Major life tipping point, did you ever have one?

What was a major tipping point in your life? Think about the past and one decision had you made or not made it would have influenced your life greatly or negatively from there on. Maybe it was an investment, buying that house you could just afford, skipping college or going to a different college or even changing your major, having a child, etc.

Though I think I had maybe 3 tipping points in my life (could have been more) one of them I remember quite will it was back in the early 80’s the Internet porn stuff was just getting legs under it. I got an email (spam) offering me a chance to get in as a distributor of online smut, a turnkey operation where they basically provided everything I just maintained it afterwards. It would have cost me $500 abouts to get into it. I was thinking “who in their right mind will pay $2 a minute to have some woman talk smut to them?” I could have done it, it would have been a stretch for what I was earning at the time but it was doable; I passed on it though. Part of me didn’t care for that line of business because it felt icky.

Lo and be hold, Internet smut exploded and became HUGE. I was at a real estate seminar once and one of the big shots throwing it said he got his start up capital from online smut! I was floored. I was thinking I could have been in position to do what he did had I made that investment. It still haunts me to this day what life would have been like had I done it. To me that was a tipping point that tipped the wrong way. Can you think of what you did or didn’t that affected your “here and now”?