Transitioned
I’m glad you figured yourself out. I waited until I was 22 to come out of the closet and until I was in my 30s to dress how I wanted (I didn’t transition, but I do identify as non-comforming and wear clothing that isn’t standard for my gender). It’s extremely comfortable being who you are.
My drivers license. Now I’m 19 and still need to do it.
I’m going to finish school soon and I want to drive a car when I have a job and can afford it. I’ve used public transportation for the past 3 years and will probably still use it in the future when it’s not too inconvenient but a 30 min drive to work taking 1 hour instead, where I spend 30 minutes just waiting, sucks. This weekend I drove to a friend. It would have taken 30 minutes by car but it took me 2 hours with public transport because I had to wait a total of 1 hour and 15 minutes. The issue isn’t public transportation itself but that the government was trying to save as much money as possible and it is getting better with the new government but there is still so much to do and it will take time.
The sooner the better. I know people in their 30s at my work that can’t drive and just Uber to work every day. Don’t become that guy
I don’t have a driver’s license, but I have made lifestyle choices so I can walk, bike, and take transit to most of my destinations. There is the odd destination where I’ll use ride hailing, but I avoid it.
I would give anything to be able to ride my bike to work, but it’s just so dangerous where I live because of all the cars :(
Bought Bitcoin or have tried to buy a shoebox of a house.
But I listened to all the “sensible” people and went for a graduate level program instead like an idiot, and then couldn’t do anything with it for a litany of reasons. Just one family emergency or health problem after another.
The worst of all maybe could have been avoided if I hadn’t been off at school in the first place. I don’t regret college, but my education should have stopped there. I was finally an adult, but I still let everyone else dictate my life, right from the getgo.
Biggest regret of my life, right out of the gate.
But I listened to all the “sensible” people and went for a graduate level program instead like an idiot
Oof, yeah similar situation though for me it was more around 20-21. Went to college for about 2-3 years, wasn’t doing too great with the required calculus classes & sort of dropped out. The upside was during that same time I landed a full time job in IT & was getting paid plenty, had a 401k, all that stuff.
But the “sensible” people around me (aka the boomer parents/uncles/etc. with their lifetime pensions) kept telling me to stop working & go back to school. That got into my head & eventually I quit my well paid job, burned another 2-3 years on school before realizing that just wasn’t going to work out for me. Then cashed out my 401k to pay off those school loans… those same “sensible” people didn’t tell me anything about retirement savings & I was too young & dumb to understand that stuff back then.
Nowadays I’m okay & don’t have any debt. But all that essentially meant I started over with my career later in life & am still trying to catch up with retirement savings.
In an alternate timeline I totally should have bought bitcoin when it was memed on and was literally sub pennies. On the other hand, anyone I know with wallets that old either have lost access to them or spent them when they went to a few dollars so likely wouldn’t be any different
Bought Apple and Microsoft stock.
There was no Google when I was 18. Jesus if I had somehow been able to buy Microsoft and Apple … But at the time Apple wasn’t looking too good.
Google was very new when I was 18. The best time for me to buy apple was when I was 14. Something like $0.35 a share in the early-mid 90s.
