My childhood was filled with proverbial dodging bullets and land mines. My adult life is a lot more chill because I have chosen to remove the drama that caused my childhood from my life.
In my 20's I was just some guy working in a factory.
In my 30's I learned about CNC lasers and CAD and got to do cool things. Now im 40-something and I get to do and see cool things, and even design cool things.
If only. I feel better than ever but it seems like my fortune is just shit and I'm entering a severe depression that leaves me angry and unable to enjoy life.
I really relate to this comic. I didn't like being a child that much, and I feel alienated a lot on the internet by people constantly wishing they could go back to having no responsibilities. I really, really like being able to control my own destiny and decide what I wanna do, even though it comes with increased pressures and responsibilities.
Being an adult is awesome. I get to have a motorcycle, my own cat, I can build whatever I want, I can have chickens if I want, and I have a really cute wife. What could I do as a kid? Go to school? Live with my parents? Hang out with people who had the minds of children? Boooring.
Hell yes to this. Childhood, Highschool, and even in to college were some of the worst years of my life. I never want to repeat them. Sometimes I fantasize about what it would have been like to be "normal", but I love who I am now and l do not want to give that up or go back.
Anyone who yearns for their life as child has developmental issues. I'm not trying to say that as a sick burn, I think it's honestly sad and source of suffering for some people.
Age 10-20 was miserable. Hormones. Parents. Bullies in high school. Difficult to find work. College struggle and debt.
Age 20-30 was better but still shit. Welfare. Homelessness. Police harassment. Juggling three jobs to pay rent.
Age 30-40 was so much better. Life was in order. Wife and I both leveled up our education and got a career. Traveled for the first time (Hawaii then Japan). Had kids.
Age 40 - life is getting better. Feels like the best days still happening.
it took me about two years to truly realize i was in my 30s (I'm a bit stupid) but once that happened a massive weight lifted from my shoulders. i suddenly realized, wait, I'm a grown-ass man, i don't have to deal with this bullshit. i became more confident, took no shit from people and stopped dealing with teenage drama. yes about 10 years too late but that's when i realized some of the shit i used to entertain didn't even matter.
Nah man, this is literally how it works. You ever notice how alot of folks who have kids or married someone they shouldn't have super young feel like they never got out of their 20s? They never had the time to understand their own nature or the nature of the culture around them.
That social anxiety, the assumed judgment, the paranoia that everyone's looking for a moment of weakness to exploit... Ya know, the feeling of being an adult who still feels like a teenager.
Your 30s are where you lose that, or at least I feel like you should. Early, mid, late, whenever. It's just important that you do
I'm 40. I feel like my life is over. My career was destroyed by Trump and all this AI bullshit. I fear becoming an old man and not being able to afford basic life essentials.
It's when you probably have your life in order and are comfortable with who you are. It's a good time when you are most you.
Though for those who haven't got either of those, it's probably not going to be a good time. I feel for those people, I know a few.
I'm happy with myself in my 30's it's always nice to think of telling my younger self of the stuff I've done. British business the younger would be very surprised and absolutely jazzed about it.
Midtwenties and it feels over in a lot of ways. The majority of friends I've made growing up or in college are gone. People have spread out and started focusing on their own lives. Even people that I only ever knew online have began moving on.
In a lot of ways this has been fine because I've just turned inward and started focusing on myself too, started being selfish about what I want. I miss seeing a lot of my friends in person rather than random texts or seeing their stories on snap.
It's very confusing at times because I enjoy being able to do whatever I want when I want without consulting anyone but I also miss having people to do things with.
Let people go. You cant hold onto them forever, even in the best of cases. I have people who i consider my best friends that I haven't seen in years. Maybe never again.
The river of life has many branches, we just floated down different ones. Dont take it personally.
Find a socially based hobby! I've been going to a weekly language exchange for a couple of years and it's just as much language practice as it is social hangout.
