Five brilliant, life-changing opportunities you f**ked up
LIFE is full of crossroads moments where choosing the right path is the key to a fantastic future. Here are five you blew.
Your school days
You were pretty bright at school and could have gone on to great academic success, but youthful you decided it was much more fun to piss about to impress your mates. After all, who wants to be the classroom swot? The answer, of course, is that kid who’s shitting money now and living in a New York loft apartment while you still languish at your parents’.
Your choice of degree
You got the grades to scrape into university and could have picked a useful career path subject like engineering or economics. Unfortunately you chose drama studies which has left you with an immense student loan to pay off using the money from your job working in a call centre.
That girl you dumped who’s now worth a fortune
Lucy was kind and thoughtful, but her friend Nikki had bigger tits and went like the clappers in the back of your Peugeot 208, so it felt like an obvious switch. Six months later Nikki was bored of you and shagging your mate Dave, so would Lucy have you back? Would she f**k. She was too busy setting up a business on the side of her degree that has now made her a millionaire.
The place you live
Everyone seemed to be moving to London after university, apart from your school friend Sophie who went back to your home town. Fast forward 15 years and you’re scraping together £1,200 a month for a poky flat in Catford, while she’s almost mortgage-free on her three-bed semi in a nice part of town. It’s getting increasingly hard to believe you made the better choice, but you keep trying. Read More…