Graduate wanting to move out of parents house. Best options?

Perelandra · 29 May 2013 at 8:28PM

Ronaldo_Mconaldo wrote: »

Ah to be young again. Come on, people. Tell this person the ways of the world. Quit your job and go travelling and you'll likely find you have no money and that there might not be any jobs for you to go back in to. If you're a graduate you should have got the travelling thing out of your system as soon as your exams finished, now it's too late, fun's over. It's time for the drudgery of modern day life to take it's toll on you.

Give up your dreams and get settling down, live with your folks for a few more decades in order to save for that elusive deposit.

Crab buckets!

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=crab%20bucket

However, on the assumption that you were purposefully exaggerating above then I sadly agree that the sentiment behind your post will apply to most people. I must be a bit of a crab myself.

Fletchasketch · 30 May 2013 at 9:38AM

Please don't be put off by the travelling OP. If it's something you want to do, then just do it. You only get one life, so live it happy. There may well be people for whom travelling has proved detrimental to their career; but in my case it certainly helped. I also have plenty of friends who took a year out with five plus years in the workplace and absolutely loved it. What's more, they've come back to fantastic careers. If anything, if I had my time again I'd have gone away for longer, at the end of the day, you've got your whole life to earn money.