What are your biggest early 20s regrets?

[creampuff]

I think it for me the regrets would be not shagging more girls when I could still hang 3 beach towels off my Johnson and do it 5 times a day.

[ZOLLAR]

43034 said:

so called said:

In my teens I regret how much I wasted on boozey weekends. Simply too much of the stuff.

I'm 20 and can't ever imagine myself ever saying that. They're bloody good fun

I'm 27, I wouldn't say I regret them but I lament the amount of money pissed up the wall on drunken weekends!

[KingNothing]

I'm 27 now, regret buying my car just under 5 years ago, got a stupid interest loan to buy it and spend a fortune modifying it and running it, also spent too much on credit cards on st I didn't need, and now I'm on the back foot trying to clear debts and save money for my own house.

[creampuff]

For young folks my advice is:

Take long holidays now. Take a year off. It is easier to do now than later in life and it broadens your horizons.

[creampuff]

And more shagging.

[markcoznottz]

creampuff said:

For young folks my advice is:

Take long holidays now. Take a year off. It is easier to do now than later in life and it broadens your horizons.

Agreed. Plus the vertical shuffle thing. Being self employed brings benefits in sneaking the odd afternoon/mirning off as required. I have noticed with my late 30's/early 40's mates that wirking paye full time is really starting to grate on them, as it might, those who didn't do uni have had the best part of 20 years of continuous employment, some at the same firm, and it can start to define you if not careful, plus the whole 'is this it?' thoughts that can take hold around this age.

[so called]

ZOLLAR said:

43034 said:

so called said:

In my teens I regret how much I wasted on boozey weekends. Simply too much of the stuff.

I'm 20 and can't ever imagine myself ever saying that. They're bloody good fun

I'm 27, I wouldn't say I regret them but I lament the amount of money pissed up the wall on drunken weekends!

I think this is what I mean.
I had lots of fun but there was a lot more world to see than the inside of pubs and clubs.

[mjb1]

I don't think we've helped the OP too much, such is the spread of opinion. Everything from save money, buy property, to go travelling and spend 2.5k a month socialising (coke and hookers presumably)!

[InfoRetrieval]

I'm in my 40s now and when I look back on my 20s the best decisions I made were:

• Taking a year abroad straight after uni.
• Buying a flat, my first place, in 1997 (not really useful advice but I appreciate how lucky I was to be able to afford it, more so in retrospect).
• Not getting married on my 20s. Though I met my future wife in my mid 20s it took until my thirties to become confident enough to be sure that getting married was the right thing to do (and knowing her for over 5 years helped).

[Big Rod]

InfoRetrieval said:

I'm in my 40s now and when I look back on my 20s the best decisions I made were:

• Taking a year abroad straight after uni.
• Buying a flat, my first place, in 1997 (not really useful advice but I appreciate how lucky I was to be able to afford it, more so in retrospect).
• Not getting married on my 20s. Though I met my future wife in my mid 20s it took until my thirties to become confident enough to be sure that getting married was the right thing to do (and knowing her for over 5 years helped).

I'm the same but I didn't do Uni' and I didn't travel.

Not going to Uni' hasn't held me back but I really have a wanderlust now.