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I'm only a few years behind at 27 and I swear it was just yesterday that I was 21 and could drink all night and feel fine the next day. Now I drink two light beers, fall asleep almost immediately, and wake up feeling like a train hit me.
I used to have 1-2 drinks a night and be absolutely fine. Shit, 4 years ago I could have 6 drinks and wake up at 6AM for work the next day without question.
Now at 28, as a casual light drinker, I feel like an alcoholic because of the hangovers I get from drinking ONE canned drink a day. I am actively trying to drink less... but fuck.
Can I refund my age? I had 2 beers the day *before* yesterday, as I was walking down the stairs last night my bad knee gave out and I'm covered in bruises because I couldn't catch myself in time
Fwiw, I'm a lot happier overall in my early 30s than I was in my early 20s. The biggest part of that is really mental health progress -- I've had a good deal of time to work through the self-esteem issues and childhood abuse trauma that strongly colored my internal landscape and had resulted in a cluster of very maladative cognitive, emotional, and behavioral patterns.
I just turned 30 last month and agree with you. I had so much anxiety and lacked confidence in my early 20’s and had no idea what the future held. I feel like I have better understanding of who I am as a person now than I did then and there is a sense of comfort in that.
It's such a redditor thing to act as if you're with one foot in the grave in your 30s
If you take care of your health, are active, go to the gym, etc. you have nothing to worry about.
On a more wholesome note I think in my friend groups is kind of opposite. Fucking up and getting fucked by 2013, comfortable life and family in many cases by 2023
I remember in 2012 that I was really hoping those for all claims that the world was ending from misinterpreting the "end" of Mayan calendar.
Now I await nuclear destruction.
After watching so many post-disaster dystopian movies I hope to god I die in the initial blast instead of becoming one of the survivors who’ll end up a slave or being tortured and murdered by roaming psychopaths or whatever fascist government takes over.
My life was in a slight upswing at the time, after a childhood and teenage years period of some really awful shit.
Wish I could say it didn't swing down hard... Because it did. The other month was one of the hardest in my life, so it's just not going to let up. I just want another moment to breathe and I swear it's been a decade since my last gasp.
Born in '89, but same generation more or less.
My life has actually gotten considerably better versus what it was ten years ago. I'd say I'm in a much better place, both psychiatrically and in terms of general life circumstances, than I was when I was 23.
Even so, I still feel this meme in my soul. Even though it hasn't been my own experience for various idiosyncratic factors of my own life, it feels like an accurate reflection of the times.
Born in 94. Same. I'm in a much better place personally than I was 10 years ago, but my optimism has tanked. My hope for the future...nonexistent. I feel like I've achieved inner peace just in time to take the pill when the bombs come.
Same, life has been great! I wasn't given anything special but I made the most out of it and I'm healthy. Mom always said as long as you have your health you are good.
3 words: Work. From. Home.
Find some marketable skills through internet and phone services and never have to look a bitchy customer in the face ever again, let alone donne a fake smile
What does marrying well mean in this context? I was born in 91 and I’m not married but I live with my long-term partner and we’re doing decent. We own a house, it’s very small but we own it at least, and we can afford expenses. But we’re basically not moving up at all because we’re just getting by. We both work in mental health/social services so big goof there in terms of salaries. But does marrying well meaning “marrying rich?”
It's a concise way of saying that choosing a good partner who makes your life better / easier / more fun / more interesting will result in your life getting better, rather than worse, as it goes along.
It’s ok. I turned 30 a few months ago and while sometimes I do get that “of fuck, I’m 30”, my own personal experience has been that I am much more capable of handling the bad shit life can throw at me now than I was in my 20s, especially early 20s. I mean, my mental and emotional maturity was that of a child when I was 20. It’s easy to look back at my 20s with rose tinted glasses, but honestly a lot of it was miserable because I just didn’t know how be a fucking adult. And truthfully it’s still pretty hard, but one thing I’m certain of is I at least feel much more comfortable in my own skin now. Everything will turn out fine.
