Between the ages of 17 and 21 I went out with my first girlfriend. She was 2 years older than me. In the 80's she wanted to "do something wild" and suggested we travel for a year. I was a few years into what I hoped was going to be a successful career in banking and was hoping to put my foot on the second step of the career ladder so didn't want to risk it. After much discussion and heated arguments we split up. She wanted a clean break so we had no contact with each other for about a month.
I finally realised I had made a huge mistake and went round to her parents house where she still lived.
Her mum told me she had flown to New York the previous day with £5000 to her name.
This was before the days of social media, emails, mobile phones & texting etc so I had no way to contact her.
She didn’t return for six years.
Having always been quirky and fashionable, what she had thought was a talent for design and fashion turned out in fact to be genius. She is now a multi multi millionaire.
Its not the money that bothers me, its the fact she was "the one."
Something similar but the opposite for me.
Early 20's and I was doing a job overseas that I loved but the pay was crap.
Saw a job that would be Married status and would fulfil my then GF's dream of the expat life.
Just before I quit my low paid job I was offered a foothold on a ladder with my (then) current company that would have taken me down a very rare path to what would be any blokes dream job.
Cant say too much as it is a very very small field but I would certainly ended up at the top of a very small ladder with a job that would have paid 6 figures way back in the mid 80's. Fuck knows what it pays now.
Anyway as you can probably guess I took the job with Married status and my GF promptly left me before I had even started it.
My career has not panned out too badly in all fairness and I do a job that is well interesting and pretty well paid but I do always think of that job and the fact that I could have been retired years ago instead of still working in my mid 50's.
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