To ask how 'grown up' you were aged 22?

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I started my first job at 22 and looking back, I was really, really immature

What were you like at 22?

i had one child, pregnant with another in a dv relationship. i think i aged about 50 years between the ages of 20 and 23

I had 4 dc and was married at 22.

I was in my first proper job post uni, I was renting a bedsit and I had met my husband. I went from a very young immature naive girl going to uni at 17 to quite mature and sensible by 22!

I was working full time, recently engaged, and a year into a mortgage on my first property.

I was so immature and in actual fact a bit of a nobber

I was married with a baby and two stepkids at 22. I matured really quickly thanks to an abusive ex so by the time I met DH at 20 I was ready to settle down and be happy.

I had 2 DC, wasn't prepared, had horrendous PND, totally immature, not in a state to look after myself let alone DC.
not much better at 50

I turned 23 in February. I own a house, have two kids and I'm getting married in August.
I bought my house at 21 though.

Totally immature, with the wrong man, and had my heart smashed by him, as did the husband of the ow he was seeing.

I was married, had a mortgage and a full time job at 22

Caring for a parent with cancer. Drinking and taking cocaine at the weekend. Shitty boyfriend who I let hit me and sleep with other women.

I had very grown up stuff going on but felt totally out of my depth and most certainly not mature enough to deal with it all.

Would have been 1995. I was at university, doing a teaching degree. I completed it in summer 1996. I had done a course transfer so was a year later finishing that I could have been.

So not overly grown up really in hindsight - still dependent on parents for some financial support. As I was teaching for a few weeks each term it was difficult to have a term time job, but did war back home in the longer holidays. Still went back home in the holidays - dh (then boyfriend) was back home by then too - he finished a year before me and was doing his training contract years.

A year later I finished university, got a job, moved in with DH and got engaged. So more grown up a year on.

I'd just graduated and got a visa to work and travel across America.

Immature probably but that adventure made me grow up fast. Best year of my entire life.

Had to be had a three year old & very little family support, Dh worked mad hours & I worked full time, didn't have the time or the engery to be immature.

I had one child and was pregnant with my second. No parental support (one dead, one in another country). So yes, pretty damn grown up. Those two DCs are older than 22 now and I wouldn't say either of them are as "mature" as I had to be, and that's actually exactly as it should be.

In my first job, marked and just bought a terraced house in S London (it was a long time ago). Not really mature enough for any of it I now think but it all seemed to work out.

22 is quite late for a first time job. I've always been very mature towards working, even in my first job at 16.

What does grown up look like? Maybe putting others before yourself. I don't know.

married!!!

At 22 I was still living with my parents, single, out with the girls every weekend and very immature!

I was a single parent with a toddler and at university. I was fairly grown up compared to the other students and hung around with the mature students rather than the "normal" age students as they were so immature they annoyed me a lot.

I finished my HND at university just before my 20th birthday, moved to the other end of the country 2 weeks later for a man, got my first permanent job 3 months later, bought our first house just before I was 21, engaged before 22 then married just before 24. I'm now almost 37 and very happy.

22 is quite late for a first time job. I've always been very mature towards working, even in my first job at 16

It's not late at all - normal age if you've been to uni!

I had just graduated, was in my first full-time job and had a mortgage with then DP

So I considered myself very grown up at 22.