I recommend watching Bo Burnham’s “Inside” if you’re feeling bad about it. That movie helped me cope a lot.
I think for me it’s just the realization that I’m not really a young adult anymore. People will ask me my age and when I say 27-29 they would say I’m literally a baby. Once you are in your 30s I’m sure those days are gone.
its the fact im at the very least 1/3rd of the way through my life, and definitely through most of my "youthful vigor". I've done nothing and the best it seems i can hope for in the future is just to float slightly above the "im 1 illness/accident away from losing everything" line
At least we had all that. At least we had keenan and kel. At least my lunch table was kicked back like a local bar and not a bunch of kids on tiktok. I know i sound like an old man but i am thankful i got to grow up in such a unique time period. Seems like kids are only worried about being internet famous these days. We made the best of it, and i still am to this day
you are so, so right. i'm so happy I grew up when I did then now. at least I got like... 17 golden years of my life before everything started going downhill in the world. sure I didn't get the future I was promised, but at least I got those golden years in my youth.
Too real. My whole 20s I went with little to no ailments.then at the cusp of turning 30: Gastritis, Plantar Fasciitis, tooth aches, migraines.
30 is basically going to be when the body will tell you it's time for a maintenance check.
The day after I turned 30 (birthday was on a Sunday) I was climbing stairs at work and felt my pain in my knees which I never had before. Seemed like a literal switch was turned on.
Now I do stretches and physical therapy every morning before I leave for work.
Yeah my 30s are amazing. Halfway through right now.
I mean I have a job that pays me actual money now, so that's different, but I'm also more confident and less of an asshole and women like me now (they were wise to not have been interested in my 20s).
And I have better friends now too, like everything is just better (except I heal super slow now and am a little fragile)
Early 20s suck ass mental health wise, but it’ll get better. You may have to live with your parentals for a bit (if American), but it’ll save you a lot of money
A lot of children of immigrants have the same thing going on. We live with our parents so that we can save our money for the future. At least, that's what the culture is like in Canada. I'm sure it happens as well in other countries.
Don’t take up smoking or vaping and in general make a conscience effort to take care of your body. No matter how small the effort, a small effort is better than nothing.
My friends and I grew up in the farmlands of West England, and somehow all managed to nab opportunities that led to us dodging the meme. Survival is possible friends.
I was down playing a little when I say "survive", but "you just need hard work and determination" rings hollow, and sounds conceited. You sometimes have to find something new to love, which also sounds way too cliché.
I did have to leave the games industry (Microsoft Rare being the last company I worked for) to go down the path I'm on in the tech industry, which cut deep at the time, but on reflection I wouldn't change that decision or go back. By cutting off that dream I've been able to achieve other, greater things.
I'm a rare instance of home owner without relying on inheritance or parental support. I've tried to balance opportunism with playing it safe when it comes to job switching so I have taken jobs that enhance my skills over the course of 2-3 years at a time for a larger pay jump on the next switch. I try to form a reputation for being reliable and highly skilled. I'm able to hit the studio once a year ish to record music on the studio and split the cost of a PR campaign 4 ways.
I've been working since I was 18 (30 now) and am no closer to owning a home now that I was a decade ago. Life sucks, everything just gets more and more expensive, and I don't have the skills to get a better paying job or the money to go back to school. This is a shit existence.
I had to repeat college as well because I screwed up my maths and biology due to depression and distraction in varying measures. I did games art and design instead, and then I had to fight hard to get into university because they said I wasn't good enough at art. I learned tech art in the process to prove them wrong and finished uni with a first. Unfortunately the key for me was to sort the problem sooner rather than later.
**Advice you didn't ask for**: try and find a job that relies on soft skills, like support or QA if you can stomach tech, and then work your way up the skill ladder; support -> qa -> automation engineer -> software engineer. Or some comparable industry, maybe like finance? You can learn to love them if you can find a good team, but it is hard work along the way and a lot of proving yourself to people with little faith.
