NYT Opinion Piece: This Isn’t What Millennial Middle Age Was Supposed To Look Like

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Anonymous wrote:I am 34 and I am NOT middle aged. F off.

If you go by the median age of death in US you most certainly are

Middle age starts at 36. The average lifespan in the United States is 72 years old. 36 + 36 = 72

You are almost middle aged right now. Wake up.

Sorry, people in their 30s are not middle aged. You are being a bit myopic and stubborn about this for some weird reason.

Uh by the time you are over 35 you are by definition entering middle age. Middle age is 35-55.

So now 35 is middle age? In your next post, you will say it is 30! Why can’t you just accept that most of society considers it to be over 40? It is does necessarily begin at half the age of the average life span. Why do you insist on arguing that people in their 30s are old? So weird.

American Psychological Society defines it at 36, pretty common to be that range. 40 is too late.

https://dictionary.apa.org/adulthood

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7203662/

You just won’t quit, will you? It doesn’t matter what a bunch of eggheads wrote in 1950. Most people consider it to be in the 40s.

Oh, they wrote it in 1980, over 40 years ago. 36 is no longer considered middle aged by most people.

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Anonymous wrote:I am 34 and I am NOT middle aged. F off.

If you go by the median age of death in US you most certainly are

Middle age starts at 36. The average lifespan in the United States is 72 years old. 36 + 36 = 72

You are almost middle aged right now. Wake up.

Sorry, people in their 30s are not middle aged. You are being a bit myopic and stubborn about this for some weird reason.

Uh by the time you are over 35 you are by definition entering middle age. Middle age is 35-55.

So now 35 is middle age? In your next post, you will say it is 30! Why can’t you just accept that most of society considers it to be over 40? It is does necessarily begin at half the age of the average life span. Why do you insist on arguing that people in their 30s are old? So weird.

American Psychological Society defines it at 36, pretty common to be that range. 40 is too late.

https://dictionary.apa.org/adulthood

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7203662/

You just won’t quit, will you? It doesn’t matter what a bunch of eggheads wrote in 1950. Most people consider it to be in the 40s.

Oh, they wrote it in 1980, over 40 years ago. 36 is no longer considered middle aged by most people.

Life expectancy is up since 1980, but on the decline and still doesn’t make midlife 40

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/nchs_press_releases/2022/20220831.htm

I think the most typical midlife crisis symptom of Millennials is the denial that they are middle aged.

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Anonymous wrote:I am 34 and I am NOT middle aged. F off.

If you go by the median age of death in US you most certainly are

Middle age starts at 36. The average lifespan in the United States is 72 years old. 36 + 36 = 72

You are almost middle aged right now. Wake up.

Sorry, people in their 30s are not middle aged. You are being a bit myopic and stubborn about this for some weird reason.

Uh by the time you are over 35 you are by definition entering middle age. Middle age is 35-55.

So now 35 is middle age? In your next post, you will say it is 30! Why can’t you just accept that most of society considers it to be over 40? It is does necessarily begin at half the age of the average life span. Why do you insist on arguing that people in their 30s are old? So weird.

American Psychological Society defines it at 36, pretty common to be that range. 40 is too late.

https://dictionary.apa.org/adulthood

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7203662/

You just won’t quit, will you? It doesn’t matter what a bunch of eggheads wrote in 1950. Most people consider it to be in the 40s.

Oh, they wrote it in 1980, over 40 years ago. 36 is no longer considered middle aged by most people.

Life expectancy is up since 1980, but on the decline and still doesn’t make midlife 40

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/nchs_press_releases/2022/20220831.htm

I think the most typical midlife crisis symptom of Millennials is the denial that they are middle aged.

Please stop. No one is buying it.

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Anonymous wrote:I want an answer to this question: when has there every been a better time for women, minorities and people are LGBTQ? I’ll wait.

Before colonialism and the global spread of Christianity?

Most practicing Christians these days aren't white and what makes you think the world was a more peaceful and kinder place before either Christianity or European colonialism? Pretty glad I wasn't alive during the rampages of the Mongol hordes or the never ending conflicts between Sunnis and Shias, or a Chinese peasant, or any peasant actually.

Times have never been better for people than today and I mean right now.

And you think the fact that most practicing Christians these days not being white isn’t tied in any way to….colonialism? Can you crack a history book please?

