Is age 24 old? New to QLC.

[IdahoSports83]

Well, like many of you that are avid visitors of QLC, I am breezing through the twenty-somethings and in array of wonder, hope, stress, etc. in the pursuit of contentment.

Hope this incoherent rant is something you can identify with.

My 24th b-day is vastly approaching (10/17) and it seems that every year after the age of 21 is just one year closer to the cold release of death. I suppose I always looked at mid-to-late twenties as "old", having parents who had a 5 year old and 2 year old, house, and steady jobs at this age back in the 80's.

During college and high school you seldom think of the ages after 22, it seems. Once I got to 23 I started feeling like a total "has-been" while dealing with the inevitable fact that my youth is diminishing by the day. While 24 may be looked at as young by some, all in all, it sounds old. lol.

This outlook may be deemed to the fact I am around high school kids a bulk of the time. I cover high school sports for 3 different online medias and am an editor for another. Interviewing the kids and the high school environment in itself makes you think just how fast 6 years can fly on by. I mean, if I happen to take a double glance at an attractive HS girl, I quickly think to myself "Wow, have I become that older, creepy guy, that checks out the girls in High School? Is that normal? These girls were in 6th grade my senior year! Gross! Its quite an anomaly

I am a former athlete and coach at the high school and collegiate levels, as I got plugged in early in the coaching world. I felt I had my whole life to be a coach, so I got took a turn into prep sports journalism because, honestly, its the purest form of sports there is these days and I am not exactly the biggest hard-ass in the world (Especially to guys only 3 years younger).

I don't have a bachelor’s degree, but am a year away from attaining one. I went into a mode where I felt degrees were highly overrated because of the older people I knew who had theirs, weren't getting the jobs they aspired to. I am a 2002 graduate and I can say about 25% of the people in my age group have a degree. About 10% are actually in entry-level jobs of what they studied to be. Even the people who have bachelors need to go get their masters. It's almost as if a BA or BS is obsolete anymore, a lot like your standard high school diploma.

The reason I got the coaching and journalism jobs were solely due to the fact that I am good at networking and know a lot of people in their respective fields. I feel until I decide to get my degree, I will be working a standard 9-5'er (I am an Satellite/Internet Tech, also) along with my entry level career preference until the day I expire.

Right now, I have temporarily (and I stress TEMPORARY) staying with my folks' until I relocate to another part of the gem state (Idaho to the common folk) in January. I have 3 credit card bills, a car payment, insurance, and student loans staring me down every month. Funny how from age 18-22 in college with a sense of independence to find yourself in your parents' guest bedroom shortly thereafter. Wowza.

If anyone else out there can identify with me, I'd love to hear your reply.


IdahoSports83

[mchenrycruiser]

I am turning 27 on 10/18 and freaking out , i feel like a quarterLIFER cuz i dunno if things will ever change.I live in my parents house still and make 9 bucks an hour as a security guard.Im miserable .........i felt old at 24 but i really feel old now.....like a full fledged adult and its scary.

[obmen82]

Sometimes (quite often, to be honest :D ) I have the same thoughts.
In my own customized version, but they're basically the same.

I' m beginning to think that life around the 20s is like shopping in a big supermarket - from the outside it looks like an endless land of choices & opportunities, but once you enter the shop, you have to deal with many products. Some don't match your taste, some are too expensive or may not be worth their price. And many times, you won't find exactly what you want because it it is out of stock. In the end, you go to the checkout counter trying to make the best compromise between your wishes, your money, and what you have found.

You'll have always a bit of regret for when you still had your cash and your head full of wishes, but in the end you have to buy something in order to survive, even if it doesn't appeal you 100%.

I'm not an expert in poetry, but maybe that's a little part of the "still, sad music of humanity" that Wordsworth used to describe.

[sparky88]

My 24th b-day is vastly approaching (10/17) and it seems that every year after the age of 21 is just one year closer to the cold release of death. I suppose I always looked at mid-to-late twenties as "old", having parents who had a 5 year old and 2 year old, house, and steady jobs at this age back in the 80's.

I felt 'old' when I turned 24, but that was before I turned 25 (and almost 26)~ lol. But then again, until I entered the 'real world' (post-college) I always thought that anyone older than me by a few years was 'old'.

While 24 may be looked at as young by some, all in all, it sounds old. lol.

Anyone older than 24 will probably think that's young, anyone younger than 24 will probably think that's old.

I don't have a bachelor’s degree, but am a year away from attaining one. I went into a mode where I felt degrees were highly overrated because of the older people I knew who had theirs, weren't getting the jobs they aspired to. I am a 2002 graduate and I can say about 25% of the people in my age group have a degree. About 10% are actually in entry-level jobs of what they studied to be. Even the people who have bachelors need to go get their masters. It's almost as if a BA or BS is obsolete anymore, a lot like your standard high school diploma.

A BA or BS is not obsolete. Our company will not interview anyone without a 4 year degree.

[yankeeyosh]

A BA or BS is not obsolete. Our company will not interview anyone without a 4 year degree.

It's obsolete because it has become so ubiquitous in the professional world that a master's degree is becoming necessary (and I think that in many cases, that too is a worthless degree).

[old_school_soul]

I'm a couple of months away from 32 and I've never felt better. I think feeling old has a lot to do with how happy you are with the rest of your life.

[PenforPrez]

My 24th b-day is vastly approaching (10/17) and it seems that every year after the age of 21 is just one year closer to the cold release of death. I suppose I always looked at mid-to-late twenties as "old", having parents who had a 5 year old and 2 year old, house, and steady jobs at this age back in the 80's.

I'm 27 now. My father was probably making more at 27 than I am now. The sad thing is that my father was 27 years old in 1954. And he never went anywhere near a college until I graduated. :rolleyes:

I never really thought of mid-to-late twenties as old when I was younger. Then again, I've spent most of my life around much older people. Most of the women I find myself attracted to are in their mid-30's. Which is not nearly as old as it used to be.

During college and high school you seldom think of the ages after 22, it seems. Once I got to 23 I started feeling like a total "has-been" while dealing with the inevitable fact that my youth is diminishing by the day. While 24 may be looked at as young by some, all in all, it sounds old. lol.

Age is relative. I'm 27 and I'm older than hell. My father isn't all that old, per se, and he's 80. As far as octogenarians go, anyway. You don't see any of them listening to Ludacris. ;) But my father planted a vegetable garden last year, which takes a lot of strength and energy.

My grandfather was a man of immense physical strength until his death at 86. He's been dead now 16 years, but I vividly remember that. He was one hell of a mean old man. But he played the game his way. :)

This outlook may be deemed to the fact I am around high school kids a bulk of the time. I cover high school sports for 3 different online medias and am an editor for another. Interviewing the kids and the high school environment in itself makes you think just how fast 6 years can fly on by. I mean, if I happen to take a double glance at an attractive HS girl, I quickly think to myself "Wow, have I become that older, creepy guy, that checks out the girls in High School? Is that normal? These girls were in 6th grade my senior year! Gross! Its quite an anomaly

Think one word quietly to yourself: "Jailbait." ;) Or date women in their mid-30s. Both have pros and cons.

I'm an ex-quiz bowl player who spends a lot of time working the high school circuit, so I know what you're talking about. Most of them look at me like I'm an ancient relic. I won my fourth and last state championship in 1998, which is ancient history to most of them. ;)

I was recently disturbed by the thought that we now have high schoolers who were born during the Clinton administration. Oh Lord. :p

The reason I got the coaching and journalism jobs were solely due to the fact that I am good at networking and know a lot of people in their respective fields. I feel until I decide to get my degree, I will be working a standard 9-5'er (I am an Satellite/Internet Tech, also) along with my entry level career preference until the day I expire.

I'm increasingly worried about finding a career path. A friend recently described a 29 year old female of his acquaintance as "having no career" and therefore "going nowhere." That worries me. Now what was it somebody said about age being relative?

Right now, I have temporarily (and I stress TEMPORARY) staying with my folks' until I relocate to another part of the gem state (Idaho to the common folk) in January. I have 3 credit card bills, a car payment, insurance, and student loans staring me down every month. Funny how from age 18-22 in college with a sense of independence to find yourself in your parents' guest bedroom shortly thereafter. Wowza.

I've never moved OUT of my parents house. I stayed here to go to college because I could not have afforded it any other way. I didn't have a feeling of independence in college anyway; one set of overriding concerns was replaced by another.

Then I left college and had to pay long-delinquent bills on $5.40 an hour with a bachelors degree. That's a confining feeling of a whole other sort. Independence may be relative too, like age.

Hope this helps! :)

Paul

[bmy78]

Ask an 80-year old if they think 24 is an old age. Ask someone 12--you should get different answers.

It's all perspective. Did you think of yourself as "old" when you were 19? Or 17? My grandmother, of whom I always thought of as timeless, is 81. She is energetic and curious, keeps her mind active and is engaged in all sorts of activities. Right now she is on a 10-day vacation to Spain and Portugal. She doesn't worry about getting old, she doesn't worry about dying, even though some of her friends have passed on. If she does worry them, she doesn't tell me and definitely doesn't reflect it through her attitude.Sometimes I'm truly amazed at her age.

Anyone who's 25 and older will tell you 24 is not old at all. Anyone who is younger will envy your age. You are in a good spot. But most importantly, its all about attitude. If you think of yourself as young, you are young.

Well, like many of you that are avid visitors of QLC, I am breezing through the twenty-somethings and in array of wonder, hope, stress, etc. in the pursuit of contentment.

Hope this incoherent rant is something you can identify with.

My 24th b-day is vastly approaching (10/17) and it seems that every year after the age of 21 is just one year closer to the cold release of death. I suppose I always looked at mid-to-late twenties as "old", having parents who had a 5 year old and 2 year old, house, and steady jobs at this age back in the 80's.

During college and high school you seldom think of the ages after 22, it seems. Once I got to 23 I started feeling like a total "has-been" while dealing with the inevitable fact that my youth is diminishing by the day. While 24 may be looked at as young by some, all in all, it sounds old. lol.

This outlook may be deemed to the fact I am around high school kids a bulk of the time. I cover high school sports for 3 different online medias and am an editor for another. Interviewing the kids and the high school environment in itself makes you think just how fast 6 years can fly on by. I mean, if I happen to take a double glance at an attractive HS girl, I quickly think to myself "Wow, have I become that older, creepy guy, that checks out the girls in High School? Is that normal? These girls were in 6th grade my senior year! Gross! Its quite an anomaly

I am a former athlete and coach at the high school and collegiate levels, as I got plugged in early in the coaching world. I felt I had my whole life to be a coach, so I got took a turn into prep sports journalism because, honestly, its the purest form of sports there is these days and I am not exactly the biggest hard-ass in the world (Especially to guys only 3 years younger).

I don't have a bachelor’s degree, but am a year away from attaining one. I went into a mode where I felt degrees were highly overrated because of the older people I knew who had theirs, weren't getting the jobs they aspired to. I am a 2002 graduate and I can say about 25% of the people in my age group have a degree. About 10% are actually in entry-level jobs of what they studied to be. Even the people who have bachelors need to go get their masters. It's almost as if a BA or BS is obsolete anymore, a lot like your standard high school diploma.

The reason I got the coaching and journalism jobs were solely due to the fact that I am good at networking and know a lot of people in their respective fields. I feel until I decide to get my degree, I will be working a standard 9-5'er (I am an Satellite/Internet Tech, also) along with my entry level career preference until the day I expire.

Right now, I have temporarily (and I stress TEMPORARY) staying with my folks' until I relocate to another part of the gem state (Idaho to the common folk) in January. I have 3 credit card bills, a car payment, insurance, and student loans staring me down every month. Funny how from age 18-22 in college with a sense of independence to find yourself in your parents' guest bedroom shortly thereafter. Wowza.

If anyone else out there can identify with me, I'd love to hear your reply.


IdahoSports83

[april_in_autumn]

Sometimes (quite often, to be honest :D ) I have the same thoughts.
In my own customized version, but they're basically the same.

I' m beginning to think that life around the 20s is like shopping in a big supermarket - from the outside it looks like an endless land of choices & opportunities, but once you enter the shop, you have to deal with many products. Some don't match your taste, some are too expensive or may not be worth their price. And many times, you won't find exactly what you want because it it is out of stock. In the end, you go to the checkout counter trying to make the best compromise between your wishes, your money, and what you have found.

You'll have always a bit of regret for when you still had your cash and your head full of wishes, but in the end you have to buy something in order to survive, even if it doesn't appeal you 100%.


I like that idea. I've recently breen reading about how we go into this age and we feel like we have innumerable choices and that's exciting, until you realize each choice you makes limits your ability to make future choices - buy the rice? Well, forget ever eating Doritos again...

Choice is what makes this period of time so exciting and insanely scary.