Insignificant Decisions

katiewhompus

What seemingly insignificant decisions changed your life?

When I was touring my college campus I saw a cute guy promoting dining services. I signed up for a job expecting to leave it once school started. I met my best friends from that job and it made college amazing.

H and I both started working at PSmart within 3 months of each other on a whim. He wanted a job that paid him to work nights and I just wanted something for the holiday season. We both turned into managers within a year of employment.

vegasgroom

I built a website to put some offensive jokes on-line that my school would not let me host on their network, next thing you know it turned into a huge business; all I wanted was a place to put some funny jokes for friends to see lol.  Of course this was back in the dark ages when there weren't ten million sites doing the exact same thing as everyone else, so the same success is a lot less common these days.

pixiedust84

I decided to accompany my girlfriend to the bar on a random Monday night and I met Fi!

I decided on a whim to go to the dermatologist because a friend said she got great skin tips there - and they found a malignant melanoma. So that not only changed my life but it actually saved my life!

pixiedust84

Vegas - is the site still up?

LesPaul

A professor asked me if I would be interested in an internship with a CPA firm - he knew the partners.  He didn't sound too enthusiastic about it, but I said, sure, why not?  That internship led to a solild 20+ year career that I'm still enjoying.

MarriedInAFever

I wrote a editor to the letter of my favorite publication and ended up writing for them months later.

LessThanZero

Similar to your story KW- When I was in my my first year of college I worked at the same small clothing store in my town that I'd worked at for two years prior during high school. Previously, we had hired a new employee who I ended up befriending and after some time went by she left to go work at a radiology center on the other side of town. I was looking to get out of retail and she told me they were hiring, with the bonus being paid more hourly. I applied, got the job and ended up meeting 3 of my current best friends who are now in my BP.  That was almost 8 years ago.

Nebb

When I was 19 I was dating this AWFUL guy, who treated me badly and cheated on me, and moved 3 hours away to go to school and live near him. It lasted one month after I moved before he dumped me, but if I hadnt have moved there I wouldnt have befriended Adam who I soon started dating and am now married to

Anysunrise

I don't really have any past deciding to play WoW, and as a result, meeting FI. Although that's a pretty big event.

pixiedust84

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[QUOTE]What seemingly insignificant decisions changed your life? <strong>When I was touring my college campus I saw a cute guy promoting dining services. I signed up for a job expecting to leave it once school started</strong>. I met my best friends from that job and it made college amazing. H and I both started working at PSmart within 3 months of each other on a whim. He wanted a job that paid him to work nights and I just wanted something for the holiday season. We both turned into managers within a year of employment.
Posted by katiewhompus[/QUOTE]

So funny. I would totally do that.

katiewhompus

Nebb, that's how I got to the DC area too. Bf at the time made the deal with me that we would live outside DC for 1 year and then go to Indiana for my grad school. He refused to move but by then I was already falling for H and no longer cared.

Celles

Several months before I met him, FI and his WoW-playing friends decided to start new characters on a new server.  Some of their group wanted to play Alliance and some wanted to play Horde.   (These are the two opposing factions in the game.)  They ended up taking a "secret vote" to decide which faction would win out. 

The friend they picked to count the votes cheated, telling them that Horde won, when in fact every other person in the group voted Alliance.  By the time they realized they'd been tricked, they'd already gotten 20 or so levels on their new Horde characters and didn't want to start the game all again.

A few months later, I met FI in-game.  I was Horde.  If he had been Alliance, then we would never have met because Horde and Alliance characters can't communicate. 

JenGin74

I was perusing an online dating site and came across a picture of some random guy. I sent him a message saying "You're pretty hot. Message me if you'd like". I didn't really think anything of it at the time. We've been married for 345 days.

DodgersBride

I left my first job at a place I liked to something closer to home with better pay in an industry I knew nothing about.

FI left his job in that same industry that he had since he was 17 to work for my company. He was here 6 months and got a better offer at his old company.

Had we not changed jobs we wouldn't have met.

LessThanZero

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[QUOTE]I was perusing an online dating site and came across a picture of some random guy. I sent him a message saying "You're pretty hot. Message me if you'd like". I didn't really think anything of it at the time. We've been married for 345 days.
Posted by JenGin74[/QUOTE]


Aww, that's cute Jen. You really are quite a saucy lady!

