Average Irish person achievements by 30?

Jonkenji · 03-01-2014 07:47PM #1

I was reading the 1984 thread and it got me thinking, a lot of us are turning 30 this year myself included. I was wondering what has the average Irish 30 year old done with their life so far? I'm talking education, degrees, masters, temporary or permanent job, renting or house-owner, long term partners, marriage, children, traveled the world, some personal achievement (e.g. sport) etc.

Before people jump down my throat about how not all 30 year olds are the same- I KNOW THAT!! I'm talking about as a collective group in this country. For instance I have a friend in the US who became a doctor at age 50 (working in an entirely different industry all his life and went back to college to study medicine in his mid-forties). I also have family members who had marriage breakdowns in their sixties and started new relationships well into their seventies. So I'm not saying YOU SHOULD HAVE ACHIEVED X AND Y BY 30. Just looking for averages! So relax!

My own guess is that most:
-would be qualified (either college or by trade) to some level
-have had or are currently in 1 long term relationship
-have no children
-renting either by self or with partner
-traveled a little (e.g. 1 year in australia) and gone on many foreign holidays)

So what would you like life to be like at 30? Or what was it like, for the elders among us :pac:

Shinaynay · 03-01-2014 07:48PM

depressing thread

mikom · 03-01-2014 07:51PM

Good jaysus............ The secret diary of Adrian Mole aged 30 and three quarters.

Just get on with yer lives folks.
Forget this navel gazing and dick measuring.

Starscream25 · 03-01-2014 07:52PM

I'm 28.5, have a ****e degree that's won't get me anywhere, didn't get high enough marks to persue a post grad, I'm single, living at my brothers house, out of work, had a job after college for 4 years while I rented up in the city. Feel like I haven't achieved and am in **** creek if I'm honest

Zascar · 03-01-2014 07:56PM

I'm 33 and I'm not married or have any kids, no mortgage - but I have a good job, loads of toys, been to some rally cool places and I've had a bloody great time the last few years!

keithclancy · 03-01-2014 07:57PM

I have a shed with well organised tools !

The Backwards Man · 03-01-2014 07:57PM

I can use a washing machine and cook, kinda.

Realt Dearg Sec · 03-01-2014 07:58PM

Finished all the GTA games AND Red Dead Redemption. Have since retired from that vocation to pursue other interests.

Larianne · 03-01-2014 08:00PM

I'd like to be happy and healthy at 30!

And since I'm 31, I'm achieving that mostly! (I've a chest infection at the momento)

Chefrio · 03-01-2014 08:01PM

I'll be 30 this year, have a 3 year old daughter with the second due in two weeks. Have a mortgage and a wife. A degree in mathematics. Decent job in the financial industry.

Can't really think of any other achievements really, though not sure I'd describe those things as achievements. Just stuff I've done. I speak a bit of german and I've started learning Italian.

castletownman · 03-01-2014 08:06PM

I manage a fantasy football team

suicide_circus · 03-01-2014 08:08PM

An ulcer

GoldenLight · 03-01-2014 08:09PM

I'm 44 and hadn't hit anything on your list except one, being a long term relationship, which failed and both of us seem happier because of it. I had rented but never by myself or with a partner. Dropped out of college, and at that point never being on Holiday in a place I thought was amazing (eg they where the same package deals, that gave me no new experiences) and no children.

Mind you since then, I'm now in college, and happy studying what I enjoy, being away to some amazing places, being living on my own for the last 6 years, and love it, still no long term commitment or children, but I'm fine if that dose or dosen't happen. Life's quite sparkly at 44.

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PS not a knock at your question (OP) just answered it for where I was at, at 30.;)

Jonkenji · 03-01-2014 08:10PM

mikom wrote: »

Good jaysus............ The secret diary of Adrian Mole aged 30 and three quarters.

Just get on with yer lives folks.
Forget this navel gazing and dick measuring.

The ironic thing there is most people under 30 wouldn't get your reference.

