I think when I started paying my own bills and making my own appointments to see the doctor, dentist, gynaecologist, was when I finally felt like an adult.
I got a credit card at 16, and I felt very responsible and grown up when I had to transfer money to clear it online, and later, when I had real adult debt (student debt), and I started tracking my expenses and doing a budget (omg, for real), I felt so adult-y…
Like: This is what adults do!
Then.. after that, investing for the first time…and then reading like a mofo and learning the best strategy on how to invest (all the deets on exactly what to buy in what amounts here in my book for Americans AND Canadians)
Another time I felt adult-y was when I started working at a real job for the first time (not counting all the businesses I had before and how I made thousands from virtual millions as a kid).
My first job made me feel quite “adult-y” because then I learned how to do my taxes (ON PAPER WITH A GUIDE!) before I realized you could buy $20 software to enter in all this information and do it without using a pencil, eraser and calculating on the side on a piece of paper.
Another milestone is when I bought my car and paid for my own license (honestly, this was in my mid-20s however), and I was “free” able to go where I wanted…
For personal milestones, I felt like an adult when I finally traveled without my parents…
The last one of course is having Little Bun.
