To ask what you would have been doing now... in 2002

[GunslingerPie]

I’m 18...Saturday night I would now be listening to Blue and DJ Sammy getting ready to go out to the local.
I’m wearing a two-tone halterneck top, leather look trousers (size 8.. sigh) with a tassle belt. Patent wedges and my hair straightened with my Babyliss steam straighteners! Gold eyeshadow like the one Kylie wears in the “On a Night Like This” video...

Necking a bottle of 20/20 and cheap red wine.

I’ll go out with about £8 in my pocket, dance to Fragma and S Club 7, drink loads of crap (free!) thanks to my school friend who works behind the bar then cadge a couple of Regals to smoke on my way home

[PanchoBarnes]

Am 41, being moany and whiny over how old and ugly I am -
oblivious to the fact that in 2018 I would love to be 41 again.

[PanchoBarnes]

...and in 2034 I'll remember kicking myself in 2018 for not noticing it was a Zombie thread before I posted on it.

Fun thread, anyway.

[SavageBeauty73]

I'm 29 and my DD was three months old and recovering from her first open heart surgery.

[Catra]

I was 23 years old and living an extremely bohemian lifestyle with my DP on the picturesque Dingle Peninsula in Ireland. We lived in a cottage overlooking the beach framed by the mountains. We spent our days making stained glass art and exploring the coastline and our nights drinking red wine and playing folk music. My DP died in 2004 and I moved back to Yorkshire, life taking a completely different turn, but my memories from that time remain vivid and poignant.

[SittHakim]

28, working in the City, probably just leaving work now! Wearing a grey trouser suit and black courts. Life's better now (though the clothes haven't changed much: today's suit is navy but worn with trainers).

[seventhgonickname]

I was just starting my ivf treatment.She is 15 now.
I was also a size 12(it was smaller then)and I am still carrying the baby weight!!

[MulderitsmeX]

In 6th form which i loved, getting to be the first cohort to use the new drama suite, probably just back from a play rehearsal

[Whatwaswrongwiththatusername]

Oct 2002, on I'd have been at the start of my final year of my degree, as a 32 yr mature student, so dropping my son to school (or a classmate if I needed to make a much earlier start and then after uni picking up my 7 yr old from school or after school club, depending on my last lecture, we'd have caught the bus home (didn't learn to drive till after I graduated), maybe picked up shopping, made dinner, homework, bedtime (sometimes all unavoidably late, I was a single parent) etc, so by this time at night I'd be attempting to study!

Always started the new semester determined to keep up with everything from the start! I'd likely be doing research for whatever essay/report/presntations we had coming our way. At this stage I'd also be reading through the lecture notes, rewriting the notes, attempting to get a head start in books/texts, before realising (as I did with every new semester) that this level just doesn't continue, as the time I had was so limited! Still worked hard every night and during then day in between classes, and everything did get done and handed in in time, but revision for each Modules exams at the end of semester is when I went all out super-psycho and basically didn't sleep, due to not having the time to keep up with the extra reDing etc. This was my fifth semester by now and I still went in with all these good intentions and still ran out of time and resorted to mad sessions of 10/12hr study sessions with no break trying to transcribe (all!) books down in to notes and al other sources needed. I went all out crazy in the couple of weeks before exams due to the lack of time Needed to read all these books/notes I needed for the exams.

Each semester I tried so hard to do a bit everyday, so I'd have currently still been in the optimistic phase of thinking I could do it, this yr would be better, even though I hadn't for the previous two years!
I'd spend pretty much all my time doing the research for the reports:essays/presentations/computer based work etc that needed to be done and marked throughout the semester. Already by just a couple of weeks in there would be piles of paper all over the tables and the floor and my son was quite used to 'not treading there' and not touching anything 😁 I also recall this was the time that I really had done nowhere near enough for my dissertation as I should have done. Oops. It got there in the end tho :)

Really not a very exciting time, but a very busy and enjoyable time. And despite my odd way of working (which didn't change throughout, but blocks of studying only intensified before exam periods). Something must have worked 'cos I got my First so that was all I wanted and achieved it :)

[SpoonBlender]

On holiday with DP (early days!) in Barcelona, checking out the Sagrada Familia and Parc Guell.

