPENT with my wife and 3 great friends hat tagged along. We had a blast! Memories for a life time.
About 9 months ago I quite literally said that phrase to myself to push myself to meet a former coworker for dinner who I had mixed feelings about prior to that day. Right now I’m so glad that we did. Since the entire dinner lead to us talking/texting nearly everyday for a couple months. During this time I realized we had so many similarities between us. In her I also saw the quiet confidence, intelligence, talent and so much more that I wish I had cultivated earlier in life instead of being so career, materialistic and money focused.
Though things didn’t quite go so well between us, it legitimately turned me into a better person.
Was depressed due to ending a bad relationship and other factors. Friend says I’m taking you to a party so-and-so is having tonight. Long story short, so-and-so and I had love at first sight and have been together 10 years this summer. I’m glad i didn’t listen to my brain haha.
Leaving Southern California and moving to Vancouver, Wa.
It was the best decision I’ve ever made for myself and wife. (She gave me the final say but wanted to go)
No state income tax.
Lower cost of living.
Nature everywhere.
The nicest people we’ve ever met.
My health is better than it’s ever been from lack of stress, less drinking with old friends.
Her career she’s making double what a medical social worker makes in California and she’s not treated like shit.
We met amazing friends here.
There’s just so much good that I can’t imagine ever living full time is SoCal again.
Retired at 45, bought a house halfway across the country, moving the family. All in-progress right now. Suspect it’s one of my better decisions, but time will tell.
A few years ago I started to hang out with this guy. On valentines day he asked me out and I said no. He asked me out everyday until 5 days later. I said stuff it and said yes.
I’m now engaged to this man and he is the love my life.
Quit my engineering job 6 months after graduating university to teach English in Japan. Always wanted to live in Japan, saw the chance and took it with no doubts whatsoever.
10 years later I’m still here. Now a bilingual engineer. Better than that, I’m now a husband to my best friend and father to the best kid ever.
There were squatters living on 10 acres of land next door to us. Only way for them to get to and from the land was to trespass through our property. They were there for a few years. Made our lives miserable and we had no privacy. They’d park in our driveway in winter months because they couldn’t get up and down the hill in their old beater suv that wasn’t four wheel drive. Never asked to park in our driveway, just did it anyway. One of the guys was a sex offender.
The owner of the land they were squatting on lived out of state and couldn’t get them to leave. There was an old run down shack and several rvs on the property.
Our F this moment? We decided to buy the land from the out of state owner, knowing we would have a battle to get the squatters off the land. Went to court, used a little-known law to get the judge to order them gone within 24 hours. 3 hours later the sheriff escorted them off the property.
My husband jokingly shows me a catamaran and says we should buy it. I agree and we sell everything we have, take our dog and go live on a boat. Then we sold it and got an RV. We took fun jobs and 2 years ago we got normal jobs and a house again….and hate it. We are already planning the next adventure hopefully it will happen before the end of the year.
It was scary quitting our jobs and selling our house and leaving our friends and family. The scariest things are the most worth while. Take the leap, do the thing thay scares you.
Scared to apply for my current position. Figure I wasn’t good enough and had to leave wife and kids for 3 days out of the week. Turns out they hired me and I more than doubled my salary. Now I’m making more since from promotions/raises. Full remote now, at home with wife and kids, and loving every moment of it. Thinking of trying again to see if I can bump salary more!!
Marrying my FWB. No dating, not setting boundaries like we had before.
Paths crossed several times over many years, and always intense chemistry. Sexually amazing together.
But he doesn’t show me I am anything more than his FWB now. And I am his wife and am his life partner….
I feel so lonely and disrespected.
He doesn’t have time for me, but is always looking at women on his phone. I guess I should have realized I would always just be a fuck buddy…
Best friend and I quit our jobs and moved to Chicago – about a 12 hour drive from where we lived, a college town in the middle of nowhere. We had like $3k saved total and had to share a studio apartment because it’s all we could afford. When I moved here I just wanted to make $30k a year.
