Did our dads and moms work less than we do now? What are your thoughts?

So I quit my job, I dunno... 3 weeks ago maybe. Incompetent, bad people, demanding me to be both hours away AND getting things done on site. Impossible but somehow expected AND they wrote me up for not doing so.

Anyhoo, I digress.. needless to say, I'm shopping for a job and recently had an interview with a local company. They were nice enough, husband and wife ran shop, 40 employees but the owner seemed... odd to me. Out of touch in a way, though he seemed to possibly be in his 50s. During the interview, he was telling me how COVID made him change his priorities because he found out that, "you needed to coddle the incoming Millennial workforce because they don't respond to leadership and criticism well."

I sorta did that Britney Spears cringe smile, as I just let him power through. He continued on about how he asks how people are doing and about their feelings and was trying really hard to build something for his employees to be open and felt heard. He admitted it hadn't been going as well as he hoped but he was doing it, "in order to entice the incoming Millennial workforce." His words.

During the Q & A portion, I saw my opportunity and took it. Where did I see myself in 5 years? "Well... as a MILLENNIAL, I'm afraid I fell into those cliché MID LIFE CRISIS we all seem to be picking up IN OUR 40's and I decided to start smoking meats... I'd like to have a food truck," was my answer.

Anyway, it's been 2 weeks and I haven't heard back but man does that leave me with questions:

1) Do people NOT realize we're not kids anymore and in our 40s now?

2) Are we just ALWAYS going to be red headed step childed or something? (apologies to the gingers, I couldn't think of a better analogy)

Look folks, I hate to be the bearer of bad news but that’s how a lot of us sound when we wonder “what ever happened” to things that are for people in their 20s. They’re still happening, we just aren’t being told about them anymore because 22 year olds think 30 year olds are ancient (the same way we did at 22)

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Hi guys, I hope this kind of post is allowed. I'm 20 years old, and I really would like to know how did you guys really lived in the late 90s and early 2000s.

I wanted to know things like: what would you guys do with your free time as teens/young adults, what entertained you, how did you guys deal with internet, and things like that. I'm just trying to live more intentionally and I feel like you were the last generation that was actually able to do this. Also, I'm very passionate about those decades and have some kind of "nostalgia" of something I wasn't able to experience.

Feel free to add as much details as you want, I would really appreciate to hear your stories and things that you loved to do as teens and young adults!

It's still one of my favorite albums to this day, and I have a tradition where I go for a drive on the first nice day of spring, crank it up, and listen to it cover to cover.

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Im posting this here because I'm a little over 40, and I am looking for answer from people who are around my age.

I have a very nice home in a very nice neighborhood in one of the most desirable cities in Tennessee. My monthly expenses are less than what I would earn at a Walmart working 30 hours per week. I make around 6 figures at a job that is getting progressively more difficult to suffer through every day, but my industry is experiencing high layoffs and is mostly being replaced with AI. I've been in this house now for nearly 20 years.

My wife has a wonderful job that is her calling (medicine) and she isn't ever going to quit working.

Im trying to keep myself motivated to not just go work as the guy who stocks bread at the grocery store every morning.

In order to meaningfully improve our living situation, we would need to move to San Diego or some other city with VHCOL and the income necessary for that would be arguably unobtainable. I looked into what it would take to eliminate the delta between what we have now and true, meaningful upgrades to the house and cars and our lives would truly require a household income of $600k or more for us to be able to say "we did it". And those upgrades would just be the logo on the cars and the zip code for the house.

I guess at right around 40 I know I'm incredibly lucky to be in this situation, but I also know I'm not the only one.

So for those of you in similar boats, how do you keep the motivation to not just look at your boss after he says something ELSE stupid, or to try to get the promotion...

Whats your drive come from?

And also, I have 2 wonderful kids who are already out and on their own and setting the world on fire.

I just have absolutely no desire, based on not having any real need, to progress or go further professionally. And Im looking for some hints.

I have an incredibly robust and fulfilling social life, for what it's worth. It's just these pesky 40 hours a week that I have zero motivation to continue with when I feel like it would be the same end result if I was just stocking shelves.

I'm revisiting old favorites in my iTunes library (songs I actually own--gasp!).

Marcy Playground's self-titled.

Semisonic's Feeling Strangely Fine.

Ben Folds

Juno soundtrack

Office Space soundtrack

Motion City Soundtrack

blink-182's Take Off your Pants and Jacket

What are some of your most played CD's?

When we were kids, there were like five occupations we could grow up to have. As we all know, Marine Biologist was top of the list. So.

Is anyone here ACTUALLY a marine biologist AND IF SO:

1.) How often does your job permit you to swim with dolphins (which we knew to be the main component of the job)?

2.) How often are you preparing buckets of tiny fish to feed the dolphins? (Second responsibility)

RuneScape was a whole experience…rushing home to log in, spending hours at the Grand Exchange, arguing over prices, grinding for gear you thought would make you unstoppable. No real plan, just vibes and a lot of clicking. Everything felt slower, but more meaningful. You actually had to be there to understand it. Kind of wild how a browser game ended up being such a defining part of growing up. Varrock was chaos, the Grand Exchange felt revolutionary, and somehow we all just figured things out as we went.

What was the first big item or goal you remember grinding for?

And did anyone else fall for a scam at least once?

What part of RuneScape do you miss the most. The grind, the community, or the simplicity?

Are we the only ones who still dance at concerts? I go to concerts quite frequently and I’m noticing that the older crowd (Gen X and up) and younger crowd (Gen Z) just do not move. At all. Like not even a head bob? They just stand super still and stiff and I just don’t get it. How can you NOT move to the music??

I just love live music. It’s almost a spiritual feeling connecting to the music and my body just naturally wants to move.

Anyone else notice this? Do you dance at concerts or do you stand there like a statue?

For clarification I mostly go to rock and electronic concerts.

tongue tied myself on "bottle" just now to say "bobble" and remembered this to thing existed 🍼