Advice to yourself

[+ purplekow]

I was performing an interview today and the person I was interviewing asked me:  As I am 30 years old, what advice would you give to yourself at 30.  A kind of flip the focus question and one that has been asked in general conversation but I do not seem to recall a discussion here.  

I said, that I would tell my 30 year old self to be bolder and more confident.  I find what regrets I have, and regrets I have a few (and quite a few that I won't mention) are related to lacking self confidence and boldness.  I have much less trouble with that now.  

So anyone care to say what you would tell your younger self.  I dare say 30 but I know I will get quite a few answers related to them not being 30.   

So essentially what life lessons have you learned which you wish you learned sooner?

[Guest]

The most important advice is to put as much as you can into IRA's and other retirement accounts, invested broadly in the market/ETF's. Also, don't be too proud in your 30s to hire escorts. When I was in my 20s, I could have almost anyone I wanted for free, and I still could get a lot of men when I was in my 30s, but I wish I'd hired more escorts, but usually felt too proud to do so. 

[samhexum]

29 minutes ago, purplekow said:

I was performing an interview today and the person I was interviewing asked me:  As I am 30 years old, what advice would you give to yourself at 30.  A kind of flip the focus question and one that has been asked in general conversation but I do not seem to recall a discussion here.  

 

 

7 minutes ago, Unicorn said:

The most important advice is to put as much as you can into IRA's and other retirement accounts

 

[CuriousByNature]

Don't worry so much about what others think of you, and don't sweat the small stuff - or even the bigger stuff if you can help it.

[pubic_assistance]

I would tell my 30 year old self to spend more time with my grandmothers, because no one will ever love me in the same unconditional way that both these women did. ❤️

[Luv2play]

When I turned 30 I accepted the fact that I was gay and never going to get married (marriage to a man was not possible then).

So I bought a house, worked hard at my job and got ahead and decided I was going to enjoy life ( hence my moniker Luv2play).

I don't dwell on the shouda, couda, wouda speculation. I'm just happy that at 75 I'm still living up to my moniker.

And I retired at 50 so I've had a lot more time to devote to it than when I was working. One reason I retired early.

[Bucky]

Buy Apple (AAPL).

[+ cougar]

I have thought about this several times in the past and it seems each time I come to the same conclusion.

I wish that when I was younger, I would have taken high school more seriously and moved farther away from home to go to college. Don't get me wrong, my career has been very successful, even with some major bumps along the way! Since I grew up in the deep South, I wish I would have gone to a different region of the country for college. Even though I was fortunate enough that my family had no problems paying for my college, I wish my parents would have pushed me more. So regardless, here I am approaching retirement in less than two years knowing that the southern college I graduated from did provide me a good career. So, the advice I would give to myself, when I was younger, would be to get out, push your limits and explore. 

[+ WilliamM]

On 11/30/2022 at 7:24 PM, Unicorn said:

The most important advice is to put as much as you can into IRA's and other retirement accounts, invested broadly in the market/ETF's. Also, don't be too proud in your 30s to hire escorts. When I was in my 20s, I could have almost anyone I wanted for free, and I still could get a lot of men when I was in my 30s, but I wish I'd hired more escorts, but usually felt too proud to do so. 

Find a job you really like and,if possible,  helpful to people

. I was very l lucky to have a pension. More rare now, sadly. Still, some jobs with pensions are available in local government.

[+ purplekow]

I understand this is question which has been posed many times.  In this case, it was posed to me the interviewer by the interviewee.  And though it has been posed to me in different settings in slightly different ways, my answer keeps changing and so I think this is probably a question worthy of reflection. This is not a question of  regret, but rather as a means to see how one has grown and how one's actions and values have changed with the benefit of the wisdom of age.