One of the last true 3rd places I've found is dog parks. If you go consistently at the same time each day you'll be seeing a lot of the same people, who generally are down to chat. You can talk about their dog to break the ice, and I doubt people would even mind if you don't have a dog.
Join a club! Having a group of people you see every week that are happy you're there is what got me out of my worst depression. I'm in a run club and organize a mountain bike club, but if that's not your speed there's lots of others. An improv club/class will probably give you incredible social skills. But there's roleplay clubs, book clubs, bowling/league night, kickball, knitting, and probably a bunch I can't think of.
seconding what the other person said. just go hang out in public places, preferably ones where you can do something and have a natural reason to approach people.
it isn't going to happen immediately. but eventually you will strike up conversations with people, and some of those will be good conversations, and some of those will be with people you like, and some of those will be with people who like you. and then you gotta actually get their contact info or plan to meet up again, maybe doing other things.
This is how it was for me. No societal expectation to care about things anymore. Don’t wanna go somewhere? Say you don’t feel like it or that you’re tired and boom, done. Nobody looks twice at you, which I suppose could feel devastating for some. For me it felt liberating.
Very little of my life was worth living until I was in my 30s. It was specifically due to changing societal attitudes towards homosexuality that allowed me to finally live in peace.
I remember my 30th birthday well, I suddenly grew a six pack and backflipped onto a motorbike mounted onto a jetski and then moonwalked the 100m race faster than Jamiroquai on stilts
My bet on why people don't identify with that anymore is shifting social expectations and economy leading to having kids way later than in their day.
Which... I love my kids, wouldn't trade 'em for anything. But they can definitely make you feel old both by just watching them age and the extra responsibility reducing the freedom/spontaneity you might have had more of earlier in your youth. If you had kids in your early 20s, this starts earlier. If you don't start until your 30s, you're probably already starting to settle a bit anyway just from being more established in a career and such.
I'd also be curious to know rates of messing around with harder drugs and drinking and such. My sense is those have gone down, and that kind of thing can be hard on your body.
I like to think I did my 20s right, if that means anything. Partied often, built my career, worked on my established, longstanding friendships. I lived a bit wildly, but I also think that I gradually wound those things down. I have been in my career since I was 20, but in my mid-20s, my friends would show up to my jobs at night, I'd change out of my suit in the bathroom, and we'd all take a train into Manhattan, on a Tuesday or Wednesday. It's something I couldn't even consider. Our nights started at 1030, 11. Now, that's essentially when they end for me.
I'm now in as late as your 30s get, have kids, and that lifestyle is a very distant past, which I'm happy about. I have friends who still like to live it, and that's cool. I'll hang out with them, but I also have no problem tapping out early, and they also don't care that I do. We're all past the point of "uno mas," which is funny because it's been the name of our group chat for the past 15 years, and it's okay. I had fun, it's no longer what I want to do for fun, and that's cool with me and everyone.
It's nice to all grow to a point where peer pressure has seemed to finally met it's demise, although I do always say peer pressure is a great motivator of youth, and I wouldn't change my youth for a second, because my present is great.
Yeah, I have enjoyed all the ages so far for different reasons but it has basically been the same for the last couple of decades other than whatever I have going on at the time. Like getting married, having a kid, changes in work and the rest were all big and important life changing things, but it has been a mix of mostly good and a little bad for almost 5 decades and I'm good with that.
ITT: a bunch of “miserable” people who are way too comfortable and happy with their lives to fight back against what they claim is making them so (performatively) “miserable”
My egg cracked in my late 20s. I'm 31 now and ~2 years on HRT. Its been only a few months since my last coming out and since I stopped boymoding entirely. I have changed at least as much as a person in these last few months as in the years between my egg crack and then.
Its amazing how you can actually just do stuff and have fun and meet new people and be happy when you're not depressed anymore and feel good about yourself and learn to have confidence and realize that you actually do have free will and can just do stuff if you want to.
It really does get better and fighting through the hard times is so absolutely worth it!
