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Anyone else feel like they're still young, but things just keep moving along? Like I never grew up but now a lot of adults I know are young enough to be my kids. I don't know. Getting old doesn't feel like I thought it would. It just feels like more of what I've already been doing.
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.
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.