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Anybody else had this! Im 24 and i have suddenly thought to myself, what the hell am i doing with my life? Feel a bit stuck in a rut! Live with my parents, no girlfriend and a boring job! :?

yes...and I'm not even mid 20s yet

it wont change when you have your own home,woman,kids.

Had this when I was 22. In an incredibly boring job earning peanuts.

So, I left on a career break for three years, and am now in Uni. Hopefully will get a decent job at the end of it all.

Go on, make a change.

 I've never had one of these, because if reality enters into my head I go and get hammered....never really cared too much with what.

I'm 28 and have felt like that on and off for at least 5 years. Tbh, who gives a fuck. I do what i want when i want, i answer to no-one, within reason, and avoid the idea of girlfriends and growing up. It's all too much like hardwork.

I feel 17, therefore i am.  Life's too fucking short to sit around worring about the accepted paths people think you should follow. Without sounding like a cliché advertisment, you only have one life, act like it. :beers:

You fucking losers  :mrgreen:

Dan.. this is totally wasted cos you need the years to understand but don't waste a day because it all goes by too fast.  To get away from living at home you need money, to get a hot girlie you  need...money, to have control you need money...unless you are shit hot on lead guitar!   Either way good luck fellah!! :D

Make the most of it and enjoy your youth.

20 years from now you'll be saddled with a mortgage, dodgy knees and teenage kids that drive you mad. You'll give your right arm to be 24 and carefree again... wake up man, the world's your lobster !!!

Even I'm beginning to think like that and I'm 17!

Could be worse, you could have been born in the mid twenties!!

Every time i start feeling like that, i get wasted. Overall, i enjoy my life at the moment, even though its largely uninspiring...

Have a wank. that'll cheer you up.

I had this feeling last year - I spent 7 months travelling/abroad variously which was great, came home to temping - my folks moving away so having to move into a shared house, most of my mates working or travelling away from Swindon, so pretty dull.  Now I've got a gf, job is OK, have secured a permanent job to start in september, which means I can look to doing more travelling in the summer.  It's pretty hard to get out of the rut, I guess I just got lucky - If I hadn't landed this job my whole career plan would have hiot the skids - but now I can happily plan a sojourn to South America, safe in the knowledge I have a job (and all beign well a football club) to come back to, and will be a chartered surveyor by the time I'm 26.

Dan you are 24 love, get out there and have some bloody fun.

I know what you mean though, I have been there, you just have to make things happen for yourself, you don't get anywhere if you wait for things to happen to you! Go travelling or summut meet new people see new places.

I had to move back in with my parents last year, I don't really wanna be there after having my own space, they drive me potty but it has benefits, so milk it whilst you can  :D

At least you have each other lads.

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I know people like that, it's not funny, it brings you down, but then you realise, it could be worse coz you could be one of them  :D

I love people like that it’s a distinctly great and proud British tradition.   Living with Mother into your 40’s and devoting your time obsessively to a pastime the rest of society frowns upon.

until they start talking to you...........  :D

great thread! Surely everyone feels like this at some stage - who knows what it's all about, all you gotta do is enjoy it while you can fella. Life's too short to worry about it, so just be safe in the knowledge that everyone is as clueless as to what it's all about and enjoy your family and friends...

try going through a divorce at 28. not good.

especially when i'm being charged £125ph for there services  :shock:

I'm off to Amsterdam myself next week Magic, hell of a lot cheaper on the Continent as they say.

 8)  :thumbs:

Have you got zit's as well? At 24, i would have thought that they were long gone.

33( 37 now..fuck...am i middle aged?) was not great for me. You've that to look forward to.

Join the army. That's a bundle of laughs these days.

It does give me comfort thats other people live as shit a life as me  :D Just hard times at the moment and i dont have a fucking clue what to do! it will turn good! 8)

 Have you considered religion Daniel?

Or topping yourself?

Seriously though, I think everyone goes through a stage like that.

Mine started at 24.

I'm 42 now and still in it :D

Oh hello Tails, I am your girlfriend. Remember me?

oh dear!  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick: i can picture Tails holding his phone well away from his head now and Sadie screaming at him from the other end  8)

Don't encourage him please richard. This is a dumpable offence.









































 :D

 I like the word dumpable....wish I'd made it up.

8) Most men are dumpable

 Indeed they are Sadie....you can't have them all however hard you try.

Which would you suggest?

  Well some seem a bit fussy who they let in......but Christianity seem to allow some restless souls to find inner peace.

not budism then?

dan, why not follow the cruiser into scientology?

 If you want to do Budhism Daniel, don't let me stop you.

i think i may follow the Rastafari movement!? 8)

Now I come to think about it....I did have a phase in my 20's when I was interested in Islam.

    I was particularly taken by the the fact that most  :doobie: seemed to come from Islamic countries, and polygamy seemed to be encouraged.....also the whole mystery of the Islamic world, from Mali to Samarkhand, did and  to some extent still does grab the imagination.

 I did a bit of travelling in Africa and  the middle east, but plans for a trip to Iran got royally scuppered by the otherthrow of the Shah.

  The arrival of the mad mullahs on the scene, rather did for my youthful romanticized view of Islam.....and as with many things the phase passed.

i got it.....im gonna be a rasta jew with ben!

ace. The way of the rasta jew is easy and drunken.

i like the thought of drinking my troubles away, rasta jew style!

welcome to the true religion my fellow rasta rabbi.

 8)  :D

   You should set up a cult FB.....a bit like Mr Wroe and his virgins, he set up a church in the 1830's a branch of the Apocalyptic Southcottians, which he entitled the Christian Israelites.  This was in industrial Lancashire; claiming a direct line to God, Wroe asked for and got 7 virgins to live with him from his congregation.

 The virgins were to provide Wroe with "comfort and succour"
 

  The story of Wroe was on a TV series back in the early 90's

i'm in a bit of a crisis at the moment - only started a 3,000 word essay today and its due tomorrow. i'm going to be up until the early hours i think

 Can't you just nick someone else's......what I used to do in a crisis.

  Surely in this day and age there must be one lurking on the web somewhere.

You wouldn't imagine the grief you get to avoid plagiarising your dissertation.

I found that it's the only way to get essay's done. I used to loose interest otherwise. Trying to do them early never worked for me, too much going over each paragraph and rewriting, you forget the point you were trying to make in the first place.

My best ever essay mark at uni was for a 2000 word jobby on quantum physics which I did for an elective module in my second year. Wrote the thing whilst drinking Spar import strength lager. Got my highest mark ever for an essay (64%). Luckily doing computer science I never needed to do that many of them.

When I had to retake my second year I tried to go over it an rewrite it slightly better, hoping to push it over towards the 70% first margin. Only got 58% (which I think may have been my second best essay mark ever). Either my point about pondering on things too long is correct or I'm an inspired drunk. I'd probably hedge for the second.

Either way that whole uncertainty about a dead/alive cat in a box makes a hell of a lot more sense after a few can's of stella strength cheap lager.

So I think I'm telling you to get some beers in or something.

Does that mean you're going to pooh on him ?  :shock: