....  so much springs to mind, BUT if I took my advice then I wouldn't have my kids!!

So... assuming I would have my kids anyway, it would be... 

Stay at BT, put in for a transfer somewhere far far away

&... 

tequila - its nasty.  Don't do it!

Just go home and stop pretending you like living in a shady midden of a flat 300 miles away! Oh, and drink more tequila

"Do you're effin homework and stop skiving!!!" 

YES!!!! tequilla is nasty, id agree. I'll add that to my list.

Id say dont spend time worrying that you cant do stuff, just do it, worry about it if you are to fail at it. 
Dont waste time or money on people you dont really like or who dont like you. 
Dont rush into relationships and learn to listen to your gut!

if I told my 17 year old self not to rush into relationships she wouldn't have listened to me..  plus to her seeing someone out in the pub twice... and snogging both times before suddenly being an item, meant you weren't rushing it

yeah.. thats a good one.

I would probably add to that... "you are actually quite bright, school just didn't interest you.  Stay on and you will enjoy it more"

"Try Tequilla!!" 

noooo..  just reading the word makes my stomach churn!

Stop worrying about what other people might think of you and do what you want to do and enjoy yourself 

Don't go horse riding in Gran Canaria!

Call off the engagement, buy the horse and don't listen to any advice from your family, do your own thing....

true there's that saying isnt there that goes something like, never worry what anyone else thinks of you because they are too busy worrying what other people think of them to notice you.

hahaha

Stonks.... if you can't find your 17 yr old self... could you hunt mine down and tell her that!    Your list would work for me!

Never ever buy a house in turkey

Will do Ditty, would your 17yr old self like to come and join the Police force with me?....

wise words Gypsie but at 17 I wouldn't have headed them   I was too busy making sure I wasn't a disgrace to the extended family 

leave home NOW!!!!!

I remember quite clearly telling my 17 year old sister ( back in the day) not to worry about people talking about, give then something to talk about because they're going to talk about you anyway. She took my advice

I would have told myself to stay away from the batman artist. Oh and the art tutor.

oh aye

No don't I'll hurl.

Choose different A-levels and degree

i'd tell myself to live a life and not to worry about everything

Hmmm........I think if I hadn't have made the mistakes I made, and hadn't gone down the routes I took, I wouldn't be where I am today, I wouldn't have my son, and I wouldn't know and love the people (apart from my blood family) I know now, and I wouldn't have the life I have now. I am very happy with what I have so I I am glad I can't change things.

He's definately for keeps but call your mum and don't move away, cos she dies young and you'll regret living so far away for so long................ Other than that nothing really in my head im still 17!

no, not really 

awww Jen 

I wanted to join the Police but you had to be 5'2" then and I'm only 5' so they wouldn't have me 

Don't go on your first diet, you're not fat, just not naturally skinny....and dieting makes you fat...Oh and don't drink Blue Nun, it makes you v v poorly

Don't go down the local on the 10th of May in two years time !
But on the second Sat of june 2000 put these numbers on the lotto

Don't tell him you're pregnant and as soon as that baby comes out ffs exercise and cut out the crap!  Then I'd do everything else exactly the same

Don't chuck him because he's a crap kisser cos one day he  just MIGHT be richer than the Queen.    <sigh>  

ahh, and nobody ever tells you about the power that young women have, you only realise it when you dont have it anymore

You have got worth
You are attractive.
Just wait awhile..

That is sooo true! I'm almost 28 and i've lost it, didnt know i had it til it was gone! lol

I've still got it but I don't have homes all over the world    

aww hoobs,