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The Moment you realised you're in the big bad world now

  • 02-09-2013 11:37PM
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,421 ✭✭✭


    That moment you suddenly realise School is finished and you are now in the big bad world where you need to grow up

    second day of Full time work for me.... having to get two buses home...sitting on the first bus in me dirty snickers and steel cap boots when it suddenly hit me like a tonne of bricks...this is now my life for the next 50 years :o

    I'm out of school nearly 10 years now and how i would love to go back for a few weeks as the banter was brilliant and you didnt have a care in the world!!.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 24,608 ✭✭✭✭arybvtcw0eolkf


    Arriving in Lebanon in 1988 and being issued a rifle, ammo, flak jacket and helmet.. Then seeing the first 'Landmines' signs, then the drive from the Israeli/Lebanese border to our area of operations and into a war ~ I was 19 years old.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,516 ✭✭✭wazky


    When the Judge decided to put me on trial as an adult?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,869 ✭✭✭ballyharpat


    Smoking a cig in the jacks about two weeks before the leaving cert, my GF was 4 mths pregnant at the time-realised, holy crap, I have to get a job and start bringing in some money......Funny thing is, no one ever talked about this stuff and it scared the crap out of me..........


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,328 ✭✭✭Brego888


    Arriving in Lebanon in 1988 and being issued a rifle, ammo, flak jacket and helmet.. Then seeing the first 'Landmines' signs, then the drive from the Israeli/Lebanese border to our area of operations and into a war ~ I was 19 years old.



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,113 ✭✭✭SilverScreen


    All throughout college I still had the feeling of being insulated from the big bad world despite having worked part-times jobs as well for a few years.

    I the moment I released I was in the big bad world was the first time I signed on the dole, a couple of months after I graduated from college over two years ago. It hit me like a ton of bricks that I had real responsibility in my life and I had to make my own way in life on my own terms.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,916 ✭✭✭shopaholic01


    When the bills started arriving with my name on them. :(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,987 ✭✭✭Legs.Eleven


    I've been supporting myself financially pretty much since I was 21 but the first time I felt like a convincing adult was going to work in The City in London in my suity work clothes on the underground when I was about 26. First time I had a stable job and earned a proper full-time salary. Felt pretty good.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 177 ✭✭grumula


    All throughout college I still had the feeling of being insulated from the big bad world despite having worked part-times jobs as well for a few years.

    I the moment I released I was in the big bad world was the first time I signed on the dole, a couple of months after I graduated from college over two years ago. It hit me like a ton of bricks that I had real responsibility in my life and I had to make my own way in life on my own terms.

    seconded
    pretty much this exactly
    everyone should have to eke it out on welfare for a year, it's a real eyeopener, i've been steadily employed for a good while now but im still frugal as fúck and get huge buyers remorse when i purchase anything over 50 quid that i can't fully deem a necessity.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    My first time cooking for myself. What a disaster that was!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,113 ✭✭✭SilverScreen


    My first time cooking for myself. What a disaster that was!
    Don't tell me you burnt your cornflakes!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,656 ✭✭✭somefeen


    When I was dying with the flu and no one gave a ****.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 443 ✭✭Elbaston


    ...it was nam ..74.
    they issued me some chopsticks and put me on the back of a rikshaw.
    I wont go into details.


    (superhero pose)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Don't tell me you burnt your cornflakes!

    Na, I was cooking breakfast for a gang of people after a party, no cooking oil so used a tin of harp lager.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,113 ✭✭✭SilverScreen


    Na, I was cooking breakfast for a gang of people after a party, no cooking oil so used a tin of harp lager.
    At least it wasn't Dutch Gold. That would have been a disaster.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,916 ✭✭✭shopaholic01


    somefeen wrote: »
    When I was dying with the flu and no one gave a ****.
    Man flu? :(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 854 ✭✭✭dubscottie


    Elbaston wrote: »
    ...it was nam ..74.
    they issued me some chopsticks and put me on the back of a rikshaw.
    I wont go into details.


