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Originally posted by cj@Jul 7 2003, 09:07 AM
it bothers me when people resort to the 'if i had my time over i would have done this differently and i would have been better off' - as if the alternative would have produced a guaranteed better result ...
if you didn't carry sheet rock, you might've been a bum ... and i have a feeling that 'wasting those years' has nothing to do with the work you were doing and everything to do with yourself at the time. you are assuming your child would be better off if they didn't do those things ... there's a bunch of other negatives that will replace those you have with your memories of your own life. success is a state of mind ...
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I do see your point. But really, I mean it figuratively. I can't travel in time.
In my analysis the "lessons" learned from carrying sheetrock were not worth it. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone because I don't think there is enough benefit from doing it. Construction is a respectable enough profession and I have nothing against it.
To think that there weren't things I would do over again is to say that every "mistake" is some cosmic cog in the great scheme of my life. I just don't see the world that way. I'm quite confident that I could design an even better life for myself by removing some of the "mistakes" of the past.