This is a thread for ILXors in their 30's!!! yo yo yo breakdancing etc...

Surely I am not the only one for whom the passage of time seemed far different for my 20s than it is for my 30s. I swear that the time between age 22 and 29 was actually like 12 years.

Put another way, it seemed like I was in my 20s forever, while the 30s are clicking by really quickly.

yeah it's kind of fascinating and annoying all at once. Each year becomes a smaller percentage of your total life span as you age. When you're two, a year is half of your entire life, so it seems like forever - literally a lifetime. And it's the reason why the phrase "slow as Christmas" means nothing to me now.

Marketers for the "35+" demo can hit me over the head all they want about home improvements, furniture, luxury SUVs, vacation properties, and all manner of things I'm supposed to want, but 'I'm rubber, you're glue', etc...

Ned, when you started your job, weren't you closer to the age of your students?

Thinking about what is closer to what. . .it trips me out to realize that the rap I listened to when I was young is older to my nieces/nephews (Oh "backspin" channel, you make me cry) now than the Beatles my parents listened to when I was a child. How can the Beastie Boys have been making music longer than the Beatles? When did this happen?

i really don't think anyone ever really cared about my tastes and i always lie on any sort of marketing survey so that doesn't much matter to me.

Ned, when you started your job, weren't you closer to the age of your students?

Oh, of course! But there's a stasis when you work in a college, a useful one in many ways. I don't want to say that work here 'keeps you young' but by default you're always dealing both with your fellow staffers year-by-year as well as a constantly rotating cast of thousands generally between 18 to 22. It just feels normal, for lack of a better word.

The only thing that made me think "Hmm, yeah, time HAS passed" lately was realizing that when I was listening to the new Verve album the other day that the last one before that came out a few months after I started work here. And THAT does seem like a long time.

18-34 demographic? that's a huge group! you start being irrelevant once you're out of the 18-24 one. sorry guys!

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I get older and they keep staying the same age. .. or something like that.

No one cares about your tastes anymore.

This suits me as well. When I was in the 18-34 group, I didn't care about the "hip" stuff the marketeers were trying to push on me, and was vaguely annoyed that they thought we were all morons. It's actually a relief now that marketing departments don't consider me to be worth the cost of targeting their advertising towards.

(xxxxxpost to Rob Bolton) I think all of that stuff is a bit easier to tune out, as it's less about trying to appeal to people's personal/emotional insecurities as it is about "keeping up with the Jones'es"

but hey, realtors, investment planners, and AARP (why the hell have i started to get admail from these dudes?!) still care what you think, if that's any solace.

I did start to get some of that, but it stopped after about a year, I think the banks/etc. realised that I didn't have any money.

I was at a dinner party recently, and the topic turned to litmus tests to see whether someone was the sort of person you'd want to date or not. And this one young woman said "I like to ask what his favourite album is, I find that tells me a lot about a person." And I had to bite my tongue from saying "Wow, you really are 21, aren't you?"

I've got a good friend of mine who's a bit younger than me, complaining about the fact that his job didn't "inspire" him. I just laughed and said, "Yeah, that's why it's your JOB."

OTM-o-rama on this thread

I live near the University. The students get younger every year, I swear I don't get any older.

What about policemen? It's always the first sign of real aging when policemen start to look ridiculously young.

(College students have always seemed like kids to me - even when I was one.)

I was at a dinner party recently, and the topic turned to litmus tests to see whether someone was the sort of person you'd want to date or not. And this one young woman said "I like to ask what his favourite album is, I find that tells me a lot about a person." And I had to bite my tongue from saying "Wow, you really are 21, aren't you?"

Roffle. So otm. My friend and I were walking on a saturday evening. I noticed the young kids walking around in their "hip threads." I told my friend I didn't understand it nor could I read the "cues". My friend said that theur clothes were horrific. I replied that if these teenagers would hear, they'd be glad she said that. Then she added:"But my son would agree." I jokingly said her son had the mental age of a 40 year old. ;-) I sincerely hope my kids do sort of rebel and act young. That's what they are supposed to do. I sadly did that way too late.