That’s so good to hear! I’m so happy for you, and I can’t wait to be where you are
I feel like I’m one of the harder times right now. I’m ~4 months on HRT, and I’m out to almost all of my friends, who are awesome and have been really supportive, but not at work or with my family. I really want to be done with coming out to people and just be myself all the time! But my family are all Catholics, so I’m really nervous to tell them.
You're going to get there faster than you think! Don't rush your coming outs if you don't feel ready yet, but also don't wait for the perfect moment (it doesn't exist). Stay safe and also give yourself enough time to process things in between!
That is very interesting, at 29? I'm about to get diagnosed for ADHD a month from now.
I attribute this to gaining to ability to stand up for yourself near the end of your twenties, whilst before, they just pacify you and keep you unaware, unt you suffer enough.
You should get that taken care of. An occasional twinge now and then is normal, but constant pain? In your thirties? That ain't standard. In your forties, I could believe - although it still wouldn't be standard. But your back should still be in relatively good nick in your thirties, unless you lift heavy things for a living. In your thirties a backache should be nothing a good night's sleep, a nice stretch, and a long leisurely walk can't fix.
Unless... you DO lift with your knees, right? When you need to lift something? And keep your back straight and chin up while doing so? People don't constantly say to do that just for shits and giggles - it's universally good advice.
Why are you getting down voted? Muscle pains are usually due to weak muscles. Obviously there's other things it could be, but YouTube and planet fitness are cheaper than the doctors.
My 30s might have been more awesome if I hadn't reset my life/career every 4-5 years. I'd have been super bored and miserable in a different way if I'd stayed the course, but I'd have more money to waste on synthesizers in my big empty house, I guess.
While I was still doing well at 50, the ten years since have been a steady decline. But, you can slow the rate by exercising and cleaning up your diet, if you still eat like you're 30.
It's great when all of the fun/exciting friends you had die or get locked up, and every potential love interest you come across is married/loaded down with kids/fucked up from a past relationship/is only interested in a complicated open relationship.
This. Just had an existential crisis at 40-43. Slowly recovering and regaining a bit of perspective but holy shit did that hit hard. I've never had mental problems before, so this really fucked me up something good.
It's getting better. Has mostly to do with my job in combination with the rise of the Nazis. I may have something new and better on the horizon but even if not, I've managed to not give as much of a fuck and I say no way more often nowadays.
Okay, extremely relatable lol. I was at a job that, while I absolutely loved the people I worked with, we were all so overworked while being severely undervalued and underpaid. It was depressing as hell, constantly stressful, and just an overall bad time. I had my first gray at 26. Pair with that Trump's original presidency and things going to shit and yeah...
Well, that really varies from person to person, doesn't it?
My 30s were worse than my 20s.
Having to work full-time sucks.
It might be different for people who love their job or for those who are rich enough not to worry about work at all, but for me, the time when I had to work full-time was more or less the end of the 'good times'.
I think the number thirty is being blamed, not because your life is actually "over" when you turn thirty, but because that TENDS to be roughly the age most people start having kids, and having kids certainly DOES cause major changes in lifestyle.
I'd say the other part of it is around age 30 is when sustained unhealthy lifestyle choices can start biting. It's not when they kill you, but it's when life starts to give you those warning signs that you should probably do something about that before it gets worse
best guess is there's some kind of prevailing notion that when you're not young any more, you're old, which those nearing their 30s dread while 30 pluses refuse to accept they're middle aged
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My childhood was filled with proverbial dodging bullets and land mines. My adult life is a lot more chill because I have chosen to remove the drama that caused my childhood from my life.
This one really resonates with me.
In my 20's I was just some guy working in a factory.
In my 30's I learned about CNC lasers and CAD and got to do cool things. Now im 40-something and I get to do and see cool things, and even design cool things.
It's amazing what can happen when you finally stop looking at everything like a teenager.
If only. I feel better than ever but it seems like my fortune is just shit and I'm entering a severe depression that leaves me angry and unable to enjoy life.
