Me?
I scorn my friends for going home early on fridays, for the night being over at eleven fifteen with tubes and trains back to suburbia. I skulk off and lament the days when we went home after the sun came up.

I scorn my friends for having been late to the pub due to 'work responsibilities', while I slunk out at half four. I've worked there four years, but never applied for a promotion (when they existed in the public sector) because I'll be outta there in six months, always out in six months.

I scorn their mortgages. I intend to find university number four and add to my collection of qualifications I will likely never use, so a house would only get in my way. They marry, have kids, some divorce. Those things aren't for me, not in my plans.

For the last two years I have woken in the middle of the night, gripped with terror, that I'm the one that's doing it badly wrong.

I am 36.
( cs1ca, Thu 7 Jun 2012, 21:03, 9 replies)

I'm 36, you're doing it wrong.
If I weren't getting married this year I'd be bricking it that I'd drifted to nowhere.

Except for the uni thing. How the fuck did you find time for three? I never had the time to go, and regret it now. Will they lend me the money? Will they fuck. Even The OU refuse to treat me as a British citizen.
( The Awful Puppy Bakery is still bored, Thu 7 Jun 2012, 23:05, closed)

At a pinch, I'd guess a financially supportive husband or boyfriend helped.

( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Thu 7 Jun 2012, 23:19, closed)

Nah,
I'm a blagger. And male.
( cs1ca, Thu 7 Jun 2012, 23:29, closed)

How did you pay your bills?
And how did you manage to get any kind of job at all with several three-year gaps on your CV?
( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Fri 8 Jun 2012, 0:26, closed)

You live to your means
so I stayed poor, and thus low maintenance. Plus I have a knack at legal free housing.
( cs1ca, Fri 8 Jun 2012, 0:53, closed)

Your children
will squabble over your house, and then forget you.
( cs1ca, Thu 7 Jun 2012, 23:27, closed)

Fucking hell
what are you complaining about. Get out of your dead end job and go and have some fun.
( Herb Alpert's Taxi Driver I have very beautiful lips, Fri 8 Jun 2012, 0:50, closed)

to be honest herb, i think he IS having fun.
there's a lot to be said for being the chronic under-achiever. no responsibilities, no worries. party hearty, work the minimum and enjoy the hell out of life. christ, it worked for me until i hit 23 oh wait.....
( janet aylia y'all motherfuckers need jesus, Fri 8 Jun 2012, 7:41, closed)

23?
I was running a music venue at 22.

slacker
( cs1ca, Fri 8 Jun 2012, 10:30, closed)