Do you wish you worked harder in college or high school? So you could be light years ahead? Or do you feel like things are the way it is suppose to be

As somebody who worked incredibly hard in high school and college, got straight A's and an ulcer, I'm here to tell you it's overrated. Nobody has ever asked about my grades or my GPA. Sometimes I wish I had spent more time socializing and having fun when I was younger because it hasn't helped me at all!

Nah, not really. Wish I bought AAPL or NVDA 15 years ago.

I do wish I had known that getting into a top school is life changing. I simply didn't know any better at the time.

I was a great student in both high school and college. Book sense does not translate to the real world. Self-awareness, the right major, the right trade, world awareness, and confidence, and experience count for more.

I wish I had worked harder in my first few years out of college. I got a job that paid very little but felt like a lot to me and I just kind of fluffed off. I still wanted to party and live a college lifestyle and I made little effort to learn what I could from my seniors there.

Not in the least 🤣. I’m only 35 as of today and I’ve seen people who were straight A students working low to medium income jobs. Star athletes are homeless or security guards barely getting by.

My twin brother graduated from Hampton with a finance degree and is an Amazon Delivery Driver as of right now.

You’re exactly where you’re meant to be and if you want more, go for it, but don’t ever regret your past.

I wish I had worked harder in college. I didn't realize how much my GPA actually mattered and would hinder me from landing the jobs I really wanted. However, hindsight is 20/20.

Don’t regret the past, live in the present and you can succeed with hard work and dedication.
School matters very little vs. what you demonstrate on a daily basis at work.
You can go from entry level to CEO, but of course you must be exceptionally talented and hard working to do this.

I worked just hard enough in college to graduate with not stellar grades, but still 3.5 gpa. That was 20 years ago. I could have worked a little harder instead of socializing but the gpa doesn’t matter once you graduate and move past that first job.

I love my family, career, and the life we’ve built. But I do fantasize of having gone into the CIA after grad school and having a completely different life as a spy 😎

Define worked harder. I worked 28-30 hours a week to help pay for school. B+/A- student. I took one section of summer school every year starting after my Junior year of HS. I’d say I worked pretty hard for those 5 years.

I don't really wish I had worked "harder", per se, just that I had focused more on music. Had I locked in on that when learning was much easier, I could see myself being able to make an actual living as a musician. Instead, I make a living in financial services and just get to play music as a hobby.

Yes and no. It’d be nice to be better off in my career/financially. But I love my life and I wouldn’t trade it

I sometimes wish I had worked harder in high school and maybe done one of those programs where you earn your associates degree while finishing high school. I feel like that would’ve given me a Head-start that I’m desperately lacking now.

The strength of your school’s brand does matter. I graduated from Coastal Carolina, it’s more recognized now thanks to baseball and the occasional football run, but it’s not known for academics. In the northeast, though, everyone seems to know someone who went there, or knows someone’s kid who did.

I was accepted to Vanderbilt, and hindsight being 20/20, part of me wishes I’d gone. Downtown Nashville would’ve been a blast.

But then I think… I wouldn’t have met my wife, wouldn’t have my two beautiful kids, wouldn’t have gone through the struggles with alcoholism, treatment, anxiety, depression, panic disorder, or insomnia. All of that shaped me. You take the good with the bad, and as long as the good outweighs it, the bad matters less.

Our household income is over $750K. Sure, maybe if I’d gone somewhere else, I’d be 15–20% higher. But I’ll take the trade-off.

Definitely high school. I think there was some prime time to take some easy wins there that my lazier teen self didn't acknowledge.

I wish I had done things a little different when I went to college.

I had talked myself out of a Finance or Accounting degree and into a Business Admin degree. A few years later I did go back and got my Bachelor degree in Accounting.

Wish I invested in Bitcoin, Tesla, and Nvidia back then

Sometimes I wish I did less in high school and socialized more but ngl life is kind of exactly where I want it to be.

I’m 27f, i make 125k, I’m a finance lead, i can buy what i want, travel where I want, do what I want. I can afford my life in la.

I think what counts the most is not missing windows of time where you must get a job. And you must do an internship and you must set yourself up that honestly without my mom I would have failed to have seen value in any of it at 20. I think now I appreciate timing way more than anything.