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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lazybones" data-source="post: 2249215" data-attributes="member: 143">I've been at both ends represented in this thread. I was mostly miserable in my 20s; was poor as dirt, worked multiple jobs putting myself through college, grad school was insane, and I had virtually no success with the opposite sex. Conversely, my 30s have been pretty gravy. The best was getting married; my wife and I both have professional degrees (payoff for those years of scrabbling for pennies in college and grad school) and make plenty of money, we don't have children and take several trips to fun and interesting places each year, and I can pretty much just go out and buy anything I want (although it's interesting, as others have already noted, I don't want as much, the older I get). My job isn't the one that I would have picked, but it's stable, allows me to set my own pace, and has great managers who just promoted me again. We have a good group of friends and live in a town that has great restaurants, theatres, music, libraries, and athletics facilities, all within easy bicycling distance of our house. That last paragraph probably sounds like bragging. But I need to repeat that my life was so "unfun" in my 20s that I thought about cashing in at a few points. I just want people in the same situation to know that it can get better; when life is miserable and you think you can't get out of your situation, focus on the things you can change (education, job, friends, and if necessary, therapy), and keep going.</blockquote>

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