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[quote=Anonymous]ITA OP. I did this without having any sort of prior plan to do so. However, finishing law school at 27 (after spending a few years in the workforce so my app was appealing to T15), I married a 29 year old in a different field of work (also important, if you ask me). We had our first a year later. I was a baby lawyer with a baby (which definitely had repercussions but with two incomes it was all good and finally my career came together quite nicely) but we eeked out daycare and a 3/2 house in a reasonable neighborhood.

I now compare myself with my friends who waited to marry and have kids to find that: 1) those who waited to marry ended up settling, 2) those who waited to have kids ended up spending a lot of money on fertility treatments and, for those for whom it worked, they were older parents, 3) those who waited to buy a house ended up getting shut out of even the crap houses in reasonable neighborhoods.

My dad always thought I was jumping the gun and, honestly, I was afraid he was right. But I was on the right side of history with my choices and I’m so happy I wasn’t afraid to jump.[/quote]

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