10 Tips To Survive Your 20's

Here's some advice to help keep balanced and gain insight during your twenties.

Your 20's are a time to enjoy your youth and independence, but they can also be a time of confusion and frustration as you learn to navigate the real world and discover yourself. There is a conflict of expectations for a twenty-something; you are supposed to be carefree, yet be serious about your career trajectory and building the foundation for a bright future. The options and decisions can often be overwhelming, but by gaining as much knowledge as you can and listening to yourself you can attain success both personally and professionally. Here are 10 tips to survive the transition.

1. Up Your Financial IQ

If you are like most college graduates, then after graduation you are saddled with thousands of dollars in student loans. These first few years after college are crucial to establishing your financial behavior. Read books, blogs, and articles about investing, saving, and debt management. Get on a budget immediately and learn to live by it. The real world is expensive.

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Comments

[nyrstein]

Hopefully, you will always realize you're free. And you'll always discover new things about yourself. Another way to survive your 20s is not to obsess about age. Well, that's how you can survive in this youth-obsessed culture, anyway.

[Quaoar]

11. Give up religion.

[fluentinsilence]

Hear hear. One will be more freshed and wiser.

[mckinley]

Are Huffington Post's editors so out of touch that they headline an article offering guidance to people in their 20's in 2008, with a pic from a movie that came out 15 years ago?

Guess they are...

[JaneaneTheAcerbicGoblin]

And it's not even that good of a film.

[OnTheCusp]

The best thing to do in your twenties is this: Whatever the f*ck you want to! Do it all now, whatever you want, because youth flies by in the blink of an eye, and someday you'll realize you were free all along and will regret the things you did NOT do....it's true!

[mckinley]

I second Cusp's warning, kids!

[fluentinsilence]

Hell, I am in my mid-20s and I regret things from my teen years. No one needs another entire decade of woulda-shoulda-couldas.