[DJ's left nut]

That I never Served.

At the very least, I went to Law School to go into the JAG corps. Got waitlisted, took a job. Got accepted but felt I owed it to the firm that took a flyer on me to play it out. If I wasn't going to grab a rifle and stand a post, I should have at LEAST done the Jag thing.

But inertia took over. I've done well enough and things have turned out pretty nicely for me (most days). But I can't imagine even a short term in JAG would've changed things THAT much and maybe I'd have gone career. Hell, I'd be nearing retirement eligibility as a Lt. Col at worst right about now.

{shrug}

Also wish I'd have left the state for school at least once. Undergrad doesn't bother me much -- that was free college, seemed silly to turn that down. But I had some pretty nice little acceptance letters from schools across the country for law school and I just kinda let inertia and a little laziness win that battle again. Didn't feel like going through the headache of moving to NY or NC or Texas or Colorado or Massachusetts (funny enough, with a handful of top 50 schools accepting me, it was the damn party schools in AZ that said thanks but no thanks; I'll always kinda get a kick out of that...)

So again, I took the scholarship and the simpler route. At some point I should've grabbed my nuts and gotten out of the midwest for awhile. Or at the very least gone to Wash U, paid a hell of a lot more but I'd have had to push myself harder.

I think my issue was a realization that I can do well at about 70% effort most of the time so that's just kinda what I did. And eventually you're gonna find yourself wishing you'd have maxed out a bit more at least a time or two.