Posted: 9/14/2017 12:03:23 PM EDT
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According to this study, it's 35.
http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20170913-is-this-the-age-we-lose-our-youth What’s the perfect age? For some it’s the carefree teenage years or time at university. But 35 may in fact be the pivotal turning point, both personally and professionally. Not only is 35 the age when we’re perceived to no longer be "young", according to a study from the University of Kent, but also when men reach "peak loneliness" and women hit "peak boring." And if that wasn’t bad enough, 35 is also the age at which we start hating our jobs, according to a survey of more than 2,000 UK employees by human resources company Robert Half. Research suggests it’s during your mid-thirties that family pressure and increased financial responsibility conflate causing problems both at work and home. Job security also becomes more of an issue. In the first quarter of 2017, UK workers aged 35-49 were twice as likely to be made redundant as those aged 25-34, according to data from the Office for National Statistics. Moreover, this group were less content at work than their younger peers, the Robert Half UK survey found. It revealed that one in six British workers over the age of 35 were unhappy in their job – more than double the figure for those under 35. Women who want to have children still face anxiety over their fertility post-35 although recent research suggests fertility doesn’t drop as sharply as once imagined. In the US, an increasing number of women are now postponing their first pregnancy well into their 30s to continue education and forge careers. The latest statistics from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggest that, for the first time in recorded history, women in their early 30s are now having more children than those in their 20s. “Previously people made definitive lifelong decisions in their early 20s, but today’s millennials are continuing to defer decisions,” says Jeste. “They’re getting married later in life, they’re having children later in life, and a lot of these stresses that once happened earlier in life are now happening in the 30s.” The good news? “The rest of your life is going to be happier,” says Jeste. Of course, ageing isn’t a glamorous affair but your mental health may improve as the decades pass “we know ourselves better, we make informed decisions and we tend to be less selfish,” Jeste says. “That’s the wisdom that comes with experience, which only comes from ageing.” |
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It's always relative.
I remember being four years old and thinking that nine was old. I developed presbyopia at age 42 and have worn bifocals since then. The AARP started sending me solicitations about six months before my 50th birthday, so at least they regard 50 as old. In February I will have my 60th birthday. A lot of people regard that as the threshold of old. My mom is 83 and still thinks of me as a kid. |
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I've been considered old since my mid 20s. I love the old man lifestyle. Leave me the fuck alone. |
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You are old when there is no one younger than you playing pro sports. |
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That one REALLY pissed me off, kind of like when they stopped carding me for alcohol purchases. Quoted:
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It's always relative. I remember being four years old and thinking that nine was old. I developed presbyopia at age 42 and have worn bifocals since then. The AARP started sending me solicitations about six months before my 50th birthday, so at least they regard 50 as old. In February I will have my 60th birthday. A lot of people regard that as the threshold of old. My mom is 83 and still thinks of me as a kid. |
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Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial-arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years. If my family was wiped out by Colombian drug dealers and I swore myself to revenge. If I got a fatal disease, had one year to live, and devoted it to wiping out street crime. If I just dropped out and devoted my life to being bad.
- Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash |
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shit I felt damn good at 35. liked my job, liked my life was dating a asian woman 10 years younger than me
at about 38 is when i noticed changes in myself. hair in places you usually think of as old, hair started to really fall out at a faster pave than it was. ulcers put me in the hospital. started pulling my back muscle more often now past 40 I mentally think of myself the same as when I was 18 but I can see the difference in my health big time . of course the crohns has a lot to do with that |