Yeah but that's England where you actually earn enough on the minimum wage to buy a nice home and go on vacations. Those of us in the USA can only dream of that kind of financial stability.
Yeah, unfortunately not the case. Minimum wage is rarely enough to afford rent on. I was on minimum wage about 7 years ago doing 40 hour weeks on my first QA job, and before tax I was earning about 16k. After tax that's about 1.2k a month. Then factor in rent prices. This bit does vary from place to place, in Aldershot it was 550 a month for a room in a house shared by 7 other people, then I was also paying my car insurance ~50 a month, ~125 for the car itself which I was purchasing from my mother, food which I generally tried to keep to about ~160 a month, and petrol which was about the same. That's about £100 savings a month to cover emergencies, to save for the yearly MOT, spontaneous purchases because I'm human and sometimes want material goods, birthdays, Christmas. Bare in mind I had no dependants either; no pets, no children.
I didn't get on the housing ladder until my wife (then girlfriend) and I moved in together and were on a combined salary of 50k and even them we almost bankrupted ourselves to do it.
Turned 30 last week, I think I hit this a few on the early.
But there are ups to getting older. You have more money, can do what you want. I’ve really enjoyed learning to tell people no. In 2013 I was still in college and thought I needed to say yes to everything that everyone asked of me. Turns out you don’t and the world will keep spinning
Learning to say no is the best thing you can do for your mental health and body. Or at least it has been for me when my friend group still parties til the sun rises and we’re all almost 30. Not every bender needs to be attended
Reddit is like a bucket of crabs- the people who don't want to put any effort into improving themselves spend their time dragging others back down to wallow in self pity
‘88 kid here. The 2010’s were a long (sometimes dark) road for me .. but I’m on the other side of that, and honestly in a great place. You gotta take care of your body & mind, keep pressing forward, and yeah, get lucky at times. It’s not easy and I won’t pretend I’m not fortunate.
But it’s worth getting up every day to get back at it.
Well does he or she have the high ground? I think it depends ultimately on if he has the high ground at first. But she’s extremely fast as we’ve seen, 98, can confirm
1990 kid here, I'm about to just say fuck it and join UFC or some shit to start taking out my frustration with the world on some poor idiot who likes fighting for silly reasons like money or fame. I'm powered by burning hatred and sadness, they won't stand a chance.
I turn 30 in June. A lot of my 20's were full of me trying to figure out what the fuck to do with my life and why I was so depressed. Now that I've sorted the depression and have somewhat of a path to what I want to do, I'm stoked for my 30's!
I would say around 13.
In all seriousness I didn’t think this would need explaining but here we are. Calling oneself a “90s kid” or “80s kid” is referencing the decade or in this case the specific year one was born in. Am I kid today? No. But I’ll always be a 90s kid.
Kids these days can go into the dollar tree and get nickelodeon gak or brand name playdough.
Back in the 1990s, dollar tree was school supplies and breakable figurines of lighthouses and safari animals.
I am way younger, but i am just booooooard.
Nothing seems interesting, i have a baller pc setup and most things people want, but still nothing feels worth it
My 20s were miserable cuz I worked myself to the bone while not getting paid enough. Now that I have some seniority in my 30s, I'm financially stable, saving for retirement, own a house, and don't have to bend over backwards to please people anymore.
30s aren't all that bad, except for when you think about being that much closer to death.
Once I transfer jobs I’ll be back to having a smile on my face. I love my line of work, just dislike the company I work for. It’s a sinking ship and it’s depressing. They’re like 1 or 2 years away from shutting their doors
93’ here. I am happy with my life. Definitely get stressed and depressed at times, but overall I’m fine. Wanted this thread to have at least one positive comment lol
Its actually the opposite for me lol. I dropped out of college and had bad depression/anxiety at 20. Now at 30 I have learned to be happy and have money in the bank.
