My 20’s saw me married, two children and my 1st mortgage for a 2 up 2 down end of terrace; but luckily, I found a large double fronted Victorian house in Teddington that still had some poorly repaired bomb damage from a bomb blast that fell 50 or so yds away. Buying that house with financial help from my grandmother (she moved in with us) the purchase price and correct repairs at every spare minute etc increased the house’s value many times over. Another move and into my 30’s was good because then I became mortgage free.
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After my degree in power electronics I did that for a living for the rest of my life wherever I went.
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The world of triacs etc? The closest I got to that was T&S schedules associated with HV distribution + transformer farms for district LV distribution. BS 9999 is imprinted into my memory 
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Actually much of it was high power stuff. 3.3kV and 11kV with high voltage semiconductors. And also a lot of variable speed DC around 800Vdc in paper mills.
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Much like Long Driver, I was married, raising two small children, built our first home, being a responsible adult/parent totally on our own, and loving every minute of it. Trips to amusement parks with kids, swimming in the lakes with them, picnics outside, building snowmen and snow angels together… My 20s gave me total independence and responsibility as an adult.
In my 40’s, kids grown and on their own, I started to be able to play again. Now, that was geat!
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Early and mid twenties - young,free,single, working in the heart of London.
Late twenties - moved to Italy, met and married my husband, two kids by the time I hit the big 3 0.
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My 20’s were probably my most successful years that would be the blueprint for the rest of my life.
Started a new well paid job as a metal machinist and fitter, met and married Mrs Fox who gave birth to our daughter a year later, and examined the foundations of our new bungalow which we still occupy to this day.
Our first foreign holiday in Spain, and at 27 trying to recover from a terrible hangover I took my first tentative steps as a runner, something that completely changed my life, and it cured the hangover which was the last hangover I ever experienced.
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You look like a news presenter Mac 
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Just the MD…
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Yes. it was a time of hard work, and trying to get a large deposit together so i could buy my own flat (with a mortgage).
I was desperate to leave home and have a place of my own, but didn’t want to rent, and was lucky enough to work in a place where lots of overtime was available (Post Office/BT) so i literally worked round the clock on many occasions.
Once i had my own flat, i continued to work, work, work to be able to afford furniture, although the family did ‘donate’ a few items to get me started!
So i can’t remember having time for much fun during my 20’s, and didn’t meet my gorgeous husband until i was 31.
But it was worth waiting for. 
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How easy did you find it, trying to get your 1st mortgage? I trawled many and then finally the Co-op Permanent (Now Nationwide) building society agreed to the loan, but withheld £200 due to a very minor defect which I remedied myself in less than 2hrs; but trying the claim the £200 withheld was a long process, although it was never inspected by anyone when the £200 was eventually paid.
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The first two years of my 20s was spent in the army doing my national service. When I came out I got a job in the building trade at £12 odds for a five and a half day week. What spare time I had was spent on my hobby of photography and working on my car. In my later 20s I bought a two roomed flat in Aberdeen for £750. I got married when I was 29 and we sold the flat for £900 and bought a new 2 bedroom semi detached bungalow for £4,300 near Aberdeen. By then my weekly wage had risen to £18 odds which was enough to pay the monthly payment on our £2000 mortgage. We are still in the same house 57 years later.
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Same here LD. As i remember, my building society approved the loan, but withheld a sum of money untill ventilation was installed on the chimney breasts in the lounge and the bedroom.
The work was done by the seller the following week, and the full loan was approved, so no real hold ups to the sale, and everything settled fairly quickly.
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Yes Scott, our 2 bedroom semi detached bungalow cost £5,500 probably a few years later than you when prices began to rise.
I was earning about the same as you when I had just come out my time as an apprentice mechanical engineer and bagged a good job as a machinist and toolmaker.
It makes my eyes water when I see how much the minimum wage is now…
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I was 20 in the 1960s. Anyone who remembers the 1960s wasn’t there.
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Yes, got with the wrong crowd, lucky not to be imprisoned.
One does not have to be on a Bungee Rope or a Roller Coaster to get an adrenaline rush, night after night, just associate with some risk takers 
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Lovely photo …
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Thank you. 