Mine is similar Mick, I was so fixated at buying a property of my own when I was in my late ****s / early 20s that I worked my ar5e off to get the cash together. I studied at Uni and still worked almost full time hours on the side, I watched every penny carefully.

When when I finished Uni I had a full time job and then usually 1-2 part time jobs on the side at the same time, I would regularly work 100+ hours weekly. I look back now and can't believe I had the energy and the time, but I was so driven and fixated on what I wanted to achieve. In reality, that's the time in your life you should really be out enjoying yourself and socialising.

I'm financially comfortable in life now I guess, compared to most, and much owes to that earlier time in my life. But I sometimes think, maybe I should have just been prepared to work a few extra years as I got older and made the most of that time when I was younger. Its time you don't get back.