I watched videos on YouTube. A brilliant lady who is an electrical engineer, self taught, is doing great amazing things. I see in her.. Who I could have been.
I started electronics when I was 9? Batteries, bulbs, switches. And I mean I never stopped. I learned the hard way, experiments, many failures, a lot of hands on learning, practical knowledge. I can fix many things, and can guess how things are designed. Honestly it's second nature to me. I have designed and built, tested, tuned many circuits. Analog, digital, mixed signal, rf, instrumentation, you name it.
So here's my regret. I went to college to make it official i was an electrical engineer. It was easy. Electrical classes were too easy and I went to a good engineering school. I got a crap job. And my job was... programming. It was 2008 and we had the great recession and no one was hiring, so I took what I could get. I can do programming but I'm not passionate about it. Not my true love. But I've NEVER been employed to do circuits! And because of this I can't get hired for what I know well. And in my career, I've worked with many engineers who quite frankly stink at circuit design. No originality. I work with one now. I'm constantly engrossed in their work, and find mine boring. And I can do their job better than I do mine, and better than they do theirs. I'm not bragging, it's the truth in this case.
So I regret taking a job that was programming. It has directed my whole life to this point and I see no way to change it. I live a life I stink at. All because I started in programming and stayed in it. What to do?
So, if you are so brave, list only one thing, the biggest thing, that you did or didn't do, which changed your life in a way you regret.