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://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/173536" rel="nofollow">http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/173536</a><p>You chose one option out of many, and the others may no longer be a possibility. However, the writer'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'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>>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.