Things you'd tell your 16 year old self...

ANGLICANPAT

1) Whatever avenue you take, keep records religiously of all your financial transactions your employment life and your tax affairs . It just makes life so much easier !!!

marleyboy

"Buy shares in Microsoft........You'll thank you for it later."

Eco_Miser

Doshwaster wrote: »

Isn't that what Google Street View is doing now?

http://time.com/72563/google-maps-street-view-time-lapse-launches/

Yes, 50 years too late.

Ooh, extra note to my 16-year old self: rig a camera to a car and drive down all the streets in the world taking pictures.

marleyboy

Eco_Miser wrote: »

Yes, 50 years too late.

Ooh, extra note to my 16-year old self: rig a camera to a car and drive down all the streets in the world taking pictures.

Aside from the costs, imagine all that 35mm film your gonna need.

Eco_Miser

marleyboy wrote: »

Aside from the costs, imagine all that 35mm film your gonna need.

Yeah, that's probably two reasons I didn't do it.

Sam_Fallow

Lucius. 14/1 in the Grand National

Apodemus

Read "richest man in Babylon". Given the style, I would probably not have got past the first page at 16, but understanding the "rules of money" at 16 would have been good!

missyrichards

gadgetmind wrote: »

If someone makes an informed decision to go down a more vocational route rather than higher education, well that's fine with me, However, pushing not going to university as generic advice to young people is going a little too far!

But it isn't what advice you would give to a random 16 year old, it's what you would have said to yourself at 16.:)

gadgetmind

missyrichards wrote: »

But it isn't what advice you would give to a random 16 year old, it's what you would have said to yourself at 16.:)

Ah, fair enough. In that case, my advice would be "Ignore anyone who says eduction isn't important as they simply don't have a clue."

matttye

Go into law and don't have a gap year.