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Biggest Career Regrets  AskMen Editors The following article is
written by Daniel Gulati, a tech entrepreneur based in New York,
and is reprinted with permission from It is unedited by AskMen.
What do you regret most about your career?   Ever since that
afternoon, I've been on a mission to categorically answer the
awkward but significant question of exactly what we'd do if we
could magically rewind our careers. The hope? That by exposing
what others are most disappointed about in their professional
lives, we're maximizing our chances of minimizing regret in our
own.   Here were the group's top five career regrets:  1. I wish
I hadn't taken the job for the money. By far the biggest regret
of all came from those who opted into high-paying but ultimately
dissatisfying careers. Classic research proves that compensation
is a "hygiene" factor, not a true motivator. What was
surprising, though, were the feelings of helplessness these
individuals were facing.