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I miss finishing college & wish I couldn't have been a hospice nurse. I am a hospice volunteer instead.

Yes! I still wish I'd gone for Meteorology, and maybe I will since the program is more widespread now.

Yes and no.

Yes because it is a field I wanted to be in since I was really really young. I was headed down that road but then a broken leg and surgery in college forced me to loose my internships and prevented me from job hunting and applying to grad programs (I was still rehabing).

No because I wouldn't have returned home, met DH and had our kids...and thinking of that makes me sad.

I was really, really bright at school, top of my class for most subjects and I could have been anything I wanted to be. I also would have liked to be a doctor. Unfortunately, I was hit with severe depression in my teens and I pretty much gave up. I didn't have the parental support, really. I got into university -but quit after my first year. Then.... I got a job. I've been working unsatisfying, mediocre jobs ever since. Granted, I worked my way up the career ladder and have got to the point where I am earning good money but I could have been so much more!

Since getting well, I put myself through law qualifications part time (whilst working full time) but then I couldn't take the pay cut required to change careers and start at the bottom again. I have financial commitments now! Now, I'm doing an English degree part time.

I think I will always mourn what I could have been...

Absolutely. I changed majors not realizing the long term financial implications of one career vs the other. Bummer

I switched career paths by going to law school. I'm ever so grateful I didn't go further down the engineering career path I was on.

@mrbee: I know a cop and a fireman in NYC and they both love their jobs!

I wanted to be a doctor. Sometimes I miss it but I decided to try to go to nursing school so I'm excited for that. Wish I would have decided that earlier though!

Yes. Which is why I am going back to school this Fall to become a RN.

I considered med school, then it was PA school, then nurse. But I don't know if I would enjoy doing patient care and plus the hours.

I have wondered if I should have looked into a computer science degree since I do like computers.

I think i would of gravitated towards something creative no matter what.

I love my job and have absolutely no regrets... Well maybe that I would have majored in anthropology before doing what I'm doing.... But I wouldn't change my career for the world!

My only career regret is that I didn't make it past the interview for a job at Google pre-IPO in 2004.

Although, I suppose if I had gotten a job there, I would not have met my husband!

I don't regret choosing the field that I did. I love it for the most part.

Sometimes I regret picking a major that makes no money..... But if I had s do over I don't know what I'd pick.

I don't really enjoy accounting. I wanted to go marketing or psychology and was heavily discouraged. I'd been studying business administration at community college, planning to transfer after I graduated from high school (I did dual enrollment) and when I transferred, the accounting chair told me I'd never make money in marketing or psychology and that accounting would make tons of money and open doors. He was impressed by my grades in accounting classes and I listened to him.