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What are some of the most significant choices you made during your 20s?

2621 sats \ 51 comments \ @BTCFC 16 Jul alter_native

Here are 5 of mine:

Choosing not to complete a 4 year degree.
Choosing to start a serious relationship with my girlfriend.
Choosing to learn everything I could about Bitcoin and choosing to save in it.
Choosing to quit my job and go all in on getting the absolute most out of my athletic career.
Choosing to travel to Thailand.

What are some of the most significant choices you made during your 20s?

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198 sats \ 2 replies \ @speakingyourtruth 16 Jul

Choosing the black sheep life, become the best version of myself, and give no shits what anyone thinks.
Choosing to work jobs with unfixed schedules because I value my freedom and time over everything else. Fuck full time jobs.
Choosing myself, because I am all that matters at the end of the day.
Choosing to actually finish my book and spread value to the people and hoping they heard through my words. 📕
Choosing to be in a serious relationship with my would be husband.
Choosing to save in BTC.
Choosing to travel and explore the world whenever and wherever I want to.

13 sats \ 0 replies \ @Fabs 17 Jul

Looks like we're the same in that regard.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @BTCFC OP 16 Jul

Heck yes!

163 sats \ 1 reply \ @petertodd 16 Jul

Quitting the day job to do Bitcoin full time.

5 sats \ 0 replies \ @BTCFC OP 16 Jul

So awesome! What sort of work do you do for Bitcoin?

44 sats \ 2 replies \ @Msd0457890 16 Jul

I have particularly taken my life plan to the letter: # I decided to take singing classes. #Travel to my country Venezuela. #Being able to advance down the bitcoin rabbit hole.

13 sats \ 1 reply \ @BTCFC OP 16 Jul

Awesome, thank you for sharing! What genres do you like singing?

23 sats \ 0 replies \ @Msd0457890 16 Jul

I sing various genres but I lean towards salsa and merengue.

33 sats \ 3 replies \ @Carresan 16 Jul

Leave job in my country and move to another one with different language and culture. Also making new friends.

13 sats \ 2 replies \ @BTCFC OP 16 Jul

If you don't mind me asking, where did you move and what was the experience like?

Thanks for sharing!

23 sats \ 1 reply \ @Carresan 16 Jul

From Spain to Uk. Different language, different times to eat ( quiet common to have lunch around 3 pm in Spain, dinner 9:30-10) and socialise. I must say I was very fortunate as I was received very well. Lots of support at the beginning. I spent 5 years there. My experience was great.

13 sats \ 0 replies \ @BTCFC OP 16 Jul

That's fantastic! I actually did something similar, went from US to UK (2 years) to Spain (3 years), some of the most important years of my life!

160 sats \ 3 replies \ @k00b 16 Jul

get a 4 year degree after not graduating from high school
embrace animal protein and fat
quit my job
start reading academic literature
start believing my emotions are telling me fractional truths about something rather than treating them as if they're irrelevant

23 sats \ 0 replies \ @BTCFC OP 16 Jul

Love them all! Thanks for sharing!

10 sats \ 1 reply \ @Bell_curve 16 Jul

Regarding point 5, emotions, my mistake in the past has been over-reaction not reaction

13 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 16 Jul

Over-reaction was a problem for me when I was young, but I avoided/dealt with the consequences by distrusting and repressing my emotions. It's a tricky balance.

77 sats \ 0 replies \ @Natalia 16 Jul

quit working for others
started to write and learned how to build things
became a nomad and settled down in Türkiye during the pandemic
found out about Bitcoin

👀

45 sats \ 0 replies \ @Athena 17 Jul

I decide to complete my degree in education
I choose to get married.

43 sats \ 0 replies \ @BitcoinAbhi 17 Jul

Leave my home town and shift to metro city.

68 sats \ 4 replies \ @flat24 17 Jul

WoW my 20's. without a doubt the best choices during my 20's were.

Leaving my parents' house and learning to be independent
leaving university and realizing that a piece of cardboard does not determine your status or your chances of achieving success. (that led me to find my true vocation and profession) 3 . Leave dating and dedicate time to myself until the ideal girl appears and start a home (4 years of being single until I met the mother of my second daughter and current partner)
Put aside alcohol consumption, in any type of relationship. occasions, no matter
Last but not least, buy my longboard and start skating (this last one has been the best of all, it has taken me to incredible places and achieved things that I never thought I would do, I always wanted to skate since I was I was a child and then a teenager, but I never had the opportunity until I was 20 when I was already generating my own money, derived from my effort and work. It was then that I decided to start and it was too fantastic, one of my best experiences in what I have of life) 😌

16 sats \ 1 reply \ @Signal312 17 Jul

Would love to hear more about the longboard story, sounds interesting!

