Where were you financially at 18?

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What did your life look life financially and generally at 18?

A total wreck, of course! Isn't that what being 18 is about?

No money but the time of my life, as it should be aged 18.

Moved out of parents house and went to uni.enough savings behind me so no need for student loan, and carried on working 20hours ish a week as i had done since i was 16 to fund food etc while at uni.went full time.in all school.holidays, never moved back home

I was on my own, had 3 jobs and finishing my a levels, planning on funding my way through university. Everyone will be in a different place.

I had a full time job and a mortgage!

Lived with parents, engaged to dh and earning £4.5k at a bank

But that was 32 years ago

Worked full time, owned my own house, had my eldest daughter

18 was great, had plenty of savings to pay my way through uni, parents giving me an allowance to get pissed on, generally living it up....
Then I got a pregnant and it all went a bit south financially for a while!

Too many grins...i just look unhinged

Living in a shared house, working as a waitress, pissing all my money away going clubbing. Good times.

My mum gave me access to my savings and I spent it all on fake tan, clothes, drink and drugs 😩

At uni - didn’t work as had a restaurant job in my home town, so pre-loaded the cash in the holidays & spent the loan the rest of the time. Blew it on nonsense, mostly.

Pulled it all together & bought a flat by 24, though.

I was working full time for minimum wage but living with my parents and not paying rent or any household bills etc.
Also wasn’t saving much but spending all my money on traveling and nights out.

I moved out when I was 20 and got a sharp shock!

My second year at college I actually had 2 part time jobs working probably around 12/14 hours a week and as I didn't have to contribute to household bills I had tons of cash!

Living with parents. Full time job, new car and saving £££s for a house deposit.

At school! Starting last year of 6th form.
Am a September birthday so didn’t get A level results until I was almost 19. So lived at home, had a supermarket job for extra pocket money. Was a child really.

At college doing a course I hated, spent the loan and then took out three store cards and ran up about £6k of debt between them and my student overdraft 🤦🏼‍♀️ Spent the next 3 years paying it all off!

I left school that year, took a gap year and worked three different random shit jobs to save money to travel. Then paid for a TEFL course and used that to subsidize myself and my savings while travelling. Got to live at home on peppercorn rent while doing this which made it possible. All very privileged and middle class in lots of ways, but I did learn a lot from the shit jobs (cleaner, dish washer in a pub, barmaid, call centre) and I'm glad I saw the wider world when I was quite young too. Definitely opened my eyes.

Had perm job, had a car and lived with my parents.

Worked Full time job Mon-Friday then was out pissing my earnings up a wall every Friday-Sunday.

So financially had fuck all. 😂

I was doing my A levels and working in a pub - rough South London pub at the end of my road. Was supposed to work about 12 hours a week and ended up often doing about 36! So I was - compared to my peer group- rolling in it! And I used to hawk all the fruit machines and knew which ones were likely to pay out and then I’d regularly win £100 a week from them too..!

Of course, it all went back into the pub as I used to drink for England and was friends with all the regulars.

Time of my life.

Not bad, I got an after school job as soon as I started secondary school (for a whole £1 an hour in my first role) then over time got various summer and Christmas jobs and saved all I earned for driving lessons then a deposit on a house. I have always been a little peculiar.

Renting a flat, very skint, working very hard, two jobs.

OP why do you want to know?

September birthday so I was in my second year of 6th form and working Saturdays in a stationery shop. I usually had a few hundred in the bank at any one time but was living at home as I think most year 13s are! I had no car to pay for either. I went to uni about 2 weeks after I turned 19.

At uni having the time of my life with a couple of part time jobs