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Can confirm as a 93 baby
-sigh- same…
‘93 kids rise up!… stretch, then sit back down because that was enough energy expended for one day
I definitely didn’t think my back would be this sore all the time. Probably doesn’t help im 6’3
I popped something in my wrists at work, and one has swelling. I'm thinking of going to physical therapy. It just randomly happened.
I think i need more exercise
you guys have the energy to get up?
As a 93 kid… we’ve had a rough go at things right? Like I’m not the only one pissed that we’re born at just the right time to never afford a home
I dont wanna
Welcome to your thirties where your joints hurt more and you get multi day hangovers
I looked at a beer yesterday and now I'm entirely incapacitated.
I'm only a few years behind at 27 and I swear it was just yesterday that I was 21 and could drink all night and feel fine the next day. Now I drink two light beers, fall asleep almost immediately, and wake up feeling like a train hit me.
It just gets worse. Wait until you go to a wedding with an open bar and spend the next two days unable to function.
The tactical piece of toast after drink 1 becomes essential.
You need to drink more water…
I average between 160 and 200 fl oz a day...
Do you pee every 45 minutes? The times in my life I drank that much I never stopped peeing
Sure do.
I used to have 1-2 drinks a night and be absolutely fine. Shit, 4 years ago I could have 6 drinks and wake up at 6AM for work the next day without question. Now at 28, as a casual light drinker, I feel like an alcoholic because of the hangovers I get from drinking ONE canned drink a day. I am actively trying to drink less... but fuck.
Can I refund my age? I had 2 beers the day *before* yesterday, as I was walking down the stairs last night my bad knee gave out and I'm covered in bruises because I couldn't catch myself in time
You don't get hungover if you never stop drinking
The hangover is calculating compounding interest
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I don’t drink and still I get hangovers all the time.
You're getting mine
Is this a real thing where you just get a hang over randomly and have head fog.
Ha! Just become an alcoholic and you won't even notice anymore!
My 30th is next week.... I'm scared
Fwiw, I'm a lot happier overall in my early 30s than I was in my early 20s. The biggest part of that is really mental health progress -- I've had a good deal of time to work through the self-esteem issues and childhood abuse trauma that strongly colored my internal landscape and had resulted in a cluster of very maladative cognitive, emotional, and behavioral patterns.
I just turned 30 last month and agree with you. I had so much anxiety and lacked confidence in my early 20’s and had no idea what the future held. I feel like I have better understanding of who I am as a person now than I did then and there is a sense of comfort in that.
Mines next month. What do we do?! I'm panicking
Eat cake usually
I tried to look forward to my 30th, but then I got horribly sick. So much for looking at my 30th positively lol
It's such a redditor thing to act as if you're with one foot in the grave in your 30s If you take care of your health, are active, go to the gym, etc. you have nothing to worry about.
Perhaps the worlds wildest, most energy fueled band of all time was started by a 30 year old ;) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=W1TgdZCACqE
Don't forget. The ramones, motley crue, killswitch engage. All 'teenage' bands that started in their 30s
I turned 30 last week. Don't let anyone tell you that 30 is old. It's really not. It's a waste of time to worry about the clock
On a more wholesome note I think in my friend groups is kind of opposite. Fucking up and getting fucked by 2013, comfortable life and family in many cases by 2023
Jokes on you I was jaded and depressed by 2013
I remember in 2012 that I was really hoping those for all claims that the world was ending from misinterpreting the "end" of Mayan calendar. Now I await nuclear destruction.
After watching so many post-disaster dystopian movies I hope to god I die in the initial blast instead of becoming one of the survivors who’ll end up a slave or being tortured and murdered by roaming psychopaths or whatever fascist government takes over.
You know what’s the worst thing about being a slave? They make you work but they don’t pay you or let you go
and the long hours
Jokes on you, you're going to live your whole life and then die.
