What were you doing at age 24?

[B_B]

....Looking back, I probably should have moved on away from baseball sooner, because I only had moderate ability...

If you had you'd be sitting here wondering "if only I'd given it a shot". Would your current life really be much better if you'd quit sooner? Probably not.

Take it from somebody who'd've loved being in a position to even say I'd had a chance, slim as may be. Alas you're not the only one with a "D" for foot speed, and some folks get "D's" for other necessary physical attributes as well

Sounds like a wonderful experience nonetheless.

[Donn]

And the "B" for "attitude" was probably given because I stared down the umpire a couple of times (not a great idea in a minor league spring training game ).

That's "aptitude," an entirely different thing.

[Lew Barrett]

Unsuccessful draft dodger. I made good at that just a bit later.

[Peter Malcolm Jardine]

Married, 4 year old daughter, mortgage, two cars, working full time for nine years by that time.

[skuthorp]

I forgot something, before the trip working as a cave diver for the West Aussie museum on the Nullabor Plain.

Someone said something about 'the youth of today' not doing this sort of stuff. I actually think more of them are.

[Donn]

I don't remember...that was 40 years ago!

[skuthorp]

I think we remember the best bits Donn, but my time line for then is somewhat muddied as well.

[Donn]

It was the year I got out off the service. I went to Atlanta's Peachtree district and bought a case of 12, 1000-count bottles of 1750 microgram Sandoz acid to take home with me, as an investment. It cost me my memory for over a year.

[leikec]

I don't remember...that was 40 years ago!

My wife got a laugh out of that, too when I made the same mistake as she was looking at it. I guess if I had better aptitude my attitude would improve

Jeff C

[Lew Barrett]

It was the year I got out off the service. I went to Atlanta's Peachtree district and bought a case of 12, 1000-count bottles of 1750 microgram Sandoz acid to take home with me, as an investment. It cost me my memory for over a year.

But it taught you something about commodity trading. Lesson number one: Don't consume the product before sale.

[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

Burgling a terraced house in Cambridge, having failed to wake my girlfriend after a long night in the office and a slow commute.

[B_B]

Burgling a terraced house in Cambridge, having failed to wake my girlfriend after a long night in the office and a slow commute.

Took you all year?

[Chip-skiff]

Shagging my lights out. Fun while it lasted.

[Bob Cleek]

Working as a guard on San Quentin's Death Row and moonlighting selling classic wooden yachts at a local brokerage. Doing my first year of law school nights. Yea, I know. A wierd combination.

[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

Took you all year?

No; this being a family forum, it's the printable part of what I can remember of 1976.

[PeterSibley]

Working as a guard on San Quentin's Death Row and moonlighting selling classic wooden yachts at a local brokerage. Doing my first year of law school nights. Yea, I know. A wierd combination.

Agreed !

[John of Phoenix]

Flying patrols along the Korean DMZ.

This is one of the few buildings left standing in the former city of Cheorwon on the southern edge of the DMZ. It's what's left of the Communist Party Headquarters and was a radio checkpoint entering or exiting the DMZ. The rest of the city was pretty much wiped to the ground but has become a tourist attraction. Pork Chop Hill is a little further west and quite a bit to the north but it could be seen from one spot on the southern DMZ. It was chilling to see it.

Though this isn't the most picturesque of scenes, as a whole, Korea is one of the most beautiful places on our planet.

[GWB]

Working as a ranger in the Namib Naukluft on the West coast of Africa. Camping on the Skeleton coast and fixing windmills in the desert.... partying all night at the research station, there were girls.

ah, I miss it (being 24)

[George Jung]

Afraid I'm a bit of an amateur/underacheiver compared with this bunch! Color me green - unbelieveable what some of you did/have done. Unfortunately, I didn't have the imagination, nerve or funds (possibly not needed, if the imagination / nerve sufficed, I suppose) to live so grandly. At 24, I was just starting senior year of medical school, and getting married. After reading these other posts, I feel like I missed out!

[L.W. Baxter]

Afraid I'm a bit of an amateur/underacheiver compared with this bunch! Color me green - unbelieveable what some of you did/have done. Unfortunately, I didn't have the imagination, nerve or funds (possibly not needed, if the imagination / nerve sufficed, I suppose) to live so grandly. At 24, I was just starting senior year of medical school, and getting married. After reading these other posts, I feel like I missed out!

I wouldn't take "senior year of medical school" for granted. Or getting married, either.

At 24 I was just married with a baby on the way, applied and got rejected for a couple white-collar jobs, walked onto a construction site looking for "temporary" work, and the rest is history.

