In my thrities and no social life...

LegacyUser

Hey all,

I think we all have seen this thread before and tbh, now that I am in this situation I am not sure what to do myself.

Basically, due to working abroad, moving back home to Dublin and with a lot of my older friends either moved away or with young familes, I am finding myself pretty isolated these days and am finding it hard to find ways to socialise here in Dublin, pints or no pints.

Has anyone that has been here figured out a good way to get back out there and rebuild their social scene??

I have plenty of interests but not sure where to start at all.

HotHHead

What are your interests? any clubs near you of what your into?

Is there no social aspect to your job?

Have you tried volunteering, great way of meeting new people..

LegacyUser

HotHHead wrote: »

What are your interests? any clubs near you of what your into?

Is there no social aspect to your job?

Have you tried volunteering, great way of meeting new people..

Most of my interests are the usual nerdish ones of gaming and comics, I have joined a club recently (book club) but its a bit speradic when the meet etc.

I have looked at volunteer work and tbh I might look that way soon enough.

Work is a problematic one tbh, I personally find it very hard to juggle relationships in the work place, I just find it hard tbh, so I tend to keep them seperate as possible, though within reason, the odd pint here and there is grand (though I just can't hold my drink these days and would rather not get **** faced like I used to get in front of work colleagues).

In a nut shell I just am not that familiar with making friends, though I like the volunteering idea, it lets me branch my experiences out but also meet new folks.

Matteroffact

try meetup.com for social events in your area.

LegacyUser

If you're into writing, I've found that writing for websites online seems to help. Myself and some writer friends write for a variety of different websites between us, and with that we've made friends with the other writers.

I don't think I'm allowed say where I write for because it might be seen as an ad, but there are a lot of websites out there looking for contributors. I write one or two pieces a month, which takes me maybe an hour to three hours per post (but it might be longer or shorter, depending on what you're into) and although at first I didn't pay much attention to the writers chats, now they make my day. Everybody is very supportive (people have written personal posts about depression, coming out, selfharm, etc) for the site and everybody is very, very supportive.

We tend to meet up every few weeks, whenever something is happening or if somebody is having a party, and it's become a great way to meet people.

power pants

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HotHHead

Notsuremanman wrote: »

Most of my interests are the usual nerdish ones of gaming and comics, I have joined a club recently (book club) but its a bit speradic when the meet etc.

I have looked at volunteer work and tbh I might look that way soon enough.

Work is a problematic one tbh, I personally find it very hard to juggle relationships in the work place, I just find it hard tbh, so I tend to keep them seperate as possible, though within reason, the odd pint here and there is grand (though I just can't hold my drink these days and would rather not get **** faced like I used to get in front of work colleagues).

In a nut shell I just am not that familiar with making friends, though I like the volunteering idea, it lets me branch my experiences out but also meet new folks.

Defo give the volunteering ago, you will meet lots of new people an it will help you with your confidence.

Power pants-are you children with you full time? what age are your children? maybe help out at one of there activities, you could meet people that way..