well the difficulty is that now
you know that doing X leads to disaster, but ya didnt know that at the time
so it is hard to say a really catastrophic decision was wrong - because it looked OK at the time [ and was done in the best possible taste ]
For me - retire early I think, as I wasnt expecting to start a years chemotherapy three months after I retired..
There are quite a few things I would have done EARLIER
but delayed as I couldnt believe X had behaved like that
oddly enough I would have whistle-blown still at the times I did
as I had already weighed up the consequences of living with yourself and conscience if you fail to stand up and say: That is not true - X occurred.
Very difficult!! I chose an extremely rocky path as a teenager but it meant I learned some very hard lessons!
If I had chosen a different path path I would not have learned the most valuable lessons I learned.
I think if I had to put my finger on one particular course of action.... at the age of 16 I would have continued my passion of working in the field of Mental Health instead of leaving it and taking up Monumental Masonry.
Good question Baz,
I would have trained to be a pilot, seriously. I discovered flying late in life and still get excited at the thought of been up in the air, I love it. I piloted a light aircraft once (one of those gift experience presents that come out at xmas) and regret that I didnt work and save harder when I was younger to have flying lessons.
Ah well!
I wouldn't have given up playing the violin. I was very good and pretty certain that I would have made it through to a professional orchestra. My fiddling now sounds like a cats choir. Years of practise stupidly thrown out the window