Best decision ever. Broke into tech and ended up a product manager. Gave me my life as I know it. That was 13 years ago.
Resigning my corporate job and ending a 6-year-long relationship at the same week to focus on my health and relationships.
Had I not done it, I wouldn’t have been diagnosed with Fibromyalgia, healed many of my relationships, and met my now girlfriend. Life look completely different than what I planned for them to be, but I am shaping them into the kind of life that I am happy to wake up to.
I didn’t want to go back to school for a Masters. I was already an engineer at Intel, had an amazing GF, affordable apartment and a dog. My manager explained that in order to make more money and move up I need to have a Masters or more. Bills started piling with inflation kicking in, arguments were happening between my GF and I, my dog had an accident and I had to borrow money from my family to pay for his surgery. Then I knew, “fuck it, let’s do it”, and started my masters.
Now I own 2 houses with my now wife (same GF), make 6 figures, and have 3 fur kiddos. It worked out for the best and I encourage anyone to do the same.
Was kind’ve just lost with life and tinder match on a random friday in September said skinning dipping (it wasn’t exactly the warmest here but not unbearable.) I said fuck it, and I guess they did too and I picked her up, drove us to spot and went in. Things went good, and it turns out we got along really well. We were “exclusive” the whole time but didn’t actually choose to be official until a year later. I was so happy that I found her and she took a huge chance on me, having gone through some bad stuff prior.
About two months after being official she ended things, really leaving me shocked and at a really bad time. She completely destroyed me and didn’t even seem to understand how.
So it was both the best decision and worst.
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Resigning my high paying job. Best decision because now I have a business that gives me so much freedom.
Marrying my husband while I was visiting him. He is US, I am UK. We make it work and it’s honestly the best decision I have ever made.
Give up on my dream to be a doctor, turned out pretty well I’ll be financially independent much earlier and I don’t have to necessarily dedicate 10 yrs of my life to just pure studying(I can do that but without compulsion).
Sneaking into a huge abandoned mall to film for school. It was great until a loud alarm went off and we heard a bunch of security with golf carts driving everywhere. We were teenagers. It was scary
Long time ago, I was rapidly burning out of grad school and had a moment sitting on the beach in Santa Monica like “literally the only thing that is going alright in my life is my relationship with my girlfriend. She just got a job in Austin, I’m going to go there and get my head screwed on straight”
Never looked back. We are married now. But I still chuckle about explaining my lack of a plan beyond “I’m going with her, ride or die” to someone at a dinner party about 6 weeks later after deciding to go. A real moment of “saying that out loud, it sounds a little crazy.”
Me and my friends meet up for an evening meal. Its around 7pm and we don’t hang out often since we all have our priorities. It then hits 11pm and we wrap things up, we all have work in the morning after all.
Suddenly, we then have a realisation that we probably won’t hang out for months, maybe even a year. One of us is married already. Screw it, the night is young and we stay out.
I get home at 4am. Wake up at 6am for work. Worth it.
Having a threeway with my boss and my wife. Yes, it was both the best AND worst decision. Lol
Quit a decent job to teach English overseas. 13 years and 5 countries later, best decision ever.
Going into the military recruiting station! It turned into a great career. Still thankful I did it. Pulling myself and my family out of poverty and earning my college degree was the result.
Went for a job I didn’t think I was qualified for. Paid 2x the amount of my old job. Required a lot of experience I had my BA and some experience but went for it and got it. No I am doing really well and get to travel more often and I am paying off my debt way faster.
Hmm. can’t say it was the absolute best decision, but saying fuck it and buying my first anvil as an incentive for me to get into the hobby. I really needed a hobby to beat out my frustrations and get out of my head.
Been having a blast with it. I started last April and already have 12 knives and a bunch of other little things.
My son being born
When I got into my first for real toxic relationship, I was 23 (I’m 27 now) and I dealt with it for 2 years. I finally got tired and he left for work one day and by the time he got back I was gone. That was probably the best decision.
Booking a last minute trip to Italy on my own without my now-ex girlfriend. It was delish, beautiful, intoxicating, and lovely. And her fucking loss.
