Any regrets?
No, I always let an NPV calculation decide my choices.
I do however, use the replacement cost equations from level 2 to decide when its time to ditch an existing project for a newer younger one.
I’ve sacrified the other way around. Lost the poon for the career.
But there was 1 sacrifice I regret. She may have been it, but I was too young to know at the time.
I didn’t, but once when i was very young i was asked to stay to finish something and i said i can’t because i have a date 
Most people probably don’t have a dramatic single story. However, the little things all add up. Maybe like how you would not find work in a different city so your family won’t have to move. Or how you don’t work 80 hour weeks and be the best employee ever because you have things to do in your personal life.
Nope. I’m single and old smashing Blondies.
I haven’t had a gf in 2 years or got anything physical in forever. I need a FWB. Been too focused on CFA exams then CPA exams for the past 9 months. I just figured I’d invest in myself and my career and then the women would fall into place later on.
I’ve had a pretty active social life since graduating from college. While I will tend to reel about how I shouldn’t have let my job get in the way of things while going through a break-up, all too often I feel that I should be exercise some restraint in my personal life so I should focus more on work. My general sense is that now is the time I should be building my career, and unless I feel so convicted about a certain girl that she’s the one I want to spend the rest of my life with, I’m having more than enough personal “fun” at the moment such that putting more emphasis on my career would probably be more beneficial.
I did. I ended up wasting an entire year that I couldve given the Level 1 exam. Stupid me. I look back at it and regret it totally. Majorly because I got cheated on :S
Well I am still doing it… My wife is doing her PhD and registered at a university in Chennai. I am getting my dream job in Bangalore and Mumbai. But not shifting out to help my wife complete her PhD and my son is not at all comfortable living away from me… And to be frank I dont think I can live without her and my son as well. So no regrets - no sacrifice, but I just adjusted a bit…
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Is Curren$y hot or something? I find it funny you always link his videos lol I didn’t know he was known outside of New Orleans
I think it’s a smart move to spend at least as much effort and sacrifice for someone important to you as you do to your career. Too much effort spent one way or another will stunt your career or leave you chasing meaningless relationships down the road. Sure, you can keep “slaying dimes” or whatever, but your odds of finding a quality significant other later in life become more difficult.
I left my career to be with my husband. In begining, it was good but then I started realizing that it was a bad decision. I’m not a type of person who just sit there and look pretty. I wanted to do something meaningful with my life. And after a lot of struggle I’m happy to see where I am today.
This; I’m in this debacle right now where this girl overseas, who I think is an 11, and I have been talking a lot for the past year. We’ve known each other for over 7 years now and had a pretty steamy start when we first met. I’m glad that’s all it was at first because we were too immature for anything significant to last back then. Now we both are trying to take the next step here, but eventually one of us is going to have to move…
Why does everybody here have a meaningful life?!..can some other miserable sap join this thread and make me feel less lonely please? thank you Santa.
Come to USA… White girls seem to be fascinated with british accents.
That’s true. You could be homeless in America but if you have a British accent, you will get laid. Fact.
Strangely enough, it also works fairly well for women – however good looking the woman is (or not), she gets a +1 or +1.5 on the 10 scale if she has that charming accent.
Probably the only real regret I have in my 26 years of life… Before going to school I was a cementer in oil working a 15 days on/6 days off schedule, but doing probably 240+ hours in those 15 days. By the time days off would role around all I wanted to do was party rather than be a good boyfriend. So yeah, she obviously moved on after 3 years, at which point I went to school and am now in a completely different boat career-wise. But she just got married this past summer which kinda sucks. Forever the one that got away.
She also always wanted kids ASAP, so I may have dodge a bullet in the end anyway!
I don’t believe in the one that got away. At previous times in my life I probably believed that, but realistically, there are 7 billion people on the planet, of which ~50% are women. If you can’t find another woman who is a good fit for you among the other 3.5 billion women out there, you’re doing it wrong. Relationships are hard, and hats off to anyone who can make one work where both people are really happy, but if you fail at one, it’s okay, there are plenty of other opportunities. Just focus on making your life as awesome as possible and you will meet someone good sooner or later.