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A lot of millennials think they’re too good for where they grew up and never take the time to even visit their parents.

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Anonymous wrote:I am 34 and I am NOT middle aged. F off.

If you go by the median age of death in US you most certainly are

Middle age starts at 36. The average lifespan in the United States is 72 years old. 36 + 36 = 72

You are almost middle aged right now. Wake up.

Sorry, people in their 30s are not middle aged. You are being a bit myopic and stubborn about this for some weird reason.

Uh by the time you are over 35 you are by definition entering middle age. Middle age is 35-55.

So now 35 is middle age? In your next post, you will say it is 30! Why can’t you just accept that most of society considers it to be over 40? It is does necessarily begin at half the age of the average life span. Why do you insist on arguing that people in their 30s are old? So weird.

American Psychological Society defines it at 36, pretty common to be that range. 40 is too late.

https://dictionary.apa.org/adulthood

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7203662/

You just won’t quit, will you? It doesn’t matter what a bunch of eggheads wrote in 1950. Most people consider it to be in the 40s.

Oh, they wrote it in 1980, over 40 years ago. 36 is no longer considered middle aged by most people.

Life expectancy is up since 1980, but on the decline and still doesn’t make midlife 40

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/nchs_press_releases/2022/20220831.htm

I think the most typical midlife crisis symptom of Millennials is the denial that they are middle aged.

Please stop. No one is buying it.

Millennials: Refusing Adulting to the bitter end

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Anonymous wrote:As A Gen Xer, I am unsurprised that the millennial whining continues into middle age.

I’m a Gen Xer and you sound like a boomer.

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Anonymous wrote:I am 34 and I am NOT middle aged. F off.

If you go by the median age of death in US you most certainly are

Middle age starts at 36. The average lifespan in the United States is 72 years old. 36 + 36 = 72

You are almost middle aged right now. Wake up.

Sorry, people in their 30s are not middle aged. You are being a bit myopic and stubborn about this for some weird reason.

Uh by the time you are over 35 you are by definition entering middle age. Middle age is 35-55.

So now 35 is middle age? In your next post, you will say it is 30! Why can’t you just accept that most of society considers it to be over 40? It is does necessarily begin at half the age of the average life span. Why do you insist on arguing that people in their 30s are old? So weird.

American Psychological Society defines it at 36, pretty common to be that range. 40 is too late.

https://dictionary.apa.org/adulthood

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7203662/

You just won’t quit, will you? It doesn’t matter what a bunch of eggheads wrote in 1950. Most people consider it to be in the 40s.

Oh, they wrote it in 1980, over 40 years ago. 36 is no longer considered middle aged by most people.

Life expectancy is up since 1980, but on the decline and still doesn’t make midlife 40

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/nchs_press_releases/2022/20220831.htm

I think the most typical midlife crisis symptom of Millennials is the denial that they are middle aged.

Please stop. No one is buying it.

NP and I'm a millennial (37) and I agree with the PP that 36 is middle aged. I mean it's certainly not a young adult.

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Anonymous wrote:$15/hr PT is barely enough money for a teenager to cover extra curriculars and gas, let alone rent and food for a family.

They call it minimum wage for a reason. Who told you you should be able to afford rent and food for a family and non-public education on minimum wage?

Minimum wage is working poor/poverty level and it always has been.

Get some education get some skills.

FDR: https://publicpolicy.pepperdine.edu/blog/posts/what-did-fdr-mean-by-a-living-wage.htm

This is a different issue. What you’re describing is the evaporation of low skilled middle class manufacturing jobs, not minimum wage. OP seems to think they should be able to afford a nice lifestyle on minimum wage. The other thing that really hampers people who live in places like the rust belt and New England where manufacturing jobs have died out, is that they are often unwilling to relocate or retool to get different middle class jobs. Hence the high rates of alcoholism and opiate use in these areas. They are so deeply attached to community and geography at the expense of their survival.

Jesus Christ. I bet you’re still sitting there twiddling your thumbs, wondering why Trump won.

Why would I? If I understood this I also know why trump won.

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Anonymous wrote:I am 34 and I am NOT middle aged. F off.

If you go by the median age of death in US you most certainly are

Middle age starts at 36. The average lifespan in the United States is 72 years old. 36 + 36 = 72

You are almost middle aged right now. Wake up.

Sorry, people in their 30s are not middle aged. You are being a bit myopic and stubborn about this for some weird reason.

