Many years back a long time neighbor and friend of our family who runs a successful pharmaceutical business told my father one night for me to come over to his house for a business offer as he knew I had been out of a job for a while, at the time I was in a really bad place in my life mentally and the idea of any responsibility like that frightened me and I ended up passing up on that opportunity. My neighbors business was doing really well and only got better over the years and I've always wondered what would have happened if I had at least talked to him about it.Fast forward to today I've held a job for almost a year (dead end 9-5er), but am mentally comfortable and able to maintain the job where I was not able to in the past. My father informed me not too long ago that I probably would have made low six figures if I had taken his offer due to the businesses wild success.Should I consider the possibility of taking a chance and engaging my neighbor regarding that opportunity? A large part of me is ashamed I didn't take such a potential offer at the time but I was so unreliable in my own goals that I'm almost glad I didn't seeing as how I'd dropped out of college, struggled to hold jobs for more than a year and often get carried away with losing myself in the virtual world of games. Only because I've changed my ideals and proven to myself I am capable of performing responsibly has the thought of chasing down that past opportunity come to mind. via /r/business http://ift.tt/2C6VvM9
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