if you had opportunity to start again what mistakes would you avoid ?

[hyperD]

Worked less, partied more.

[oscarose]

Partied less, worked more.

[Mich the Tester]

I would invest half the money I spent on booze, drugs and hookers for the first ten years. By 2008, with the booming stock market and what not, that would have been worth about 7 million quid.

And now you'd have about 50p left?

[Sausage Surprise]

Started contracting 5 years earlier

[doodab]

And now you'd have about 50p left?

Now I'd be retired.

[jmo21]

in 2005, we moved to another country for a permie job as I thought it would be a great "career move".

Moved home in late 07 as we were homesick and I started contracting at that point.

Wish we'd just stayed here, and I started contracting instead of hoping I would find a good permie job.

[louie]

Would have taken more care with my accountants and finances. Would have not bought such a large house and would have been mortgage free by now.

[escapeUK]

Would have not taken so much bulltulip and boredom in my permie job and quit about 8 years sooner.

[d000hg]

Contracting related... nothing really. More generally I'd have put our house on the market 1 year earlier (which is when my gut told me it needed to be) and sold it at a profit rather than end up stuck with it worth 2/3 what we paid for it in an area nobody wants.

Constant thorn in my side, being an accidental landlord of a house in a poor, DSS-heavy area. Every time the agent phones my stomach tenses expecting to hear it's been trashed

[doodab]

I would eat more fibre as well.