Things to do before turning 30

missdeise

Before my 29th birthday, i'd like to make a list of things i'd like to do before I turn 30.
Any ideas or experiences to add to the list???????

1. Get married (26/02/2011)
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D'Agger

You're probably going to get alot of ideas like skydiving, bungee jump, travel across Asia etc.

Imo - you should do the things you've always wanted like visit a country you've always wanted to visit - for me it's South Africa.

Learn something you've always wanted to such as how to play an instrument.

At the end of the day you'll get ideas here but tbh you know yourself really, it's your personal taste that dictates the things you want to do

Yakult

Before Im 30.


1- find me a life parter (might have that chawked off all ready)
2- Get a week long space flight. Only €140,000 for a seat.
3- take over the word
4- ?????????
5- Profit.

Gillo

Challenge yourself, do something you don't think you'd like or find interesting with a plan to "expand your horizons". I tried pottery at the start of the year thinking, definetly not my thing (only did it cos I heard there was this really hot girl doing it), actually really enjoyed it and had a great sense of achievement at the end when I made a little jar.

Live a day as the diceman- you write down six options and roll a dice, thats what you do. Try it for a full day.

colsku

rent a motorbike!

flahavaj

Skydive. Exhilarating and helped me get over a fear of heights and took me co pletely out of my comfort zone. Everyone should do it.

Flying Abruptly

- go on a safari
- drive a very fast car on a race track
- run a marathon

athlone M

feel comfortable in your own skin. In my opinion the most important thing.

Lormcd

Bunji Jump!

starlit

do a masters degree!

StormWarrior

Try gay sex.

Overheal

athlone M wrote: »

feel comfortable in your own skin. In my opinion the most important thing.

I mastered that years ago the trick then is finding a significant other who is also comfortable with me :pac:

7 years to 30 though, no rush

lalee17

Threesome!

diveshark

missdeise wrote: »

Before my 29th birthday, i'd like to make a list of things i'd like to do before I turn 30.
Any ideas or experiences to add to the list???????

1. Get married (26/02/2011)
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

learn to scuba dive!!! amazing nothing like it on the planet!!!!

Mackman

Learn a musical instrument. Its a great feeling to be able to make music

longhalloween

R_H_C_P wrote: »

Before Im 30.


3- take over the word

I wanna take over the word too!!! Oh well the bird, the bird, the bird is the word... the bird, bird, bird, bird is the word!

Lurching

My current Bucket list is pretty long, but im working on a few things before I turn 30 (3.5 years)

Get my private Heli licence (1/4 of the way there!)
Learn the drums (Work not yet in progress)
Have a full bike license and a Yamaha R6 or equivalent
Drive a Dodge Viper across American desert (one section of this in the nip!)

crosswalk88

become an open water diver
travel to any place you always wished to visit
learn languages
say to your beloved ones how much you love them

Brussels Sprout

Some of these are gradual things, others are once off events

1. Get fit enough to do a triathalon
2. Improve your diet.
3. Stop watching rubbish on TV (or better still stop watching TV)
4. Strike up conversations with strangers during the daytime if you think it won't scare them.
5. Pick a language and learn the basics-greetings, numbers, ordering, asking for directions. Then visit a country that speaks that language and try to use your new found knowledge and body language to communicate as best as you can.
6. Plant a tree or grow your own vegetables.
7. Make a regular donation to a charity of your choice.
8. Get to know your parents and siblings better.
9. Learn to listen instead of waiting to talk.
10. Go to a european music festival and take ecstasy.

sheesh

learn something about design and the process of thinking creatively

take part in a musical (It takes loads of time and effort but very interesting)

2manyconditions

not looking forward to the big 30 and your not helping , you sound like its your last chance to do anything. There's 31 and 32 and 33 and 34 and ...... isn't there? Is there?

