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Ever have those "I feel old" moments in our career where you look up a new employee, or simply someone new you're working with, and see that you were already out of college by a dozen years when that person was finishing college? Nothing wrong with that all, I'm just finding myself in those situations more and more with new hires.
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https://theinfallibl…_niko - I feel like Clint in Gran Torino all the time.maquito
- Or that you finished high school before they were born!monospaced
- ^ Geez... Yes, I'm sure that's happened by now and I've just not noticed.mg33
- me too maquito, me tooOBBTKN
- ^ lol dude! I just clicked on your name and you got the fucking profile pic! Holy fuck!maquito
- I have never been. I hear friends talk of this on a quarterly. It's all in how you handle it. Really, just staying true to you...canoe
- by all means they shouldn't feel qualified to judge... it's not like a leap in aesthetic as it was from 80s, 90s, 20scanoe
- Happens a lot to me: I think, her parents might be my age when she was born after I graduated from high school (which goes until age 19 in Germany).SimonFFM
- I was doing some work recently at a financial startup... I have t-shirts older than most the staff there!dee-dubs
- other than the CEO.. although he was probably still younger than me.dee-dubs
- we have a pretty good age-range here, but i totally hear ya... there's plenty of younger folks here now that are SOOO young. fresh out of school etc.exador1
- actually, I'm getting an intern here next week. it's the son of one of my wife's friends from highschool... he's in university now and studying marketing..exador1
- I've known this boy and his little brother since they were babies... and now they're in their 20's etc... can't believe he'll be interning here with me lol...exador1
- On one hand, it does kinda make you feel old...on the other, it's pretty awesome to be helping out a family friend and helping get a kid started on the journeyexador1
- Oh come on SimonFFM... we're talking about office jobs, not your life of luxury shooting gorgeous women. :Dmg33
- But I can imagine that in your line of work that could be awkward, and I imagine the potential awkwardness helps keeps things 1,000% objective and professional.mg33
- Good thing, I am not speaking of interns. This topic was covered by another guy already.SimonFFM
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