It wouldn't help if you went ssf, but if you're in a trade league and asked in general for regrets to respec your first build, ppl would happily give them to you.
It is a bit of a backwards system, when you're learning how to play it's hard to get enough regrets to do a full respec and then once you don't need regrets you'll be swimming in them
How fucked would it be reading online that you may lose your job..