I say accept the fact that your going to be 30 and organise a big party for your 30th, if you still feel like I do - that life is over at 30 maybe have a big party everyday of your 29th year. Could be your last chance might as well make the most of it.

animalhuger

Travel round europe

Smoke every type of weed

Arest a terrorist

Moon the queen of england

Live in a forest

Get a show on mtv

Mrs B

Lol Lol

frankied1

Oil of olay!! and dont forget the chest and neck areas very important:D

frankied1

oh and for me I'd like to get married too before Im 30, that gives me less than 2 years (dont tell the boyfriend) lmao!!

dory

For me;

1. Visit at least 20 more countries (that leaves an average of 4 a year).
2. Renovate my house
3. Speak the language I'm currently learning pretty well
4. Be able to same some choons on my piano
5. Go on a long distance cycle across countries.

SuperInfinity

I think that before you're 30, you'll want to open your mind up to as many different ideas and things as possible. Because while old people can learn many new things just fine, it can be terribly hard for them to learn completely new things.

I think being able to use a computer is a good example. My dad who is in his late 70s for example has NEVER used a computer or played a videogame and thinks they're this kind of mystical thing he could never use. The same with a huge amount of people that age, or even a little younger. He also tells me that when driving came along first, many of the older people never learned to drive because it just scared them and they could never get the knack of it right. The same with education... people don't just decide in middle age they want to be a mathematician and go off and do that. It has to be learned when young.

The worst thing you could do would be to to go after one specific thing in your career that is not transferable to your future prospects or life.... and then come home and sit down and do the same type of things every day.

I don't agree with doing things for "achievements" status, the ability to say "I did that". Only things that are applicable to your life.

frankied1

frankied1 wrote: »

oh and for me I'd like to get married too before Im 30, that gives me less than 2 years (dont tell the boyfriend) lmao!!

Cant believe it my bofriend must be checking up on my posts he proposed last Thursday. Spooky. So happy well thats one thing out of the way before Im 30

LilMsss

My 30th birthday is looming (later this year!). In my early 20s I had convinced myself that I was going to do great things before I was 30, like trek the Himalayas and all sorts of crazy things. Most of the things that I thought I wanted to achieve were irrelevant to my life, and not real achievements, to my mind at least.

Here is a list of things I have achieved before I turn 30, and most of them weren't exactly things I had originally set out to do:

1. Lived in another country (three in fact!).
2. Earned a degree and Masters.
3. Been accepted onto a PhD in an area I'm really excited about.
4. Travelled across several countries and continents.
5. Lost a s**tload of weight and kept it off.
6. Finally learned to drive (at 29 :eek:).
7. Realised I LOVE exercise and do as much of it as often as I can: running, gym, hiking etc.
8. Realised the importance of friends and family in my life.
9. Learned to stand up for myself. and not give a damn what other people think.
10. Started a teaching career, something I never thought I'd be able to do when I was younger.
11. Realised I'm fine as I am and that I don't need to change a thing about myself.
12. Realised that life can change in an instant, and you have to just go with it.

LilMsss

frankied1 wrote: »

Cant believe it my bofriend must be checking up on my posts he proposed last Thursday. Spooky. So happy well thats one thing out of the way before Im 30

Congratulations! :D:D

Gone West

Some ideas

See how the other side lives.
Build something that will outlive you.
Go fishing.
Fall in love.
Watch a volcano epupt (toast marshmallows on the lava flow if you can)
Learn another language to fluency.
Date and make friends with people of other races
Own something that is truely one of a kind.
Live and work as a local in another country.
Sleep outside for a few days (or longer)
Live without electricity for a few days (or longer)
Put your life at risk for lols or for the experience
Shoot a gun
Hire somebody
Fire somebody
Get in a fight (brawl, streetfight, whatever)
Win a fight
Ride a motorbike
Bribe a cop (or other security serviceperson)
Grow plants or vegetables.
Go Scubadiving
Get arrested
Spend the night on a boat (best if cloudless and in the middle of nowhere)

I´ve done all of the above, here are some more that I´d like to do:
Spend a night in Jail
Make a million (or pick a realistic number)
Fly an aircraft solo
Ride a motorbike across a desert / coastal road over several weeks/months
Propose
Go to a world cup final
Take an epic 2 week train journey (mumbai-delhi, trans-siberian, across Canada, etc)

thomascullen

Watch the movie ' The Bucket List ' for inspiration

Gillo

Realise that it's just another year and do things for the experience not the achievement.

