How do you wish you had spent your 29th year?

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Although both girls and guys can answer this, I'm wondering specifically how women wished they had spent their last year of their 20s (29 years old). Do you have regrets about how you spent that year, did it fly by too quickly? What do you wish you had done differently, or do you like the way you spent that year? I know work permits in other countries are easier before your 30, but that program sounds a bit mysogynistic if you want to start a family, as it wastes a fertile year of your life.

quaranta · Accepted Answer

Mine was horrible, I was recovering from a long psychological trauma and wasn't able to function anymore, completely unreliable like if I had mental disability. Now I recovered but I wish I had a decent year at least and to start getting a career in my field much earlier (at least when I was 27), because that's what I spent this current year for instead, through an overload of other issues and emergencies to manage in my parents family (and I'm about to turn 31).
Husband and kids are (and have always been) still totally out of my scope anyway (I'm in EU, we anyway start a family later than US), I might think about that in my late 30s when my career will be well evolved and established. Which is luckily a field in expansion and with opportunities that requires specialized skills, so I'm not worried about not finding any job. I just wish I started before, because each year after 30 is generally worse in responsibilities and the overload can strike you if you aren't prepared (your parents start having health problems to manage, your grandparents start to die and you might have to manage indirect effects of your mother/aunt being always busy assisting them, your siblings and other family members get into bigger responsibilities that can expand to you too when there are emergencies, you start to have a better career and plans so you have to manage a lot more things, deadlines, things to pay, bureaucracy, moving elsewhere to follow better jobs, learning new things to get better options, if you got a car in your late teens you're probably going to need a new one after a decade, you start to have more cumulated health issues, etc - and let alone if you get a baby).
So getting most of the career preparation done before you are 28-30, or saving some money, is kind of crucial, and I'm in late for that. If any shit happens it will just fall onto my already urgent "to-do" and I will have to manage that, delaying things even more.
I could have done things before 27, but I had a series of problems to manage and I was definitely not picturing enough of these problems in my early 20s.

Talldutchie · Accepted Answer

I hosted it with a huge party at my house! Now I am 33, it was also my last one hosting. Why? I have been hosting parties from my 16th every month almost, up until my 30th. I am a bit done with that now lol. Now I usually cook a big dinner for family or friends and have a few drinks.

FunkyMonkee · Accepted Answer

In bed a lot more often with a gorgeous woman (Jennifer Marcin) by my side getting lots of sex from her.
Instead, I spent a lot of the time recording our first album, playing lots of gigs and going to college and being quite lonely!

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

I would have liked to get married.

EmmaMary · Answer

I'm actually spending the first five months of my 29th year (Born June 1993) being pregnant and about to give birth in hopefully eleven days time. 🤞

abc3643 · Answer

The day I turned 29, things were not good in my life. 6 days later, the girl I wanted to marry dumped me. I never recovered.

OlderAndWiser · Answer

On my 29th birthday, I was in my second semester of law school, and I had a great year. Wouldn't change anything about that year!

NamerOfStars · Answer

Not to nag, but that would be your THIRTIETH year; your age is the number of years you've  completed.

Ian69 · Answer

I’m sorry, I have a goldfish brain and I can’t remember what i did or was doing at that point in time.

NathanDavis · Answer

I did spend it just the way I wanted to spend it... ignoring my birthdays like I usually do... lol

Anonymous · Answer

dating someone , when i was 29 , would of been single and wasn't seeing anyone at all , as to why i wasn't able to date anyone back then , not really sure but always seemed to struggle at that

Guy13 · Answer

Have I wasted the 20s what you asking? Not in work but yes so far relationally

pizzalovershouse · Answer

I don't know I usely went to places like Vegas an Reno to gamble an have free drinks plus the all you can eat buffet although I never ate tons but ate enough I got 2 times what I played

TacosRAwesome · Answer

That was a lovely year and I'm happy with how I spent it.

AsaKyo · Answer

I hope (if I make it) I spend it laid up under some sexy blonde Dutch guy lmao

Sparkie460 · Answer

I was married , had a daughter, a house to take care of and my wife was pregnant.

EaterPeter · Answer

Dating you or being in full fledged relationship with you?

Agape93 · Answer

Depends on the time frame

Summeroflove · Answer

Well. I ain’t 29 yet.

Debbie14217 · Answer

not there yet sorry

nawtee_me · Answer

That was so long ago, maybe just as I did….

Zolly99999 · Answer

Like every other birthday...

Anonymous · Answer

Not doing cocaine

peedy · Answer

I dont remember

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