Thank you for chiming in; I don't have the energy to compose my own top-level.
The OP is nowhere to be seen from my vantage point in achievements, but rather, I'm a stone's throw away from that one submitter last year whose circumstances and outlook were so crushingly bleak and who had absolutely nothing to their name.
I'm not going to pretend there isn't an ounce of "oh, poor me" here, but I think seeing it is crucial to understanding my outlook. I am the same age as OP, just weeks out from hitting 35. What they have in savings, I have less than a % in net worth. Also single, with no serious relationship for years (save for the fact that I've been talking to someone for the last some-odd months, we'll see where that goes). I have held jobs in small and big warehouses for mostly for 1-2 years each, for minimum wage.
No wife, kids, or residence to call my own.
Back at 30, I felt I had no future. How do I survive and live on?
Bearing in mind that question, something hit me (I don't know what exactly) when I then also asked myself: what if I pass on tomorrow?
I then started volunteering at the local women's center weekly (and have not been lately only because I finally have my first "real" job now as of a few months ago).
I'm reasonably fit, so I rose up the ranks (albeit still a temp in title) and ran the production lines at my warehouse jobs, sharing not only my sharpness through training people as oversee-ees but also all the warmth I have bottled up with each one of them as fellows I worked side-by-side with. Suddenly, it sucked a lot less to be stuck in my dead-end jobs. It wasn't hard to win people over when almost all the bosses and managers were being a bunch o' armchair dicks.
If I pass on tomorrow, I have already touched so many people and in turn enjoyed the blessings of having been touched back by every one of them.
The OP is nowhere to be seen from my vantage point in achievements, but rather, I'm a stone's throw away from that one submitter last year whose circumstances and outlook were so crushingly bleak and who had absolutely nothing to their name.
I'm not going to pretend there isn't an ounce of "oh, poor me" here, but I think seeing it is crucial to understanding my outlook. I am the same age as OP, just weeks out from hitting 35. What they have in savings, I have less than a % in net worth. Also single, with no serious relationship for years (save for the fact that I've been talking to someone for the last some-odd months, we'll see where that goes). I have held jobs in small and big warehouses for mostly for 1-2 years each, for minimum wage.
No wife, kids, or residence to call my own.
Back at 30, I felt I had no future. How do I survive and live on?
Bearing in mind that question, something hit me (I don't know what exactly) when I then also asked myself: what if I pass on tomorrow?
I then started volunteering at the local women's center weekly (and have not been lately only because I finally have my first "real" job now as of a few months ago).
I'm reasonably fit, so I rose up the ranks (albeit still a temp in title) and ran the production lines at my warehouse jobs, sharing not only my sharpness through training people as oversee-ees but also all the warmth I have bottled up with each one of them as fellows I worked side-by-side with. Suddenly, it sucked a lot less to be stuck in my dead-end jobs. It wasn't hard to win people over when almost all the bosses and managers were being a bunch o' armchair dicks.
If I pass on tomorrow, I have already touched so many people and in turn enjoyed the blessings of having been touched back by every one of them.