Thirty Is the New Twenty

[PaCrappa]

That's what they all say.

[Brisco Bold]

Who the fuck puts WATER in whiskey? Maybe it's because I'm Irish Canadian but that is blasphemy. Drink vodka or some other lighter tasting, more adaptive drink if you're going to do that you dickless bastard. Coke is fine, too.

Anyway, this guy is a quiz essential push over. He thinks he has it all figured out because he loves his woman, has a peachy job and made a life for himself. I bet if you asked this guy what he wanted to be he'd tell you be a journalist. And I bet you even if he didn't know he wanted to be a journalist that he's pretty happy with his career. The fact is that growing up and spreading your wings today is harder. (internships eating up entry level jobs, everyone having a high education, companies not paying fair starting wages to make life livable, women also competing with men much more vigorously in the market) I don't look down on anybody else just because I've been fortunate enough to save up a good amount of dough and move on with my life.

But you know what? I still drink with my friends, play rock band until 3 in the morning until we want something to eat and walk to the 24 grocery store down the road for Wings, Pizza or/and Chips. I still have bon fires on the lakeshore and I still watch shows I enjoy like Dexter and The Office. Hell I'd watch cartoons if I was still in to them. Why do I need to apologize to you? I'm never going to, so get over it. Because that's fun, and I find not letting go of things you love to be infinitely more wise than people who grow up and become boring, "Nice weather we've having today, Jim!" people.

Everyone around me tells me I'm mature for my age (24) because I have a lot of things people my age don't. When I went in to the banker she told me it was "refreshing" to see a young person so focused. But you know what? This is me. I like being focused and planning businesses and working like a dog and feeling that kind of accomplishment. Other people feel the same way about hitting a guitar solo, playing in front of a live audience, or writing an article.

Don't settle for Walmart if it's not your cup. Fuck this know-it-all sack of condescending shit. If you aren't happy bust your ass to change it. And hey, it's sink or swim for everyone, eventually. This is a free market after all.

Respect.

This article = I'm unhappy. Why can't you guys be as unhappy as I am? Here are some facts too prove you're really unhappy. Wait, no, I'm really happy.

[Tones]

After this recent mortgage situation I would be very wary of jumping into massive debt of owning a house just a few years out of college. If I need to, I'll live with my dad out of college, if it means I can save thousands of dollars of rent for a year.

I'm not making bank by any means, but I at least have some form of work ethic. I started working the summer before high school, and have always had a job since, and have sacrificed all of my weekends in the meantime. Do I sit around with friends drinking alcoholic beverage and talking about my manly escapades? Hell yes I do, but it's not like it's an every night or week thing, it's maybe once every month or so.

It sounds like the author has a bit of a complex about his peers living out the last "free" years of their lives before they are in their 50's/60's.

[cka]

quiz essential

[Yoshi]

After this recent mortgage situation I would be very wary of jumping into massive debt of owning a house just a few years out of college.

Why? Only stupid people got themselves in trouble. If you know what a variable versus fixed rate mortgage is and know what you can afford monthly, you're fine.

[Tones]

I would prefer to know that I am relatively secure with my job situation and geographic location first. I'm still a few years away from graduation so it's a bit difficult to imagine being completely comfortable with my financial and career situation in just four years' time.

[Brisco Bold]

I keep reading the thread title as "Tittie is the new twenty."

I click because I'm so intrigued. But then I always wind up disappointed. It's an endless cycle of happiness --> cock punch.

[Yoshi]

I wouldn't even say that, its a generation of boys not allowed to become men. Since when does anyone 30 get promoted beyond low/mid management. A 30 year old is not leading shit outside of the military.

I worked for a director at 30 and a VP at 31. I chose to stick with a technical job, rather than management, but my job is easily higher than the equivalent of middle management.

All of that said, the original article is spot on. I think I have benefited from the lazy sacks it describes though. Companies have to groom people to whom the keys will eventually be handed. Those fuck tards certainly aren't going to be the recipients.

[kedawa]

I'm not even sure what 'grown up' means anymore.
If it means being independent and responsible, then I've been grown up for well over a decade.
If it means getting married, buying a house, and having kids, then I guess I'll die a child.

[Fe 26]

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/26317942/

that is a 4 page write up on the same book. I read it last week and thought about posting it but decided not too as it is pretty much horse shit.

On the surface it is an interesting topic. Young men are getting an every growing space of time between maturity and "adulthood."

But the best I can tell from these articles is that this book does a shit job of talking about it. For starters it doesn't even define what being an adult male is. How can you complain about someone not being something when you don't define that something?

Secondly, the last two pages of Today article is just horrid pandering BS. It talks a lot about how "guyland" is sexist and homophobic. O'rly? Book make you angry, you buy book, you like being angry? buy buy buy

This book is nothing but a money run.