As someone who's done a massive fuck-up when it comes to choice of education I wouldn't change a thing. My life has been far from perfect and there are of course things I wish wouldn't be the way it is, but it has all ended up at a point where I am actually quite satisfied with how things are.
I didn't complete my first line of education and dropped out and started a new field (which I actually applied for the first time around), but I did gain some valuable experience, some good friends and I actually managed to get two part time jobs out of it (one that paid EXTREMELY well). When I started my second education I ended up meeting people I most likely wouldn't have met if I had started right away and now some of these are among my closest friends.
Now I am working on my master thesis while simultaneously being paid as a scientific assistant for working on a research project. This may sound like an exaggeration, but that's as close to my dream job I could possibly come and something I kinda thought would never happen. If the timing had been different I might not have been able to do any of this. I'll keep my regrets and sorrows and learn from them while also acknowledging how lucky I've been.
I didn't complete my first line of education and dropped out and started a new field (which I actually applied for the first time around), but I did gain some valuable experience, some good friends and I actually managed to get two part time jobs out of it (one that paid EXTREMELY well). When I started my second education I ended up meeting people I most likely wouldn't have met if I had started right away and now some of these are among my closest friends.
Now I am working on my master thesis while simultaneously being paid as a scientific assistant for working on a research project. This may sound like an exaggeration, but that's as close to my dream job I could possibly come and something I kinda thought would never happen. If the timing had been different I might not have been able to do any of this. I'll keep my regrets and sorrows and learn from them while also acknowledging how lucky I've been.