I really relate to this comic. I didn't like being a child that much, and I feel alienated a lot on the internet by people constantly wishing they could go back to having no responsibilities. I really, really like being able to control my own destiny and decide what I wanna do, even though it comes with increased pressures and responsibilities.
Being an adult is awesome. I get to have a motorcycle, my own cat, I can build whatever I want, I can have chickens if I want, and I have a really cute wife. What could I do as a kid? Go to school? Live with my parents? Hang out with people who had the minds of children? Boooring.
Hell yes to this. Childhood, Highschool, and even in to college were some of the worst years of my life. I never want to repeat them. Sometimes I fantasize about what it would have been like to be "normal", but I love who I am now and l do not want to give that up or go back.
You 🤝 me
Anyone who yearns for their life as child has developmental issues. I'm not trying to say that as a sick burn, I think it's honestly sad and source of suffering for some people.
One of the moat depressing things I used to hear as a kid was how this was the best part of my life and I should enjoy it.
wait until you see what 40 feels like..
Pretty great so far, honestly
That's what I'm saying, too..
30 is good, 40 is better.
Age 10-20 was miserable. Hormones. Parents. Bullies in high school. Difficult to find work. College struggle and debt.
Age 20-30 was better but still shit. Welfare. Homelessness. Police harassment. Juggling three jobs to pay rent.
Age 30-40 was so much better. Life was in order. Wife and I both leveled up our education and got a career. Traveled for the first time (Hawaii then Japan). Had kids.
Age 40 - life is getting better. Feels like the best days still happening.
I'm 35. Still waiting for life to stop being miserable. No hope in sight.
i had so much hope in my 20s. now in my 30s it's gone
Yeah dunno what these guys are talking about. I think I got depression, not that one like people imagine, but real constant struggle to do anything.
samezies
I literally found my purpose in my 30s. Nothing was meaningful nor worthwhile in my 20s
it took me about two years to truly realize i was in my 30s (I'm a bit stupid) but once that happened a massive weight lifted from my shoulders. i suddenly realized, wait, I'm a grown-ass man, i don't have to deal with this bullshit. i became more confident, took no shit from people and stopped dealing with teenage drama. yes about 10 years too late but that's when i realized some of the shit i used to entertain didn't even matter.
Nah man, this is literally how it works. You ever notice how alot of folks who have kids or married someone they shouldn't have super young feel like they never got out of their 20s? They never had the time to understand their own nature or the nature of the culture around them.
That social anxiety, the assumed judgment, the paranoia that everyone's looking for a moment of weakness to exploit... Ya know, the feeling of being an adult who still feels like a teenager.
Your 30s are where you lose that, or at least I feel like you should. Early, mid, late, whenever. It's just important that you do
I'm 40. I feel like my life is over. My career was destroyed by Trump and all this AI bullshit. I fear becoming an old man and not being able to afford basic life essentials.
Maybe start fighting back?
Or, you know, sit there and get old and take it like a coward
Or, more likely, keep pretending that you’re not still WAY too comfortable to do fuck all
same boat
I just got a job as a mailman. Time to grab whatever career is left.
my friend did this too. i used to do door to door canvassing, it's def hard on the body
I'm very scared about that.
My career is ok but my body is falling apart.
Yet but also: don't blink too quickly...
You don’t want to dry out those tear ducts and go on empty when you turn 60!
20s-30s: Time & energy, but no money.
60s-70s: Money & time, but no energy.
40-50s: Not enough of any of them.
im in my 30s i dont feel like i have any time, energy, or money
I've found eating a rich person helps a lot.
Give up on money and you can use your time to sleep … which can make energy.
Worst case scenario you get some serious sleepies in
need money for place to sleep. although considering getting an rv
Me discovering most of my hobbies IN my 30s:
Orly ?
It's when you probably have your life in order and are comfortable with who you are. It's a good time when you are most you.
Though for those who haven't got either of those, it's probably not going to be a good time. I feel for those people, I know a few.
