I had this thought after remembering one time that my DT (digital technologies) teacher at high school suggested that some of the class could try join a hacking competition. Nothing ever came of it, but I thought it was interesting at the time.
What’s really interesting is seeing the choices I made, and asking “what if I did the other thing”. Just off the top of my head, I could be still at uni doing research on maths or physics, I could be working on designing new robots for who knows what, or branching off even earlier, I could have been a doctor like my parents.
I’m only 24, so it seems like I might be a bit young for this kind of thinking, but there’s still a lot of things I could have done differently.
Just wait until you get older, things that involve money get compounded, I made a decision at uni 2001 to not study ai, I decided bitcoin wasn’t worth it when that dude bought a pizza with it, bought a house too late and just before the financial crash. I did notice that bad shit was about to go down or at least the potential to at xmas 2019 with covid, not that there was much I could do about it. (Probably due to playing pandemic)
Most decisions in life are a gamble, and usually the odds are stacked massively against you, so don’t worry about it too much