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Originally Posted by NotaBRG

August will be 23 years in IT. I was 21 and had to make a decision to take a job with IBM doing mid-range server systems administration or go back to school.

I still wonder if I made the right decision...

I've made plenty of decisions that could be second guessed. For instance. I'm smart, I hardly had to study through HS and got mostly A's. I got a really good score on the SATs and can pretty much learn anything that I apply myself to. I was going to school for Elec. Eng. I don't think I'd have liked that very much. I probably would have enjoyed something more computer related or even Mech Eng much more, but at the time, I knew so little about life (especially in the job/career areas) that I had no idea. Instead of buckling down and forcing myself through something, or trying another major, I quit going to school. That was obviously a pivotal decision, but the way that I look at life, it was the right decision. Yes, I suppose it's possible that I would have gotten a degree, a great job and been making lots of cash much, much earlier in life. Things could have been grand. But there's also PLENTY of opportunity for it to have put me someplace that wasn't good.

For me, so far at least, everything that has happened has worked out well and has been the right thing. I don't have any major regrets. Any minor regrets that I have are very minor, essentially inconsequential.