My first regret: having not the balls to do what I really wanted when I was a teenager.
I went to the university mostly to please my parents and to reassure them. I think that was my biggest mistake and I never really learned anything there.
My second regret: quitting. I'm getting bored very easily.
I'm thinking about 2 projects I started with friends where I left the ship eventually because I felt less motivated than them. Now they are both making tons of money and expansing there companies (while I'm still trying to figure out what to do with my life).
I also started a lot of projects which I will probably never release, but that's a pretty common thing.
The last one: working for someone else.
Studying led me on the logical path of getting a job. I first said to myself that it will be temporary and I listened to people who were telling me that I had to have a little experience before launching my own thing (and my advice is: don't listen to their bullshits and do what the fuck you really want to do). The truth is that when you get a job it consumes you and you can forget what your dreams are pretty quickly.
The counterbalancing point of this last regret is that I met extraordinary people while I was an employee, who are still very good friends nowadays. Actually the guy with whom I'm trying to build a startup right now is a former coworker of mine ;)
I went to the university mostly to please my parents and to reassure them. I think that was my biggest mistake and I never really learned anything there.
My second regret: quitting. I'm getting bored very easily.
I'm thinking about 2 projects I started with friends where I left the ship eventually because I felt less motivated than them. Now they are both making tons of money and expansing there companies (while I'm still trying to figure out what to do with my life).
I also started a lot of projects which I will probably never release, but that's a pretty common thing.
The last one: working for someone else.
Studying led me on the logical path of getting a job. I first said to myself that it will be temporary and I listened to people who were telling me that I had to have a little experience before launching my own thing (and my advice is: don't listen to their bullshits and do what the fuck you really want to do). The truth is that when you get a job it consumes you and you can forget what your dreams are pretty quickly.
The counterbalancing point of this last regret is that I met extraordinary people while I was an employee, who are still very good friends nowadays. Actually the guy with whom I'm trying to build a startup right now is a former coworker of mine ;)