    (superhero pose)

    I know someone that was in nam in 74..
    Rathfarnam. Think it was 74 he was given chopsticks with a takeaway.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,613 ✭✭✭tony1980


    somefeen wrote: »
    When I was dying with the flu and no one gave a ****.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,656 ✭✭✭somefeen


    Man flu? :(

    It was only boy flu at first. But when I got out of bed, went to a chemist, bought and then mixed my own lemsip it was only then that it could be considered man-flu


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,085 ✭✭✭questionmark?


    somefeen wrote: »
    It was only boy flu at first. But when I got out of bed, went to a chemist, bought and then mixed my own lemsip it was only then that it could be considered man-flu

    If you had the ability to get out of bed, you sir did not have man flu. :rolleyes:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,802 ✭✭✭beks101


    Meeting a work contact in town with her kids in tow, making appropriately cooing noises about how cute they were, how old are they? etc...and her asking "do you have any yourself?"

    NO I DON'T HAVE ANY KIDS MYSELF BECAUSE I'M STILL A KID MYSELF, STUPID WOMAN! :mad::mad::(


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,656 ✭✭✭somefeen


    If you had the ability to get out of bed, you sir did not have man flu. :rolleyes:

    Like I said, it was only boy flu at first.
    My condition quickly deteriorated once I became a man


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    beks101 wrote: »
    Meeting a work contact in town with her kids in tow, making appropriately cooing noises about how cute they were, how old are they? etc...and her asking "do you have any yourself?"

    NO I DON'T HAVE ANY KIDS MYSELF BECAUSE I'M STILL A KID MYSELF, STUPID WOMAN! :mad::mad::(

    Would you like a lollipop? :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 46 work2013



    the moment I released I was in the big bad world was the first time I signed on the dole, a couple of months after I graduated from college over two years ago. It hit me like a ton of bricks that I had real responsibility in my life and I had to make my own way in life on my own terms.



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 447 ✭✭ONeill2013


    the day i discovered the price of razor blades when i moved to college, now i look like a viking


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,041 ✭✭✭Penny Dreadful


    If you had the ability to get out of bed, you sir did not have man flu. :rolleyes:

    I agree.

    My mother always said if you're feeling sick and think you have the flu and see a €5 on the ground by the front door and stop to pick it up you only have a bad cold.
    If you see €50 and still think "I'll die if I bend down to pick that up" you have the flu.

    Really annoys me when people walk around complaining of "dying of the flu". If you have the flu you're not walking anywhere.


  • Posts: 18,046 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Was waiting for work for two months after I finished university.. Had to overdraw the dole by an extra month so I could eat. Writing the letter and paying it back was probably my first real world experience after study.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,014 ✭✭✭MonaPizza


    Arriving in Lebanon in 1988 and being issued a rifle, ammo, flak jacket and helmet.. Then seeing the first 'Landmines' signs, then the drive from the Israeli/Lebanese border to our area of operations and into a war ~ I was 19 years old.

    Didn't know a lad called Roche did you? Can't remember his first name...think it was Paul. Knew him by his nickname "blocker" (he was a good goalie). He would have been there about the same time......though maybe 22 or 23 in '88


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 582 ✭✭✭emmabrighton


    The day I brought my son home from hospital knowing that was that baby's PRIMARY CARE GIVER.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,163 ✭✭✭✭danniemcq


    Getting a phonecall not from the bank but from the group they passed the debt onto. It was only a couple hundred quid but at the time it was a horrible feeling.

    The constant hanging up i did, ignoring calls, excuses, saving their numbers so i knew they were ringing, refusing to answer unknown numbers, broken promises to send money etc it was quite scary.

    I eventually gave myself a kick up the hole and sorted it all out.

    In all fairness who in their right mind gives a student with 0 history of savings and nothing in the bank a credit card when they never asked for one!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,087 ✭✭✭Spring Onion


    For me it was the birth of my 1st child. I was 29.

    Up until then I knew I could take care of myself and would never starve.

    A child changes everything about life.


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