'I tried uni, a career and a move abroad - now I'm back living with dad at 27 and I feel proud'
15.11.2023 - 07:47
/ manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A Manchester Metropolitan University graduate who says she felt societal pressure to study a degree says an 'awakening' led to her slowing her life down. Eve Bokor began a career after university, but says she found herself burned out by the age of 25.
Two years later, she moved back in with her dad, and now insists she has no interest in climbing the career ladder. The 27-year-old said: “I don’t feel that bothered about these things anymore. It was external pressures. I don’t need those things to be happy.
“I want a relationship and a house and they will happen at some point. I'm on my own timeline. I genuinely like myself. I like where I'm at in my life.”
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Eve says she was unsure what she wanted from life by age 25. She took a leap and moved to Canada in June this year, but decided it wasn’t for her.
She returned to the UK and moved back in with her dad, 52-year-old delivery driver Frank, in Leeds. Since returning, Eve she had an 'awakening' and is now taking a slower approach to life.
Eve went to Manchester Metropolitan University and studied childhood studies before taking a job as a teaching assistant in the city when she graduated. She said: “I felt this pressure to do it. To go to university and do childhood studies.
"Everyone said I was good at it. I felt like that was the only thing I good enough for. I took a job as a teaching assistant. I enjoyed it but I felt myself burnout. I felt like there was a lot of pressure to become a teacher.”
Eve left the