jobaba Posted August 3, 2012 Posted August 3, 2012 (edited) Just lurking in the past few minutes and I came across a couple of posts and a mentality that I see a lot that I wanted to address. I know most of the posters here are young (under 30) and thus think with a straight line mentality in life. This is what I mean by that ... You go to college, graduate at 22, get a job, create a career, get a house and your job and your salary and life goes up, up, and away. Anybody who veers from that path is behind and anybody who falls of that path by a significant number of years is a loser. Also, in dating, you want somebody who has accomplished just as much as you by age XX. Well, all you people in your young to mid 20s ... wait until you get into the REAL world. -Wait until you or a friend of yours or your SO gets laid off for the first time and can't find work. -Wait until you find out that the job that you worked so hard to earn a good salary with is sucking the life out of you and you hate it. -Wait until your 'perfect' husband cheats on you and you are left at age 36 to start over again. -Wait until you're in your 50s and sharing your elderly mother's home because you can't find a job because the job market sucks. -Wait until you see people in their 50s and even 60s who have been unable to climb the corporate ladder and still stuck with mid level positions and relatively low salaries. All real life examples of people I know and I can't wait until you guys experience it to knock you into reality. Don't freakin judge people because they are 30 years old and still in school for an undergraduate degree. Life is not a straight line path for most of us. It is a series of ups and downs. You adjust your life accordingly to find a balance between security and happiness. You'll see... Edited August 3, 2012 by jobaba 1
fortyninethousand322 Posted August 3, 2012 Posted August 3, 2012 I figure this is true, except nobody likes to acknowledge it. It's what frustrates me when I hear people say women won't date me because I don't have a job, or SD because he's still in college. Sometimes I dismiss that, but then other times I figure that means in order to date, you have to be perfect, or near perfect.
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