When did you realize your (semi) major life decision had gone bad?

[neuroman]

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I have about a million dollars that 90% of these posts are going to be about passively rather than actively messing your life up.

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True... but if "stayed at a crappy job for too long" was the bad, passive [censored] up, then what made you take the bad job in the first place? Was there any thought at all?

Or--if you are in a [censored] job, when did you become cognizant of that, and is it messing up your life bad enough that you should or are doing something about it?