The Thread for Those in their Mid to Late `20s

[Catman]

Being in your mid to late `20s kinda sucks if you haven't really changed that much since college. Everybody is off getting married and having kids. I need new friends.

But seriously...I'm not a marriage type person but I do plan on having kids at some point. I don't wanna wait till I'm 40. I don't wanna be one of those old farts who can't play football with their kids cause they'll break something!

And yes, Mee, this is what people at this age think about. Have fun you 17-year-old bastard!

 

[SuperFerret]

I'm still in college.

 

[Eggyman]

I'm 29 and couldn't give a ****. lol

Age only matters if you let it. I've changed a lot since my early twenties... but for the better in most respects.

I'm like a fine wine; I go down well with drunken girls.

 

[Manic]

I'm 24, and just now started to think about my future. My life sucks, but I'm still young enough to make it un-suck. Right? Right??

 

[Eggyman]

Of course! Don't get too caught up in thinking about your future though, dewd. Go out and be proactive and your future will follow. I've got friends who've sat round thinking about their future and sh** themselves when they've finally realised that it's now the past.

Go go go!

 

[DorneyDave]

I'm 22 and about to graduate college with a degree in something I really don't like, Journalism. (It's a long story but it was too late/costly to switch into something else right now)

It just kinda hit me this fall about my future and I started to really stress over it, so much so that it started getting to my health and was leading to depression. It was just like a big freight train of "What now?" I got over it mostly though and started just to realize that whatever is going to happen is going to happen. I still think about it alot and stress about what the future will bring, but not as bad as I did before.

For me success will be defined as being happy and not living in a box and starving. So, maybe I'm setting the bar low but I've never been the go-getter type which may change after I'm in the real world for a year or two but who knows. I've just always been the type who says "I'm just living my life and doing the best I can and If I don't end up with the white-pickett fence mansion...whatever...as long as I'm happy" It does kinda suck right now with all the uncertainty and changes but it's just one of those periods in life I guess. I try not to obsess over it because worrying about the future TOO much really ruins my present. I'm trying to go day by day. It doesn't help with everyone telling you that "the best years are over now!" almost everyday.

As for the marriage and kids stuff, none of my friends are into that quite yet and I don't see that stuff coming anytime soon so that doesn't enter my mind.

But yeah here's to the mid-late 20's! Confusion, uncertainty and no health insurance!

 

[gap5ewl]

I'm 29 and couldn't give a ****. lol

Age only matters if you let it. I've changed a lot since my early twenties... but for the better in most respects.

I'm like a fine wine; I go down well with drunken girls.

 

[SuBe]

I'm 26, and have been in the same industry since I was 20. I just joined Facebook. It's great to see a bunch of people I went to high school with Married with Kids, or off doing well. Then, it's great to see those pompous asses in School doing ****** too.

You think more about the future at this age, and less about the present. At least I do.

 

[Eggyman]

I'm 26, and have been in the same industry since I was 20. I just joined Facebook. It's great to see a bunch of people I went to high school with Married with Kids, or off doing well. Then, it's great to see those pompous asses in School doing ****** too.

You think more about the future at this age, and less about the present. At least I do.

That's cool, because then when you're in the future you'll be thinking about the past.

lol

 

[WompuM]

Though only 20, I face graduation in May. I'm moving to Chicago for law school and am going to financially independent and will move into an apartment with the gf before the year is out. Scared ****less to be honest with you.

 

[Paradyme]

Being in your mid to late `20s kinda sucks if you haven't really changed that much since college. Everybody is off getting married and having kids. I need new friends.

But seriously...I'm not a marriage type person but I do plan on having kids at some point. I don't wanna wait till I'm 40. I don't wanna be one of those old farts who can't play football with their kids cause they'll break something!

And yes, Mee, this is what people at this age think about. Have fun you 17-year-old bastard!

All this is exactly how I think except the marriage part and I'm 23.

 

[theberserker]

And yes, Mee, this is what people at this age think about. Have fun you 17-year-old bastard!

17 again, no thanks.
No money, some crappy job, parental authority

Now:
Money, Career, Own Authority

 

[Prison Mike]

I'm 23 and am ready to get out of college and move on into my adult life

 

[The Spawn]

Your life is over at 20...I have been saying this for years.

 

[SuBe]

All of you that are not in our mid twenties. You will appreciate the FairTax more when you are paying 20% of your paycheck in Federal Taxes.

