In reply to Bobling:
early 90s i was in a job and was recommended that i take one of several opportunities to progress with that career path. instead i chose to f*ck the entire thing off and go to university instead.
i dont regret the choice at all - university lead to a much greater diversity of life choices, some of which actually came full circle to connect back to the earlier choice in a much more healthy way - but i do sometimes wonder what might have been and who i would have become.
another time i was on a ferry to corfu and was idly drawing a picture of the boats fittings when 2 guys asked if i was an artist. i said not really, but still they asked me to come to athens to work in a studio building huge puppets for european festivals.
i had a gig at the time so declined, again no regrets, but would have been interesting.
in the consulting business ive been asked to relocate for similar work several times. mostly its be a no brainer 'no', but some choices have made me think harder, being more unusual locations, urumqi, tashkent, chongqing and mazar-e-sharif amongst them.