[coelacanth2]

Gnawing my way through Georgetown university's dental school. I had a beat up old pickup, a pretty clean CB400F and a bunch of guys working for me on the side, doing landscape cleanups and some house painting, apartment moving and the like. I managed to make my requirements pretty
much on time, too. No girlfriends - too busy.

[bamamick]

Dating my soon-to-be wife, working full time, going to school at night, sailing Stars and crewing on my buddy's 60 foot IOR boat. It amazes me to think that all that was going on at once, but it was.

Mickey Lake

[Mrleft8]

Running a "studio furniture" shop, "dating" as many nubile young women as possible, drinking vast quantities of beer, and somehow saving enough money to spend the next year at school in No.Cal.... Things must have been much less expensive back then....

[Canoez]

Living in Vermont and designing mascara containers for work. Spending my free time hiking the trails and paddling the rivers lakes and ponds and enjoying a pint over at McNeill's

[Draketail]

Married 3 months. Working for a power company building high voltage lines through the Roanoke River cypress swamp in eastern North Carolina. Only job I was ever on where somebody (not me) was paid full time to stand by and shoot the water moccasins as they crept up on the welder with his face mask down.

[Paul Pless]

Running a "studio furniture" shop. . .

I didn't know they had IKEA way back then in the stone ages. . .

[Mrleft8]

I didn't know they had IKEA way back then in the stone ages. . .

When I was 24, you weighed less than your little finger does now, Slim....

[skipper68]

Trying to figure out how to murder my husband -no good SOB, running around, abusive, violent- and get away with it! I knew I couldn't get custody of my kids. My BIL was head of the NYS Troopers BCI, homicide division..*Sigh* I escaped literally -at times I was locked at home in the middle of nowhere with 12 cents in my wallet for months. Then I made a good decision to get into the painters union to get better wages. Then got custody..(P.S. I knew this man 10 years. The day we got married he changed- it was not a marriage license, but ownership papers on me.He was a Sociopath) I won- living happy is the best revenge. My 20 yr Anniversary is coming up(27 years together), while he is old and alone with a 16yr old dog. His kids HATE him also. Amazing that the beautiful family I have came out of such horror. I appreciate every day now.

[Uncle Duke]

Working at Luigi Chinetti Ferrari in Greenwich, CT.
You didn't get paid as much as mechanics at "normal" dealerships, but the test drives were fantastic!

[ccmanuals]

Living in Adana, Turkey and assigned to Incirlik Air Base.

[beernd]

I was working my a$$ of in my small plastics company.

It was the year before my sweet daddy sandbagged me out of it

[Domesticated_Mr. Know It All]

Smokin Weed and bangin hot chicks.

[capt-dave]

Graduated from collage, lost my wife (to a truck driver) rode my motorcycle to LA and didn't have a care in the world...

[LeeG]

I have no idea.

Let us know when it happens

[ahp]

At the University of Michigan studying for a master's degree in engineering.

[Keith Wilson]

Peace Corps, Costa Rica.

[Meli]

Commencing both the best and worst journey of my life

[Shang]

I was studying female anatomy.

[Phillip Allen]

living on a farm and starving...

[htom]

Studying technical theatre and computer science after my hitch in the Corps, running a radio station and teaching theatre shop classes. Met my wife, but we just bickered and squabbled every time we met, it would be years before we figured out what others knew.

[David G]

I was studying female anatomy.

Med school? Cadavers? <G>

[goodbasil]

40 years ago?! Geez, I'll have to Google that.

[skuthorp]

Working my way round the ski fields, no cash but plenty of 'snow bunnies'. Cheap way to learn to ski.

[MiddleAgesMan]

Just read a blogpost by Dakota Meyer. He spent his 24th birthday giving a talk about the total FUBAR that led to his Medal of Honor citation, and of those friends, he lost that day, who never had a 24th birthday.

When I turned 24, 1970, I was just out of the Navy, freshly married, and sucking up unemployment payments and GI Bill. Looking for work.

Where were you, what were you doing?

That is exactly where I was at 24, just two years after you.

[Breakaway]

Partying a lot. Running a sportfishing boat for a private owner. Bartending.Chasing girls and tuna.

Kevin

[gilberj]

lived, and cruised on my 26 foot cutter for about 5 months on the years, Chief Mate on an oil tanker for the rest of the year.

[pcford]

Between undergraduate and graduate school.

[Stiletto]

I was working on a construction site, riding my Norton, and living hard and loose.

[Shang]

Originally Posted by Shang

I was studying female anatomy.

Posted by David G

Med school? Cadavers?

Dave... I think I know what's wrong with your social life...

[skuthorp]

Working my way round the ski fields, no cash but plenty of 'snow bunnies'. Cheap way to learn to ski.

Hey no, that was 69-70.