I'm happy with myself in my 30's it's always nice to think of telling my younger self of the stuff I've done. British business the younger would be very surprised and absolutely jazzed about it.
Midtwenties and it feels over in a lot of ways. The majority of friends I've made growing up or in college are gone. People have spread out and started focusing on their own lives. Even people that I only ever knew online have began moving on.
In a lot of ways this has been fine because I've just turned inward and started focusing on myself too, started being selfish about what I want. I miss seeing a lot of my friends in person rather than random texts or seeing their stories on snap.
It's very confusing at times because I enjoy being able to do whatever I want when I want without consulting anyone but I also miss having people to do things with.
Let people go. You cant hold onto them forever, even in the best of cases. I have people who i consider my best friends that I haven't seen in years. Maybe never again.
The river of life has many branches, we just floated down different ones. Dont take it personally.
I've let go of them but the issue is finding new people to replace them.
Accept lamer people like work colleagues and such.
Find a socially based hobby! I've been going to a weekly language exchange for a couple of years and it's just as much language practice as it is social hangout.
This^ And that's the beauty of the 30s because I think that's about when you likely start to realize and understand this. It's freeing.
Something I really cherish is a scheduled phone call with two of my college buddies, themed on a movie or TV show we agree to watch that week.
One of us just abruptly made a group chat and asked if we'd be down, and we've been doing it for years now, I highly reccomend!
It’s hard because there seems to be no place to hang out and meet people either. Not for a date, just to chill and make friends.
One of the last true 3rd places I've found is dog parks. If you go consistently at the same time each day you'll be seeing a lot of the same people, who generally are down to chat. You can talk about their dog to break the ice, and I doubt people would even mind if you don't have a dog.
Join a club! Having a group of people you see every week that are happy you're there is what got me out of my worst depression. I'm in a run club and organize a mountain bike club, but if that's not your speed there's lots of others. An improv club/class will probably give you incredible social skills. But there's roleplay clubs, book clubs, bowling/league night, kickball, knitting, and probably a bunch I can't think of.
seconding what the other person said. just go hang out in public places, preferably ones where you can do something and have a natural reason to approach people.
it isn't going to happen immediately. but eventually you will strike up conversations with people, and some of those will be good conversations, and some of those will be with people you like, and some of those will be with people who like you. and then you gotta actually get their contact info or plan to meet up again, maybe doing other things.
This is how it was for me. No societal expectation to care about things anymore. Don’t wanna go somewhere? Say you don’t feel like it or that you’re tired and boom, done. Nobody looks twice at you, which I suppose could feel devastating for some. For me it felt liberating.
Very little of my life was worth living until I was in my 30s. It was specifically due to changing societal attitudes towards homosexuality that allowed me to finally live in peace.
Same. Holy shit was age 0-29 grim as fuck.
I remember my 30th birthday well, I suddenly grew a six pack and backflipped onto a motorbike mounted onto a jetski and then moonwalked the 100m race faster than Jamiroquai on stilts
There's still pleanty of fun and meaningful things I can do in my 30s
My bet on why people don't identify with that anymore is shifting social expectations and economy leading to having kids way later than in their day.
Which... I love my kids, wouldn't trade 'em for anything. But they can definitely make you feel old both by just watching them age and the extra responsibility reducing the freedom/spontaneity you might have had more of earlier in your youth. If you had kids in your early 20s, this starts earlier. If you don't start until your 30s, you're probably already starting to settle a bit anyway just from being more established in a career and such.
I'd also be curious to know rates of messing around with harder drugs and drinking and such. My sense is those have gone down, and that kind of thing can be hard on your body.
Just spit balling here.
I like to think I did my 20s right, if that means anything. Partied often, built my career, worked on my established, longstanding friendships. I lived a bit wildly, but I also think that I gradually wound those things down. I have been in my career since I was 20, but in my mid-20s, my friends would show up to my jobs at night, I'd change out of my suit in the bathroom, and we'd all take a train into Manhattan, on a Tuesday or Wednesday. It's something I couldn't even consider. Our nights started at 1030, 11. Now, that's essentially when they end for me.
