Monumentally bad decisions

[NickBEADG]

I dumped a loyal woman I didn't like very much, but who was in love with me so that I could be with a woman I thought I loved, but who was only interested in me for my money. I eventually married the parasite, and we had a kid. Then she left, we divorced, and I was pretty much her slave for a few years. Then she chose to take her own life, and I became a single dad to a little girl with very serious mommy issues.

Pretty much every choice I have ever made that involved a woman has been monumentally bad.

Damn that's rough. More often than not, I feel like I had a child with the wrong person. Made that mistake more than once actually.......

 

[Bert Slide]

The title song off the new album my country act is about to release is called "Good Whisky and Bad Women". That about sums it up.

 

[jmattbassplaya]

I feel fortunate to say I haven't made any monumentally bad decisions as of yet in my younger 23 years of existence. The worst ones I can think of, which pale in comparison to some of yall's, are:

- not sticking with competitive soccer just because I hated my team's coach
- not toughing it out and doing biology, or something similar, in college instead of business

That's about it...

 

[blue4]

I turned down a chance for the Navy to pay for college degree. My CO offered it to me and was willing to pull strings. Very light work for the first two years. I thought I would rather go back to St. Louis. I still can't believe I was that stupid.

Bought my first house in a bad neighborhood with bad schools because I didn't have kids and it was cheap. Now I have kids and two house payments because I can't pay someone to take that house.

Decided to quit drum lessons when I was 14.

Turned down free guitar lessons after that.

 

[EricF]

I dumped a loyal woman I didn't like very much, but who was in love with me so that I could be with a woman I thought I loved, but who was only interested in me for my money. I eventually married the parasite, and we had a kid. Then she left, we divorced, and I was pretty much her slave for a few years. Then she chose to take her own life, and I became a single dad to a little girl with very serious mommy issues.

Pretty much every choice I have ever made that involved a woman has been monumentally bad.

I wish the best for you and your little girl.

 

[1958Bassman]

Oh boy.
I was accepted to one of the finest colleges in the world. Unfortunately, I was extremely unprepared academically and emotionally. I ended up having a depression and drug induced mental breakdown that I am still recovering from 4 years later.

That one is going to haunt me the rest of my life...

But you lived to tell the tale and I have to think that some of the experiences you have had since then were worth sticking around for.

 

[Mike M.]

I dumped a loyal woman I didn't like very much, but who was in love with me so that I could be with a woman I thought I loved, but who was only interested in me for my money. I eventually married the parasite, and we had a kid. Then she left, we divorced, and I was pretty much her slave for a few years. Then she chose to take her own life, and I became a single dad to a little girl with very serious mommy issues.

Pretty much every choice I have ever made that involved a woman has been monumentally bad.

Sorry to hear about this and how this must effect your daughter.

You're not alone. My WORST decisions have been about women. I let the good ones go and follow the one's that everybody told me to stay away from. The only good thing that came from my marriage was our son, so it wasn't a total loss.

I've been divorced and single for 20 years now and have every intention of keeping it that way. I don't hate anybody or anything but I'm beyond tired of making the wrong choices in certain aspects of my life.

 

[MJ5150]

Accepting the job I have now.

-Mike

 

[sloasdaylight]

Hey guys, let's invade Russia in August!!

 

[slobake]

Hey guys, let's invade Russia in August!!

Now that would be really, really bad.

 

[Ziltoid]

Accepting the job I have now.

-Mike

Is it just the location or more than that? By the way, still looking into that job in Copenhagen?

 

[klyph]

Moved to New Orleans in the spring of 2005 to start a new life.

 

[45acp]

I chose to make a metric s**t ton of slightly bad decisions over a few monumentally bad ones.

Ive never burned the barn down, I just hit my head on the door every day on the way in.

 

[gr8bassplayer]

Moved to New Orleans in the spring of 2005 to start a new life.

Ouch... That's not as much a bad decision as bad luck.

 

[45acp]

Moved to New Orleans in the spring of 2005 to start a new life.

Oof.

 

[MJ5150]

Is it just the location or more than that? By the way, still looking into that job in Copenhagen?

Not the location, I'm adapting to living in the woods and I'm starting to like it. The people I work with, their lack of motivation, and the lack of progress is driving me crazy. It's not always a positive when the same people work together in the same department for 10+ years. I'll leave it at that.

As for Copenhagen, I'll know by the end of this week if I'm on to the next round of interviews. If I am, that involves them flying me there for in person interviews and a chance for the wife and I to check the place out. They better have wine gums, or I'm out.

-Mike

 

[Ziltoid]

Not the location, I'm adapting to living in the woods and I'm starting to like it. The people I work with, their lack of motivation, and the lack of progress is driving me crazy. It's not always a positive when the same people work together in the same department for 10+ years. I'll leave it at that.

As for Copenhagen, I'll know by the end of this week if I'm on to the next round of interviews. If I am, that involves them flying me there for in person interviews and a chance for the wife and I to check the place out. They better have wine gums, or I'm out.

-Mike

Yeah, I've seen many department like that, not cool.

Fingers crossed for the Copenhagen gig. And I'm confident for the winegums, worst case scenario traveling is very cheap in Europe

 

[klyph]

Thanks bro, I needed to hear that! I don't beat myself up over it, but it took me years to regain any physical, mental and fiscal health. The silver lining is that I rediscovered the value of the things I left behind/ran away from. Having done that, I guess I also now view it as a bad decision, and done for the wrong reasons. But yes, I've had some bad luck, and that is certainly exhibit A.

 

[Indiana Mike]

Refinancing my house to pay off all my my wife's debt she had been hiding from me .

Loan was in my name only .

Took it up to the max....

Then the housing market crashed a year later ....

Then she left me ...

In 15 years or so I'll have it all paid off.

I could have forced a sale but my mortgage company said no forgiveness on a short sale . She doesn't pay her bills . And the contract was in my name . So if she refused to pay her share it would fall on me anyway . A contract trumps a divorce decree and she had and still has zero assets.

It has been hard to not get bitter over that one.

 

[worxforme]

I grew up poor, worked my @$$ off, started my first business at 12 (lawns and snow, got friends to do the work) and in my early 20s, after I had started my second business, I found myself with lots of disposable $$.

I had a broker that I would buy stock from (cause I thought I was soooo cool) on suggestion and he gave me a recommendation on a company. I asked what they did ( cause I thought was soooo smart) and he told me what they made. I told him it didn't sound like something that would make money, what else do you suggest. He suggested fiber-optics. So in my wisdom I invested 10k in a company that went out of business a year later.

Operating Systems, huh? Microsoft, never heard of em? What else do you suggest?

That should have been a sign!