50 Not Out.

[Valmy]

I have set certain goals to reach by the time I turn 40 in 2017.  That is pretty much the only reason that milestone means alot.  If I make it, it will be one triumphant feeling.

What are your 40 goals (if you don't mind sharing)?

1. Finish my EE degree
2. Get an EE job in my city
3. Have a 3rd baby
4. Buy a new house

[Ed Anger]

I celebrated my 21st birthday by working a third shift at a big box store.  That was a depressing milestone.

I had proposed to CB a week before my 40th birthday and moved to Florida a few months before that.  That was a period of change for me, but change for the better.   

Try working in a K-Mart electronics/TV section. 

[Admiral Yi]

21 was less of a big deal for me because DC had recently raised the drinking age to 21 but I was grandfathered in at 18.

[Savonarola]

I celebrated my 21st birthday by working a third shift at a big box store.  That was a depressing milestone.

Try working in a K-Mart electronics/TV section. 

I worked at the furniture section at a Meijer.  There aren't many people who come into the store after about 9 at night, but the ones who did were... different.  Some were eager to tell their life stories to lowly store clerks; others were eager to masturbate all over the Barbies. 

[Ed Anger]

Ahh, Meijers. Not a bad place to pick up college chicks in the wine section.

[KRonn]

I don't think I ever really got depressed over birthdays as I got older, or as I hit milestones like 30, 40, etc. I expected that I should feel depressed but it never really happened. Probably turning 30 was the most significant number because it seemed to signal the beginning of the end of youth, the beginning of getting older.

Yes, same for me.

I'm 57 later this month, most of the future milestones are pretty cool and involve getting pensions, senior discounts and so on.

I am so glad that I planned pretty well, or well enough, on when I'd be retiring, which will be in a few years or likely less. Else with little or no IRAs or savings it would look pretty bleak. For anyone youngish here try and start saving. Retirement age will be there soon enough even though your 60s age seems so far away.

[Valmy]

I would love to save but I have debts to pay first 

I am putting money away in my pension though.

[Admiral Yi]

I would love to save but I have debts to pay first 

I am putting money away in my pension though.

Same thing.

[Savonarola]

1. Finish my EE degree
2. Get an EE job in my city
3. Have a 3rd baby
4. Buy a new house

Good goals all around; how close are you to being done with your EE degree?

[Valmy]

1. Finish my EE degree
2. Get an EE job in my city
3. Have a 3rd baby
4. Buy a new house

Good goals all around; how close are you to being done with your EE degree?

I will be finished December 2014 (I will be 37).  One year to go!  Senior project starts next semester I have to design and actually build something.  I presume it also has to work.  Scary.

[Savonarola]

Ahh, Meijers. Not a bad place to pick up college chicks in the wine section.

Heh, I thought only Michiganders put the invisible "s" at the end of Meijer.  (We do that for Fords, Strohs, Labatts, K-Marts and Walmarts as well.)

[Savonarola]

I will be finished December 2014 (I will be 37).  One year to go!  Senior project starts next semester I have to design and actually build something.  I presume it also has to work.  Scary.

Just say you'll fix it in production if it doesn't.   

My own free (and worth every penny) advice is take the FE exam now while undergraduate engineering is still fresh.  I took it several years after graduating and had to relearn how to do basic things like balance chemical equations.

[CountDeMoney]

1. Finish my EE degree
2. Get an EE job in my city
3. Have a 3rd baby
4. Buy a new house

I always find it easier when it comes to lists, wait a while then take another look at it and edit it to achievable, realistic and tangible goals, like so:

1. Finish my EE degree
2. Get an EE job in my city
3. Have a 3rd baby
4. Buy a new house

That way, disappointment is reduced.

[derspiess]

Ahh, Meijers. Not a bad place to pick up college chicks in the wine section.

Heh, I thought only Michiganders put the invisible "s" at the end of Meijer.  (We do that for Fords, Strohs, Labatts, K-Marts and Walmarts as well.)

No, that's alive & well here in Southwest Ohio as well

[mongers]

I don't think I ever really got depressed over birthdays as I got older, or as I hit milestones like 30, 40, etc. I expected that I should feel depressed but it never really happened. Probably turning 30 was the most significant number because it seemed to signal the beginning of the end of youth, the beginning of getting older.

I prefer those sort of things to pass quietly, without anyone making too much of a fuss. 

Yeah, and I'd echo what Tricky said, there Are good things to look forward to as you get older, free bus passes.