I first read about Jamie when I was on my morning commute to work. It was winter and I was feeling slightly grumpy about the busy rush hour commute on the tube. But I picked up the newspaper, read about what Jamie was doing, and couldn’t feel hard done by any more. Because this … Continue reading
Category Archives: Twenty Something Project
Jenna Mason, 25 Peckham
I meet Jenna at a 24 hour café in Liverpool Street on a spring evening. As I wait for my next Twenty Something, having not met Jenna before, I realise I have no idea what she looks like. She isn’t the sort of person to flaunt her own image online, I scroll through her website … Continue reading
Sam Hayes 27 Liverpool
It’s Sunday morning and Euston station is bustling with people waiting for their train’s home to the North. I catch up with one such visitor to the capital over a cuppa and a spot of people watching. Having not seen Sam for ten years I’m not sure what to expect, I know he’s been studying … Continue reading
Stefany Simpson 27 Camberley, Surrey
If your Stef Simpson there is only two ways to categorise things in your life, things you can’t be doing with and the things you can. Catching up over a picnic on a warm summers evening stretched out on Clapham Common, I discovered how her no nonsense attitude has brought her through some testing times. … Continue reading
The Quarter-life crisis epidemic, should we be worried?
The latest craze of social speculation and influx of statistics falls upon the heads of young adults, the twenty something’s. The rumour is that we’re all miserable and disappointing our potential; financially, romantically and in our careers. The idea that we now enter a second childhood in our twenties leaves me feeling both offended and … Continue reading
Tim Carter, 23, Yateley, Hampshire: The Twenty Something Project
Arriving at my East London flat suited and booted Tim Carter is the vision of a young banker. Working in the Square Mile in the country’s most thriving financial district is a demanding career for a young man, especially a young man who’s social hobbies include; camping, shooting and going to music festivals. He reminds … Continue reading
Sukh Bhandal 26, Walton-on-Thames, Surrey: The Twenty Something Project
As my train rushes away from London the buildings slowly turn into trees, back gardens become longer, wider and my fellow passengers on the train are noticeable more relaxed than those in the centre of town. Walton-on-Thames bears many of the trademarks of a Surrey suburb. A lovely place to buy your first home or … Continue reading
Hanna Benjamin 25, North London – The Twenty Something Project
Tucked away, just off the bustling streets of Camden, lives Hanna Benjamin a young lady who casts a refreshing shadow over her little corner of London. When I arrive at her place, down a quiet road off a bustling high street, I’m offered a cuppa and a kit kat, lovely. We take to the sofa … Continue reading
The Twenty Something Project
In your childhood and teenage years you travel alongside your peers generally at the same rate, unless you have exceptional circumstances you will take exams, leave school and start your first relationships at roughly the same time as the people around you. Most of us have a friend or a group of friends we have … Continue reading