Poll of the Day > What does an average 27 year old person do?

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I mean I am so far out of touch with my own generation that I am making this thread on an irrelevant forum because I have no friends, and the only media I consume is similarly aged people making tens of thousands of dollars a year making videos because they can coherently string together a few sentences without looking like a complete idiot.

Like this thread.
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Live in houses that are not covered with dog shit, usually.
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Can you not shitpost for once?

Clearly I have nowhere else to ask this.

2016 has been the worst year of my life, I feel like every mistake I've made in the past has been coming back at me and there's no redeeming myself. I have nothing, and I feel like I am trapped.
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I was being deadass.
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Let's see:
- Work
- Socialise
- Fuck
- Reproduce(at some point)
- Eat
- Shit
- Watch/play media

Basically what any other adult does.

Judgmenl posted...

2016 has been the worst year of my life, I feel like every mistake I've made in the past has been coming back at me and there's no redeeming myself. I have nothing, and I feel like I am trapped.

Well you had 2017 to change that but apparently didn't. Maybe next year eh?
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Netflix and chill
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Work a job, go outside, talk to humans
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Jen0125 posted...

Live in houses that are not covered with dog shit, usually.

You know, that is probably the main difference between Judgmenl and myself, yet I am happy with my life and he isn't.

So I would say that is probably step 1.
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Avocado toast

Judgmenl posted...

Clearly I have nowhere else to ask this.

heres your first problem lmfao hahahah
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Post on PotD

I'm so out of touch that I still think it's 2016 lmfao.
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Blighboy posted...

Avocado toast

Did you get a new job yet?
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Seriously thoufh, you're just overcomplicating life. It's not that complex. Just try to get out and do things. Go to a local bar or music venue. Go to a nerdy thing like a video game tournament or anime thing if you're into that. And don't worry about being weird. I know plenty of weird people that have social lives

OhhhJa posted...

Just try to get out and do things.

I'm sure the TC knows by now that's the answer. It's been said enough in topics like this. He won't do any of this though so is stuck in a rut. I don't know what exactly he expecting.
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wwinterj25 posted...

OhhhJa posted...

Just try to get out and do things.

I'm sure the TC knows by now that's the answer. It's been said enough in topics like this. He won't do any of this though so is stuck in a rut. I don't know what exactly he expecting.

Well then I think the other thing I said applies. The thing about knowing weird as hell motherfuckers with social lives

OhhhJa posted...

Well then I think the other thing I said applies. The thing about knowing weird as hell motherfuckers with social lives

Gotta find these weird people first. :p
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Oh who even knows! Live your life. I have no idea what I was doing two years ago. I still don't know now. Adults are just kids who learned how to pretend they know what they're doing. We're all wandering around just hoping no one notices that we're faking it. You do you, man.

Buy some cocaine and do what the rest of millennials do.
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Miroku_of_Nite1 posted...

Buy some cocaine and do what the rest of millennials do.

You dont need cocaine to watch Netflix
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edededdy posted...

Judgmenl posted...

Clearly I have nowhere else to ask this.

heres your first problem lmfao hahahah

Lmfao!!!!

If your social anxiety is that bad go see a therapist and get some meds

OhhhJa posted...

If your social anxiety is that bad go see a therapist and get some meds

I keep on thinking of doing this, which is the most disturbing part of it tbh.
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Mead posted...

Miroku_of_Nite1 posted...

Buy some cocaine and do what the rest of millennials do.

You dont need cocaine to watch Netflix

not watching VHS and fucking
https://i.redd.it/gzo2d2rrgmex.jpg
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Tc, I have seen this same topic from you so many different times over the years that it's not even funny.

Dude, you take no one's advice. You have to actually do so ething different if you want to see a change in yourself.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
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Let's see: in 1973 I was married, one child, part-time in college finishing my B.A. with honors and applying to grad schools, working as a med tech at a hospital. About average for my peers, although most had stuck with college full-time and got their Bachelor's before I did. All working and raising kids.

Same for my children at that age: work, college, kids.
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Judgmenl posted...

OhhhJa posted...

If your social anxiety is that bad go see a therapist and get some meds

I keep on thinking of doing this, which is the most disturbing part of it tbh.

What? How is this disturbing?? People have been telling you to do this for years!
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Why do you never answer me when I ask about your job situation?
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At that age, I was in grad school.

2016 was a bad year for me, too.
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I mostly just had fun. I was carefree, to an extent.
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Give advice to people who will do nothing to improve the lives they complain about

It can't be that bad if you don't want anything to change.
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Judgmenl posted...

What does an average 27 year old person do?

Savor the fact that they're not yet 30.
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dancer62 posted...

