When did you realise you were officially old?

On my 30th Birthday I got out of bed, sneezed and I literally injured my back and was walking around funny all day.

I realised at that point I'm now just waiting to perish
 
Junglist said:
On my 30th Birthday I got out of bed, sneezed and I literally injured my back and was walking around funny all day.

I realised at that point I'm now just waiting to perish
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Yeah I had this one a couple of years ago at I think 27. Bent over to scratch my shin before going to bed and felt something pop. Woke up the next day unable to stand up straight and had to shuffle around like a troglodyte and eat opiates to kill the pain
 
When my daughter told me what she wanted for her 18th next month.
And my GP telling me that at my age (43) I should be exercising more to avoid later problems.
 
I think I felt best I'd ever felt until 32.
When suddenly in the gym both my knees started hurting in a weird way.

Queue 2 years of pain in them.
In last couple Of months it's basically gone gone but I still don't quite feel 'invincible' anymore. But I do Feel very lucky to have a second chance.

Positives.
-It's taught me a lot. I don't care about my looks, I used to worry about my hair etc a lot.
-Try to make most of time I have going out kayaking etc, why I hate summers like this.
-Validated my decision not to have kids
-Made the move from England to Wales for hobbies. Wish I'd done it years ago

But yeah. Was the wake up call 'you aren't young forever'


For me health is the most important thing in life. When that's bad. It puts everything into perspective
 
Bassmansam said:
none of them doing a trade and/ or apprenticeship? Ridiclious the amount of people that go to university now
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I know. It’s scary to think how bad our skills shortage is becoming. I’ll let one off as they’re doing law and we’ll always need solicitors and barristers. What gets to me as well is there’s quite a lot of girls who are leaving and while they’re not going to uni, they’re going to college to do beauty, hair and nails. They’re bloody fascinated by it. I blame the modern reality TV culture we’re living in.

What happened to girls wanting to be nurses, midwives, police officers?

None of them realise that a proper skilled trade like sparkies or gas engineers has got more earning potential than most jobs you get after uni.
 
robfosters said:
I know. It’s scary to think how bad our skills shortage is becoming. I’ll let one off as they’re doing law and we’ll always need solicitors and barristers. What gets to me as well is there’s quite a lot of girls who are leaving and while they’re not going to uni, they’re going to college to do beauty, hair and nails. They’re bloody fascinated by it. I blame the modern reality TV culture we’re living in.

What happened to girls wanting to be nurses, midwives, police officers?

None of them realise that a proper skilled trade like sparkies or gas engineers has got more earning potential than most jobs you get after uni.
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I was surprised with how techy the world is to learn there's an IT skills shortage.
But when reading a random thread in the mobile phone forum with every kid wanting apple it hits home.

They have tech that just works. Seems people are less likely to fiddle around in thier PCs and break something. Oops. Need to fix that. I'll Learn.

It probably sounds 'old' to say it. But are we in for a real skill shortage soon? Is it YouTube? Is social media? Things change all the time. But we will really struggle going forwards if everyone wants to be a youtuber!

Kids are glued to screens so much now. It's not productive watching either. It's probably mostly 'funny' videos on Facebook etc
 
I felt old when people were out drinking that weren't even born in the 90s.

Being born in the 80s just seems obscene now. But I am enjoying getting older as its a good excuse to be boring whenever I want.
 
dirtychinchilla said:
Yeah I'm 31 and I couldn't work out whether or not I'd taken an antihistamine this morning, so I just took another one. What can you do?
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it gets worse through the 30`s, i still felt quite good early 30`s but late 30`s is a big change i thought.

you always get those who say they feel 21 when they are 50 or 60 but i think they really didnt make any use of their youth if they think that
 
I saw a picture of Arnie the other day and thought to myself "damn, he looks OLD". Then realized most of my childhood idols are well past their prime now too and it's only a matter of time until those same idols are at deaths door. Age catches everyone eventually.
 
dave28 said:
it gets worse through the 30`s, i still felt quite good early 30`s but late 30`s is a big change i thought.

you always get those who say they feel 21 when they are 50 or 60 but i think they really didnt make any use of their youth if they think that
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What do you mean didn't make use of their youth?
 
I kinda realised when I found I was the only person on the forum whose life is not entirely dependent upon having everything on my smartphone! :D

There have been times when I've thought the kid driving the car behind wasn't old enough to even have a licence... but his passenger, who was clearly the senior Constable, seemed alright with it.
 
robfosters said:
What gets to me as well is there’s quite a lot of girls who are leaving and while they’re not going to uni, they’re going to college to do beauty, hair and nails. They’re bloody fascinated by it. I blame the modern reality TV culture we’re living in.

What happened to girls wanting to be nurses, midwives, police officers?
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I blame parents also.
 
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