Describe the most difficult thing about being your age.
If I want to be completely honest, I really like being in my 30s. I was a “good enough for a B” high school and college student, which got me pretty far because most people don’t even give that much effort, but that approach also left me feeling like I was never good enough because I never really tried my absolute best. As I’ve matured, I’ve acquired the drive and energy to put full effort into my professional life. I owe a lot of this to my students-- in college, it was easy to face a professor after putting in “B” effort…. It’s A LOT harder to stand toe to toe with a teenager and try to justify giving anything less than 100% to my role in their education particularly because I’m actually paid to do just that. Several years of hard work is really starting to pay off professionally-- I’ve recently been promoted and am about to start work on a post-graduate degree.
All that being said, life isn’t all jelly beans. Real-talk: the hardest thing about being my age is deciding whether or not to have children. Kids seem like A LOT of work, and I do so much work at work-- work I really like-- that I can’t imagine adding something like the monstrous responsibility of another human’s life to my already packed schedule. However, as much as I love my job, my job isn’t going to bring grandkids over on Christmas morning 30 years from now, and my job isn’t going to take care of me when I’m a grumpy old lady. So…. Therein lays the difficulty of my age.
If I want to be completely honest, I really like being in my 30s. I was a “good enough for a B” high school and college student, which got me pretty far because most people don’t even give that much effort, but that approach also left me feeling like I was never good enough because I never really tried my absolute best. As I’ve matured, I’ve acquired the drive and energy to put full effort into my professional life. I owe a lot of this to my students-- in college, it was easy to face a professor after putting in “B” effort…. It’s A LOT harder to stand toe to toe with a teenager and try to justify giving anything less than 100% to my role in their education particularly because I’m actually paid to do just that. Several years of hard work is really starting to pay off professionally-- I’ve recently been promoted and am about to start work on a post-graduate degree.
All that being said, life isn’t all jelly beans. Real-talk: the hardest thing about being my age is deciding whether or not to have children. Kids seem like A LOT of work, and I do so much work at work-- work I really like-- that I can’t imagine adding something like the monstrous responsibility of another human’s life to my already packed schedule. However, as much as I love my job, my job isn’t going to bring grandkids over on Christmas morning 30 years from now, and my job isn’t going to take care of me when I’m a grumpy old lady. So…. Therein lays the difficulty of my age.