Let's see: in 1973 I was married, one child, part-time in college finishing my B.A. with honors and applying to grad schools, working as a med tech at a hospital. About average for my peers, although most had stuck with college full-time and got their Bachelor's before I did. All working and raising kids.

That'd make you 71, wouldn't it?
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Judgmenl posted...

I mean I am so far out of touch with my own generation

Perhaps this can help:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qN5zw04WxCc
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Jen0125 posted...

Live in houses that are not covered with dog shit, usually.

l loled

All the poo particulates in the air of your home, they've gotten into your head, ok?
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trodi_911 posted...

dancer62 posted...

Let's see: in 1973 I was married, one child, part-time in college finishing my B.A. with honors and applying to grad schools, working as a med tech at a hospital. About average for my peers, although most had stuck with college full-time and got their Bachelor's before I did. All working and raising kids.

That'd make you 71, wouldn't it?

Yep, my youngest kid turns 40 this year.
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Smarkil posted...

Why do you never answer me when I ask about your job situation?

Maybe youre on ignore.
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Tbh, our generation is in a really weird situation for a variety of reasons. I'm the same age as you. We have a ton of people in our generation who never left their parents place because good jobs with livable wages are few and far between nowadays, and cost of living has never been higher. Even my wife and I still live with her family (we're currently working on getting a mortgage and will hopefully be moving out this year though). We are more successful than pretty much ANY of my friends, making over 6 figures between us.

Let me just break this down. The majority of my friends STILL live with their parents. Most who have their own place rent and are struggling to make ends meet. Many live with a partner or multiple friends just to be able to afford renting. I'm trying to think if I even know anyone around my age who owns a house / property. My wife's sister does but she's in her 30's. I have one friend who owns a house, but it's basically a trailer in a trailer park. Most of my friends have college / university degrees and are still not making a livable wage, even if they work in their field. Many of them don't work in their field. Many work dead end jobs and / or are forced to job hop often because there's very few decent employment opportunities available.

Previous generations are entirely out of touch with how to live in modern society, because most people of OUR generation don't even know how to do that. Everything nowadays is technology based, and older people with no tech skills are more of a liability oftentimes, than an asset, in the workplace. However, the older people are entrenched in most companies and try and concentrate as much money as possible near the top to these legacy employees who honestly add little or no value to a company. They do this while paying entry level employees the lowest possible wage and cutting as many benefits as they possibly can. They then blame these employees and everyone younger for every problem, even though they had nothing to do with most problems they get blamed for.

The members of past generations who didn't have really good jobs, or who didn't think to save for retirement are struggling to make ends meet too, often relying on their kids income to supplement their own. I have many friends whose parents are worse off than them and need their kid to live with them to help with bills. Basically, anyone in the middle class has very limited prospects in modern society. And as long as they stay in the middle class, they will never be able to make a livable wage.

My parents have always been extremely poor, and even they owned their own house by the time they were my age. I'm one of the most well off people I know in any of my friends groups and I don't even own property yet. It's just ridiculously expensive to live nowadays. This makes people seek some sort of escape, hence why the internet, meme culture, and escapism are entrenched in our modern society. People with nothing good and no prospects seek a brief lol to distract themselves from the reality of life.

TL;dr: everything is expensive, wages are low, there's no middle class anymore, everyone is depressed, previous generations are out of touch, and we get blamed for everything we have no control over.
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Judgmenl posted...

OhhhJa posted...

If your social anxiety is that bad go see a therapist and get some meds

I keep on thinking of doing this, which is the most disturbing part of it tbh.

Do it. Anxiety is a son of a bitch. It's just this bully that lives in your head. You need to be stronger than it. I'm sure people have said this before and it probably won't help now. It's something you need to figure out on your own. Take a chance. Each step gets easier after the first one.
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GameReviews posted...

TL;dr: everything is expensive, wages are low, there's no middle class anymore, everyone is depressed, previous generations are out of touch, and we get blamed for everything we have no control over.

That was a sad write up :(
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Play games.

dancer62 posted...

Yep, my youngest kid turns 40 this year.

Amazing.
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Jen0125 posted...

Live in houses that are not covered with dog shit, usually.

fucking rekt lmao
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I didn't buy my first house until I was 27, don't feel too bad. I did have a plan though and was taking steps to advance my plan every day, one of the reasons I have this old-ass gamefaqs account but only have around 5k karma is that I spend most of my time investing in my future.

I don't have a Twitter account, I don't have an Instagram, I only use Facebook to keep in touch with people I have met over the years. The hard truth is that if you want stuff these days you have to bust your ass because as others have said, the system is stacked against you and things are getting worse every day because the people who made it like that are constantly working in solidifying it.
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