kippy

Just turned 30 in the past couple of weeks.
I've had a very very good life so far, some great friends around me, a beautiful wife, a house I love, a job I love (worked hard to get) and a really supporting family. I had a couple of aims of things to do before I was 30 (none of which were important to me as the above). Some of these aims I have achieved/completed, some are now tacked on to the "things to do before turning 40".

charmer

Learn to speak Japanese
Travel. Everywhere
Couchsurf
Try many illegal substances
Invest in a professional camera and take amazing photos
Learn to play an instrument
Meet people from every walk of life
Sleep on a beach
Get a degree
Do volunteer work
Read the classics
Complete Final Fantasy VII

Emme

missdeise wrote: »

Before my 29th birthday, i'd like to make a list of things i'd like to do before I turn 30.
Any ideas or experiences to add to the list???????

1. Get married (26/02/2011)
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

That looks very tame in comparison to what some people here have done, and I don't think that anybody has put "get married" on their list! Have you any ideas yourself, OP, or is getting married the be-all and end-all for you? Once you have that ring on your finger are your ambitions fulfilled?

marglin

take all the fun drugs(at a suitable time)
go to as many countries as possible(40+)
learn to play an instrument
be able to talk yourself out of trouble in a few languages
see all the oceans
still be in touch with old friends(the good ones)
go to as many gigs/festivals as possible
do some crazy jobs
live in a few different major cities
sleep with as many people as you can

before obviously...........

get a degree, career, wife, house, kids(maybe), life yada yada yada......
t minus 10 years . . . . . .:rolleyes:

Asphyxia

Only 19 so have a little while to go yet

1. Travel Travel Travel (See all the wonders of the world) meet people, experience their culture eat their food
2. Learn a new language (Learning Japanese at the mo)
3. Get my driving licence
4. Finish with my education
5. Buy a house/Get a mortgage
6. Start playing bass again
7. Take up kick boxing or start going swimming regularly
8. Read the classics
9. Go to more gigs and travel to festivals
10. Get married and maybe have a child depending on my financial situation.

St._Andalou

* Stop smoking
* Live in Paris for six months
* Get over my fear of driving; get a driver's license
* Visit South America
* Publish a novel
* Fire a gun
* Do a bungy jump (clichéd, I know!)
* Experience Zero Gravity (there's a company in the States that can do this)

Now that I've written those down, I feel better. I did them off the top of my head, and they're all quite manageable. They're all things I've wanted to do for ages. In fact, I'm stopping smoking this week.

I didn't make lists like this before. But I've crossed a few off mine in the last four or five years -- fall in love, do a sky dive, get high in Amsterdam, visit New York, etc.

Sometimes it's good to remember what you've done and not just the things you want to do.

irol

I have less than two weeks to go so may need to aim my sights a little lower than a lot of the suggestions on this thread

Columbia

Finish my research (just about 5-6 months left on that!).
Quit my current part-time job, which is a misery (hopefully in the new year).
Live and work in at least two, hopefully three, different countries.
Do some type of long-term volunteering.
Take a year to travel, and find my "happy place" in the world.
Ride my bike (bicycle) to some extreme point of Europe, hopefully northwards.
Get a motorbike and ride it to and around eastern Europe.
Get to the North Pole (although financially this may have to wait until I'm into my 30s).
Go on a real bobsled, which I had the opportunity to do earlier this year but chickened out. Sickened with myself now!

7.5 years to do all that!

rainbowtrout

Brussels Sprout wrote: »

Some of these are gradual things, others are once off events

1. Get fit enough to do a triathalon
2. Improve your diet.
3. Stop watching rubbish on TV (or better still stop watching TV)
4. Strike up conversations with strangers during the daytime if you think it won't scare them.
5. Pick a language and learn the basics-greetings, numbers, ordering, asking for directions. Then visit a country that speaks that language and try to use your new found knowledge and body language to communicate as best as you can.
6. Plant a tree or grow your own vegetables.
7. Make a regular donation to a charity of your choice.
8. Get to know your parents and siblings better.
9. Learn to listen instead of waiting to talk.
10. Go to a european music festival and take ecstasy.