JenGin74

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Insignificant Decisions : Aww, that's cute Jen. You really are quite a saucy lady!
Posted by LessThanZero[/QUOTE]

That kinda makes me sound like a hoar because as we all know saucy = hoar  <img src="http://cdn.cl9.vanillaforums.com/downloaded/ver1.0/content/scripts/tinymce/plugins/emotions/images/smiley-embarassed.gif" border="0" alt="Embarassed" title="Embarassed" />

reddy123

My H was referred to his job by my old boss at an ice cream shop, now he is the boss and has found his calling (I'm jealous of the latter).

I was crossing a busy street and saw an old friend's sister. I gave her my number to give to her brother and we've been best friends ever since. It has been a really adventurous friendship (hiking, tennis, inner tubing) and I was just thinking the other day how awesome it is we re-met.

KaylaSue19

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[QUOTE]When I was 19 I was dating this AWFUL guy, who treated me badly and cheated on me, and moved 3 hours away to go to school and live near him. It lasted one month after I moved before he dumped me, but if I hadnt have moved there I wouldnt have befriended Adam who I soon started dating and am now married to :)
Posted by Nebb[/QUOTE]

That is almost exactly what happened to me. I was also 19 with a horrible BF (funny enough, his name was Adam).  I followed him to California from Idaho. The situation there with his family was so messed up that we planned to come out to MN. He sent me first to get settled then dumped me through text message 2 weeks after I got here. If that hadn't happened I would have never met H.

NatesGirl16

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[QUOTE]I was perusing an online dating site and came across a picture of some random guy. I sent him a message saying "You're pretty hot. Message me if you'd like". I didn't really think anything of it at the time. We've been married for 345 days.
Posted by JenGin74[/QUOTE]
That's how you got me, too.

JenGin74

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Insignificant Decisions : That's how you got me, too.
Posted by NatesGirl16[/QUOTE]

You make me happy

heather011

One of my first ever classes at university had group work, and the prof just split us up into groups depending on where we happened to be sitting.  I got paired up with the cute boy across the aisle from me who is now my husband.  Thank goodness for group work!

missy68

I was modding a chat room, and this guy came in and talked about how cute my picture was (typical pickup-style line) I went along with it for a while, and agreed to talk with him in MSN while he was on his work break. 
Turned out to be a much better chatter one on one than in a chat room (oh, he was awful lame), and he asked if he could call me. He warned me he sounded like Kermit with a mouth full of gravel. We talked for a long time, he ended up spending his vacation in NC (bringing his dirt bike, so he could go riding while I worked), and as of tomorrow, we've been married 13 months and living together 2 1/2 years.

A girl in the chat room at the same time said to me she thought I was crazy talking to him, so she was tickled to death when we got married (and to find out he really WAS normal). And, oh dear Lord, do my parents and brother/SIL like him.

avsfan33

I was going to one of the best schools in Ontario, 17 hours from where I was from. I loved it and made massive amounts of friends. It pulled me out of my shyness and I loved everything I was learning. I hated the area. No offense to anyone living in the GTA area but I do not like Southwestern Ontario at all. At the end of the semester I decided to withdraw and take a few months off of school. I came home and worked two jobs - one as a grocery store clerk and the other as a bartender. I worked 7 days a week, sometimes 18 hours a day.

I had applied to a school that was 3 hours away and was accepted immediately but not until the September term. In August I moved up and lived with 2 other girls. I was answering questions on the FB group for our school and random people kept adding me. One day this guy posted "well now I'm in ____" so I said welcome to ___. We started talking about classes and started texting. Eventually we met up and started hanging out - every single day. We started dating and now we're engaged.

jemmini6

I was out with a bunch of friends one night and my roommate and I were splitting rounds.  I didn't want another one, but my roommate did and it was my turn to buy so I gave in and ended up going up to the bar to get some drinks.  That's when I started talking to my now FI.  We talked for about 2 and a half hours at the bar, went on our first date the next night and the rest is history.  Had I decided against having another beer (not like I drank a ton, it was only our 3rd beer after being out for almost 4 hours), I never would have gone to the bar and met FI.

Crazy to think of how the littlest things turn out to be such huge game-changers in your life.  Makes you wonder what little things you didn't do that could've changed your life significantly....