The Back 20s

The thread for people who are, or feel like they are, in their later 20s. Don't party? Aren't in school? Don't seem to fit in? You're in the right place.

Welcome, friends!

*settles into a comfortable recliner* just turned 28 a couple of days ago. Realizing that my 20s are almost over. Kind of sad. I'm hoping that when I hit 30, I'll miraculously know what I want to do with my life.

Haha... this is me. I'm 28, I don't party (I'd rather be on the couch with tea and a book, or watching a program I love with El Husbando), and I'm not in school... last year I taught a course at a local college...

I definitely don't have it all "figured out", but I feel like I know what I want out of life, and just haven't quite figured out how to get it yet. Taking baby steps to get there, though. Thankfully, these days, adults are taking their time getting settled into their careers, and it's not unusual to have multiple careers over the course of a lifetime, so... I plan to try various avenues, see what fits, and if one venture doesn't work (in terms of money, time investment, etc)? I'll try something else. :)

Happy birthday, Trinagirl! I turned 28 in August. I'm also secretly hoping for clarity when 30 hits, although all my 30-year-old friends seemed as confused about life as I am, so...maybe 30 really IS the new 20.

*shudder*

I'm not much of a partier (I have my moments, but they're few and far between) and any ideas of going back to school were dashed when Cali raised tuition prices yet again. So I'm here. Festering.

The festering freelancer. :)

27, don't party, drink like it's an afterthought.

I'm a student, though. :)

Yeah about to turn 28 myself. Will be 28 when NaNo starts... I think these are very conflicting times. The transition from teen to adult was scary for sure, but I didn't have the clarity to know what I'm losing. I think this is the first transition from 20s to 30s where I'm really cognizant that while age will gain me some things, there are things I have lost and am losing as well. It's not that I feel OLD per se, just feel I have a little less to look forward to than I used to while aging. I'm sure there is still plenty to come, but before there were concrete things we knew would be there at the next age. The future is slightly more understandable at 27 than at 17, but at the same time more intangible.

Yeah I've never been a partier. I can see that a lot of people mellow as they age. I think I'm more or less the same person I was when I was 12 :P Was mellow then, am mellow now, and look forward to being mellow when I am old.

I'm turning 28 before NaNo starts too - still 27 for about 12 days, though (twelve glorious days). I find myself dreading birthdays more now - I never thought this day would come! I think my 10 year high school reunion coming up next summer has really taken its toll on me ;)

I was never much of a partier either. I'm usually the DD because I've got a liver of steel - not a cheap date.

That's me. 27 and my idea of a party is sitting around watching Top Gear with friends. And I can't drink because I'm on some mental health drugs that interact badly with it. I can't even say I'm in a career after graduating college. I dropped out because of mental illness and can't work now. :(

I will be 27 next week and that dreaded 30 is really coming close now. Is it weird that its freaking me out, like seriously? I never thought about growing up OR old but now... brrr.

I have a full time job which makes me work 37-50 hours a week as a carer, I work both days and nights so my body clock is permanently in a state of fucked up. I don't party. I like to go with my friends for a meal and have a few drinks or have a qiuet night in with my wife. I must be boring. I like doing housework and cook. When did I grow up and how do I make it stop?

I'm 28, so I 'spose I should be in here . . . I still go out heaps, though. I dunno. Is it normal for life to speed up as you get older? Why couldn't I be having all this fun 10 years ago when I had less obligations? Ehn, but I'm not complaining. Fun is fun, even if it happens to be on a work night and you gotta don that corporate noose, I mean, suit the next morning . . .

Heey there. I'm Jen. I'm one of those who still feels like I'm in the back end of my 20s. I turned 30 this June and so far it's not any different from when I was 29. I live with my dad (lived with my mom too, but she passed away last September), I don't have a job, I don't have an SL, and no kids. Save for the lacking of a job and my mom not being here, these are the same set of circumstances I've been in since I was 23. Emotionally, I think I feel about 28, or even 29, though. *L* I have more twenty-something friends than any other age group and most of them are in the same boat I'm in, or are in a job they really don't like. I think as they start joining me in my 30s I'll start feeling better about the whole thing.

I'm 21, but I don't party or do anything hip like that. I take care of my husband-to-be and three kids, do craft, write, and aim to be in bed by 10pm. My sister (20 years my senior and with a far more active social life) jokes that I've become an OAP before my time :)

I am 28 years old, my life of partying is now down to twice a year and normally involves crazy golf and whiskey. I have no idea what I am doing and something tells me that I never will, but at least that keeps things fun! Single, living with my dad as we all get over the loss of our mother and spend a lot of time with my little nephew!

I also like pirates - though before PoC ruined the whole thing for me! Oh, and I have a few LARPing friends who are trying to convert me!

I'm 29 and staring down 3-0 in six months. If I thought thirty brought sudden clarity, I wouldn't be so anxious about it. This sure isn't how I expected my life to be at this point. I'm unemployed. Just earned a master's degree in the spring, but I probably won't end up using it. I'm not the partying type. My idea of a party is a few friends, an NCIS marathon and a pizza. I'm single (which I am absolutely cool with - means I can pick up and skip town without hurting anyone's feelings) and staying with my grandmother while I look for work.

What can I say? My life is a work in progress.

I'm 29. Still partying. Working towards big dreams for "adulthood".

Looking forward to 30, actually. It's only gonna get better from here. :)

29 here, 30 in a few months. I'm still a student -- graduate, but still a student. I'm working on my PhD in Religious Studies. I've been all over the place, moved about once or twice a year since graduating college, and I'm hoping that maybe, just maybe my 30s will be less tumultuous than my 20s have been. I hope it gets better than this -- it's been getting better all the time for the past few years.

I'm only 20, but I don't feel like it. If anything I feel like I'm in my late 20's. I don't party. I don't drink (Only on really rare occasions) I'm not in school at the moment, though I would love to be next year. I'm doing temp jobs (Unemployed at the moment), but I've been trying to look for something more, but it's pretty hard to find something regular. I read and write a lot while taking each day as it comes. I don't feel like I fit in with a lot of people, especially those around my age range. While many of them are partying or in school, I'm mostly to myself.

I'm 28, I live with my parents, have no SO to speak of. It's hard to keep from beating myself up sometimes for being this age and still being unmarried at home. But I'm lucky to have a supportive family and a job ... although it's just part time, it's better than nothing.

27. Newly married as of June. Graduated from college. No kids yet (hopefully not for at least another year or so). :)

Happy to see this thread! Until now I didn't really fit in anywhere in the 20-somethings groups... :p

26 here, 27 in the winter. I still party with the best of them, work a somewhat fulfilling office job, am single, and am beginning to get an idea of what I want to do with my life. Do I count? I still live with my parents, if that's any help.

I'm surprised I even made it this far.