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  A comment on Conversation: If you could give your twenty-year-old self one piece of advice, what would it be? Why?

  May 19 2013: I just turned 25 this spring. And believe me, I wouldn't change a single thing I did before.
  I'm now working as a secretary in an Embassy of my country. It does sound pretty fancy, but the job is like any job. Except the fact, that it IS a real job and not some internship (and I have completed several) where no one takes you seriously.
  However, as I'm the youngest in the team, I often remain unnoticed, my opinion doesn't matter and all I'm there for - is to complete my job and do it well. The other colleagues (who are way past their twenties) usually have the attitude that "you're young, you have so much time etc." and therefore don't consider you a proper adult.
  
  So that's the biggest difficulty you will face when you will start your carreer: even though you get paid, you just don't seem to have accomplished enough in your life yet to be taken for an adult.
  
  The only thing you can do - is to take the best of it. Analyse your work ethics, learn from your mistakes. Use it for yourself. Because there will be other jobs. Other work environments. But I think that you only get the appreciation when you're over 30.