Moving to Oregon. Best thing ever. Went back to college. Met my wife. Found our house. I’m home.
Finally biting the bullet and started making an animated pilot during the pandemic.
Walked out of a Team Leader/Supervisor job in a Residential Care Home. When leaving jobs in the past, I always made sure that I had something else lined up first before handing in my resignation but this place was in such a damn mess in so many ways and I already had enough money put aside that could see me through for a good few months quite comfortably. Got a new job just over a month later and now spend most days amazed that I get paid to do what I do. Love it!
Date her (worse)
My boyfriend was just a sweet, handsome guy I was avoiding because he was too young and I didn’t entirely trust men or have much faith in love. I had a sudden realisation that I wanted to be with him while I was drunk. He was sleeping upstairs at a party we were at, and I went in, woke him up, asked him if he minded me sleeping next to him and cuddling me, and we ended up sleeping together and spending the early morning until about midday chatting and cuddling in a friend’s single bed.
I avoided him a little for the next couple of weeks, but it made both of us realise that we were really in to eachother and wanted to give us a go. A cinema and food date a couple of weeks later cemented it and it is the most loving, warm, mutually committed relationship I have ever had. I hope so much that we last, but if we don’t he will be the standard for all future relationships.
I farted a golden nugget
After I put it up my butt
The rest was history
I was working at a job I loathed but stayed because I was next in line for a huge promotion. The department head was dragging her feet about doing interviews for the promotion. Finally she, another department head and HR did the interviews. I was passed over for the position in my department that I had already been doing just without the increase in pay and title. They picked the other department head’s “choice”. Turns out he had had filed a HR complaint about something and they promoted him to keep him from suing.
L (My boss) finally told me a week later that I didn’t get the job. She was a real coward about it, despite I saved her bacon more than a few times. It was 1:17pm on a Tuesday when she told me, 1:37 I handed her my resignation letter said my goodbyes to co-workers I liked and was out the door. 2:15 I was home going through my mail and a travel brochure was mixed in. I went through it and they had two tour group specials that caught my eye one for Western Europe and on for Central Europe. I booked both and a month later I spent six weeks traveling around Europe with no job to come back to.
Best decision ever because it totally changed my mindset about life, myself and my career. A year later I got a job at a company that I truly enjoy working for and have just been so much happier.
I was asked by a girl that was interested in me (we barely knew each other) to go out in the middle of nowhere with her family and hangout. I am a shut in, but against my own nature I said yes since I really liked her.
It was the best night of my life, no contest. We talked and cuddled all night. I haven’t felt that same level of comfort or peace since. I still miss her everyday 6 years later
Me and a college buddy decided to ride down to Key West just for the hell of it. He had no a/c in his car. Damn, that was a long, hot boring drive. Took way longer than we thought and we pretty much had to turn around as soon as we got there.
A buddy and I were headed to a bar to meet our friends. Waiting in line, they called us to say they were at a different bar now, that was much farther away. My friend and I were headed towards them when we were like you know what, fuck that, there’s a place we like nearby, let’s go there just the two of us and just get fuckin black out. So we did. I got a girls number that night. We’ve been together for 17 years and have 2 kids.
Sneaking out with my best friend, without those nights I’ve never be able to deal with the shit my mother did
Was visiting my ex-boyfriend to give him back his car after he came back from a deployment. We wound up reconnecting and I never left. We said fuck it and got married a month or two later. It’ll be 17 years this June 🙂
I often play amateur VN games. Some are amazing. But it’s always, almost, aaaalmost perfect, but not quite. And also, there’s a tons of parody but never around the stuff I want to
Maybe… Maybe I could try. Make my own game. Sounds crazy, but well I need a hobby for the covid
Best decision ever. You miss 100% of the shot you don’t take. Try your luck. Doubt kills more dream everyday than faillure even will.