I'm now in as late as your 30s get, have kids, and that lifestyle is a very distant past, which I'm happy about. I have friends who still like to live it, and that's cool. I'll hang out with them, but I also have no problem tapping out early, and they also don't care that I do. We're all past the point of "uno mas," which is funny because it's been the name of our group chat for the past 15 years, and it's okay. I had fun, it's no longer what I want to do for fun, and that's cool with me and everyone.
It's nice to all grow to a point where peer pressure has seemed to finally met it's demise, although I do always say peer pressure is a great motivator of youth, and I wouldn't change my youth for a second, because my present is great.
Glad to know she's still active. I miss her in webtoons
Life before 30 is great
Life after 30 is also great
Life is great.
Hey don't bring your positivity around here, I was just about to feel sorry for myself and blame my misgivings on stuff that isn't me.
Yeah, I have enjoyed all the ages so far for different reasons but it has basically been the same for the last couple of decades other than whatever I have going on at the time. Like getting married, having a kid, changes in work and the rest were all big and important life changing things, but it has been a mix of mostly good and a little bad for almost 5 decades and I'm good with that.
ITT: a bunch of “miserable” people who are way too comfortable and happy with their lives to fight back against what they claim is making them so (performatively) “miserable”
My egg cracked a few weeks after I turned 29. My 30s are gonna be an interesting time for sure, but I can actually imagine a future for myself now!
We'll have a bright future, but we'll also have to fight for it
Absolutely. Our trans-cestors fought for us to have a good life, so I’ll fight for us and everyone who comes after us too
My egg cracked in my late 20s. I'm 31 now and ~2 years on HRT. Its been only a few months since my last coming out and since I stopped boymoding entirely. I have changed at least as much as a person in these last few months as in the years between my egg crack and then. Its amazing how you can actually just do stuff and have fun and meet new people and be happy when you're not depressed anymore and feel good about yourself and learn to have confidence and realize that you actually do have free will and can just do stuff if you want to.
It really does get better and fighting through the hard times is so absolutely worth it!
That’s so good to hear! I’m so happy for you, and I can’t wait to be where you are
I feel like I’m one of the harder times right now. I’m ~4 months on HRT, and I’m out to almost all of my friends, who are awesome and have been really supportive, but not at work or with my family. I really want to be done with coming out to people and just be myself all the time! But my family are all Catholics, so I’m really nervous to tell them.
Thank you!
You're going to get there faster than you think! Don't rush your coming outs if you don't feel ready yet, but also don't wait for the perfect moment (it doesn't exist). Stay safe and also give yourself enough time to process things in between!
That is very interesting, at 29? I'm about to get diagnosed for ADHD a month from now.
I attribute this to gaining to ability to stand up for yourself near the end of your twenties, whilst before, they just pacify you and keep you unaware, unt you suffer enough.
Counterpoint: My back hurts.
You should get that taken care of. An occasional twinge now and then is normal, but constant pain? In your thirties? That ain't standard. In your forties, I could believe - although it still wouldn't be standard. But your back should still be in relatively good nick in your thirties, unless you lift heavy things for a living. In your thirties a backache should be nothing a good night's sleep, a nice stretch, and a long leisurely walk can't fix.
Unless... you DO lift with your knees, right? When you need to lift something? And keep your back straight and chin up while doing so? People don't constantly say to do that just for shits and giggles - it's universally good advice.
Try powerlifting.
Why are you getting down voted? Muscle pains are usually due to weak muscles. Obviously there's other things it could be, but YouTube and planet fitness are cheaper than the doctors.
My 30s might have been more awesome if I hadn't reset my life/career every 4-5 years. I'd have been super bored and miserable in a different way if I'd stayed the course, but I'd have more money to waste on synthesizers in my big empty house, I guess.
You're not old till you're 50. Your 50s are puberty in reverse.
60 here. Can confirm.