Uh by the time you are over 35 you are by definition entering middle age. Middle age is 35-55.

So now 35 is middle age? In your next post, you will say it is 30! Why can’t you just accept that most of society considers it to be over 40? It is does necessarily begin at half the age of the average life span. Why do you insist on arguing that people in their 30s are old? So weird.

American Psychological Society defines it at 36, pretty common to be that range. 40 is too late.

https://dictionary.apa.org/adulthood

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7203662/

You just won’t quit, will you? It doesn’t matter what a bunch of eggheads wrote in 1950. Most people consider it to be in the 40s.

Oh, they wrote it in 1980, over 40 years ago. 36 is no longer considered middle aged by most people.

Life expectancy is up since 1980, but on the decline and still doesn’t make midlife 40

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/nchs_press_releases/2022/20220831.htm

I think the most typical midlife crisis symptom of Millennials is the denial that they are middle aged.

Please stop. No one is buying it.

NP and I'm a millennial (37) and I agree with the PP that 36 is middle aged. I mean it's certainly not a young adult.

In my hometown, you could be a grandparent at 36. Have a kid at 18, and they have a kid at 18. Boom Nana in the house.

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Anonymous wrote:I am 34 and I am NOT middle aged. F off.

If you go by the median age of death in US you most certainly are

Middle age starts at 36. The average lifespan in the United States is 72 years old. 36 + 36 = 72

You are almost middle aged right now. Wake up.

Sorry, people in their 30s are not middle aged. You are being a bit myopic and stubborn about this for some weird reason.

Uh by the time you are over 35 you are by definition entering middle age. Middle age is 35-55.

So now 35 is middle age? In your next post, you will say it is 30! Why can’t you just accept that most of society considers it to be over 40? It is does necessarily begin at half the age of the average life span. Why do you insist on arguing that people in their 30s are old? So weird.

American Psychological Society defines it at 36, pretty common to be that range. 40 is too late.

https://dictionary.apa.org/adulthood

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7203662/

You just won’t quit, will you? It doesn’t matter what a bunch of eggheads wrote in 1950. Most people consider it to be in the 40s.

Oh, they wrote it in 1980, over 40 years ago. 36 is no longer considered middle aged by most people.

Life expectancy is up since 1980, but on the decline and still doesn’t make midlife 40

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/nchs_press_releases/2022/20220831.htm

I think the most typical midlife crisis symptom of Millennials is the denial that they are middle aged.

Please stop. No one is buying it.

Millennials: Refusing Adulting to the bitter end

Whomever you are: born old and boring

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Anonymous wrote:I am 34 and I am NOT middle aged. F off.

If you go by the median age of death in US you most certainly are

Middle age starts at 36. The average lifespan in the United States is 72 years old. 36 + 36 = 72

You are almost middle aged right now. Wake up.

Sorry, people in their 30s are not middle aged. You are being a bit myopic and stubborn about this for some weird reason.

Uh by the time you are over 35 you are by definition entering middle age. Middle age is 35-55.

So now 35 is middle age? In your next post, you will say it is 30! Why can’t you just accept that most of society considers it to be over 40? It is does necessarily begin at half the age of the average life span. Why do you insist on arguing that people in their 30s are old? So weird.

American Psychological Society defines it at 36, pretty common to be that range. 40 is too late.

https://dictionary.apa.org/adulthood

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7203662/

You just won’t quit, will you? It doesn’t matter what a bunch of eggheads wrote in 1950. Most people consider it to be in the 40s.

Oh, they wrote it in 1980, over 40 years ago. 36 is no longer considered middle aged by most people.

Life expectancy is up since 1980, but on the decline and still doesn’t make midlife 40

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/nchs_press_releases/2022/20220831.htm

I think the most typical midlife crisis symptom of Millennials is the denial that they are middle aged.

Please stop. No one is buying it.

Millennials: Refusing Adulting to the bitter end

Good for them. It’s better than being dull cookie-cutter conformist tools who can’t be distinguished from one another like some of the people on this thread.

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Anonymous wrote:I am 34 and I am NOT middle aged. F off.

If you go by the median age of death in US you most certainly are

Middle age starts at 36. The average lifespan in the United States is 72 years old. 36 + 36 = 72

You are almost middle aged right now. Wake up.

Sorry, people in their 30s are not middle aged. You are being a bit myopic and stubborn about this for some weird reason.

