<p>Whoa...30 is old!</p>
<p>I think is becoming a little...pedantic. These are some interesting demographics, but why argue about who's arguing? And why are you so intense about this?</p>
<p>Some nice advice though.</p>
<p>I dunno, boredom?</p>
<p>That said, anyone under 30 thinks 30 is old, but fails to realize that most Americans change career tracks at least once in their lives.</p>
<p>The time spent between undergrad and grad school is a great opportunity to hone your skills into something marketable to not only graduate schools, but post-grad employers. Working three years for a branch of government may seem like a waste of time to those frantic 19 year-olds struggling with getting the perfect LSAT score, but to the rest of the world, it's a great way to make yourself a hotter commodity come application time.</p>
<p>I don't consider 30 to be old.. Where did I say I considered 30 to be old? A lot of my friends are 30.. heck, pretty much everyone I work with is over 30. I don't consider 40 to be old either. (Actually, on that note, my boss is over 50, and I hang out with him and his wife and their kids all the time... we're actually all going on a vacation together in June... and I don't consider them to be "old") All I said was that I (personally) don't want to be in college when I'm 30. :)</p>
<p>fendergirl,</p>
<p>I never said YOU did. However, as the poster before my last post said, "30 is old!!" To most, the notion of 30 is a huge leap in the ladder of age, and symbolic of the end of youth.</p>
<p>sorry, i thought you were referring to me :)</p>
<p>Sorry, it was a joke - didn't mean to mess up the debate dynamics.
From my perspective, 18 is old, and 20 is positively ancient.</p>
<p>I was reading an interesting Time article a few weeks ago about the emerging "young adult" phase that people seem to be going through before settling down after college. Thirty is the magic number at which point people consider themselves these days to be "grown up," although, traditionally, the number has been lower. Or so I've read.</p>
<p>This is very true. Most people in the "almost 30" age range are going to change career paths, meet their future spouse, maybe get married, and maybe go back to school.</p>
<p>Humans are living to be in their 80s, are retiring later, and doing more in their mid-life than they ever did before. Old is getting older.</p>
<p>who cares?</p>
<p>You should. This means that you can experiment more with your 20s and even 30s to find career options that better fit you as an individual.</p>
<p>ok... we all get the point. nice advice. thanks alot. argue some more plz.</p>
<p>No thanks. I have more pontificating to do.</p>