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 was naive and desperate to please. Id finished my degree and started teacher training and worked my fingers to the bone for a department head who completely took advantage. I bought my first house with dh, who was my boyfriend at the time. I like my 30s so much better than my 20s.

I was a single mum living in a women's refuge with my 1year old. Most nights after the baby was asleep me and the other women (some my age some older, some younger) would veg in front of the soaps with food, face packs, and nail polish and wine

I thought I was really grown up at 22-job, living in non student flat with much older people, but I don't think I was emotionally grown.up until I was about 25.

I was married, had a mortgage, working full time and in horrendous debt.

Just back from traveling and working abroad and in a flat saving up for our first house, which we bought a couple of years later. Good jobs, no debts plus lots of friends and busy social life.

I thought I was mature. wasn't as mature as I am now nearly 2 decades later!

it was that good, I cant remember
i think cider and sex played a large part, oh and I got the sack, in hindsight, probably related

I'm 22 now and I still feel like a kid pretending to be a grown up at times

I'm married, saving for a house deposit, I have a 3-year-old and hoping to TTC again in the next 12 months so I guess in terms of practical things I'm quite grown up? This feels like the weird inbetweeny stage between being a proper actual grown up (which, in my head, starts at 25) and being a pretend grown up (at uni).

9 days after my 22nd birthday it was my wedding day, and I was 4 and a half months pregnant.

I was single, I graduated and became financially independent (funded further study).

Just finishing a 2.5 year tour in Germany and due to come back to UK to work.

Still single, for another 7 years though, ( though I did not know that at the time ) so carried on enjoying life.

The job I had meant I had to grow up fast and have a lot of responsibility at a "young" age

Basically still a teenager. Trying to figure out what to do with my life. With an abusive boyfriend. Drinking too much. Naive and idealistic.

I was very grown up.
Have been since I was 8 years old due to circumstances

Jaques Most people I know have/had at least a part time job to actually be able to afford uni. I don't know anyone who didn't have some kind of job before the age of 22, even if it was a paper round.

I had just left my job to help homeschool my dp visually impaired son to prevent him being sent to a SEN boarding special school by the lea. Looking back it was daft really. It halved the household income forcing us to stay living in an area thats got more deprived over the years and with poor education provision especially for SEN children and poor future employment prospects.

We are still paying for it 2 decades later as we never recovered from my loss of income. I did return to work for 10 years then left to have my own children but I'm struggling to get back to work now due to very long gaps in my cv.

If I had my time again I think I would have had a good look at the special schools who were willing to take him and accepted mon-fri he would be away from home. My life would be drastically different from how it is now I think as my career had genuine progression that I would have grasped with both hands.

I was just out of uni, living in a house share for peanuts and pissing my earnings up the wall partying a little too hard and sleeping around. Yeah I was pretty immature. It was fun though :)

On the surface, grown up. Had left home, was working full-time, financially independent.

Inside I was a clueless 14 yr old just winging it

I spent SO much

I was having a nervous breakdown on my university year abroad, which I handled terribly. I was independent but emotionally immature - I scraped my way through my twenties. I felt 'grown up' at about 30 when I was settled with someone and thinking about kids.

I don't know about maturity but I didn't know myself at all at 22.

I partied. I was at uni and worked for a large (inter)national music magazine. I had a mortgage but was in no way grown up and neither did I want to be. I just had fun, hung out with my favourite bands, went to gigs and clothes bs and skied lots when there was snow.

22.. finished university a few months before I turned 23, so I spent it mostly at uni, working in a coffee shop part time, spending 80% of my free time with my DP. After uni got a slightly better but still kinda crap job for a bit. Super immature. Terrible with money (still am). All round young!

*clubs not clothes bs

I was just going into my final year at medical school. I was with my husband to be. I was pretty grown up I think. Don't think I've grown up much more since then . My daughter is 24 and pretty grown up. Supporting herself as an unemployed actress. My son will be 22 in September and he's getting there slowly. He now loads the dishwasher. (He is at uni and has a 14 week internship in the summer which I think will help immensely.

See, I do feel I missed out as I didn't party or do what you're 'supposed' to. But I enjoyed myself in my own way I suppose.