I sunked 1.000$ in it and the game is rolling, with a comfortable $200/month Patreon supporting the bills now. It’s still a small amateur game, I’m not the new Mario Kart don’t worry. But it feels great to see yourself accomplishing what you wish others did. Even if you often only understand why no one did it either… It’s not always easy
It’s an eye-opening experience
Stopped playing min bets in Vegas, Been bringing home at least 10k.
Fuck it, lets solo travel the world, never regretted any of my solo trip. If i had waited for people to get their sh*t together to finally go with me, i would have seen nothing.
About a month ago when we decided to pull the trigger on purchasing a huge ranch out in the middle of nowhere, leaving behind the comfortable life in the city along the coast. We took a leap of faith and I’m so glad we did because it really was the best decision we ever made.
When I was 19 and in college, I met two Italian girls at a coffee shop in San Francisco. We hit it off, and after spending two days exploring the city together, they jokingly told me I should visit them in Italy for a month.
A few months later, they actually invited me. The plan? Start at a music festival in Gallipoli, then travel north by train to Bologna, stopping in every major city along the way. I barely knew them, but I packed my bags, and spent the entire month of July traveling across Italy.
They welcomed me like family, and many of the friends I made on that trip are still in my life today. Now, at 28, I’m heading back to Italy this September for one of their weddings.
It’s amazing what a simple “fuck it, let’s do this” can lead to.
Moved across the country. I had always lived in or within an hour of NYC and I wanted a drastic change. I love it out here in the west coast.
Randomly deciding in the middle of a workday to book a solo trip to South Korea! It completely changed my mindset and made me so much more confident in my own abilities 😍
Met a guy I wouldn’t usually go for (he’s 10 years younger) on facebook dating, got a little tipsy and was texting him around midnight, knowing he lived an hour away and wouldn’t come over anyway.. sure enough, he did. A little over a year later and we have a beautiful little life together with three dogs. Best (not so smart in the moment) decision I’ve made.
Last year, I said fuck it let’s go to the Final Four and watch Purdue. Turn out to be worth EVERY FUCKING CENT I SPENT with my wife and 3 great friends hat tagged along. We had a blast! Memories for a life time.
About 9 months ago I quite literally said that phrase to myself to push myself to meet a former coworker for dinner who I had mixed feelings about prior to that day. Right now I’m so glad that we did. Since the entire dinner lead to us talking/texting nearly everyday for a couple months. During this time I realized we had so many similarities between us. In her I also saw the quiet confidence, intelligence, talent and so much more that I wish I had cultivated earlier in life instead of being so career, materialistic and money focused.
Though things didn’t quite go so well between us, it legitimately turned me into a better person.
Was depressed due to ending a bad relationship and other factors. Friend says I’m taking you to a party so-and-so is having tonight. Long story short, so-and-so and I had love at first sight and have been together 10 years this summer. I’m glad i didn’t listen to my brain haha.
Leaving Southern California and moving to Vancouver, Wa.
It was the best decision I’ve ever made for myself and wife. (She gave me the final say but wanted to go)
No state income tax.
Lower cost of living.
Nature everywhere.
The nicest people we’ve ever met.
My health is better than it’s ever been from lack of stress, less drinking with old friends.
Her career she’s making double what a medical social worker makes in California and she’s not treated like shit.
We met amazing friends here.
There’s just so much good that I can’t imagine ever living full time is SoCal again.
Jumped off a boat.
Retired at 45, bought a house halfway across the country, moving the family. All in-progress right now. Suspect it’s one of my better decisions, but time will tell.
A few years ago I started to hang out with this guy. On valentines day he asked me out and I said no. He asked me out everyday until 5 days later. I said stuff it and said yes.
I’m now engaged to this man and he is the love my life.
Quit my engineering job 6 months after graduating university to teach English in Japan. Always wanted to live in Japan, saw the chance and took it with no doubts whatsoever.
10 years later I’m still here. Now a bilingual engineer. Better than that, I’m now a husband to my best friend and father to the best kid ever.