13 sats \ 0 replies \ @flat24 17 Jul

the truth! If I have some anecdotes that you might like haha I will make a post in the photography area to share some stories and some photos from my time skating on the longboard. thanks for the idea 💡☺️

3 sats \ 1 reply \ @BTCFC OP 17 Jul

Some very significant choices indeed! Thank you for sharing, very inspiring stuff!

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @flat24 17 Jul

thanks for appreciating it! 🤜🤛

55 sats \ 0 replies \ @DesertDave 17 Jul

Having children Purchasing a home Taking ownership of a business

103 sats \ 0 replies \ @Satosora 17 Jul

Simplifying my life. Dríving an old beat up car. Exercising. Taking time for personal development.

133 sats \ 0 replies \ @anna 17 Jul

Taking the plunge to travel solo
Moving across the country
Deciding to leave behind the path I had been forging though years and years of education, also leaving behind the stability (e.g. consistent paycheck) I had been striving for
Going all in on my spiritual pursuits

23 sats \ 0 replies \ @TheWildHustle 17 Jul

Leaving the military
Getting Married
Freelancing
Buying a Condo
Focusing on Bitcoin

23 sats \ 1 reply \ @joda 17 Jul

Condoms.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @BTCFC OP 17 Jul

That is actually a solid one haha!

23 sats \ 2 replies \ @Signal312 17 Jul

My most significant choise was - choosing to travel and focus on career, ahead of relationships and starting a family.

Other people are taking this question as "what are the best choices you made in your 20's".

But I'm taking it as written, the most significant choices. And delaying relationships/family was a significant choice.

It's one that I would have made differently could I do it over again.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @BTCFC OP 17 Jul

Thank you for your response and even as the one who wrote this post, your distinction between significant and best has got me thinking about choices I have made in my 20s that were significant but maybe not the best or most positive.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 17 Jul

Good honest comment

23 sats \ 1 reply \ @NRS 17 Jul

It's beautiful when a person sets their goals and begins to pursue them. Some of us lack the drive to work towards achieving our goals, but taking steps in the right direction can inspire positive energy in the environment.

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 17 Jul

Scott Adams wrote a book about process/system vs goals/outcomes

If you focus on cultivating a good process or system, you will achieve desirable outcomes which still are not your focus

23 sats \ 0 replies \ @pakovm 17 Jul

Deciding to not finish my university in order to move out of the 3rd world hellhole I was living in ASAP.
Accepting that ADHD was really affecting my life and finally taking medication.
Quit smoking.
Moving to my girl's place.
Chosing to save in Bitcoin.

23 sats \ 1 reply \ @BitcoinIsTheFuture 17 Jul

Getting a good job in IT leadership to align financial independence
living out my childhood dream of becoming a professional runner. Made it close top 55 at the Boston Marathon and almost qualifying for the Olympic Trials.
traveling a lot for fun. Ie bike trips in Europe
investing in myself - faith, fitness, fun

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @BTCFC OP 17 Jul

Wow as a fellow athlete, much respect and admiration for you becoming a professional runner!

23 sats \ 0 replies \ @cryotosensei 17 Jul

Leaving my job at a junior college to teach at a polytechnic. While this might have set my career back a bit, I got to experience a different system and even take my students abroad to countries like Vietnam and China. Fun times!

23 sats \ 0 replies \ @Lita 16 Jul

Memilih untuk tidak menyelesaikan gelar 4 tahun

23 sats \ 0 replies \ @zapsammy 16 Jul

running a hospitality business and working a part-time teaching job while in high-level schooling program. continuing to travel and date. the real education was in exploring the limits of my abilities.

23 sats \ 4 replies \ @SpaceHodler 16 Jul

Moving to a different country.

P.S. you're a leet sat stacker.

https://m.stacker.news/40055

13 sats \ 3 replies \ @BTCFC OP 16 Jul

Where did you move and why was it significant?

Sorry what did you mean with your PS?

Thanks for sharing!

23 sats \ 2 replies \ @SpaceHodler 16 Jul

I moved to the UK, a country with a different language and culture. And started a new life, leaving the old one behind.

Re: the PS - 1337 sats, 1337 is a meme.

10 sats \ 1 reply \ @Bell_curve 16 Jul

https://search.brave.com/search?q=1337+meaning&source=desktop&summary=1&summary_og=bf6ab6e7c527dda43e69ca

13 sats \ 0 replies \ @BTCFC OP 17 Jul

Ohh interesting! Did not know this thanks both of you for teaching me something new!

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @TNStacker 17 Jul

It was the 80s. Bad choices that led to wisdom and perspective.

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @Coinsreporter 17 Jul

Started working right after I completed my graduation. Saving and then investing in Gold and real estate, low amounts. Nothing else. You can say I was bit more money minded in 20s.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @oomahq 17 Jul

Probably above anything else, choosing to work towards owning my time.

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