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?

Single parent to a one year old. Lived a few doors away from my parents, had a great part time job I enjoyed and was studying to top my diploma up to a degree. I was content and happy but very skint.

I married DH at 24, living in our first home and working FT. Enjoying life, parties, going out and holidays.

Pretty shit, diagnosed with endometriosis, 1994. Had to endure awful hormone treatment to shut down my estrogen. Fortunately I managed to have a baby and the endo never returned, very relieved. Now at the other end of fertility and going through menopause, happy with HRT and slowing down gracefully 🤪

Immigrant of only few years in UK living in lovely and fun house share, working waitress job nmw (smashed on tips though) but fuck, could afford a lot for it that time! Lots of socialising, trips etc. Within that year, moved in with DH, got married, changed job, gained new long term friends on top of existing ones. Happy year tbh

I was single, living in London (my native town), working full time and making good money, living in a rented flat with a friend, burning the candle in all directions: going to the gym at 6am and going out every night. Drinking too much sometimes, buying too many clothes. Lots of friends. I really just wanted a boyfriend, or thought I did, but I did nothing to find one. Moved abroad with work that year and met exDH when I was 25.

Living with my partner (now DH). In the first year of my PhD and struggling a bit as it was harder than anything I'd done before. I felt a bit adrift tbh, and like I was about to mess up my life. That was the year DP/DH got pneumonia as well and was very unwell, so more stress. But it all worked out in the end.

That was the year I got married, moved down south, got a job with the local authority and got pregnant.

I'd moved out of my parents' house a couple of years earlier.

I was a mum, had a mortgage and worked as a retail manager. Very boring 🤣 Got all my wild days done and dusted before I was 23

I was dirt poor, in an abusive relationship, and pregnant with my first child.

Working as a civil servant in London in a role with loads of international travel. Living with soon to be DH in a rented basement flat with a rat problem. And going clubbing every week in Camden and Soho, with post work drinks at least weekly too. Lots of long weekends abroad, we'd go anywhere Ryanair wpuld take us for under 9.99 a flight.
We spent every penny and had a whale of a time. We did get more sensible over the next few years.

I made this thread because my DS will be 24 soon and is having some anxiety about what life should be like at this age.

His studying is all done while he likes his corporate job he's trying to find meaning, a sense of belonging and purpose in life.

He has a good of friends that he sees very very often but when they are busy and he's alone at the weekend he tells me he feels empty.

Living in Asia with now-DH. Very work hard, play hard. Earning a lot, company were paying our rent so everything was disposable. Lots of bottomless brunches and weekend trips to Indonesian islands.

Was absolute bliss! We were permatanned & had lots of friends. It’s set us up well 10 years on, we’re now mortgage free from what we saved back then.

Wow people on here seem to have settled down to marriage, house ownership and parenthood lots earlier than the people I know IRL.
At 24 I had left the abusive relationship that screwed up my early 20s, gone back to Uni to do the subject I loved which I eventually did a PhD in. Lots of socialising, worked in a bar and as a researcher. Lived close to my parents which turned out to be a huge bonus as I saw them lots and my dad died the following year.

Life shoild be anytime at any stage. Everyone has different trajectory. That's the mlat important thing to know.
And that things can change very quickly.

Living in a caravan, not a fancy park home like today,an actual metal caravan, one paraffin heater . One DD (made homeless after burglary in the shop we managed and lived above) in a village, neither myself or now ex H drove. Finnished my nursing training. Aggressive rescue dog, working hard on, and h becoming aggressive, loosing jobs and me working 3 to pay the finance on the caravan.

It was fabulous. I had a brilliant job, my own flat and was a having a wonderful time in London. A whirlwind of balls and parties and friends.

More recently at 24, DS was doing his PhD, playing a lot of sport and had a great circle of friends.

Just a couple of years ago, dd was finishing her teaching apprenticeship, with a nice boyfriend and they do lots of musical stuff together.

I was a lone parent with a 6 year old. Wasn't living with my parents and haven't since I was 16. 0 social life due to being a lone parent!

I'm 35 now and still trying to figure life out, my young life has consisted of being a mum and now my DC is approaching adulthood I have time to think about myself now. I'm not sure what I'll do next. Everyone does things at different stages and I firmly believe there is no right or wrong way to do life.

Oh god it was great.

I lived in Tokyo and earned £50k as an English teacher. Every half term I'd jet off to Thailand or Indonesia or Hong Kong for a week or ten days.

I loved it.

No boyfriends though.

Was engaged and living with DH in a rental. On a two year graduate programme with the NHS and completing a masters. Went out regularly to cinema etc with DH. Met up with friends and family less frequently as they lived away from us.

He might find getting a job abroad and seeing a bit of the world would interest him?

I was living with my mum. My dad had died suddenly a couple of years before. I had planned to move out but my mum was completely helpless and emotionally dependent and I didn't have it in me to go. I was trying to get a foothold in a fairly punishing profession and financially very up and down.

I was living with a friend and was manager of a nightclub. I co-managed a pub owned by the same people as the club in the daytime.

Very, very good fun, but absolutely couldn't do it again!

I was married with a young child, and living in a rented flat in Germany. I worked for NAAFI and had a mix of British and German friends. It was also the first time I'd gone to nightclubs - those were some good times.

I was travelling around the world for a year with my boyfriend (now DH). Had my 24th birthday in Bali, about halfway through the trip. SO SO SO glad we did it!

I loved 24! I was dating, partying, travelling, working, I was slim and looked good 😄 by the end of that year I had met my current partner and we've been together 14 years now and have 2 kids.