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>There's no such thing as a "once in a lifetime" opportunity. So concisely put, yet a few times in life, this concept has saved me from making a huge mistake.
by edmundsauto 8y ago
>There's no such thing as a "once in a lifetime" opportunity.
So concisely put, yet a few times in life, this concept has saved me from making a huge mistake.
It may also be part of the reason I tend towards being single :/
- JohnFen 8y agoI can clearly remember when this was driven home to me. When I was in high school, back in the early '80s, my social circle was heavy into hacking and programming. One of my acquaintances got a real job at a real software company that, if I had been more observant, I could have had. I was so jealous that I could taste it! I was sure that I had missed a one-in-a-lifetime chance. Decades went by and I happened to run into him by chance. In catching up, I learned that he wasn't working in the industry at all. I mentioned that job and told him how jealous I had been. He laughed and said that it was one of the worst decisions he ever made, bad enough that it was why he lost interest in programming professionally. (Don't feel too bad for him, he's doing quite well in a different field.) In the meantime, I'd been lucky enough to have benefited from many opportunities. That one-in-a-lifetime chance that I missed turned out not to be that at all.