 

[Hobgoblin]

I dont miss my college days, I preferred high school. Yes, you have dimiwits in high school but in college, you may end up sharing a room with such a person.

I'm still undecided about marriage but it is odd that people have been getting on me about it recently. Even my doctor said last week that most of the women my age must be married by now. Bad enough I found out a girl I had a crush on in HS had gotten married. Sheesh, what gives her the right to meet a nice guy and have a happy life?



But seriously, I wouldnt want to be 17 again. Been there, done that. In a lot of ways, I've liked my 20's more than my teens. 30 is creeping up on me and that kind of freaks me out but turning 20 did that to me, too.

 

[Ghostvirus]

I turned 30 last year. I am quite glad to be out of my 20's. Although I think most of my 30's are going to be cleaning up the mess I made in my 20's.

 

[Marx]

The majority of my high school graduating class is either married, divorced, engaged, or having children. (I know someone who is now divorced with three children.) Part of me feels like I've missed some kind of memo.

The future has been hitting me like a ton of bricks as of late. I can't help but think of where I thought I would be versus where I currently am. Everyone tells me that I need to stop thinking the way I do, but I just can't seem to break that mindset.

 

[Majic Walrus]

Your life is over at 20...I have been saying this for years.

I agree.

When you get a job then a family your life isn't what it used to be. It's less free and simply more cluttered. You wake up, go to work, come home, watch your favorite TV show and eat some dinner, and then go to sleep.

Most of my days are exactly like that with a few minor variations. Those variations are always bad because they end up piling more work on my plate and making my life difficult.

 

[DarbyD53]

I'm 27 and we've been talking about this a lot among friends. It seems that since about age 26 we've all went back to our lifes when we were 14. Let me explain. At age 14-15 all we wanted to do was go,go, go. Go here, do that, do this, but we couldn't so we just stayed home played video games, did things that entertained us. At age 16 we got cars and could do anything in this big world we wanted. If at age 20 you wanted to get in your car and drive 6 hours some where you did because you could. But now at age 27 all the "adventrue" or "freedom" has wore off and now I sit at home more than I go out. I have also found myself going back to the things I use to do. Such as play video games, IWA Wrestling game, collecting toys, just random crap I use to do that I didn't do from age 18-25 because I was too busy being free or some crap.

 

[Octoberist]

I'm 29 and couldn't give a ****. lol

Age only matters if you let it. I've changed a lot since my early twenties... but for the better in most respects.

I'm like a fine wine; I go down well with drunken girls.

I'm 25 and I think I've gotten much better.

I'm less wild than how I used to be, but like you, I think I have matured but in a good way where I'm more cultured.

It's funny because now I actually read real books, taken a liken to art, and classic/foreign films. That's why I don't give teens these crap because it took me time before I actually go "Man, there's a whole world out there other than playing beer pong".

Sometimes I find myself staying home more often, only because I don't have the money to go out all the time. But at the sametime, I don't mind too often.

 

[Octoberist]

I agree.

When you get a job then a family your life isn't what it used to be. It's less free and simply more cluttered. You wake up, go to work, come home, watch your favorite TV show and eat some dinner, and then go to sleep.

Most of my days are exactly like that with a few minor variations. Those variations are always bad because they end up piling more work on my plate and making my life difficult.

I say you probably need a vacation. I know what you mean though. All of sudden, a movie like Office Space and Fight Club makes sense as you're getting older..

 

[Avangarde]

I'm 29 and couldn't give a ****. lol

Age only matters if you let it. I've changed a lot since my early twenties... but for the better in most respects.

I'm like a fine wine; I go down well with drunken girls.

QFT, I'm 27 and feel f***ing fantastic, I've never felt better in my life. I've just come back from road tripping in Europe and I can't get over this high. Life is great

 

[Majic Walrus]

I say you probably need a vacation. I know what you mean though. All of sudden, a movie like Office Space and Fight Club makes sense as you're getting older..

Very very very true. I don't just want a vacation; I want to piss on the Mona Lisa and drop kick my damned printer/copier/fax machine.

 

[Hobgoblin]

When you get a job then a family your life isn't what it used to be. It's less free and simply more cluttered. You wake up, go to work, come home, watch your favorite TV show and eat some dinner, and then go to sleep.

Thats why I dont understand why people get married in their 20's. Isnt there more that you want to do? I want to see the world, personally. Good luck doing that with a wife and kids.