While I was still doing well at 50, the ten years since have been a steady decline. But, you can slow the rate by exercising and cleaning up your diet, if you still eat like you're 30.
Does your weiner get little again?
Yep. And it takes a pill to make it big again.
20s, a lot of fun but broke as shit
30s a lot of fun and actually had money for things
40s not as much fun and back to broke. Covid really fucked shit up
Oh yeah well wait till you’re 40!
damn kids, wait til you're 50.
I dont want to wait anymore, take me RNGsus
It's great when all of the fun/exciting friends you had die or get locked up, and every potential love interest you come across is married/loaded down with kids/fucked up from a past relationship/is only interested in a complicated open relationship.
I'm not projecting.
This. Just had an existential crisis at 40-43. Slowly recovering and regaining a bit of perspective but holy shit did that hit hard. I've never had mental problems before, so this really fucked me up something good.
I did that around 27 or so. I wonder if that means I'm good from here on out, or is that 40s one just waiting to reaaaaally fuck my shit up. 🤔
Hope you're doing better though. From experience, absolutely not a fun thing to go through :(
It's getting better. Has mostly to do with my job in combination with the rise of the Nazis. I may have something new and better on the horizon but even if not, I've managed to not give as much of a fuck and I say no way more often nowadays.
Okay, extremely relatable lol. I was at a job that, while I absolutely loved the people I worked with, we were all so overworked while being severely undervalued and underpaid. It was depressing as hell, constantly stressful, and just an overall bad time. I had my first gray at 26. Pair with that Trump's original presidency and things going to shit and yeah...
Well I've had mental problems my whole life so hopefully I'll manage better, it's coming up soon..
Is this really a product of age, or is it success? I'd probably be doing fine if I had a successful webcomic.
You'd be making dollars!
Well, that really varies from person to person, doesn't it?
My 30s were worse than my 20s.
Having to work full-time sucks.
It might be different for people who love their job or for those who are rich enough not to worry about work at all, but for me, the time when I had to work full-time was more or less the end of the 'good times'.
Wait! You didn’t have to work full time in your 20’s? I’ve been working full time since I was 21
I think I was around 26 when I started working.
Lucky
Yeah that's crazy to me. I started working full time at 18. 26?! How?!
I was also working at 18, just not full time since I was going to college
I was still “young” in my 30s. Really better than my 20s even. Great time.
Then you hit 40 and things get… interesting. That’s when I started to feel old.
I thought I would have my own place and have settled down by my 30s... hasn't happened yet... so...
Because you hit the magic doom number and then the world doesn't come to an end.
No see the device over there?
@EfreetSK Got to love Sarah and her comics.
I like her darker, edgier stuff. That comic she made about the cannibal lepers on the moon of Annares really spoke to my inner child
In a way you step out of the Truman show but it's not necessarily greater than before.
Im a little confused by that.
You can get peanut butter that's just made of peanuts. And then you put that on toast.
Also add this to pasta
Ahhh delusion is a wonderful thing! It's how we end up with 50+ people racing motorcycles into medians...
Skill issue: do better. (Referring to the parents that gave little her this advice.)
The only place I've ever seen the idea of people in their 30s being "old" is in the internet. Is this some american thing too?
Well Americans don't have good health care and have to constantly worry/ think about money so...
I think the number thirty is being blamed, not because your life is actually "over" when you turn thirty, but because that TENDS to be roughly the age most people start having kids, and having kids certainly DOES cause major changes in lifestyle.
I'd say the other part of it is around age 30 is when sustained unhealthy lifestyle choices can start biting. It's not when they kill you, but it's when life starts to give you those warning signs that you should probably do something about that before it gets worse
best guess is there's some kind of prevailing notion that when you're not young any more, you're old, which those nearing their 30s dread while 30 pluses refuse to accept they're middle aged
Can't say I know shit about it, but my folks in the 80s watched a show called thirtysomethings, a sitcom, don't watch it. Not my problem.
very much not my experience :(