What were you doing at age 26?

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Switch91 · Accepted Answer

Working on a bar in a night club. I did not have my shit together at all. Getting drunk a few times a week, having no money, no girlfriend, being very depressed, just generally fucking about not looking after myself.

It's only really since Covid happened that I've started to actually try and work on myself. Got a new job which I enjoy and the money is decent which I've actually started saving. Hopefully in the next year or two will have enough to put down on a house.
Still drink occasionally, never more than once a week though.
Still no girlfriend, but living in hope.
Much less frequent and less intense bouts with depression, always thankful for what I have and try to stay optimistic.

lucas262 · Accepted Answer

I just turned 27.

I was and still am an amazon driver.

That's my slave job. I'm building a custom t shirt business on the side so that is 5he hustle.

At 26 I continued to fight my demons, and come to accept the world for what it is and not what I want it to be, which was a big deal for me.

27 is just a number, the point is to learn and get wiser every day. Cheers 🍻

HighlyVolatile · Answer

I was mostly focused on my career at that age. We were shipping some very new products against short deadlines so I was often working around 80+ hours a week back then.

Outside of work on weekends, I was having a blast with my friends. I had a sort of work-hard, party-hard mindset at that age. That's also the age when I met my now-wife at a picnic (she was a friend of a friend) although we became and stayed friends for almost a year before dating.

I was kind of reluctant to date and jump into relationships precisely at that age after some bad relationships. So I took it slow on the dating but instead focused on making as many friends as I could and building my own social circle of friends. On weekends, I often organized the events where all of us would meet and hang out and also invited people to bring along any new friends along with bringing my new ones into the group.

That friend group actually blew up and got huge with hundreds of people so we got to the point where we could book entire nightclubs to ourselves for private parties and split the cost.

ktaylor · Answer

My ex left me, I was working a shitty job, lost family, my dad got cancer and I had given up on my dreams. I worked the same shitty job until I was 27 and then decided I was fed up being sad so I went back to university got a masters degree and then I landed my dream job. My life changed completely. I moved town, love my job and met the most amazing man at work who means the world to me.
But the ages of 24-27 were definitely the worst years of my life. I was such a mess.
I just turned 30 and I’ve never been happier.

GoodManDave · Answer

26... working at some of the same jobs I do now, just a bit differently. It was nice that I wasn't expected to have a 50K job at that point, and I could still sort of work part time. I spent a lot of time trying to work - was doing fairly well with getting freelance work, too.

I wasn't really dating, though I had a girlfriend several years before. Outside of that, I'd go hang out with friends once in a while. There weren't a lot of wild parties or anything. I think I'd go to a few different restaurants or bars (that ended up closing down/retooling). Tried getting jobs in other states, but wasn't allowed to go (parents stupid rules), but since I was doing ok financially, moving wasn't a HUGE issue at the time. The big thing was I started buying my own health insurance, but it was easy to pay because it wasn't ridiculously expensive, and the quality was ok.

DaveJord · Answer

In 2002 I was 26 living in Italy, driving trucks for Uncle Sam all across Europe. It was some of wildest and funniest times of my life. Driving 18 wheelers from the boot to the pound and back again. 2002 marked a turning point in my life, one year in the post 911era. The world changed I was in Iraq 18 months later, then Afghanistan the year after... and it wasn't ever the same again.

OfDeath · Answer

Wow that takes me back. I was developing some of the technologies we're all using right now at the same time as finishing my doctorate and accepting a fellowship at cambridge and then turning it down to work on another project which offered a lot of money. And by a lot, I mean a LOT.

Blew most of the money on depreciative assets. I still have some of it, but I'm going to have to take on some more projects soon.

AydenHazor · Answer

26 was the year my divorce was finalized and I escaped the verbally and emotionally abusive relationship that was my past marriage with primary custody of my son. I changed jobs that year and moved back to my home state, an hour and a half away. I started building friendships again and started the healing process.

Guy13 · Answer

At 26, completed Stage 1 of conqueroring the World (properties NOT Market).
Stage 2: to start at 32. 7 year plans‼️

If I may, I like you better with brown hair. I think you would cause a wreck downtown with a classic red.-Not the trashy spray paint look they use now please… Your blush already has those reddish tones in them. Tell your hairdresser to that you want the “freckled face” red

ArrowheadSW · Answer

The age of 26 was a bit unusual for me. I had been dating a lady at work (mistake) and she went toxic on me. There were other problems at that job anyway, so I got a new job. I had been out of college for 3 years at that point so I was still kind of navigating my way around. I also bought a brand new house that year and it was a neighborhood that was mostly 1st time homebuyers, and it was cool. Fun to look back at the memories.

Brainsbeforebeauty · Answer

At 26 had my second daughter, so was a mother of a two year old and a newborn, worked as a cleaning supervisor for a cleaning company that did business offices and had my own private clients for house cleaning..

MarkRet · Answer

At 26 I was still single, worked a full time job, ice skated a lot, lived in a trailer, and was starting to break out of shells and get my life together.

laurieluvsit · Answer

Last year, I was chatting with people on GAG... lol

Dazed0N0Confused · Answer

I turn 26 next week & I'm currently trying to get my son to coo & say little silly baby words at a little over a month old

NathanDavis · Answer

I was about to start on the business, and for a time, single as well... about to meet someone great  and I was eating really badly... not good

Slartybartfast · Answer

I was the top engineer for a fortune 500 telecommunication company. Paid off my student loans, Bought my first house , and started my own company.

exitseven · Answer

I was married and just had my first son a few moths before. I was working in sales and was fixing up the old house that we bought.

