23, student, working part time as a tutor (for chilluns, not college level)
>Not doing more as a teen, more parties, more girls, more sports, more adventures, etc. I spent a lot of time just sitting at home. I still did some fun stuff, but I feel like I half-assed it.
>Losing touch with all of my friends. I'm terrible with time management and also a bit shy/awkward so it's hard for me to make time to hang out with people outside of work/school. I make friends easily with people around me but somehow it just doesn't work out when I have to actually make plans and go out of my way to see with them.
>Wasted the first 3-4 years of college just fucking around, failing stuff and changing my major twice. Again, terrible time management. Everyone my age is graduating and starting careers, I'm still in community college and living at home.
In general, most of my problems have been from mis-managing time and pussyfooting around shit. I wish I could have been less intimidated by stuff and been more assertive and proactive.
The upside is that while I was wasting time at school I was doing other things so now I have exponentially more life skills than most other college students. I have adult work experience, I can cook (actually cook, like with spices and shit, not just rice maker and microwave), fix cars/equipment, wood and metal working, some gardening/farming, take care of kids, all kinds of stuff.
I'm an after school program tutor. I started at 18 just as TA, but now I have my own class of 3rd graders. I also worked nights/weekends/summers at a resort, doing maintenance during the day and security at night. I spread myself pretty thin and even though I was fucking up at school I was learning a lot elsewhere. Dealing with kids and drunk adults who act like kids really cleared up a lot of social anxiety and lack of assertiveness for me. Now I walk, talk and act like a fucking man, not like a kid and everything is so much easier.