What was your life like when you were 24?

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The title says it all. Were you living with your parents still? What was your job like? What did your social life consist of?

I was living with my mum, DH, 7YO DD and pregnant with DS. Working in the same career I’m in now but in a different location and on a lower salary.

I had been married 2 years with a newborn ds1. We didn't have a car and online shopping wasn't really a thing then so things were hard.

I'd been married for 3yrs with own home, pregnant, miscarried when I discovered XH was having an affair, divorced and met XH no.2. All in one year!

Living with parents, childfree, out every weekend and plenty of holidays with friends and long term boyfriend. Had a full time job after uni, life was great.

I was 24 during the pandemic. I lived alone, had my own place and was mainly working from home. Social life non existent because all my friends were either working (ie nurses on covid wards) or petrified to do anything. So it was definitely a weird space. Felt like mid-20s life was worlds apart from early 20s life, and I still haven’t recovered from the whiplash tbh

Married , part time night staff nurse with 4 horses having a thoroughly good time .

I had graduated, lived abroad and was now living in a flat share in London and working in my first professional job. Happy, carefree,days!

Working full-time in my first professional job.
Dh had just left me after becoming pregnant via ivf.
In my own home (90% mortgage), 3 bed terrace. I was actually quite happy despite dh leaving and becoming an absent none paying father. It wasn't how I planned it but I accepted that and got on with it.

Wild! I was young, free and single. Working in my first graduate job, just enough money to live on, great social life, lived in a fantastic city.

I wouldn't want that lifestyle now but I'm very nostalgic about that period of my life.

I was single, living in London in a house share. I did a grad scheme during the week and worked in a bar at night. I had very little money but enough to be out as much as possible and went on some amazing holidays with friends.
I wasn't the most healthiest of people, made terrible choices in my relationships and put up with terrible managers as I didn't know any better. But I also had a blast.

In Surrey living in third flat in since finishing education at 22 in job needing ridiculous hours my second job since graduating and recently started OU degree. DH then boyfriend was in East Sussex.

Was our first Christmas together - been dating since I was 18 - and we just got engaged. Be another two years before we'd get into same place and get married - in North of England.

Had very little social life - it was work and as I decide I needed more study with OU and a weight watcher meeting that was it - only just ditched a really long commute on top of long hours which had been awful for my weight.

I'd just split from my boyfriend of 5 years, had a house to sell. I socialised a lot and was fairly promiscuous. This was 1995

Still living (unhappily) at home
Engaged to my now dh
His parents "didn't believe" in living together before marriage 🙄 (until sil did it, of course...)
In a horrible pt job I hated (I'd been made redundant and took what I could at the time)
So I never had any money
Ages 18-22 were pretty awful for me, tbh so at 24, it was better, but it was still not great
We married at 25 and left our respective homes
We are 30 years down the line now, 2 great dc

My eldest is still studying and youngest still at school (big age gap) so it's odd.
At my eldests age I was basically self sufficient - my parents only wanted me at home to do chores and give them money 😔
My two still need so much support - both financially, emotionally and mentally.
I'm finding it pretty draining tbh 😔
But. They won't have had the horrible experiences I did, so it's worth it.

I was renting the flats at 24 - didn't buy till I was just before 31 - with two young kids already in midlands then - we've done so many moves for work.

DP and I bought our first house, so a lot of that year was spent going through the purchase process and then starting to decorate and turn it into our home. So most socialising was done with friends coming over for takeout and drinks- we were the first in our friend group to own a home so there was the novelty factor, plus with all our outgoings for the house, it depleted our “fun money”, so cheap and cheerful it was until I got a new job the following year.

Also started my degree that year and got a high maintenance pet - don’t know what I was thinking 😂

Amazing year
DP (now H) and I sold our little terrace house and went travelling for a year with our 4 year old and 6 month old, for nearly a year. Was great.

I had just completed my professional qualification was working in London and bought a house ( outside London). Newly engaged and looking forward to getting married.

Single SAHM to DD who would have been about 15 months, living in the council flat I still do. I've bought it since then though, with inheritance when my GP died (I couldn't have afforded a mortgage at the time though) had new kitchen and bathroom put in, new driveway, dug a huge pond and landscaped the garden, learnt to drive in had a couple of cars, completed an OU degree, career changed twice. I wish I could go back and tell younger me that everything works out just fine. I keep my outgoings low so we have plenty of disposable income to do as we please and live a content and drama free life

It was a long time ago! Over 30 years. I was living in a house share a long way from the family home. I’d had to move away as we were in the middle of a recession and graduate jobs were very difficult to come by. I was offered a job with an international company, so I packed everything into my car and moved to a regional centre several hours drive away, not knowing a single person.

Marriage and kids was 10 years away. I loved my 20s. It’s the best decade imo.

Social life consisted of activity based weekends, camping, country events. Fun sports (indoor netball, cricket etc) and going to the pub.

Living in a house share in London, job in the City, lots of friends and socialising but no one nearby. Went to visit family most weekends.

How are you finding late 20s now then?

I was living my best life living with friends and working in the city and partying a lot

Good times

I was single, had just moved back home to work (and save money) for a few months before starting my PGCE.

At 24 I had been in the same job for 4 years. a homeowner (mortgaged!) for 2 years, had been married for 18 months and was undergoing my first IVF!

At 24 I was married, pregnant with our first child and working full time in retail management. We had also moved into our first home together in preparation for our new arrival.