That said, I do really like the fashion of young people nowadays even though I can not "read" it that well.

guys, michael jackson turns 50 today.

Such a down thread. What about all the cool stuff? The ability to go out without being carded? The extra salary you (probably) command? The heightened sex drive in women?

The ability to go out without being carded?

Hahah, I get carded all the time, trust me. I did get the extra salary, though, just the other day.

By "carded" you mean being asked for proof of age in a bar, right? That's never happened to me, even when I was 17/18. The extra salary though? Yeah, I'm, er... working on it...

I was carded for the first time on my 18th birthday and kicked out of the pub because they thought I had fake ID.

xxp Is that what we all have to look forward to? WAU.

The heightened sex drive in women?

The what now?

You are bang on your sexual peak ffs.

Tell that to my implanon implant *mutter*.

The heightened sex drive in women?

Yeah, I was going to ask about that one. Always assumed it was a myth to help women of a certain age get boyfriends.

The ability to go out without being carded?

on saturday i was at 7-11 picking up a 6 pack before a bbq. there were three cops in line behind me, when i got to the register there was a sign that says 'WE CARD ANYONE WHO APPEARS TO BE UNDER 40 YEARS OF AGE'. i did not get carded.

"14 YEAR OLD PASSES MEDICAL BOARD - KID DOCTOR CAN'T BUY BEER - CAN PRESCRIBE DRUGS"

No, it's that a woman reaches her sexual PEAK at age 39.

Peak != heightened sex drive, it's that sex is physically more enjoyable for older women. Supposedly.

Me, I can't remember.

(I think it has something to do with, like, multiple orgasms and the like.)

I hope so!

Ditto!

(also if 40yo women think they're sexually incredible their boyfriends will get some)

on saturday i was at 7-11 picking up a 6 pack before a bbq. there were three cops in line behind me, when i got to the register there was a sign that says 'WE CARD ANYONE WHO APPEARS TO BE UNDER 40 YEARS OF AGE'. i did not get carded.

-- chicago kevin, Sunday, 31 August 2008 02:29 (5 hours ago) Bookmark Link

This is getting silly now. Soon it'll be 'ANYONE WITHOUT A ZIMMER FRAME OR A COLOSTOMY BAG WILL BE CARDED'

"(also if 40yo women think they're sexually incredible their boyfriends will get some)"

I love this statement because where shall I begin to dismantle it. It's not like women get duped into thinking they are sexually incredible.

It's also not a situation of "women think they are sexy therefore men get to have sex with them."

The whole premise - that a woman "thinks" she is sexually incredible leads to someone "getting some" is really gross.

Well, I guess. I know I put out more when I'm duped into thinking I am sexually incredible.

I only ever think I'm lucky.

Well, cheers!
That's not the point.

the point is, we are all sexually incredible

or incredulous.

I give up.

It's also not a situation of "women think they are sexy therefore men get to have sex with them."

Have you ever tried to have a fully functioning love life with a woman who doesn't think she's sexy? It's fucking heartbreaking.

no. but like i say, I'm lucky. and happy.

and more than a bit drunk.

That's not what I meant!

"if 40yo women think they're sexually incredible their boyfriends will get some."

It just seems like a statement that is WRONG - because who is giving the 40yo women the thought and how is the thought validated?
I am never going to win this argument -mostly because I'm probably over reacting to a statement that was meant to be complimentary to women.

the more I think about it the more I sort of agree. With you guys.

Shit. Well, I will defer to my equals.

(also if 40yo women think they're sexually incredible their boyfriends will get some)

-- Autumn Almanac, Sunday, 31 August 2008 07:43 (2 hours ago) Bookmark Link

^^^^ was 100% joke. hth

I don't know what hth means.

hope this helps

(hth)