If You're Looking For Some Advice For Your 20s, Here's What People Are Saying

Recently, u/SecureBiteX asked r/AskReddit, "What is the biggest mistake radical marque successful their 20s?" And we thought we'd stock immoderate of the apical responses.

1. "Thinking they’re already pigeonholed and it’s excessively precocious to marque changes."

–sunbearimon

2. "Paying the minimum connected recognition cards alternatively of paying the statement. Unless you genuinely person nary different option, don’t bash this. Cut your spending determination other if you person to, but debar this astatine each costs if you can."

–B00kDrag0n777

3. "Thinking it's the champion years of your life. People support saying this to 20-year-olds, but honestly, my beingness got truthful overmuch amended successful my 30s. Just due to the fact that you're struggling successful your 20s, doesn't mean it's each downhill from there. If your 20s suck, there's anticipation connected the different side."

–sageofspite

5. "The biggest 'mistake' successful your 20s is reasoning you’re expected to person it each figured out. That decennary is truly astir becoming independent, making mistakes, and learning however beingness really works."

–Jabba_108

6. "Settling down and getting joined truthful young. Go research and acquisition life. Travel, day around. Have fun. I spot it a batch successful WV. People getting joined aft knowing idiosyncratic conscionable for a twelvemonth past having kids erstwhile they’re truthful young. There’s plentifulness of clip for that but bask your 20s."

–Cobain17

7. "Unprotected sex. When I started utilizing dating apps, it blew my caput that astir of the women I hooked up with didn't adjacent inquire if I had a condom. I don't ever privation kids oregon STIs, truthful I ever person condoms connected me. Then I perceive from women friends that men don't bring it up either. A batch of men don't adjacent bring condoms to 1 nighttime stands. Shit's brainsick retired there."

–ColourUnidentified

8. "Staying successful relationships oregon jobs mode excessively long, conscionable due to the fact that they've already invested time."

–Extension-Try-3531

9. "Thinking you person each the clip successful the satellite to fig your beingness out."

"You don't. Your 20s is erstwhile you request to acceptable up your future. Definitely bask yourself, you'll regret that if you don't, but you inactive request to commencement moving towards goals. Career definitely, but creatively too. Start learning that language, commencement learning to gully oregon paint, prime up a guitar, commencement penning a book. 10 years aboriginal successful your 30s you'll beryllium truthful thankful you did, alternatively of looking backmost wishing you did reasoning it's excessively late."

–Similar-Temporary427

10. "Getting joined and having children truthful young. Live first. Travel. Get a bully education! This is the astir important. Education is thing nary 1 tin ever instrumentality from you and it makes it harder for anyone to power you. Get an education."

–Altruistic_Medium_52

12. "Not taking risks."

"You won't instrumentality risks astatine 50, astatine 40, and astir apt not overmuch astatine 30. You person excessively overmuch to lose. Maybe your ain family, a unchangeable good paying job, etc. In your 20s you person the MOST freedom, and if you instrumentality a hazard and fail, you'll person bully beingness acquisition and plentifulness of clip to retrieve from it. Don't beryllium afraid. If you succeed, you mightiness person done large things (business, personal, whatever), and person nary regrets erstwhile you're older. Comments saying prevention for retirements are close factually. But besides you being young is temporary, marque the astir of it."

–FreyAlster

13. "Treating their assemblage similar a rental car. You tin get distant with eating garbage, ne'er stretching, and sleeping 4 hours a nighttime successful your aboriginal 20s, but the measure comes owed successful your 30s. Take attraction of your teeth and your back."

–LucienPhenix

14. "Not exercising and processing steadfast habits. You’ll wage for it erstwhile you get older."

–ALSDAMAN2up2down

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