Rabelais · 03-01-2014 08:16PM

An idea of where your career is going, or if you need to reboot it.
A healthy cynicism.
A car without a spoiler.
Hobbies that go beyond smoking weed and playing computer games.

yawhat! · 03-01-2014 08:17PM

Starscream25 wrote: »

I'm 28.5, have a ****e degree that's won't get me anywhere, didn't get high enough marks to persue a post grad, I'm single, living at my brothers house, out of work, had a job after college for 4 years while I rented up in the city. Feel like I haven't achieved and am in **** creek if I'm honest

Why not do a higher diploma for a year and then do your masters?

Birneybau · 03-01-2014 08:23PM

I play a millionaire at parties.

Realt Dearg Sec · 03-01-2014 08:26PM

Birneybau wrote: »

I play a millionaire at parties.

At least you'd like to

Realt Dearg Sec · 03-01-2014 08:28PM

That's another achievement: memorising every Simpson's episode up till about 2001. The kids these days don't know what they're missing.

Too Tough To Die · 03-01-2014 08:31PM

Achieved my boyhood dream of growing a beard.

Tar.Aldarion · 03-01-2014 08:32PM

If you compare yourself to others you will never be happy

antodeco · 03-01-2014 08:32PM

I'm 32. Married. One child. Mortgage free house. A collection of cars. My own brewery. A recording studio. A couple of qualifications. Not the worst job in the world at the minute. Go on holidays several times a year. All in all, I suppose thats good going.

Is what I wanted? I've no idea. I wanted to be a famous musician. Am I happy? Most of the time.

EdwardCastle · 03-01-2014 08:40PM

Starscream25 wrote: »

I'm 28.5, have a ****e degree that's won't get me anywhere, didn't get high enough marks to persue a post grad, I'm single, living at my brothers house, out of work, had a job after college for 4 years while I rented up in the city. Feel like I haven't achieved and am in **** creek if I'm honest

There is no such thing as a '****e degree', education is the cornerstone to making yourself anywhere in life.....if you didn't figure that out while in university then any degree would have been waste. You have to open the opportunities yourself more than ever in today's world.

In my opinion, it's your attitude you need to address. Consider going to a career guidance, they might help you think outside the box a bit more.

Sunny Dayz · 03-01-2014 08:41PM

I'm one of those turning thirty this year. I have already hit a lot of life's milestones. Have 9 year old boy. Got a good uni degree. Qualified as an accountant a few years ago and bar 6 month unemployed after qualifying I have been in full time employment since. Myself and my other half got married two years ago and this year we bought our own home.

I know I should be counting my blessing and I am proud and happy with my life. But what's left to do now?! Want to start going on holidays, bar honeymoon we have had 2 hols in last 10 years.

I look to some of my friends and am a bit envious that they have so much of life ahead of them in terms of meeting partners, travelling, etc etc

Legs.Eleven · 03-01-2014 08:48PM

- Projectile vomit all over a friend's bathroom wall at a house party.
- Find kebab in bra/underpants after a heavy night out.

Starscream25 · 03-01-2014 08:57PM

EdwardCastle wrote: »

There is no such thing as a '****e degree', education is the cornerstone to making yourself anywhere in life.....if you didn't figure that out while in university then any degree would have been waste. You have to open the opportunities yourself more than ever in today's world.

In my opinion, it's your attitude you need to address. Consider going to a career guidance, they might help you think outside the box a bit more.

I agree, I'm naturally a negative and pessimistic person, doesn't do me any favours but I am trying to change. I am hoping to start an engineering degree at night this year.
My mother was a career guidance teacher.

Baked.noodle · 03-01-2014 08:58PM

I'm 34, and in the last fifteen years I have been in 3 long relationships, one of them very serious. Single for years now and happy enough. I am deslexic and left school with a poor leaving cert, but went to collage as a mature student. Before collage I traveled around the world visiting south east Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Hawaii, and America. Cudos to Galway county council and NUIG for giving me a chance. Have a 2.1 masters degree in Philosophy, which I couldn't afford without generous help. Have had some tough times too, with being hospitalized for mental health twice. Receiving disability at the moment, but want to move on and get a job this year. I'm not down at all about my age, as I still have loads of time to get what I want out if life. Only thing is the odd worry about my folks getting on. Would be nice to meet a nice girl, but I'm not in a hurry anymore. Take my time.