My hardest decisions I have made.

Like most people, I have had to make several hard decisions that have shaped my life. I had a few choices that, through hindsight, could have led me on a different path, but I can’t change the past.
My first decision was to move states to run a kitchen. This should have been for only one year, but I stayed for the next twenty years. My boss offered me to move to organise the new kitchen, except when I arrived the manager and the staff thought I was there to fire or be the new manager. This was different, but trying to fix anything was stalled by the other employees and the manager. When the boss came to check out the kitchen, it was still a mess, and I was chewed out by him. I decided to stay at the job even though it was horrible to work there because I moved in with my sister. She had a new baby, and I wanted to stay with my family.
The next significant choice was going to university. After years of working the job, I needed to change direction and was talented in mathematics. This meant I left my job as the university was in a different city. I still wanted to work, but I need help with the travel. The drawback of the university was a social life. Being a chef, you only have a little social life, and that changed when you worked from 50 hours a week to 20 hours a week with full-time study. I then went hard hanging out with new friends, and this caused me to fail my course and get kicked out. It was my choice, and I don’t regret my path, as I also discovered that I am not much of a student.
The most recent one was choosing to become my mother’s carer and becoming an author. I still worked as a chef many years after trying to become a mathematician. This came to a head when I was doing errands for my disabled mother, but she was becoming more dependent on my help. So, I quit my job, and while looking after my mother, I started to write. During the first month of looking after her, I was kicked out by my housemate and lost my girlfriend. It took me months to get over these setbacks. I eventually moved in with my mother and became her full-time caregiver.
I finished the novel and three novellas while caring for my mother. Looking back at all my decisions, I ended up in the best place. Now, I have a new decision to make as my mother has passed away, and I decided to get training in individual support so I can take everything I learned from caring for my mother into a new career.