What were you doing when you at the age of 23?

When I was 23, I was teaching in a rather dangerous inner-city school, and loving the progress I saw among those needy kids. I was married to a real jerk -- major mistake -- but spending most of my time either alone or with my best friend, whom I married not too long after that, and it's still wonderful! I was also working on my second Master's degree, focusing on cinema and loving it! I don't remember how I found time for it all, but I also raced boats in local regattas and wrote a couple of textbooks, and I was on the executive board of the Society of Professional Journalists. Since cancer had made it impossible to have children, and I really wanted kids, I was opening my home to delinquent kids and runaways and throwaways because everyone needs a home base, which I never had, as a runaway. Finally, I worked with Viet Nam Veterans Against the War, helping draftees escape the country. In my spare time, I read everything Faulkner ever wrote the 23rd year of my life, and almost all of Flannery O'Connor. I want some of that energy back! Just teaching and writing take almost all my energy these days, and I keep in touch with those 28 children by phone and e-mail. Could I really be so lacking in energy just because I'm 62 now?

When I was 23 I was working in a home for people who were mentally disabled. It was a totally new experience for me and it was often very challenging, but I liked it very much. I still remember all the residents there, one of them was a girl who was psychotic, I spent a lot of time with her, and I learned a lot from the experience. Most of the time she was very scared and she was talking to people that weren't there, but after a while she started getting better and I still remember how happy it made me to see her progress.

Hi yunzhige! Oh, I was working already when I was 23 in a government department here in our country and earlier that time, graduated with a degree in Management and Industrial Engineering. I was working as a Municipal Trade Officer when I was 23 and that was my first job. I was working under the same government agency with my mother and one of my best friend. I just worked there for three months and after my short career there, I opened my own business. Take care and have a nice day! lovelots..faith210

well,at that time,i'm just graduated from university,and i try to find a job.i got it and feel so happy. but now,i have been worked so many years,and i miss the time in university.

Ah.. nice question.. i just turned 23, eight days back.. So dont have much of a story to tell except that my birthday went fantastically well. Got plenty of surprises and gave a grand gala party. Other than that nothign much.. :)

At 23 I was married to my second husband but we are now coming upon our 18th anniv. i was a mother of two already from first and we had no other kids....I stayed home during the day and took care of the kids and house and went to college at night part time. For the first time in my life I was happy and loved and had all that I ever wanted...a loving family.

When I was 23, I was married and had a 2 yr.old. My husband at the time was a truck driver, owner operated. So the 3 of us would travel all over the US. It was great while it lasted. That was only for 3 years.

I had children at 3 but I was also having a lot of fun. We had get togethers atur house with other young people with children. We sang a lot kereoke..lol And my children remember when I was 23 they remember having fun with me. I am 38 now and sometimes I go back to 23 ahave fun like I did then. That age 23 will live in me forever.

When I was 23 I graduated from college, married my college sweetheart and moved to a new region of the country to start our new life together. Life was full of hope and promise. It is now 20 years later. We just celebrated our 20 yr anniversary, we still live in the same place we moved to start our life and it is now home to us. We have a beautiful family and life still holds hope and promise.

At 23, I'd been married and out on my own for 5 years. I was going thru a divorce because it usually isn't a great plan to get married at 18. I had a job in an insurance company that I loved and a 2 year daughter to raise. So at 23, I was going thru and adjusting to some major changes in my life. I was young and so it wasn't so bad. I had a lot of great friends. I loved taking care of my daughter and even tho going thru a divorce is never pleasant, all in all...I have great memories of that age.

At age 23, I was finishing up collge and working full time as a sales secretary for AT&T. I was also preparing for my wedding. I got married at age 24 but much of the planning was done while I was still 23. In my spare time I spent time with my then fiancee, now husband. I was also working out a lot, so that I would look really good on my wedding day.

At 23, I was working in the laboratories, checking on effluent levels ; doing computer studies part-time, and pining for my boyfriend who was studying in UK!

At 23, I got married. We were looking for a place to buy, and wound up buying a trailer at a trailer park. Got my first kitten since I'd been on my own. Learned how to cope with in-laws (stay as far away from them as possible), learned to not answer the phone (talked at for hours), and learned how to cope with a husband.

let me think.at the age of 23,i had a job and got married in october.

I was working in my second company, as a programmer, developing windows applications with Visual Basic 6 and also I had been really busy at that time, as I needed to travel outstation quite often. I had been there for almost three years. Also, when I was 23, my boyfriend has just finished his studies, and came back from overseas, and we finally stayed together and ended the long distance relationship.

At the age of 23, I had been married for 1 1/2 years. My husband was in the Air Force and we were living in Peru, Indiana. I was staying home while my husband went back and forth to the base to work. I didn't work the year we were in Indiana.

2 days after my 23rd birthday (1962)I was entering the US Army for 2 years. On my 24th birthday (1963)I was in Germany and on my 25th birthday (1964)I was in Georgia (USA).

At the age of 23, I was doing whatever I did during any other year. But whenerver we turn to a new year, it is common for us to look back at the unfulfilled achievements and take an oath that in this year, we shall definitely achieve all those. But once the year progresses, we forget all the wonderful new year resolutions and life becomes the same as ever.

23 is an age special for me. On that year, other 9 young people and I went to a city in northeast china after graduation from colledge. We started our life as a teacher, but never had the chance of teaching until several years later for the understood reason. At that time, we took it for granted and did not think much about the future, never dreaming about any chance of moving. The only luxuary might be going downtown to have a good meal, and coming back with a big basket for the rest of the week. Time has changed, but different time has different challenges.

I just turned 23..haven't done anything lately..just enjoying my holidays. Maybe i'll try to develop a new hobby..