I could have written that list... everything except No. 8

SuperInfinity wrote: »

I don't agree with doing things for "achievements" status, the ability to say "I did that". Only things that are applicable to your life.

Ya, there's no point doing stuff just to be able to say you've done it, I have stuff I want to do but they are things I've always wanted to do so it's a great buzz when I get to do them for various reasons: some financial - didn't think I'd be able to afford it; some physical - didn't think I'd be fit enough; some to do with fitting things in around work and other stuff and making the time and effort to do something and enjoy it.


List of stuff to do by 30 40.... seeing as I'm nearly 32 now, have done a good few things over the last 4 or 5 years that I've always wanted to

Stuff done:

• Did the Dublin marathon twice. Was well chuffed with that just to make it around the course.
• Learned beginners Russian a couple of years ago and went to Moscow a few months after that. It was class being able to speak a bit of the language and understand street signs etc.
• Went hang-gliding on holidays this year - wanted to try one of the adrenalin junkie type sports and figured that was as good a place to start as any.
• Went to Greenland on holidays on my own in the middle of winter earlier this year - it was great, have wanted to go there for years, never thought it would be possible or I could afford it, it was easier than I thought. Most people thought I was mad going there. Brilliant experience.
• Am studying for a maths degree at the moment just for the sake of it. I've always like maths. When I tell people that though, they also think I'm a bit cracked 'cos who studies maths for fun?'
• Having a book published in about 6 months from now, myself and a friend have been toying with the idea for the last 5 years, but never thought it would happen until this year the opportunity came up!
• Adopted two dogs from animal shelters in the last two years. Love them, they're great little dogs and certainly make life more interesting.
• Have been growing fruit and vegetables the last couple of years - keeping it simple, potatoes, gooseberry bushes etc. Have decided to grow maize this spring, can't wait to see how it goes. I get all excited when I see the stuff growing like it's magic, I'm very easily pleased.

Stuff still to do:

• Would like eventually to move out of town and live in the country in a house with a little bit of land to expand on the vegetable growing - maybe venture into the world of poly tunnels and keep some ducks, chickens and pigs. I can see that being a work in progress though and maybe 5 years off. More of a long term one
  
• Would also like to visit Japan and Mongolia, I'm running out of cold countries that's probably not going to happen for at least 2 more years though.
  
• Would like to improve my cooking skills. I can cook normal meals but it would be nice to be able to do something a little bit more complicated.
  
• Learn how to swim with my head in the water - I'm crap at it!
  
• Would like to do some sort of night course in photography, would love to develop my own photos (despite everything being all digital these days) and generally be able to use my camera for more than point and click type stuff.
  
• Do my masters, probably in maths/IT type stuff.
  
• Have a big, long reading list I want to get through as well. Definitely don't have enough time for reading at the moment!

MUSEIST

flahavaj wrote: »

Skydive. Exhilarating and helped me get over a fear of heights and took me co pletely out of my comfort zone. Everyone should do it.

I would love to but my retina's are already half falling off.

keane2097

rainbowtrout wrote: »

I could have written that list... everything except No. 8



Ya, there's no point doing stuff just to be able to say you've done it, I have stuff I want to do but they are things I've always wanted to do so it's a great buzz when I get to do them for various reasons: some financial - didn't think I'd be able to afford it; some physical - didn't think I'd be fit enough; some to do with fitting things in around work and other stuff and making the time and effort to do something and enjoy it.


List of stuff to do by 30 40.... seeing as I'm nearly 32 now, have done a good few things over the last 4 or 5 years that I've always wanted to

Stuff done:

• Did the Dublin marathon twice. Was well chuffed with that just to make it around the course.
• Learned beginners Russian a couple of years ago and went to Moscow a few months after that. It was class being able to speak a bit of the language and understand street signs etc.
• Went hang-gliding on holidays this year - wanted to try one of the adrenalin junkie type sports and figured that was as good a place to start as any.
• Went to Greenland on holidays on my own in the middle of winter earlier this year - it was great, have wanted to go there for years, never thought it would be possible or I could afford it, it was easier than I thought. Most people thought I was mad going there. Brilliant experience.
• Am studying for a maths degree at the moment just for the sake of it. I've always like maths. When I tell people that though, they also think I'm a bit cracked 'cos who studies maths for fun?'
• Having a book published in about 6 months from now, myself and a friend have been toying with the idea for the last 5 years, but never thought it would happen until this year the opportunity came up!
• Adopted two dogs from animal shelters in the last two years. Love them, they're great little dogs and certainly make life more interesting.
• Have been growing fruit and vegetables the last couple of years - keeping it simple, potatoes, gooseberry bushes etc. Have decided to grow maize this spring, can't wait to see how it goes. I get all excited when I see the stuff growing like it's magic, I'm very easily pleased.