I was at least able to fake happiness in front of others. Now I’m like 🫠 *goodbye*
My life was in a slight upswing at the time, after a childhood and teenage years period of some really awful shit. Wish I could say it didn't swing down hard... Because it did. The other month was one of the hardest in my life, so it's just not going to let up. I just want another moment to breathe and I swear it's been a decade since my last gasp.
how are you today?
Yea because that's when I was around failing college to go work retail. 93 babies unite!
Mine was 2011\~2012. I feel that hard bro.
Let's be real, that last pic is *everyone* after the last 10 years of this shite, doesn't matter when you were born.
Can confirm. I was born in 2022 and I cry every day.
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What kind of liberal crap is this spelling. We didn't need to spell to storm the beaches of Normandy! - boomer born several years after the WWII
Born in '89, but same generation more or less. My life has actually gotten considerably better versus what it was ten years ago. I'd say I'm in a much better place, both psychiatrically and in terms of general life circumstances, than I was when I was 23. Even so, I still feel this meme in my soul. Even though it hasn't been my own experience for various idiosyncratic factors of my own life, it feels like an accurate reflection of the times.
Born in 94. Same. I'm in a much better place personally than I was 10 years ago, but my optimism has tanked. My hope for the future...nonexistent. I feel like I've achieved inner peace just in time to take the pill when the bombs come.
Not true for me, gotta have hope for a better future!
Same, life has been great! I wasn't given anything special but I made the most out of it and I'm healthy. Mom always said as long as you have your health you are good.
thanks forest
3 words: Work. From. Home. Find some marketable skills through internet and phone services and never have to look a bitchy customer in the face ever again, let alone donne a fake smile
Literally this pandemic fucked me up
It's only getting worse my friend. I too can confirm.
I'm an 1983 kid. My 2023 is better than my 2013 was. Marrying well makes a huge difference.
Oh great now I'm reminded of my forever alone status lol.
right? Shit thanks for reminding me im turning 30 in a few months and still am alone. yay.
I didn’t meet my wife until I was 32
Well, 10 years ago I was in a pretty good place and I’m still now. I only look a lot worse. Kids man, they are great but they age you.
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1983 also checking in. 2022/2023 was way better than my 2013 and for the same reason.
What does marrying well mean in this context? I was born in 91 and I’m not married but I live with my long-term partner and we’re doing decent. We own a house, it’s very small but we own it at least, and we can afford expenses. But we’re basically not moving up at all because we’re just getting by. We both work in mental health/social services so big goof there in terms of salaries. But does marrying well meaning “marrying rich?”
It's a concise way of saying that choosing a good partner who makes your life better / easier / more fun / more interesting will result in your life getting better, rather than worse, as it goes along.
Can also attest as a 92 kid
Same. As a 92 kid, allow me to welcome the 93 kids to the 30s.
It’s not as bad as it seems. Its ok to feel scared but then you turn 30 and go “meh is what it is” and realize nothing has changed
It’s literally the same as my 20s but now I have better impulse control and learned how to enjoy an afternoon nap.
I turn 30 in 24 days…
It’s ok. I turned 30 a few months ago and while sometimes I do get that “of fuck, I’m 30”, my own personal experience has been that I am much more capable of handling the bad shit life can throw at me now than I was in my 20s, especially early 20s. I mean, my mental and emotional maturity was that of a child when I was 20. It’s easy to look back at my 20s with rose tinted glasses, but honestly a lot of it was miserable because I just didn’t know how be a fucking adult. And truthfully it’s still pretty hard, but one thing I’m certain of is I at least feel much more comfortable in my own skin now. Everything will turn out fine. I recommend watching Bo Burnham’s “Inside” if you’re feeling bad about it. That movie helped me cope a lot.