We were just last week talking about going back again to see how the cathedral's coming on, too! Though I hear it's a bit over-touristy now. We'd be going out of season, we always do (joys of no kids).

[The80sweregreat]

Makes me realise how young you all are compared to me.
I was 37 and living abroad / a work assignment ( dh's job took us there for two years) and children ; probably just doing the school run and off to the carrefour for a shop! Back home to the chores.
Weather turned rainy and we had some flooding in the autumn.

[zukiecat]

I was 35 and on the 10th October 2002 I had that day left my abusive ex husband

So today my DDs and me would have just moved in with relatives til we got a house

I wasn't sad at all, intensely relieved and happy to have finally got away from him!

[Queenofthedrivensnow]

I'm living in Leicester working in next head office. I hate my job but love my work friends.
I'll be going out Thursday and Saturday night. I'll be wearing glittery jeans and a halter top and sandal heels and maybe if it's Baltic a fake fur jacket.

I'll be wearing a shit ton of make up and fake tan. We will go to wanky bars and then a cheesy club called life. I will probably bump into a hundred people we know.

This year I will have dated a bloke from work and a firefighter but I'll spend most of it happily single and loving young adult life.

[Queenofthedrivensnow]

Oh and yy to dj sammy, Justin timderlake, blue and other cheese

[funinthesun18]

I was 12 on the 10th October 2002. I had just started Year 8.
So I would have been at school.

[PhilomenaButterfly]

Working in a call centre.

[funinthesun18]

Oh and yy to dj sammy, Justin timderlake, blue and other cheese

😊 Yes!
Smash Hits and Sneak magazine.

[Queenofthedrivensnow]

@coffeeclouds hugs to your post and that was 1999 for me pretty much to the day x

[crosser62]

Aged 32 just had 2nd miscarriage, desperately heartbroken.
I was a month away from conceiving my now 15 year old son.

[DowntonCrabby]

I’d been going out with my now DH for about 4 weeks so probably texting him on my Nokia 3330 to see when he could borrow his Mum’s car to go and cough snog off the country roads.

[DowntonCrabby]

Ahh I forgot ** does bold

[BiddyPop]

Still relatively newly married, preparing for a "big" holiday (in a few weeks), and probably getting cleaned up after another DIY project on the doer-upper house we bought before making a nice dinner with DH for the 2 of us to enjoy with a bottle of wine together.

OK - that was for Saturday evening.

On a Wednesday morning - working at my desk (one floor down and about 6 feet away across the room from my current desk, funnily enough!), doing my Boss's job while he did mine (I was young and enthusiastic, he was getting towards retirement and happy to give me credit but get me to do the things he found more boring or tricky!), grabbing lunch with a friend in the office, and going to my French classes after work - which usually meant DH working late too, collecting me at 9pm from my classes on his way home, and us calling the takeaway at a certain point on the road so it would be ready as we arrived! In fairness, I did get promoted from that job soon after - I knew by Christmas and I moved early in the new year.

[LemonysSnicket]

I'm 7 years old, it's October so would probably have been doing some banging Halloween crafts and picking between a witch and a genie costume. Also might have handwriting homework.

[PookieDo]

2002 me is 22 and my first baby is 2 weeks old, but was 3 weeks early

Aww sniff

[kaytee87]

I was 15, excited about going on my first plane trip to Gran Canaria for October week with our family friends. Had a crush on the 17yo son of my parents friends and ended up having a cheeky kiss with him on holiday.

[butterfly56]

I'm 46!
I'm loving working in my friend's pub restaurant evenings and weekends.
It's like socialising and getting paid for it!!
I've been working full time in my local college for 6years.
I'm saving for 5th trip to the USA to visit family for Christmas.
I own a lovely cute little cottage with fantastic neighbours!
I have had the best 3years of my life so far (after exh left me for another woman 5years before)!
Little did I know that within the next 12months I would lose everything... home, career and serious health problems following a serious head injury(fall from a horse) would stop me in my tracks and my life as I knew it would be gone.
The only thing I would go back and change is not going horse riding that weekend!!