My Biggest Regret as a Programmer
He would have been unhappy with the other choice as well, because then it is the programming side he would be missing out on. I would advise everyone to read The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.poetryfoundation.org&#x2F;poem&#x2F;173536" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.poetryfoundation.org&#x2F;poem&#x2F;173536</a><p>You chose one option out of many, and the others may no longer be a possibility. However, the writer&#x27;s unhappiness does not spawn from his inability to be successful at what he does, but what the never-manifest possibility of what could have been. Maybe he would have been terrible at that kind of work. That doesn&#x27;t matter, because in his head, he had the skills but made a bad decision. Instead of looking at what he has achieved in his life and career as a programmer, he is pondering what could have been in a reality that is not, never was and never will be.<p>This kind of thinking leads one astray.<p>&gt;My sister started as a programmer 30 years ago but jumped into management  [...] My sister has 10X the assets I have.<p>I just have to say this: So typically american.