Througout my life I've been dealing with people going, "When I was younger..." or "I remember a time when i was young..." my favourite though is "Back in my day we used to do things differently." The worst i find are people who know they are older, are upset about it but lie to everyone around them by sayng their ok with it. Yeah, when i was younger i had to swim three rivers, crawl a thirty miles on my belly and battle ravenous hungry tigers just to get to school. What is it with people and getting older that they have to feel upset about it? What difference does it make how old you are in this day and age? Fine, you can't do all those wild anc crazy things like you did when you were younger, and chances are that you can't anymore because well, you fucked yourself up so much first time around doing it.
Reason I'm bringing this up is that at the office i get all these old-timers who've been at the bank for years and they're all, "you're still new that's why u have so much energy...". Bull shit I say, pure, unadulterated male bovine manure. I have this energy cecause i want to... By the way yes, you are thirty, but dude, I'm just 3 years younger than you, three years is nothing. It'd be different if you were like fourty or fifty (not to put people in this age group down mind you). It's all in your thinking and state of mind. My dad's way over fifty, just touching sixty and do you know what he's doing to celebrate retiring? He's driving from London to Kuala Lumpur. A 75 day slog through central asia. What does that have to say about age and energy? Hell, he's even in the same line as you (and me) mate...
As for aptitude, age is no denominator for experience nor level or worth. I've met people in their early twenties who have it going on and are completely dependable when it comes to work. Their bright, their smart and they can do their job. Then again I've met people in their late fourties twenty years into their careers who are so completely gormless that useless doesn't even begin to describe them. Waste of space. The atoms they were made of could have been better put to use in a tea pot.
So my advice to you older folk out there is, if someone who's in the same payscale as you yet you are twenty years their senior, it doesn't mean that there's a problem with the system, it means that you've got to do some seious rethinking on where you're life is headed and get over it....
Boo ya kasha!
Reason I'm bringing this up is that at the office i get all these old-timers who've been at the bank for years and they're all, "you're still new that's why u have so much energy...". Bull shit I say, pure, unadulterated male bovine manure. I have this energy cecause i want to... By the way yes, you are thirty, but dude, I'm just 3 years younger than you, three years is nothing. It'd be different if you were like fourty or fifty (not to put people in this age group down mind you). It's all in your thinking and state of mind. My dad's way over fifty, just touching sixty and do you know what he's doing to celebrate retiring? He's driving from London to Kuala Lumpur. A 75 day slog through central asia. What does that have to say about age and energy? Hell, he's even in the same line as you (and me) mate...
As for aptitude, age is no denominator for experience nor level or worth. I've met people in their early twenties who have it going on and are completely dependable when it comes to work. Their bright, their smart and they can do their job. Then again I've met people in their late fourties twenty years into their careers who are so completely gormless that useless doesn't even begin to describe them. Waste of space. The atoms they were made of could have been better put to use in a tea pot.
So my advice to you older folk out there is, if someone who's in the same payscale as you yet you are twenty years their senior, it doesn't mean that there's a problem with the system, it means that you've got to do some seious rethinking on where you're life is headed and get over it....
Boo ya kasha!
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