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 started the year finishing my 4-year degree, at the same time my boyfriend was finishing his. We both worked part time at the same place.

About a month before I turned 23 we graduated, got engaged, and moved into a rented flat 300 miles south. I started a job and I'm still at the company 10 years on. At 23 we bought our first house.

So fairly mature I guess? Sensible at least.

I was quite grown up, in a way. I had a teaching job, had met DP, had moved in with him. He had a -gasp- mortgage, which was quite usual in those days. He was 20!

Been married a year, had a mortgage on our first house, finishing my nursing training and got a job.

25 now but at 22 I was living the dream in Hong Kong living off expensive wine and getting smashed every night. I'm sure I went several days at a time without solid food often but it was sublime.

Wouldn't have missed that to settle down at 20 for the world.

The weird thing is I think that losing my parents young made me MORE immature in some ways. Because I hadn't had a proper adolescence ?

I spent the year I was 21 studying abroad and living alone. I think I got my partying done then.

I was at uni and a weirdo.

pretty immature.

Had my first post grad job, would shop after payday (not for food!) and not look at price tags etc. Took out all the credit cards and loans I was offered.

Was a bit shit at my job TBH

Had some shitty "friends"

I'd recently graduated, had moved to a big city by myself and started my first proper job and I thought I was so grown up and knew it all. I really wasn't & I didn't, I was young & daft and didn't have a clue. Thankfully I'd grown up a lot more by my mid-twenties, I think meeting my very sensible now DH helped a lot.

I'd been working for 7 years and had owned a house for 3 years. A year later I was responsible for a team of 12 and a £4bn budget.

At 22 i'd finished just finished University and started my first proper job but I'd been living permanently out of the family home since 19 and I'd worked at least 20 hours/week since the age of 16 so I was used to looking after myself and managing my own finances.

I think I was quite mature. I was living a young person's life style so most of my money went on socialising, clothes and holidays but I was never in debt and paid all my bills and had started a pension so was quite sensible too.

I also had to provide quite a lot of emotional support to my mum at that age because my DSF (who had raised me and my Dsis) passed away when I was 19 and my DM had breast cancer when I was in my teens so I had to grow up quite quickly anyway.

Yup, married, mortgage with baby and doing degree course whilst working and about to find out about baby number 2 they were not fun times !

Not very- indeed certain things I did or thought at that age make me shudder.

Too grown up with hindsight. Good job in the City. Had bought a flat at 21 largely for security as my parents had divorced twice each in the previous 8/9 years and I had no proper home.

Paying a mortgage, holding down a job, paying the bills, budgeting. Very alone in spite of a reasonable social life.

Not what I want for my DC, one of whom is 22 and finishing uni soon. I want them to soar, safe in the knowledge they will always have a family home and mum and dad, regardless.

Had DD at 22 and was in a DV relationship. Was pretty immature in the sense that I'd still been an immature git pretty much until the point of birth. Having a child changed me in so many ways, made me a better person. I don't think my DH would have fallen for me had he known me pre-children!

I think univesity delays your maturity, which IMO isn't a bad thing I think there are a lot of benefits to having a bit longer as a student before you have to be a "real" adult. I'm glad I wasn't thinking about mortgages and school runs too soon, there's enough time for that!

I was in a stressful job, living with a friend and then on my own in hospital accommodation. I partied hard but was quite unhappy, overweight with low self esteem. Spent the vast majority of my wages on myself and didn't really appreciate the value of money.

Had just finished uni and got my 1st proper full time job as a school librarian! Had worked previously p/t in all sorts - pie factory, cola factory, Dorothy Perkins, b&b work.

At 22 I was very immature. Job was poorly paid. I then did a TEFL (paid for by then b/friend and went off to live abroad in various places for years. Kept me immature I think, not much responsibility, partying a lot, drinking a lot. Fantastic experiences though and I have no regrets.

However, I am now 44 and am looking to buy my 1st property - it's tough.

It was, Agent. I remember it with total pleasure! Even belting out Crazy/Moon River/Always a Woman to Me for the fiftieth time to a bunch of drunks where we lived was really beautiful and primitive-- and anything seemed possible.

I was just finishing uni and starting my 1st (full time) job. I lived in a great house share and generally enjoyed having some disposable income after being very skint as a student.

Not very mature I think overall but then I sometimes don't feel particularly mature at 44 either.

Totally idiotic!!

Finished university moved back in with my parents decided fuck it and Moved 500 miles to live with a man I'd met the previous year when on holiday but Been married 10 years now and have 2 dcs so all worked out well.

I got my first job, went on holiday to Asia and was pretty pissed most of the year/rest of my 20's

I had was pregnant with dc2 and living in Spain.

I was married with a 2 year old and in the middle of a medical degree so on paper quite grown up. I was very mature when it came to balancing things however I was very emotionally immature in my marriage.
I did my emotional growing up, so to speak, between the ages of 25 and 30.

Living in a 2 bed apartment with 10 friends in Ibiza having the most fantastic time. Stayed 2 years.
Mature wasn't even a word I'd heard of!

Had been working a few years and bought my first house