well its worked out for me, so i cannot complain.

but then again, success and failure are both within the spectrum of possibilities. the key to not regretting a decision is to establish, on a pre-decision basis, a set of potential outcomes and probabilities of each decision branch, then where ever you end up, you do not regret because u recognize that it is within the spectrum of possibilities you had allowed for when you made the decision to go in.

so if i ended up with a $4k to 5k pm job, i still would not have allowed myself to regret the decision because its a potential outcome I had envisaged going in