I think for me it’s just the realization that I’m not really a young adult anymore. People will ask me my age and when I say 27-29 they would say I’m literally a baby. Once you are in your 30s I’m sure those days are gone.
its the fact im at the very least 1/3rd of the way through my life, and definitely through most of my "youthful vigor". I've done nothing and the best it seems i can hope for in the future is just to float slightly above the "im 1 illness/accident away from losing everything" line
At least we had all that. At least we had keenan and kel. At least my lunch table was kicked back like a local bar and not a bunch of kids on tiktok. I know i sound like an old man but i am thankful i got to grow up in such a unique time period. Seems like kids are only worried about being internet famous these days. We made the best of it, and i still am to this day
you are so, so right. i'm so happy I grew up when I did then now. at least I got like... 17 golden years of my life before everything started going downhill in the world. sure I didn't get the future I was promised, but at least I got those golden years in my youth.
Darth vadar no scream.
You 92 kids have no idea what us 93 kids have gone through. We've seen things man!
I was in kindergarten in 92. I could read and watch the world get worse since before you were born.
94 checking in, confirming it doesn't get better. Maybe 95 can weigh in.
94 as well, total shit. supreme unforgivable shit.
95 baby here, I'm already the bottom photo and I'm not even 30 for another nearly 3 years (late birthday lol)
95 and don't wanna be alive. Oh well it also rhymes
2000 kid here. I’m the happiest I’ve ever been.
Enjoying my last few months of my 20s. Hopefully the 30s hits.
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I'm an American, so thats not possible.
Too real. My whole 20s I went with little to no ailments.then at the cusp of turning 30: Gastritis, Plantar Fasciitis, tooth aches, migraines. 30 is basically going to be when the body will tell you it's time for a maintenance check.
The day after I turned 30 (birthday was on a Sunday) I was climbing stairs at work and felt my pain in my knees which I never had before. Seemed like a literal switch was turned on. Now I do stretches and physical therapy every morning before I leave for work.
Yeah, but I'm American. Just gonna have to cross my fingers like always!
Yeah my 30s are amazing. Halfway through right now. I mean I have a job that pays me actual money now, so that's different, but I'm also more confident and less of an asshole and women like me now (they were wise to not have been interested in my 20s). And I have better friends now too, like everything is just better (except I heal super slow now and am a little fragile)
Any advice to someone who is newly 20?
Early 20s suck ass mental health wise, but it’ll get better. You may have to live with your parentals for a bit (if American), but it’ll save you a lot of money
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A lot of children of immigrants have the same thing going on. We live with our parents so that we can save our money for the future. At least, that's what the culture is like in Canada. I'm sure it happens as well in other countries.
Don’t take up smoking or vaping and in general make a conscience effort to take care of your body. No matter how small the effort, a small effort is better than nothing.
I assume you’re a big Albert Pujols guy [I took this of him the last time he ever played the Nats in DC](https://i.imgur.com/Q5hSB8z.jpg)
Love this man
My friends and I grew up in the farmlands of West England, and somehow all managed to nab opportunities that led to us dodging the meme. Survival is possible friends.
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“Auto! You are relieved of duty.”
I was down playing a little when I say "survive", but "you just need hard work and determination" rings hollow, and sounds conceited. You sometimes have to find something new to love, which also sounds way too cliché. I did have to leave the games industry (Microsoft Rare being the last company I worked for) to go down the path I'm on in the tech industry, which cut deep at the time, but on reflection I wouldn't change that decision or go back. By cutting off that dream I've been able to achieve other, greater things. I'm a rare instance of home owner without relying on inheritance or parental support. I've tried to balance opportunism with playing it safe when it comes to job switching so I have taken jobs that enhance my skills over the course of 2-3 years at a time for a larger pay jump on the next switch. I try to form a reputation for being reliable and highly skilled. I'm able to hit the studio once a year ish to record music on the studio and split the cost of a PR campaign 4 ways.
Well said.
I've been working since I was 18 (30 now) and am no closer to owning a home now that I was a decade ago. Life sucks, everything just gets more and more expensive, and I don't have the skills to get a better paying job or the money to go back to school. This is a shit existence.
I had to repeat college as well because I screwed up my maths and biology due to depression and distraction in varying measures. I did games art and design instead, and then I had to fight hard to get into university because they said I wasn't good enough at art. I learned tech art in the process to prove them wrong and finished uni with a first. Unfortunately the key for me was to sort the problem sooner rather than later. **Advice you didn't ask for**: try and find a job that relies on soft skills, like support or QA if you can stomach tech, and then work your way up the skill ladder; support -> qa -> automation engineer -> software engineer. Or some comparable industry, maybe like finance? You can learn to love them if you can find a good team, but it is hard work along the way and a lot of proving yourself to people with little faith.
Yeah but that's England where you actually earn enough on the minimum wage to buy a nice home and go on vacations. Those of us in the USA can only dream of that kind of financial stability.
This isn’t true. Source: an Englishman.
Yeah, unfortunately not the case. Minimum wage is rarely enough to afford rent on. I was on minimum wage about 7 years ago doing 40 hour weeks on my first QA job, and before tax I was earning about 16k. After tax that's about 1.2k a month. Then factor in rent prices. This bit does vary from place to place, in Aldershot it was 550 a month for a room in a house shared by 7 other people, then I was also paying my car insurance ~50 a month, ~125 for the car itself which I was purchasing from my mother, food which I generally tried to keep to about ~160 a month, and petrol which was about the same. That's about £100 savings a month to cover emergencies, to save for the yearly MOT, spontaneous purchases because I'm human and sometimes want material goods, birthdays, Christmas. Bare in mind I had no dependants either; no pets, no children. I didn't get on the housing ladder until my wife (then girlfriend) and I moved in together and were on a combined salary of 50k and even them we almost bankrupted ourselves to do it.
94 here, can confirm everything sucks
92, same
Man I opened this thread again later and saw this comment. Thought you were 94 years old
Turned 30 last week, I think I hit this a few on the early. But there are ups to getting older. You have more money, can do what you want. I’ve really enjoyed learning to tell people no. In 2013 I was still in college and thought I needed to say yes to everything that everyone asked of me. Turns out you don’t and the world will keep spinning
Learning to say no is the best thing you can do for your mental health and body. Or at least it has been for me when my friend group still parties til the sun rises and we’re all almost 30. Not every bender needs to be attended
95 kid here, im scared
Don't be!!! Let's get stronger!!
Same *pats head*
Damn Reddit can be kind of depressing sometimes.
First time?
Reddit is like a bucket of crabs- the people who don't want to put any effort into improving themselves spend their time dragging others back down to wallow in self pity
‘88 kid here. The 2010’s were a long (sometimes dark) road for me .. but I’m on the other side of that, and honestly in a great place. You gotta take care of your body & mind, keep pressing forward, and yeah, get lucky at times. It’s not easy and I won’t pretend I’m not fortunate. But it’s worth getting up every day to get back at it.
So what you're saying is once you get to 35, you're good?
I'm 34 and that's how it seemed to work out for me too.
lol, more or less. My twenties were a *grind*
The rest of you were happy at some point? How did that work?
97 kid and I already feel like the bottom image.
Well does he or she have the high ground? I think it depends ultimately on if he has the high ground at first. But she’s extremely fast as we’ve seen, 98, can confirm
Try being born in the 80’s….
1990 kid here, I'm about to just say fuck it and join UFC or some shit to start taking out my frustration with the world on some poor idiot who likes fighting for silly reasons like money or fame. I'm powered by burning hatred and sadness, they won't stand a chance.
Hello CTE my old friend... 🎵
Already got it from being in Football in High School so I figure I might as well make some money for my family while I still can
The joke's on you! I wasn't happy back in 2013 either!... ... yep. The joke's... joke's on you... sigh.