Stuff still to do:

• Would like eventually to move out of town and live in the country in a house with a little bit of land to expand on the vegetable growing - maybe venture into the world of poly tunnels and keep some ducks, chickens and pigs. I can see that being a work in progress though and maybe 5 years off. More of a long term one
• Would also like to visit Japan and Mongolia, I'm running out of cold countries that's probably not going to happen for at least 2 more years though.
• Would like to improve my cooking skills. I can cook normal meals but it would be nice to be able to do something a little bit more complicated.
• Learn how to swim with my head in the water - I'm crap at it!
• Would like to do some sort of night course in photography, would love to develop my own photos (despite everything being all digital these days) and generally be able to use my camera for more than point and click type stuff.
• Do my masters, probably in maths/IT type stuff.
• Have a big, long reading list I want to get through as well. Definitely don't have enough time for reading at the moment!

Congrats on all you've achieved and good luck with what you plan.

Any info/advice on how you arranged that trip to Greenland?

It's somewhere I've always wanted to go (I thought I was the only one )

rainbowtrout

keane2097 wrote: »

Congrats on all you've achieved and good luck with what you plan.

Any info/advice on how you arranged that trip to Greenland?

It's somewhere I've always wanted to go (I thought I was the only one )

Ya they looked at me funny when I turned up on my own there and not part of a travel group... but that's a whole other story.

SAS Scandinavian Airlines Dublin to Copenhagen (or any other airline that does that route) and then Air Greenland (www.airgreenland.com) Copenhagen to Kangerlussuaq. From there you can get internal flights (expensive) or stay in Kangerlussuaq and do stuff around there. All the flights were only about €800 which wasn't as expensive as I thought. All the other info you need is here: http://www.wogac.com/ PM if you want to know anything specific.

Well worth the trip, photos here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/karlachameleon/sets/72157623468721446/

johnboysligo

-learn wilderness survival skills and apply them
-learn to paint / draw
-create or commission a self portrait
-live abroad for a time
-learn another language
-make a ridiculous promise to someone and follow though on it
-learn magic tricks but dont show them off until you are really good
-make something useful that you can use every day like a chair / chopping board / night stand /
-carry a camera with you every day for a year and take at least 10 photos a day

hope that helps you find something worth doing before you turn 30

plasmaguy

1. Visit Paris...
2. Chat up the best looking woman in your university...has to be done...
3. umm, er...

plasmaguy

missdeise wrote: »

Before my 29th birthday, i'd like to make a list of things i'd like to do before I turn 30.
Any ideas or experiences to add to the list???????

1. Get married (26/02/2011)
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

2. Get divorced

Only kiddin...

Sibylla

Learn a new skill or travel to a country you have always wanted to visit OP. You should also celebrate your birthday it's the beginning of a new decade!

squishykins

Quite simple ones, mine.

1. Learn how to swim
2. Learn at least one form of dance
3. Get off my arse and actually get fit, ffs
4. Become a fully qualified secondary level teacher
5. Be proposed to somewhere unexpected (I know him far too well, I'll always know it's coming )
6. Build my own house, possibly in the shell of a really old one
7. Have a child
8. Get my two favourite relatives to start talking again before it's too late
9. Do plenty of adrenaline-junkie style things i.e. bungee jump/skydive etc.
10. Have the Amsterdam experience =D

Not necessarily in that order :P

gustus

Every day do something different.. Something you wouldnt usually do. From speaking to someone to something that scares you...

You ll find that it takes more and more to feel something.. After a year you ll have a tonne of things to remember