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25 Things About Your Twenties You Didn't Know Were Gonna Be This Way

Your job's a joke, you're broke, your love life's DOA.

1. When you try to do your taxes for the first time but figuring it out is like reading another language:

2. When you get your first offer letter and see what your starting salary will be:

3. When you have days that make you feel like you might actually end up single and alone forever:

4. When you realize you're going to be paying off your student loans for the next 10+ years:

5. When someone who you dated ghosts on you and then tries to hit you up again:

6. When you don't get the apartment you wanted because someone else looked at it and signed the lease on the same day:

7. When you accidentally walk in on your roommate and their one night stand:

8. When you go out and party every night of the week even though you know it's not good for you:

9. When you try online dating and realize people are just as terrible online as they are IRL:

10. When you date someone in your friend group and things go badly, but you try and put on a brave face for everyone else:

11. When you day drink on the weekends and don't see anything wrong with it:

12. When your parents lecture you about saving for your future but you can't even pay your rent on time:

13. When you get your heart broken and think you'll never be able to recover:

14. When you get passed up for a promotion and someone less deserving gets it:

15. When you feel pressure from everyone around you to have kids before you turn 30:

16. When you don't have time to go grocery shopping and have to eat whatever leftover food is already in your kitchen:

17. When you move in with an old friend and regress back to your high school self:

18. When your college alumni association repeatedly calls you to donate money you don't have:

19. When you have to switch apartments but you're too broke to hire movers:

20. When you have to work late but your boss left right after lunch to go on vacation:

21. When you finally make good friends where you live after college but they end up moving far away:

22. When your BFF hooks up with your ex and they expect you to be OK with it:

23. When your Facebook newsfeed is inundated with engagements and you can't even get a second date:

24. When the person you have feelings for starts to date someone else:

25. When everything about life is difficult, but at least you have your friends to help you get through it: