• Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de
    273·
    15 days ago

    Most of the Millenials I know have even already the scary 50 approaching from behind.

    But that’s some kind of observation bias, as I am GenX and interestingly know almost no people born between 1990 and 2000.

    But I know a bunch of GenZ again who currently look like deer with big, wide open eyes at the approaching headlights of the “30” truck, which imho is much worse than the 40…

      • Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de
        4·
        15 days ago

        As Gen-X, I can confirm that 30 is far more traumatic than 40.

        I totally agree.

        When turning 40, I had much to much going on (family stuff really taking up speed, buying own flat,…) that I didn’t give a shit.

        30 on the other hand, with me still without a long-term partnership and just continuing living my old student bachelor’s life, felt like a huge thing, triggering profound eleventh-hour-panic.

        I think that the dates have shifted as typical family foundation has moved from the late teens or early twenties to around 30.
        This also means that 50 might be the new 40 (A fact that I can confirm by now), marking a new phase in life as 40 maybe did in former times.

        • SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          2·
          15 days ago

          I remember seeing a research thing showing that mid to late 20s was the average time people started to get married. But keep in mind, that’s average. And as soon as you’re any flavor of queer or there’s conflict near you (like war) throw those numbers out the window.

          • Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de
            2·
            15 days ago

            Yes, especially wars also tend to seriously disturb family planning.

            My grandparents all were around 30 on my fathers side and even older on my mothers side when they became parents.
            Reason for that: WWII happened…

            Before and after the wars, numbers were significantly different. My mother was nineteen when I was born in the mid 70s. But that also was around the time when that started to change in our country, triggered by the more widespread availability of contraceptives and an increase of women’s education level.

        • DamnianWayne@lemmy.world
          1·
          15 days ago

          I have nothing going on in my late 30s. Feels like my life is stagnant. Can’t afford shit except to slave away to live paycheck to pay check.

          • Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de
            2·
            15 days ago

            That’s just the bloating in your stomach.
            When you turn 30, you develop this incredibly urge to start eating lots of beans, commonly marking the transition to being an old man with the obligatory old man habits.

              • Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de
                1·
                15 days ago

                As someone living in a country with an increasing overaging problem (current birthrate per woman: 1,35 children…), I see this happening in realtime, and I can tell you it is really not a good thing.

        • Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world
          5·
          15 days ago

          Found a strange, single, long hair growing off my chin the other day. I’m a woman in my mid-30s with no tendencies toward facial hair whatsoever.

          It reminded me of when I was working in a nursing home, and such hairs would just appear, already over an inch long, on patients’ faces. It was as if they sprouted overnight.

          It was a disturbing moment to find one on myself. But hey, it was still my natural color and the length made it easy to pluck. So, can’t complain. Yet.

          • SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
            4·
            15 days ago

            I’ve noticed there’s a thing where our brains filter out fine details, especially in mirrors. When I have a lot of time to pluck and want to try to get everything, you can sway left-right in the mirror to try to add a kind of dither, visually, and that helps see stuff you wouldn’t, otherwise. However, knowing this is terrifying because then you start seeing all kinds of stuff that other people probably see that you normally don’t and now I wanna die. So, use this knowledge with caution.

            That’s my theory for old people with sudden face hair. Not that it grows, but it’s hard to see.

      • Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de
        3·
        15 days ago

        I am now working at a place in our company that is prime starting point for a lot of university graduates. Most of them were born around 2000 and are now in their mid- to end twenties.
        So correct, I also know a couple of people born slightly before 2000, did some slight rounding there.

    • atomicbocks@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      15 days ago

      Well now at least you can say you know of me, I have 4 years left before 40.

      Those of us in the second half of millennial aren’t that different than the first half, the biggest difference is things like YouTube and Facebook were high school things for us instead of college things.

    • shuvit@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      15 days ago

      The graduating class of 2000 were the original millennials before it was used as a general term for an entire generation.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennials

      They coined the term in 1987, around the time children born in 1982 were entering kindergarten, and the media were first identifying their prospective link to the impending new millennium as the high school graduating class of 2000.[29]

    • Auli@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      15 days ago

      Sure whatever millennials are consider starting in 1981. So oldest is 45. But whatever they are all made up and mean nothing. Cause now they are starting micro generations.

      • Samsy@lemmy.ml
        1·
        15 days ago

        There are now several studies showing that generations rarely end precisely at one point and begin anew at another. In the case of Xennials, they do not identify with either the later Millennials or Generation X.

        • Auli@lemmy.caEnglish
          1·
          15 days ago

          No really a made up thing isn’t precise. There is no Xennials or that is the micro generations some are pushing. And come on the wealth of your family, where you are raised how you are raised are going to be bigger factors in how you grow up then your generation.

      • jballs@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        15 days ago

        My wife and I joke that once you hit 40, a random 40s ailment just just assigned to you. Well, just one if you’re lucky. I got assigned some nerve pain myself.

      • wjrii@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        15 days ago

        And the need for “progressives” for the nerds who already had their distance vision murdered by genetics and books.

        For the Z’ers, “books” are stacks of paper, typically glued together on one side, with a single audiobook or podcast transcribed onto them and displayed in a fixed font.

  • LavaPlanet@sh.itjust.works
    15·
    15 days ago

    Gen x’er here, weren’t y’all like starting things in 1981…wouldn’t that make you comingup on a different decade? (I’ll take my rotten tomatoes now, high velocity please)

    • bitjunkie@lemmy.world
      6·
      15 days ago

      My parents started referring to me as “middle-aged” when I was like 35 specifically because they knew it would drive me nuts. And with the current trajectory of American life expectancy, the math might actually bear them out.

  • Art3mis@lemmy.world
    10·
    15 days ago

    Oldest end of gen z, staring down the barrel of 30. Low key excited but still a lot to process lmao

        • The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldOPM
          3·
          15 days ago

          That’s a good idea too. I threw my back out once with the first one from rocking because I didn’t realize I was sort of compressing my spine to give my arms a break. It’s one of those things that doesn’t matter if you do it once, but over and over again, it sneaks up on you.

  • YeahIgotskills2@lemmy.world
    8·
    15 days ago

    Forty was fine. I didn’t feel old at all and was in a decent place mentally. I’m now 49, and I have a feeling 50 is going to be somewhat jarring. It just feels undeniably mature.

  • potoooooooo 🥔@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    15 days ago

    Leading up to my recent 40th, I went on a little tour of contacting people to tie up loose ends/seek closure where it was lacking. It was really helpful, even though at least one person worried I was planning to kill myself.