I think store-bought merchandise isn't up to par with natural produce. Perhaps in certain locations there exists genuine quality, but I really don't want to have anything to do with the stuff.
What should I do as an adult?
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I think store-bought merchandise isn't up to par with natural produce. Perhaps in certain locations there exists genuine quality, but I really don't want to have anything to do with the stuff.
Alba's advice is solid. I found myself in heavy credit card debt at one point, now I simply opt out of the credit economy. It took me over 10 years to rectify a situation that developed over 3 years. It started out very small and manageable (i replaced the engine in my car, had money saved to pay off the CC), then spiraled out if control very quickly.
Don't buy on credit if you can avoid it. I'll likely never be able to buy a house because of this (also because I'm bad with money)
Turning 18 may seem big now, but in 10 years you'll laugh at the stuff you thought was important now, and you'll cry at the missed opportunities, missed signals from potential partners, missed times spent doing irrelevant crap while you were still young and in the best health of your life.
DON'T get a dog. Or a kid. Those things will ruin your early adult life.
Don't buy on credit if you can avoid it. I'll likely never be able to buy a house because of this (also because I'm bad with money)
Turning 18 may seem big now, but in 10 years you'll laugh at the stuff you thought was important now, and you'll cry at the missed opportunities, missed signals from potential partners, missed times spent doing irrelevant crap while you were still young and in the best health of your life.
DON'T get a dog. Or a kid. Those things will ruin your early adult life.
I barely know the concept behind credit cards. I don't understand any of the references to them in this thread.
Why doesn't everybody just use cash in day-to-day situations? Two hundred dollars in the pocket should be more than enough.
I really love dogs; I used to work with them.
cybrxkhan
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This. I'm still pretty young myself (high shcool was only a few years ago after all) but even now I can look back on my memories as an 18 year old fondly and nostalgically, and I can already start saying the "you youngins don't know what it's like, back when I was your age..." sort of thing. A long time ago, a teacher of mine said that if she could be young and in school again, she wouldn't mind. I can now understand that perspective.
Anyways, it's not really that big, even back then I didn't think it wasn't that big. The day before, the day after, I was still more or less the same. I had other things on my mind at the time. Then again I've never been one to really care about my birthdays to begin with. Still, you don't magically turn into an adult when you're 18. You're an adult whenever you become one. Sometimes I think 14 was when my childhood ended, at other times I think it was when I was 17, or the summer of 18, or 21. Who knows.
And, of course, there's not one proper way to be 18. Everyone has had different experiences. Some people, even decades later, don't like this phase of their life. Others like me look on it fondly. Yet others, like my dad, don't care much.
From my experience, based on what I've seen with me and my friends, though there have been a lot of changes, it doesn't feel like much has changed. We're still more or less the same people, but we are in rather different circumstances and dealing with different stuff, that's all. I suppose it's a bit sobering when the guys and girls you were dicking around with in the school cafeteria are now stressed out by work and finances, or getting married, and so on, but hey, that's expected.
Zack
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Study and work hard in school.
Kennigit
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Convenience and rewards iff you pay off your credit card bill monthly
If you do not have debts, credit is the easiest and gives generally 1-2% cash back. Discover has periods for instance of 5% cashback on purchases related to X, where X is gasoline, department stores, etc. Some credit cards may have decent rewards on airline (though nowadays 10E6 airline miles will get you a cup of coffee rather than a free flight) and businesses ofc realise that airline travel isnt at worth it when teleconference works fine.
The problem with credit economy is exactly what you might expect if you ever go into periods where you cannot simply pay it off. This is not necessarily that your living expenditures > earned take home pay, but when other things have to be paid (eg loans, chipping in to the family, etc). Prople can very easily get into bad situations
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I agree on the dog. I'm up in the air about the kid. There's enough complexity to that one though that it's hard to put into a posting blurb. The 30-something patience has been invaluable. But the 30-something energy level probably would have been better in the 20s. I think I fell asleep at about 8:45pm last night. I briefly felt pathetic as I was drifting off before I realized I just didn't care enough to fight it.
don't get me wrong - so do I, and I have one (and would be utterly devastated if she ran away). But early adulthood, for me, is not the time to let any other creature that you're responsible for into your life.
If you realize that you have a chance to sail around the planet on a tall ship, you can't do that if you have a kid or dog (or snake, or spider, or whatever you kids are into these days
) So that's the source of my admonition. I'm not saying avoid them at all costs, but realize that you will never be as free as you are now. Never again, until you retire.
Yeah, that's the answer we should all give, but let's be honest here - I'd be a far better student today at 41 than I was when I graduated college in 95. I really regret not having gotten more out of my education, but it wasn't timed right. That's the simple truth.
Buy a pack of cigarettes.
It's strange how we get to these numbers and we feel so different. I'm several years away from turning 40 but it's not really that far off. I think I'll feel pretty depressed then but that's nothing compared to turning 60, 70, 80. Then 40 will seem young.
I was reading a book about Afghanistan and it said most people don't know how old they are. So many people are illiterate and it was never recorded. They completely bypass this age obsessed thing.
It's strange how we get to these numbers and we feel so different. I'm several years away from turning 40 but it's not really that far off. I think I'll feel pretty depressed then but that's nothing compared to turning 60, 70, 80. Then 40 will seem young.
I was reading a book about Afghanistan and it said most people don't know how old they are. So many people are illiterate and it was never recorded. They completely bypass this age obsessed thing.
Leonel
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You could take control of a small time political group and through intimidation and infiltration take over a developed country, waging war and becoming the next political slur since Hitler?
While you're spot on, I have to say that you didn't ask for "good" advice, but for anything to exercise your priviliges ^^.
And the things which are really different...you can count them on 2 hands. There's not much choice.
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Act like a child.
That's sooo last century. Polygamist cults out west are all the rage now.
Lohrenswald
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How many privileges are there really? Vote, buy cigarettes, get a car, those sort of things?
Cheetah
Deity
Too soon? If anyone from this millennium has even heard the expression of "Drinking the Kool-Aid", they still don't have a clue where it came from!
Now, as a newly inaugurated 30's person, I take solace in the fact that the 30's are the new 20's, and that the 40's are the new 30's, and so on... That's my kind of kool-aid, thank you very much!
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Travel uncomfortably.
Well, I guess I can take solace in at least a couple of CFCers having gotten it!
18 is an arbitrary age to determine true adulthood. Today it seems most successfully put that off 'til at least their late 20's. You have a long ways to go lad. 
I wholly endorse this advice. Couch surf, hostel dive, anything and everything to travel far and wide as much as time allows.
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