Avt9560 · Answer

You're not old at all, I didn't know what I'm gonna do at that age.

Adam1978 · Answer

I had just finished my master degree in electrical engineering. So I was struggling to get my first engineering job. While still working at the local student pub, did a few odd jobs here and there but most time went to searching for a good job.

Sour-rose · Answer

Just realizing my life sucks but I've found a way to change that. And then, it was a start but I've been working on it all the way until now. Nice job, me at 26. We getting happier and more social. <3

UniquelyBasic · Answer

I can't see the future so I won't know until I get there

TallAnon · Answer

I am 26, soo.. Working fulltime (from. home), enjoying some games, anime, got too much money as a programmer, slowly getting fat from takeaway every meal

ClaryFairchild26 · Answer

I am 26 and I’m at home without a job and trying to rekindle my relationship with my last ex!  Drawing and reading and mostly talking care of my dog

Wester1967 · Answer

Being stupid by having a serious relationship which crashed and burned.

Staximus · Answer

Same thing I'm doing now, being a fat lazy bum. I wish I was still 26 haha

RebeccaBI2000 · Answer

Not there yet, but hopefully it will be fun and I accomplish more by then

Andres77 · Answer

Traveling to Australia working with their special forces, and Hawaii (my one and only modeling job) and Jackson Hole Wyoming, skiing and climbing the Grand Teton mountains and snowmobiling around Yellowstone Park.

Guido · Answer

Married with 2 kids. In the military and it was a year before I moved my family to be stationed in Germany.

LaFemmeFatale_1 · Answer

Imagine you are 99, then think about being 26. You are young asf. 🌟

ButterflyRun6354 · Answer

I'm not sure. I'm hoping I'll have finished my masters, have a solid beginning of my career, be married, and be pregnant by then.

t-8900 · Answer

Spending my days in a hospital bed or a total shut in due to a mental breakdown. But I'm doing much better now and making up for lost time 😁👍

AviatorTom · Answer

I was working a lot and playing racquetball and basketball with my friends. Was not seriously dating anyone.

TexasRed95 · Answer

Currently I'm in the process of getting my appendix removed.

AlexEfron · Answer

(future) Probably disappointed and frustrated at my failures... just as I am now

OnKoing · Answer

Mostly acting like a dork. Men tend to do that sort of thing, while women start to think about settling down. Massive generalisation, spam me for it! 🤭

TacosRAwesome · Answer

I got out of a shitty relationship, got laid, got my licence, lost some weight and got in my current job so that was a year of some decent achievements. I need to get that ball rolling again.

michael1469 · Answer

Try to make a relationship work with a woman who was diagnosed with bipolar... what a waste of time... But the sex was good.

Twalli · Answer

My parents got me a dog the day before my 26th birthday, I spent most of that year bonding with her and pretty much lived in the kitchen with her running around in there and outside. She needed to be housebroken and it's easiest to clean our kitchen.

ushagomez · Answer

I have not got there yet ask me again in about five years time

jestergent · Answer

I was making a lot of money, and getting no attention. So I dropped that gig. Also dropped dating. Wasn't worth the work/

DarkWinterNights · Answer

Same thing I’m doing now. Working. I had less money and less toys so my weekends were less fun. But otherwise pretty similar.

Cowboy6666 · Answer

I was doing my masters and searching for a girlfriend lol

888theGreat · Answer

Can't remember a lot. 1994 , my business I guess. Getting more political. Listening to Rush.

Bklynbadboy12 · Answer

I was happy asf I just bought my first property and I celebrated by going to Jamaica

humanearth · Answer

Having wild sex parties, from threesomes, foursomes, to outright orgy parties

Agape93 · Answer

Traveling and working odd jobs like pressure washing and painting

jamesgoldman · Answer

I can say what I will be doing at 26 is drinking date matched Glenfiddich (the Excellence not the Grand Corennebor whatever it is)

Zolly99999 · Answer

Haha.. Old asf #26. That's funny.. I don't feel old at 42.. I still do lots and have many plans for the future... At 26 I was working my ass off trying to establish myself..

TDTD123 · Answer

At 26 I was working as a cleaner in a pharmaceutical company.

Tedster420 · Answer

I was sitting in a hospital bed because I was hit by a car

chulo1992 · Answer

At 26 I was a full blown player, womanizer and party animal.

oliversamuel · Answer

I'm 19, so I don't know. I hope I'll be a good guy lol

Pito123 · Answer

Feeling very young and dreaming about the future, the best part of life time between this age and 35.

TheMajesticKing777 · Answer

I'll let you know in 5 years

Uptowngirl88 · Answer

Traveling from state to state with my military fiance

AndrésC64 · Answer

Finishing up my undergrad and getting ready to do an internship in Barcelona.

EmmaMary · Answer

I was pregnant with our first child.

innerman · Answer

doing some shitty job Watching old sitcoms obsessing about some girl that dumped me

TrueConfection · Answer

I was married and having a baby.

Kelly6 · Answer

Having sex and  goi g to college lol

skyeee_ · Answer

ill tell you in another 12 years

Prettysammie · Answer

I hope better stuff than I’m doing now

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