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Originally Posted by MarchHare
Choosing Computer Science as my major. I was (and still am) a computer geek who digs technology, but being a code monkey wasn't for me. I should have realized this by second year and switched programs to something I would have enjoyed more (like history, political science, or economics), but instead I stubbornly stuck it out until I graduated, which lead to...
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See, I went the other way. I screwed away Engineering (I was interested in Comp Eng) and ended up in Honours Economics. I enjoyed Economics a lot, but now I'm a DBA and I seem to have found myself where I was aiming in the first place (It only took an extra 10+ years).
I still wish I knew what was going through my head at 19-21 (actually, I do know).
It is kind of hard to regret the things I did because I know I learned a LOT with the way things turned out, and nothing was detrimental in the long run (other than my student loans).
But I do always wonder about
The Road Not Taken