Just hanging there. My career went to the shitter.
I think I speak for all of us when I say:
Materially better off than those born 5 years after me, and materially worse off than those born 5 years before me.
Bezos was born in 1964, Musk 1971 and Zuckerberg 1986. Was there some rich asshat born around 1979 to fill in the gap?
Zuckerberg was born in 1984, haven’t looked up the others.
What an amazing coincidental birth year, compared to what product he ended up “creating”…
I do not speak for Zuckerberg.
Grew up early enough to be screwed by a lack of understanding of mental conditions, be thought of as gifted, build no useful skillsets except how to pass tests, “follow your dreams!” Into lol no opportunities and hyper competition for what you were interested in, can’t morally have kids as both a contributor to overpopulation/carbon emissions and the existential dread + crisis they would inherit and that’s before the question of cost and their livelihood or lack thereof down the road, housing where I grew up is unattainably expensive just to live in a closet but need to live near family to support them, burnt out daily by world events before even putting work in to the equation, feel like life never got a chance to get started.
But have no personal debt and a mid-range PC so that’s cool and better than many.
You literally described my life, I wouldn’t have made a better summary.
2004 was 22 years ago… Jesus Christ
That is false and I refuse to believe that. A good day to you.
Oh God. Are we…old now?
Life sucks if you lost your mojo
Can’t believe I’m now old enough to be lumped in with people born in the 1900s 😭.
Edit: I’m only 22 years old; why am I lumped in with people who are getting close to 50 years old?
The 1900s are 1900-1909, like how the 1990s are between 1990-1999. No one is lumping you in with them lol
As in the century, obviously. The same way people don’t literally mean 1800-1809 when they say the 1800s
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bro got pressed over a twitter reply 😭 no one lumpin you in with the adults bro ur good
WDYM “close to 50 years old”? The 90’s were only ten years ago!
I’ll lump you better.
You are a part of group born between 300,000 BCE and 2026 CE.
Lol unc
The 1900s!? 😂 That is simultaneously the funniest and most painful thing I have read today.
I often refer to things my friend did as a kid/young adult having occurred last century.
Do one better, say it was last millennium.
The thing is, I am still a young adult. I was only born in '04 and turned 22 a couple of months ago. Can’t believe I’m lumped in with people who are nearly 50 years old. I have nothing in common with people who are old enough to remember some type of technology called floppy disks.
As a teenager, being shown a cassette tape for the first time was a history lesson. Even being shown a rotary phone felt like looking a piece of technology from the 1800s.
Edit: people born in the 1980s are literally old enough to be my parents.
I graduated high school the year you were born. I agree with everything you said. I feel like this was written by an older millennial still self-deluding themselves about being in the olds now.
The tweet is just asking: How are you and your parents? Nothing to be upset about.
I’m not even 30 yet and I not only remember floppy disk’s, I used them in school.
You have more in common with people nearing 50 than you might want to believe. The main difference is that they’ve experienced things that you haven’t yet. But you will, sooner than you probably think.
One thing my dad always said about adulthood was “the days are long but the years are short.” And boy was he right. Now he’s an old man, I’m staring directly ahead at my 40’s, and the list of dead people I used to know continues to increase in number and velocity.
Sometimes it feels like I was 22 a few years ago but then I blinked and now I’m here.
I wouldn’t worry too much about it.
As an older millennial, I felt the same way when media outlets were lumping my 30-odd year old ass in with 16 year olds not even out of high school and calling us a cohort.
That’s just technology. Maybe think about boomers and then consider again whether you have ‘nothing in common’ with people < 47
Someone who’s 46 is old enough to be my dad. Actually, my dad isn’t much older than that.
You still know the movies. That’s the point. No need to dick around, baby 🕺
Only because I was shown the movie on Netflix or something in like… 2020.
would you prefer “late 20th century”?
Personally, yes
I heard my hip make a pop noise earlier. It doesn’t hurt yet but I’m sure it’ll be the most painful thing I’ve heard today. And I just know it’ll be my back that paid the price.
The age brackets get more inclusive quickly
You’re almost old enough to get your own “that time I pooped my pants” story
Maybe it’s the flu, or you trust a fart after extra spicy Thai. But either way, you never forget or trust your sphincter the same.
I was 17 years old only 5 years ago, too 😭
wearing a shirt older than my co-op I’m mentoring so… yeah…
I’m too old to be part of that group. 👴
I use a cane to walk and I’ve got a fair bit of brain damage, but I’m still working cause I’m not retirement age yet.
I’m just outside those years. Guess my opinion doesn’t matter :P
Classic GenXer
That’s a different thread. Probably.
