I wouldn't like to be 18 again...

Graham_Devon

MrRee wrote: »

I would LOVE to be 18 again ........

I would become a winner MUCH sooner ........

Would you?

It's alright saying you'd do things you did better, but ultimately, you probably wouldn't do the things you did at all. The country has changed enormously.

Just stuff like education has changed enormously. From hardly anyone being able to go on to further ed....to all and sundry going on....to only some now going on.

The job you did at 18 may no longer even exist.

Opportunities are for a moment in time.

Percy1983

I wouldn't like to be 18 now, I scrapped through when insurance was on the way up and employment was quite easy to find.

I suppose I have made mistakes to which if I could advise my 18 year old self back then maybe things would be a bit different but knowing what I know now it would be an even bigger mistake to go back to being 18 now.

I have learned a lot and life is nicely on track, why change that.

MrRee_2

Graham_Devon wrote: »

Would you?

It's alright saying you'd do things you did better, but ultimately, you probably wouldn't do the things you did at all. The country has changed enormously.

Just stuff like education has changed enormously. From hardly anyone being able to go on to further ed....to all and sundry going on....to only some now going on.

The job you did at 18 may no longer even exist.

Opportunities are for a moment in time.

With all due respect - and I do enjoy your posts - I have to differ.

People ask me how I got to be so lucky ....... I answer them in a single sentence:-

"It took a lot of hard work and heartache to get this lucky"!

And that is the plain truth of it all.

It wouldn't really matter what the conditions or environment was, is, or has been ....... I would like to believe that I would have cut my furrow in any ground.

Some people just say, "OH, it's too tough - it's too difficult - I will fail" ... and they do fail, because they have told themselves they will fail.

Richard Branson - as an example - would make a success in any Era .... it's just how some people are cut out to be.

Graham_Devon

Percy1983 wrote: »

I wouldn't like to be 18 now, I scrapped through when insurance was on the way up and employment was quite easy to find.

I suppose I have made mistakes to which if I could advise my 18 year old self back then maybe things would be a bit different but knowing what I know now it would be an even bigger mistake to go back to being 18 now.

I have learned a lot and life is nicely on track, why change that.

To be honest, our "mistakes"...or would rather suggest, the path we chose, is often mapped out by what's thrown at us.

For instance, I personally would have bought a house sooner if I had known in 2004 what was about to happen.

But theres loads of other stuff I would have done too. I'd have invested in the dot com boom, and pulled out right at the very top. I'd have invested in M&S when it was rock bottom. I wouldn't have bought a car that subsequently, with little notice, was found to be in the £400 tax bracket, meaning I, and loads of other people flooded the market with gas guzzlers, losing a large wad of money. Instead I'd have bought an 8 year old car and kept it for 2 years to make best use of the scrappge scheme.

As I say....opportunities are for but a moment in time. Turning back the clock aint gonna help you. The only thing that will help you is turning back the clock and keeping the knowledge you have built up.

But that would be pretty boring. You could win the lottery every damn week.

wotsthat

Percy1983 wrote: »

I wouldn't like to be 18 now, I scrapped through when insurance was on the way up and employment was quite easy to find.

I suppose I have made mistakes to which if I could advise my 18 year old self back then maybe things would be a bit different but knowing what I know now it would be an even bigger mistake to go back to being 18 now.

I have learned a lot and life is nicely on track, why change that.

So an eighteen year old now would be looking at you thinking it's so unfair that you had it so easy - cheap insurance, easy house purchase, low interest rates and easy employment.

Yet at the same time you think someone ten years older than you has been lucky being born ten years earlier when petrol was cheaper, mortgages were easier to get etc.

Could it just be that younger people always think they've been hard done to by the generation before?

StevieJ

The first thing I would do is to quit smoking, save me a fortune and maybe my life.

daveyjp

I had an insurance quote when I was 18, it was close to £800, that amount today is over £2,000.

I realised I couldn't afford a car (and none of my mates had a car), waited until I was mid 20s and paid almost £400 insurance on a £300 car.

So very little has changed apart from our awareness.

wotsthat

Graham_Devon wrote: »

As I say....opportunities are for but a moment in time. Turning back the clock aint gonna help you. The only thing that will help you is turning back the clock and keeping the knowledge you have built up.

But that would be pretty boring. You could win the lottery every damn week.

I want to be 18 not 44 - that's better than winning the lottery.

Graham_Devon

wotsthat wrote: »

So an eighteen year old now would be looking at you thinking it's so unfair that you had it so easy - cheap insurance, easy house purchase, low interest rates and easy employment.

Yet at the same time you think someone ten years older than you has been lucky being born ten years earlier when petrol was cheaper, mortgages were easier to get etc.

Could it just be that younger people always think they've been hard done to by the generation before?

Key difference.....

We acknowledge it.

spadoosh

wotsthat wrote: »

So an eighteen year old now would be looking at you thinking it's so unfair that you had it so easy - cheap insurance, easy house purchase, low interest rates and easy employment.

Yet at the same time you think someone ten years older than you has been lucky being born ten years earlier when petrol was cheaper, mortgages were easier to get etc.

Could it just be that younger people always think they've been hard done to by the generation before?

Yet they've "never had it so easy"