I left my abusive ex-wife in favour of my own happiness, and it’s paid off immensely for my kids and I.
quit my job and have been unemployed for almost a year now. Idk if I’m depressed or happy but I’m living in peace
went to a wedding with a random chick my friend knew and ended up marrying her years later
There were squatters living on 10 acres of land next door to us. Only way for them to get to and from the land was to trespass through our property. They were there for a few years. Made our lives miserable and we had no privacy. They’d park in our driveway in winter months because they couldn’t get up and down the hill in their old beater suv that wasn’t four wheel drive. Never asked to park in our driveway, just did it anyway. One of the guys was a sex offender.
The owner of the land they were squatting on lived out of state and couldn’t get them to leave. There was an old run down shack and several rvs on the property.
Our F this moment? We decided to buy the land from the out of state owner, knowing we would have a battle to get the squatters off the land. Went to court, used a little-known law to get the judge to order them gone within 24 hours. 3 hours later the sheriff escorted them off the property.
Agreeing to move in with my cousin and his girlfriend, as I was by myself in a studio apartment and they had a house but needed a third roommate.
Word to the wise: if you’re single, NEVER move in with a couple. Worst mistake of my life.
My husband jokingly shows me a catamaran and says we should buy it. I agree and we sell everything we have, take our dog and go live on a boat. Then we sold it and got an RV. We took fun jobs and 2 years ago we got normal jobs and a house again….and hate it. We are already planning the next adventure hopefully it will happen before the end of the year.
It was scary quitting our jobs and selling our house and leaving our friends and family. The scariest things are the most worth while. Take the leap, do the thing thay scares you.
Scared to apply for my current position. Figure I wasn’t good enough and had to leave wife and kids for 3 days out of the week. Turns out they hired me and I more than doubled my salary. Now I’m making more since from promotions/raises. Full remote now, at home with wife and kids, and loving every moment of it. Thinking of trying again to see if I can bump salary more!!
Marrying my FWB. No dating, not setting boundaries like we had before.
Paths crossed several times over many years, and always intense chemistry. Sexually amazing together.
But he doesn’t show me I am anything more than his FWB now. And I am his wife and am his life partner….
I feel so lonely and disrespected.
He doesn’t have time for me, but is always looking at women on his phone. I guess I should have realized I would always just be a fuck buddy…
Best friend and I quit our jobs and moved to Chicago – about a 12 hour drive from where we lived, a college town in the middle of nowhere. We had like $3k saved total and had to share a studio apartment because it’s all we could afford. When I moved here I just wanted to make $30k a year.
Best decision ever. Broke into tech and ended up a product manager. Gave me my life as I know it. That was 13 years ago.
Resigning my corporate job and ending a 6-year-long relationship at the same week to focus on my health and relationships.
Had I not done it, I wouldn’t have been diagnosed with Fibromyalgia, healed many of my relationships, and met my now girlfriend. Life look completely different than what I planned for them to be, but I am shaping them into the kind of life that I am happy to wake up to.
~ Eclipse
I didn’t want to go back to school for a Masters. I was already an engineer at Intel, had an amazing GF, affordable apartment and a dog. My manager explained that in order to make more money and move up I need to have a Masters or more. Bills started piling with inflation kicking in, arguments were happening between my GF and I, my dog had an accident and I had to borrow money from my family to pay for his surgery. Then I knew, “fuck it, let’s do it”, and started my masters.
Now I own 2 houses with my now wife (same GF), make 6 figures, and have 3 fur kiddos. It worked out for the best and I encourage anyone to do the same.
Accept that a stranger took me to my house (today he is my husband)
Making babies 😂
Was kind’ve just lost with life and tinder match on a random friday in September said skinning dipping (it wasn’t exactly the warmest here but not unbearable.) I said fuck it, and I guess they did too and I picked her up, drove us to spot and went in. Things went good, and it turns out we got along really well. We were “exclusive” the whole time but didn’t actually choose to be official until a year later. I was so happy that I found her and she took a huge chance on me, having gone through some bad stuff prior.
About two months after being official she ended things, really leaving me shocked and at a really bad time. She completely destroyed me and didn’t even seem to understand how.
So it was both the best decision and worst.