Submitted 10 months ago by Lafari@lemmy.world to [deleted]
I feel like I would make use of it more if I could do it again. Maybe that’s weird, I don’t know.
I think I always paid attention in school and got good grades, so repeating that all over again sounds painful. I probably would’ve chosen a better career path for myself.
Nothing wrong with what I studied, and I’m even grateful that I did go through it, but it’s not aligned with what I chose to do in the end so I took a huge financial hit.
I would not go to grad school. Especially not in the city the program was in. Unless you’re an MBA or in engineering or something ultimately pretty lucrative, I wouldn’t recommend Academia Extended Stay to any sane person who values their own time, money, and dignity.
If I had to do it again, I would have gone for a more specifically skill. Not the skilled trades. I know everyone’s all about that now, but we weren’t all born to be electricians. Just something more specific like a counselor, Auto CAD, etc etc
Yes. And no.
I went through some degree of what today is called bullying and never took to defend myself because of a castrating father and severe insecurity. This also impacted my overall school success.
But knowing what I know today, doing what needed to be done to defend myself, I would quickly be labelled as a menace.
Haven’t finished my first save file yet.
There’s no new game plus, so don’t waste your opportunities like everyone inevitably does.
No, but as a hypothetical button I could just press sure. Purely because it’d allow me to take preemptive measures about my health.
I’d care even less about school and leave as young as possible. Then go for some vocational training and/or one of the alternate pathways if I want to go to university. Not once has how I did in high school ever been relevant to my life. My higher education has mattered, but dropping out doesn’t stop you from going into it - though it can be more (or less) difficult depending on what you want to study.
The combination of puberty and not being able to date would suck though. At least I know what meds absolutely kill my libido and they’d be extremely easy to get prescribed. Adult dating would be a larger head fuck - I’ve always been into people older than me as is. I wonder if instead of milfs and dilfs that I’d be adding a g infront with how long my lived experience would be at that point.
If it’s time travel too all the usual bullshit to becoming filthy rich applies.
Absolutely, I would save my lunch money to buy Apple and Nvidia stock.
I’d like to get isekai, with all my current knowledge. I might be OP at school and at work
Do I still have money? In a heartbeat.
Do I still have food? Yep.
As great as that sounds, I wouldn’t wanna do it unless I know as a fact I won’t remember a thing from my future. I have read plenty of age regression stories and last thing I want is to be trapped in a kid’s body with an adult mind. If I tell people about it, they’d either think I’m crazy if it’s classmates at school or I’d have my whole world shaken and torn apart by adults who find I’m smarter than my age would suggest and do test after test and not being able to fully enjoy a second childhood because of this. Either way, I wouldn’t want to do either of those, nor would I want to go through major events like open heart surgery or the death of loved ones again.
As the saying goes “Youth is wasted on the young.”
If I have my memories and knowledge it may help me make better decisions, but it would also be frustrating having to wait for societal changes. It was still a time where being called gay was an insult and racism was rife, and while that still happens, it’s much more likely to be called out.
Additionally, watching the world do nothing to stop climate change would be even harder to take knowing what is coming. Maybe I’d try to change that, but it would be like shouting into the void (as climate scientists can attest to).
No thnks. Could I instead keep all my credentials as start work at age 13?
All your knowledge, but are you ready for school again, recall that it was hard last time
Yup! The absolute best days of adventure and awe.
No awe the second time around
Sort of, but I remember how boring all those thousands of hours of classroom time were overall, and I don’t want to go through all that again.
For all the topics you likely could apply yourself more in, there’s probably ten that would (especially as a repeat) just be so fucking boring you would not want to relive.
I’d rather return to school as an adult than relive learning my colors, or writing book reports, or whatever else was too boring or too easy the first time around.
Maybe jump through some sweet memories. And relive the excitement I had for watching cartoons and 90s Anime.
There were subjects which I hated, either because I found them boring, the teachers were not inviting, or I just needed sleep. For instance, chemistry and national history are examples of them.
Many years later, I found myself in situations where I started to develop curiosity around those subjects, where I would wish to have properly learnt or attended those topics again.
Yokozuna@lemmy.world 10 months ago
No.