<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>I wonder if he’s satisfied.<\/p><\/div>\n
But let\u2019s talk about you now, my fellow aging Gen Xers, who are still stuck on the \u201cwhy me?\u201d loop. Most of you are fiercely smart. Too smart for your own good. It was great currency in your 20s, when having a low-paying job with cool cred was hot. Or you were working a McJob until your big break, when your indie-alt-grunge band \u201cCarpet Picnic\u201d (or whatever genius name it was then) was discovered, signed to Sub Pop, and changed the face of rock forever. Or you were working to Save The Children (or The World, or The Peppered Moth) in a non-profit organization — which made you a good person. Fine and dandy.<\/p>\n
But we\u2019re 15, 20 years on, guys. You didn\u2019t go into it for the money then. And you stuck with it. So why, oh why are you whining that there\u2019s no money now? \u201cHow did I get here?\u201d \u201cHow did this happen?\u201d Answer: Because it\u2019s what you chose<\/em>. You could change it any second. Get a broker\u2019s degree. Go into pharmaceutical sales. Not into selling out? Write the next blockbuster movie franchise that elevates the genre into the category of\u00a0 \u201cart\u201d. Just do something, anything, different. Differently. Or own it, take pride, be the best you can be at it. Or\u2026 choose to stop complaining. It\u2019s only your life we\u2019re talking about after all. Just how much of it do you want to spend complaining, regretting, lamenting \u2013 and annoying everyone around you in the process (while you still have their attention, that is)?<\/p>\nSure, there are some circumstances we definitely do not choose. Death of loved ones, layoffs at work, and other\u2019s behavior all come to mind. But whether we stay vs. go? Choice. To listen vs. ignore? Choice. Accept vs. change? Choice. Path of least resistance (and often, least reward) vs. challenge? Big choice. Big choice. Choose wisely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Raise your hand if you\u2019re tired of people old enough to know a thing or two by now (and I\u2019m talking to you, my fellow aging Gen Xers) complaining, lamenting, wondering: \u201chow did I get here?\u201d Not just in terms of their relationship, but their life: career, income, self-fulfillment. I used to do the same. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[496,498],"tags":[148,151,153,150,149,147,152],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myadultland.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myadultland.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myadultland.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myadultland.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myadultland.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/myadultland.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":397,"href":"https:\/\/myadultland.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions\/397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myadultland.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myadultland.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myadultland.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}