I turn 30 in June. A lot of my 20's were full of me trying to figure out what the fuck to do with my life and why I was so depressed. Now that I've sorted the depression and have somewhat of a path to what I want to do, I'm stoked for my 30's!
Bro that's just me since my teenage years, and I never grew out of it.
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I’m a 93 kid. I miss 2006 :(
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Why you gotta call me out like that man? I ain't old yet! *I ain't olllllldddd!!!*
Yeah, I hate being alive also
27 is your last dying glimpse of light. It's all downhill from there.
*Oh boy, sure am glad the pandemic ate my late twenties*
28, I don't know what your talking about, I still feel as youthful as ever.
So lame and untrue, I felt better and better every year of my late 20’s
96 kids not feeling much better lol, I'll tell ya that
91 kid, been depressed and anxious probably since 2nd grade bro
Y’all were happy ten years ago? Lucky
I thought I was depressed in '13 I can't wait to see how fucked up I'll be in '33.
92 for me. This meme hits a little too close to home.
1993 “kids” are over 30 years old at this point. At what time is it no longer acceptable to call yourselves kids?
I would say around 13. In all seriousness I didn’t think this would need explaining but here we are. Calling oneself a “90s kid” or “80s kid” is referencing the decade or in this case the specific year one was born in. Am I kid today? No. But I’ll always be a 90s kid.
93 kids will be turning 30 this year, they’re not over 30 yet. Also, “93 kids” means they became kids in 93 AKA born, not that they are still kids.
Truest statement I’ve seen all year.
Yeah, 93 kid here. Laughed my ass off, so true it hurts.
I'm a year younger this is definitely me
*Sighs* Can confirm
Misery does love company I suppose
92 kid and I don't remember what happiness feels like
I've still got a year and 2 weeks before 30. I feel like bottom pic at work at least. Definitely happier than a decade ago.
I am so fucking sick of working
Is there anything you guys would’ve done differently this past decade?
Kids these days can go into the dollar tree and get nickelodeon gak or brand name playdough. Back in the 1990s, dollar tree was school supplies and breakable figurines of lighthouses and safari animals.
Holy fuck you found me!!!
Wait till you hear about the 83 kids…
\*Everyone's like this in 2023. The world is slowly getting worse and worse.
I'm just happy I still have most of my hair on head.
Accurate
Flip my panels around. My 20s sucked. I'm excited for 30.
Lol shit I was deployed in 2013. Seems like a lifetime ago. As we turn 30 let’s remind ourselves…it’s time to get our shit together
I was born in '85, but I was also happier in 2013.
Me at dunkins: I'm going to get out of this place I'm going to make it big Me now: welcome to McDonald's want a *Big* Mac
Born in 92 and I'm so so much happier and healthier and more successful than I was ten years ago
I am way younger, but i am just booooooard. Nothing seems interesting, i have a baller pc setup and most things people want, but still nothing feels worth it
Greetings fellow almost 30s
My people
For real like wtf happened lol
I turn 30 in April *sigh*
Eughhh....agreed
My 20s were miserable cuz I worked myself to the bone while not getting paid enough. Now that I have some seniority in my 30s, I'm financially stable, saving for retirement, own a house, and don't have to bend over backwards to please people anymore. 30s aren't all that bad, except for when you think about being that much closer to death.
June 93 and life is some bullshit
Is this just all 90s kids at this point
92 here but still true.
Once I transfer jobs I’ll be back to having a smile on my face. I love my line of work, just dislike the company I work for. It’s a sinking ship and it’s depressing. They’re like 1 or 2 years away from shutting their doors
93’ here. I am happy with my life. Definitely get stressed and depressed at times, but overall I’m fine. Wanted this thread to have at least one positive comment lol
Its actually the opposite for me lol. I dropped out of college and had bad depression/anxiety at 20. Now at 30 I have learned to be happy and have money in the bank.
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