Your late 20s

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What were you doing or what do you hope to be doing?
I turned 28 yesterday and I'm just wondering really.

I got made redundant twice. In my early 30s then had a period of unemployment.

All turned out OK since.

I'm 29. 16 weeks pregnant with number 2.

Got married at 26, had baby no 1 at 27. Lost a parent that same year. Left my job after mat leave and went freelance, but covid has kind of killed that...

In January we are moving to Asia as a family. Pretty excited!

Getting out of a bad relationship and starting a professional job. Met now DH a month or so before turning 30.

Split up with my Husband and had second baby at 28. Life changed a lot but turned 30 pretty happy.

At 29 I had recently finished an MA to get into a career, landed a great job and been at that place ever since (now mid 40s).

Was in a ltr and we bought a place together. We also had a once in a lifetime holiday 6 weeks in Australia and New Zealand.

I had doubts about the relationship even then but was in denial. We stayed together another 10 years, had DD but eventually separated.

Now both happily married to others

Bought a house at 26, got married at 27 had ds 1 at 28 and DS2 at 30!

Am 33 now and the last 3 years have been quieter!

I turned 29 last month.

Met DH at 22. We’ve had a wonderful few years with very little responsibility. We went travelling for a few months and bought a lovely house last year.

Now deciding whether to try for DC, and I really want to get my career sorted soon. My current job is the only thing I feel unhappy about.

Got engaged & we had ds

It was a very strange time for me.

Up until then my twenties had been exactly what I wanted them to be. My career was going very well, had a great social life, lots of fun, travel, excitement & adventure, had met a lovely man who was lots of fun and we’d been together a couple of years.

Then...I got pregnant and had a baby a month before my 28th birthday. It was like throwing a (beautiful, but extremely powerful) bomb in to my life. My priorities, my day to day life, my whole existence completely changed. I used to go out most nights partying and networking professionally, travel at the drop of a hat, lie in bed until noon at the weekend, drink and smoke and spend half my disposable income on taxis, takeaways and shoes. It was all glamour and graft. Motherhood was such a shock. I had ridiculously sentimental and rose tinted ideas about what it would entail. Looking back, I was very immature.

It probably took until some time in my 30s for me to ‘settle’ again from that shock, and I’m only really getting back to a sense of who I am and what I want from my life in my 40s. No regrets, though!

I was a wife and mother - had DS at 21 and got married at 22. I started my career properly in my late 20s when it became obvious there would be no more babies.

I turned 28 last month. I've been married 6 years and DS has just turned 1. We're also struggling financially as DH has lost his job due to covid, we own a house but it needs work done that we can't afford. Fingers crossed it doesn't just fall down around us.

At 28 I was retraining via uni, looking at kicking off my new career and living with now-XH...At 29 I was working in that new career, getting divorced and moving house. Met DH at 31 and don't work in that career or live in that house any more. About a decade ago, for me.

At 28 I had just become a Dad, so that was an exciting and scary change.

At 31 I was finally able to buy a home for us rather than renting. At 33 I’ll be married and hopefully this time next year we’ll be approved adopters and waiting for child number two to join our little family.

I'd just got married and we were planning our escape from London. We bought a house and had ds1 between 28 and 30.

I was living in London and working in the same job I'd had since graduating from uni. I got engaged to DH when I was 28 and married a year later. We took a couple of months of unpaid leave after the wedding and went travelling. Seems like a long time ago now (I'm 46)!

At 28 I was getting over a boyfriend I thought was forever... I rented my own place, I was acting up as the ceo of the company I worked in and I was having a lot of fun and enjoying being young free and single. I remember thinking I'd have all those traditional life goals by 28 (husband, kids, house) and actually had none, but looking back I was living my best life (breakup and all). Met my husband two years later, has my son at 33 and married at 34. Ride the wave and carve your own path.

I had had a string of crappy relationships with guys who were more into in their trainers collection than a proper relationship.
I decided to have a massive party to celebrate turning 29, my final year of 20s (couldn't face idea of approaching 30). Shortly beforehand I'd bumped into my boyfriend from age 15. I invited him and we got back together and moved in together within the year etc etc.

Not much really! I was 28 at the start of lockdown 1 and turn 30 in a month... I feel a bit robbed really!

I had dd3 last April and spent the last of my 20s homeschooling and breastfeeding in a continuous loop.

To be fair I’m not sure what I’d be doing otherwise, pre-COVID my life wasn’t exactly full of adventures!
I was hoping to be married and have my driving license by now, COVID did put a stop to those but they will just have to be jobs for my early 30s instead.

Happy birthday!

My bf of the time who I lived. with invited a colleague for tea. She barely spoke to me. They were married 5 years later.

I was moving abroad to the other side of the world and travelling.

I lived in a flat share with a good friend. We had a brilliant time partying. I had a busy freelance job but made plenty of time for travelling. Had a great time pretty much. I was 36 before I had my first child.

Happy birthday! I had DD just before my 27th birthday and DS at 29. So it was my baby making period.

Got a flat at 24.
Got engaged at 25.
Had DS at 26. (This beats everything else in my 20's!). .
I did qualify in my career at 26 also.

Oh forgot to add I'm 28 now.

Be yoooo (corny but true)
Does it matter what everyone else did or didn't do
At 28 you've got so much ahead of you!