• Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net
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    9 months ago

    Exactly this.

    I’m not as old as you, but my 30s are soon to be in my rearview mirror, and last time I blinked, I was still in school.

    Now I’m mentoring people who were the same age I was when I got started working. Fuck.

    • fkn@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      Them: “How do I get to your place in my career?”

      Me: “What do you mean?”

      Them: “You… Have the position I want eventually. What did you do?”

      Me: “Well. 20… No that cant be right… I mean… Yeah… 20 years ago… I graduated college… Then uhh. I’m… Uh…”

      At this point either you make up some bullshit or you say it’s just experience. Then you realize what a midlife crisis is and wonder if you are having one which like like 20% of the definition of a midlife crisis.