What one thing did you do in life that you now wonder how things would have turned out if you did the opposite?
When I was 17, in 1977, I turned down a job offer, from Tico Martini, to build F1 racing cars. Tico is my late step father's cousin, and well known in the racing world. I had only just started a job as a Honda motorbike mechanic and felt it would have been disloyal to jump ship.
I often wonder where I'd be now had i taken the job.
If I’d studied creative writing instead of engineering.
If I hadn’t gone for a Master’s degree.
If I’d insisted on a hysterectomy much earlier in the course of my endometriosis.
If I hadn’t taken the job offer from the sleazy semiconductor place in (undesirable to me) LA before the cool job offer from United Airlines in (strongly preferred) San Francisco came through.
If I’d gone out with Danny instead of Mike.
@NormanDunbar@DoubleTreble When I graduated from college, I turned a job offer from the US Navy Center for Applied Research in Artificial Intelligence. Even though it was a civilian position, I just couldn’t imagine working to build systems designed to kill people.
I also passed on an opportunity to pursue a PhD studying fuzzy logic with Lotfi Zadeh at UCBerkely. If my dad had still been alive, I suspect he would have encouraged me on this, but I was looking at student debt already mounting, and took a position in the software industry.
@NormanDunbar
I met my husband of 41 years, age 16 in 1979 at a UFO gig at Lancaster Uni, I'd forgotten my ticket and had to rush back home to get it, we were on different coaches, organised by Earthquake records in Barrow, life can sometimes rely on the slenderest of margins..
@NormanDunbar in 2004 I left the tech sector to go and study Archaeology at University for 3 years, after which I worked for an archaeological field unit for a few years more before eventually coming back into the tech sector because the pay was better. But I was kind of starting again 🤔
@NormanDunbar
My mom talked me out of taking a VP position in a company that's now defunct and stick to my military retirement. I figured even if that happened, my CV would keep me afloat. I think she was right.
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