Ask HN: What are your biggest career regrets?

Forgetting the joy and enthusiasm of my youth and slipping into to a life as a dysphoric drudge.

Not getting into the iron ore industry a decade ago.

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Caring about any of my employers.

Was thinking about this tonight. My biggest regret is doing an EE degree and becoming an engineer.

I coulda been a contender.

I coulda been somebody....

Spending too much of my life trading my time for wages; working to help someone else fulfill their dreams, instead of focusing on me fulfilling my dreams.