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   Jeff "never puts away anything, especially oven mitts" Cliff, Bringer of Nightmares 🏴‍☠️🦝🐙 🇱🇧🧯 🇨🇦🐧 (jeffcliff@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 20-Feb-2025 04:57:09 JST Jeff "never puts away anything, especially oven mitts" Cliff, Bringer of Nightmares 🏴‍☠️🦝🐙 🇱🇧🧯 🇨🇦🐧
   @shadymentol not really no
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     Another Linux Walt Alt (lnxw37b2@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 20-Feb-2025 04:57:07 JST Another Linux Walt Alt

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     @jeffcliff @shadymentol No. The only way you can find out whether that thing you're burning to do is achievable is to go and try to do it. And that usually means dropping old jobs and old locations for new ones. Not leaving is the thing I always end up regretting, because I'm wondering what opportunities I threw away by staying with that employer.
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     Jeff "never puts away anything, especially oven mitts" Cliff, Bringer of Nightmares 🏴‍☠️🦝🐙 🇱🇧🧯 🇨🇦🐧 (jeffcliff@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 20-Feb-2025 04:57:08 JST Jeff "never puts away anything, especially oven mitts" Cliff, Bringer of Nightmares 🏴‍☠️🦝🐙 🇱🇧🧯 🇨🇦🐧

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     @shadymentol but the thing is
     
     if i had *not* blown that construction job, it would have been something keeping me in #yxe and would have been a good reason to stay here instead of going to #yqr for university about a year later. I never would have gone into computer science, pursuing engineering or something instead and my life would have been completely different. And there are 3-4 things that happened in my life that wouldn't have that I would have regretted a lot more, had I known they were on the table.
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     Jeff "never puts away anything, especially oven mitts" Cliff, Bringer of Nightmares 🏴‍☠️🦝🐙 🇱🇧🧯 🇨🇦🐧 (jeffcliff@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 20-Feb-2025 04:57:09 JST Jeff "never puts away anything, especially oven mitts" Cliff, Bringer of Nightmares 🏴‍☠️🦝🐙 🇱🇧🧯 🇨🇦🐧

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     my only regrets are leaving jobs where something happened and I was forced to leave, sometimes by my own doing.
     
     I regret screwing around with friends at a the construction site building houses in '01. I was young and stupid, but that job was super easy money for doing hard labour that I was fully capable of excelling at and I totally blew it.
     
     I regret being lazy as a busboy also around '01 as I was at the parktown inn here in #yxe. I didn't know what I was doing but could have done a much better job than I did. Unlike the above construction work it was a shitty job from start to finish, with bad management, but I really could have put more effort into it and I regret that I didn't stay longer, even if only to pick up a couple of extra paycheques that would have come in handy later.