What's something you wish someone would have told you about life?

[ThatFraggle]

If you could go back in time with that knowledge, what would the knowledge be?

Not everything is your fault.

Accountancy doesn't have to be boring, and numbers are very interesting indeed.

Don’t get fat!!!
Work hard at school and do your absolute best.
Think carefully about career choices and make good decisions
save, save, save.
always have your own money and career
Don't just settle for someone because you’re lonely or afraid
Think very carefully before having children
Nurture friendships as they are incredibly important . Choose friends carefully and hold onto them.

Don’t move area all the time, it’s destabilising

Before ‘settling down’ travel as much as possible and have adventures.

Have lots of sex before ‘settling down’.

Spend time with your children, listen to them, empathise with them, nurture each relationship and don’t lecture or judge.

Do all you can to improve relationships with your parents and siblings.

It's going to be ok.

To be fair most things on this thread I was told by someone along the way, but young me obviously always thought I knew better 🤷‍♀️

That life can get better.
i had a shitty childhood (not my parents’ fault), just other kids being shit to me at school. I worked hard at uni, moved to a different country and 8 years old me would be so proud.

Love that.

Don't date until your in your early 20s.

Think very very carefully before you get involved with a man whose very close to his family. It's not always a bad thing but it can mean he's happy to upset you but not his family.

This 'don't get fat' business. Do people think it's an irreversible condition?

Set your own boundaries and stick to them.
Don’t ever compromise.
People that love you protect you from abuse.
Exercise every day.
Know your own worth and walk away if others don’t.
Don’t put up with anything you don’t enjoy.
Spend time each day doing something you love.
Don’t get fat.
Don’t ever look unpolished.
Put yourself first because you can’t give to others if you don’t.

Much harder to lose weight as you get older. Easier to eat well and exercise when younger and keep it going.

Surely you understand the concept of prevention being better than cure! 🤷‍♀️

You know that’s a song right? Baz Luhrman.

Anyway mine would be get on the housing ladder ASAP. 38 and no chance of buying a house now!

That as soon as you have a child, you will
worry about them forever

Find something interesting to do when you go into the working world - don't just drift into admin because you want to leave school. I'm about to retire and have spent my entire working life being mostly bored.

I've never found that to be so. I'm nearly 64 and can lose weight just as easily now as I ever could.

Go and do the degree you want to do. You ARE capable.

Save a good amount regularly.

Keep up with the exercise. Everything can work around you.

Buy bitcoin!

Mu Mum constantly told me not to get fat (she was fat). The outcome was that I felt fat when I was actually skinny, and then it was easy to actually get fat almost without noticing because I'd never not felt fat since I was about 11. Thanks Mum.

Most people aren't like that though are they

Mine would be to save and not just spend like there's no tomorrow 😔

Save generously with advice of a financial adviser. Pay into pensions early. I'm talking teenage years and up.

Retire early and travel.

Do you have any examples?

Oh god this is me

Don't have personal relationships at work. That old saying, don't shit on your doorstep.

Don't be an open book at work. The people you think are friends are colleagues who may use that information against you further down the line. Keep it pleasant but professional.

It's okay to be out of your comfort zone sometimes. Playing it safe makes you miss so many opportunities and experiences.

Save money. Don't make others rich by buying crap. Really make every purchase count. Don't be stingy, but don't be wasteful.

Pay into a pension as soon as you can. Retirement can seem ages away but it comes sooner than you think. And a proper provision allows you to think of retirement at an earlier age.

Keep flexible - in mind and body. Don't get stuck in your ways, or keep looking back. Exercise for strength and suppleness.

Don't get overweight or unfit. So easy to do, so hard to lose or get fit again.

Don't compare yourself to others, be your own person. Just concentrate on who you are, what your values are, your own journey. Don't feel inferior to anybody.

Learn languages.

Don't allow someone's opinion of you to destroy your piece of mind. Their opinion of you is none of your business, your opinion of you is the only one that counts.

Don't put men on pedestals. This is not a man hating comment just an observation about all the angst we go through over them. They really are not worth all the hand wringing. Don't prioritise them over friends or anything else you enjoy doing.

Don't be seduced by screen time. Read a book instead.

Learn to drive early.

See as many new places as you can.