I'm not sure I regret the job choices I've made, but if I knew how healthcare laws would have changed over the last decade or so I would not had the same priori

I'm not sure I regret the job choices I've made, but if I knew how healthcare laws would have changed over the last decade or so I would not had the same priority for finding a job and probably would have spent more time trying to make it as a writer. I have a pre-existing condition so in 2008 it was very valuable for me to obtain employer-based health coverage before I aged out of being covered under my parent's plan. If I knew that the age until which you are covered by your parent's health plan was going to be extended to 26, I would not have focused on getting a stable, nice benefits job. I would probably have tried making it as a writer, and unless I had some big break I would have probably considered grad school (which I was planning on for my first couple years after college until I found I preferred working on real world projects to research more or less). Not 100% sure how that would have worked out. I probably would not have gotten married until I had a stable position somewhere, so I'd be starting my family much later (if at all, if my writing career took off I might be more focused on that), almost certainly wouldn't have ended up with my wife, since the circumstances that brought us together would be very different, odd to think about... Probably would be more ambitious but with less happiness than I am now, but it's very hard to say. So I don't regret the path I went down, but it's strange to think that so much of my life was based on an assumption (that I needed to secure employer-based heathcare ASAP) that ended up being wrong.