Uh by the time you are over 35 you are by definition entering middle age. Middle age is 35-55.

So now 35 is middle age? In your next post, you will say it is 30! Why can’t you just accept that most of society considers it to be over 40? It is does necessarily begin at half the age of the average life span. Why do you insist on arguing that people in their 30s are old? So weird.

American Psychological Society defines it at 36, pretty common to be that range. 40 is too late.

https://dictionary.apa.org/adulthood

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7203662/

You just won’t quit, will you? It doesn’t matter what a bunch of eggheads wrote in 1950. Most people consider it to be in the 40s.

Oh, they wrote it in 1980, over 40 years ago. 36 is no longer considered middle aged by most people.

Life expectancy is up since 1980, but on the decline and still doesn’t make midlife 40

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/nchs_press_releases/2022/20220831.htm

I think the most typical midlife crisis symptom of Millennials is the denial that they are middle aged.

Please stop. No one is buying it.

NP and I'm a millennial (37) and I agree with the PP that 36 is middle aged. I mean it's certainly not a young adult.

In my hometown, you could be a grandparent at 36. Have a kid at 18, and they have a kid at 18. Boom Nana in the house.

Paging Lauren Bobert back to the trailer park.

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Anonymous wrote:I am 34 and I am NOT middle aged. F off.

If you go by the median age of death in US you most certainly are

Middle age starts at 36. The average lifespan in the United States is 72 years old. 36 + 36 = 72

You are almost middle aged right now. Wake up.

Sorry, people in their 30s are not middle aged. You are being a bit myopic and stubborn about this for some weird reason.

Uh by the time you are over 35 you are by definition entering middle age. Middle age is 35-55.

So now 35 is middle age? In your next post, you will say it is 30! Why can’t you just accept that most of society considers it to be over 40? It is does necessarily begin at half the age of the average life span. Why do you insist on arguing that people in their 30s are old? So weird.

American Psychological Society defines it at 36, pretty common to be that range. 40 is too late.

https://dictionary.apa.org/adulthood

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7203662/

You just won’t quit, will you? It doesn’t matter what a bunch of eggheads wrote in 1950. Most people consider it to be in the 40s.

Oh, they wrote it in 1980, over 40 years ago. 36 is no longer considered middle aged by most people.

Life expectancy is up since 1980, but on the decline and still doesn’t make midlife 40

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/nchs_press_releases/2022/20220831.htm

I think the most typical midlife crisis symptom of Millennials is the denial that they are middle aged.

Please stop. No one is buying it.

Millennials: Refusing Adulting to the bitter end

Good for them. It’s better than being dull cookie-cutter conformist tools who can’t be distinguished from one another like some of the people on this thread.

Yes, taking responsibility for yourself and your family, you are too cool for that.

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Anonymous wrote:I am 34 and I am NOT middle aged. F off.

If you go by the median age of death in US you most certainly are

Middle age starts at 36. The average lifespan in the United States is 72 years old. 36 + 36 = 72

You are almost middle aged right now. Wake up.

Sorry, people in their 30s are not middle aged. You are being a bit myopic and stubborn about this for some weird reason.

Uh by the time you are over 35 you are by definition entering middle age. Middle age is 35-55.

So now 35 is middle age? In your next post, you will say it is 30! Why can’t you just accept that most of society considers it to be over 40? It is does necessarily begin at half the age of the average life span. Why do you insist on arguing that people in their 30s are old? So weird.

American Psychological Society defines it at 36, pretty common to be that range. 40 is too late.

https://dictionary.apa.org/adulthood

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7203662/

You just won’t quit, will you? It doesn’t matter what a bunch of eggheads wrote in 1950. Most people consider it to be in the 40s.

Oh, they wrote it in 1980, over 40 years ago. 36 is no longer considered middle aged by most people.

Life expectancy is up since 1980, but on the decline and still doesn’t make midlife 40

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/nchs_press_releases/2022/20220831.htm

I think the most typical midlife crisis symptom of Millennials is the denial that they are middle aged.

Please stop. No one is buying it.

Millennials: Refusing Adulting to the bitter end

Good for them. It’s better than being dull cookie-cutter conformist tools who can’t be distinguished from one another like some of the people on this thread.

Yes, taking responsibility for yourself and your family, you are too cool for that.

You can do this without being a tool.