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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Herobizkit" data-source="post: 6236881" data-attributes="member: 36150">It's threads like this that make me, age 37, college graduate (at age 35) and pretty much one of those types of people that the OP complains about...... makes me want to kill myself.And I'm not even joking.The state of affairs with the world today, the job market, the hyper-focus on youth, the fact that my life's half over and I still have anything yet to show for it...Yeah.The only thing I can really add is that with the saturation of geek culture, it's now considered cool to extend your childhood well into you 40's AND in many cases make some profit from doing so.  Everyone can now self-publish, self-promote, and self-manage via the internet... but the internet is so saturated with self-works that it's getting nigh impossible to find the good talent among the mediocre.I live in New Brunswick, Canada, which is now officially the second poorest province in Canada (next to PEI).  More and more frequently, people are either pulling up stakes to move West (because that's where the jobs are) or getting knocked up early and doing the family/welfare thing.The retirees aren't as well off as they'd hoped, and my generation is going to be worse off.And this generation's birth rate (I think - I have no source) appears to be the lowest in decades.Barring a great famine, plague, or war to cull some of the population, there just aren't enough jobs for the amount of people we have.I apologize if this sounds a touch melodramatic, but just count me among the "immature" nearly 40-somethings who can't get his life together and has to hang onto a crappy job for decent-ish pay because he can't afford to do or go anywhere else.Thus endeth the sermon.</blockquote>

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