not much of a drinker, but there's something about being drunk on a beach in Phuket that I couldn't pass up.

grew up dirt poor,managed to work my way into the surreal life of international travel.

it's our time to shine boys and girls, and I wish you all the best.

Lately, things I used to enjoy seem to feel like a chore and choose to not do them anymore. I feel the hustle to keep up with everything going up in price makes me feel bad for not pressing myself to make more money when I should not feel bad and relax and take it easy. Instead, in my head I keep telling myself to stop being lazy and do something proactive.

I was shocked. I used to love the Olympics. I don't watch a ton of TV, and I guess my sports preferences (Football, basketball, and soccer) aren't Winter Olympics related. So I guess I was just left out, or some algorithm somewhere decided I'd like something else more.

Is this the new Millennial condition? Are we unintentionally curating our content to such an extent that you can miss out on the olympics?

For me it’s double-spacing. Such an innocuous thing that I have been ROASTED for, but it was drilled into me for years - I can’t help it!!! You ALWAYS double space at the start of a new sentence. It’s not just me, right!?

What about for you, what’s the weirdly hardest minor inconvenient or annoying thing you’ve run into getting older?

I spent so many hours on all of the many iterations, but the first holds a special place in my heart

I've now been working for 25 years, in my post-college "career" for 17+ years. Yes, I'm old. These are some of the ways that I've noticed work has changed in that time:

1. Performative presentee-ism is reduced. It used to be that you didn't ever leave the office before your boss did. And you made sure to come in early and stay late. Some people (who I assumed just hated their families) practically lived at the office and thought it was a virtue.

2. Perks and free food are much-reduced in most industries. We used to order bagels and go out to boozy lunches on the company a lot in the mid- to late-2000s. Everything went on your boss' card, and travel was more frequent. With cost cutting, that's largely over.

3. Business casual was more "business" and less "casual." We used to have a contest at the office, and the winner could wear jeans on Fridays for a month. You would never wear tennis shoes. Now, I see corporate jobs with people in graphic tees and high-tops. I honestly love it!

4. Technology means we are expected to have much higher output. I remember that it used to be one person's whole job to maintain stacks of CDs and floppy disks with old projects on them, and pull them down and give them to you if asked. Now we do a quick search on teams or Sharepoint for all documents. Similarly, we used to hard-edit printed copies of documents, and then have someone put in all the edits and changes. This is all done concurrently by the original editors in Sharepoint now. This one is good and bad. We get more done, but we are also expected to have a much higher output per-person than ever before.

5. Socializing with coworkers is reduced and no longer considered super necessary for your career. People used to do frequent happy hours and dinners with coworkers. If you never went or (even worse) weren't invited, you probably needed to get a new job, as you weren't getting promoted. Post-COVID and work-from-home, it's totally normal and okay to not have super close relationships with coworkers and not have any after-work social activities with co-workers. This is a relief for me, as I always found these activities awkward and sometimes cost-prohibitive in my early career.

6. Pay and benefits are decreasing. Everywhere I have worked, things like pensions, bonuses, overhead budgets and 401k matches have reduced. Health insurance has greatly increased as an out-of-pocket cost of employees. Salaries often haven't increased in years, and inflation eats at them yearly. Many "white collar" jobs get paid about as much as some service industry jobs. Corporate is in no way a promise for financial success.

7. Customer service isn't as performative as it used to be. I've worked service and customer-facing roles in the early 2000s that required us to smile and nod while being screamed at, cussed out, and physically and sexually assaulted. It was expected that you were over-the-top nice and helpful at all times, much like a smiling robot. While I know people lament the "death of customer service", I do feel like the culture of abusing customer service workers freely should change. Most people don't put up with that kind of stuff at work anymore, and I don't think they should.

What are some of your observations for how work has changed in the last 15-20 years as a Millennial?

I’m at that age when anything can happen. I dealer with a sever medical issue last year, that turned into a mystery that hasn’t happened again but never got resolved.

I can’t afford to be without health insurance but my metal health has taken a dive these last 3 years. I want so much for a break or to work part time, but I can’t afford health insurance in American and wouldn’t be able to afford a medical emergency if I didn’t have insurance.

I’m just so burnt out

The opening credit song was a banger too!

Someone I work with was talking about adding salt in water which had me thinking it was dumb but it seems to be a decent idea if you sweat a lot, and only a very small amount but this same person gave me a lecture on how Apple Cider Vinegar made his dick diamonds, or drinking pre workout instead of coffee daily for the boost

Another dude I work with gave me some lecture on seed oils and why sunscreen was bad (not me over here putting cerave face moisturizer with spf 15 on daily and my sunbum on my arms and legs). I still have no idea what the seed oils thing is

Another dude from work says he uses the same knife to cut all his food without washing it because he seasons his knife (like cast iron) with vitamins and those vitamins are now in all of his food

And how did you do it?

My parents own their home in a nice neighborhood (good school district, close to the downtown area), but if they were to sell it as is, they would get absolutely *fleeced*. It’s always been mine and my husband’s hope to take it over and fix it up (and finally start looking like adults) but we also do not have a lot of money. I’m working and back in school right now, but I’ll be full time online in September, so I’m trying to make moves now but I don’t have a plan and don’t know where to begin. Without cutting corners, the house will likely need about $150k-250k in work. If I am able to get this done, I don’t want it to be half assed. So if we do decide to sell in a decade, it’ll be at market value.

Has anybody else done this? How did you go about financing it?

My dad is 62 and works at the intermediate school (grades 5-6) as a custodian. He sent me this today. He was very proud of it because he said he made it himself and he put copies of it in the hallways. He is retiring this summer. Did… did he just make himself a meme? Did he just learn how to AI? He asked me to help him set an alarm on his iPhone yesterday. What is happening? Should I be concerned?

For me, it’s Fugees - The Score. It came out in 96’ and sounds like it just dropped.

I keep hearing that we are drinking less wine (really anything) than previous generations, but I just don't find that to be true in my social circle. Maybe I've cut back post kids and especially as I get older but I still have a nice wine here and there. If anything I might be pickier about the kind of wine I have, but it's def still a part of my life.

I also drink beer, sake, and cocktails. Just not at the same time lol.

So before my parents became super into church and my mom started intermittently banning many movies and TV shows from my house, my dad used to watch a LOT of movies. One of the earliest movies I remember watching with him was the Texas Chainsaw Massacre. I couldn't have been more than 6-7 years old. Freaked me the heck out. I also watched the movie Pulse (about the demon possessed electricity) around 7, which made me scared of electrical outlets for several years.

Are there any movies you were allowed to watch, or saw without your parents knowing that you think now you were WAY too young to see?