I'm almost 35 and not a porn star.

Why does reality have to walk all over my dreams every chance it gets?
 
But seriously, are you were you expected to be in life at this point? Have you let yourself down?
 
Financially I'm okay but I'm not where I thought I would be as far as marriage (I'm divorced) and children (have none). I officially hit middle-age in a few weeks and self-doubt and regret is driving me mad.
 
Tell me your woes so I have someone to laugh at.

Middle-age is like 40's-50's....

Go back to school and pursue a career that will satisfy you?

" Middle-age is like 40's-50's.... "

I'm 20 and have spread myself so thin in terms of interests and time that I don't really excel enough in one area to make a career out of it. Except hopefully video game design and writing, which is an incredibly competitive field.
 
Was that what you wanted?

" Go back to school and pursue a career that will satisfy you? "

Don't worry dude. I heard the legal age limit to be in porns is 18-40. You have 5 more years. Go get em.

" @jNerd said:

" Middle-age is like 40's-50's.... "

35x2=65 and I don't want to get so old I can't wipe my own ass. "

Move to Miami and then go to 8th street. I'm pretty sure none of the studios care how old you are as long as you are willing to get naked.

" @Fajita_Jim said:

" @jNerd said:

" Middle-age is like 40's-50's.... "

35x2=65 and I don't want to get so old I can't wipe my own ass. "

Hrm...is this a subtle humorous jab at old-age and its side-effects, or...? "

" @jNerd said:

" Middle-age is like 40's-50's.... "

35x2=65 and I don't want to get so old I can't wipe my own ass. "

" @jukezypoo said:

" @Fajita_Jim said:

" @jNerd said:

" Middle-age is like 40's-50's.... "

35x2=65 and I don't want to get so old I can't wipe my own ass. "

Hrm...is this a subtle humorous jab at old-age and its side-effects, or...? "

I don't want to be so old I have to rely on other people. Let me die while I still have some dignity. Death isn't bad it's just the getting dead part that sucks. "

" @Fajita_Jim said:

" @jukezypoo said:

" @Fajita_Jim said:

" @jNerd said:

" Middle-age is like 40's-50's.... "

35x2=65 and I don't want to get so old I can't wipe my own ass. "

Hrm...is this a subtle humorous jab at old-age and its side-effects, or...? "

I don't want to be so old I have to rely on other people. Let me die while I still have some dignity. Death isn't bad it's just the getting dead part that sucks. "

He meant the fact that 35 x 2 is 70, not 65. "

I'm eleven years older than you and when I'm on the internet, I can usually be found on Giant Bomb. How sad is that? Oh and I'm unemployed. I win!!!

Dude, 35 is young. Just think, if you're at middle-age, then you still get to live as much time as you have already lived again! You have tons of time! 

" @jukezypoo said:

" @Fajita_Jim said:

" @jNerd said:

" Middle-age is like 40's-50's.... "

35x2=65 and I don't want to get so old I can't wipe my own ass. "

Hrm...is this a subtle humorous jab at old-age and its side-effects, or...? "

I don't want to be so old I have to rely on other people. Let me die while I still have some dignity. Death isn't bad it's just the getting dead part that sucks. "

" Dude, 35 is young. Just think, if you're at middle-age, then you still get to live as much time as you have already lived again! You have tons of time!  "

" I'm eleven years older than you and when I'm on the internet, I can usually be found on Giant Bomb. How sad is that? Oh and I'm unemployed. I win!!! "

" @Claude said:

" I'm eleven years older than you and when I'm on the internet, I can usually be found on Giant Bomb. How sad is that? Oh and I'm unemployed. I win!!! "

So have you picked a burial plot yet? Any good deals out there? "

You only live once. If you want to do porn take some of your money and make a porno movie then sell it. If you to get married order a bride from Slovakia, they'll be so happy to be in America that they'll do whatever you want. If you want kids, get a Rottweiler, and name him baby. Then use him to pick up women. Then use these women (it's the plural form for a reason) for breeding purposes. Then disappear with Baby into Siberia, where you will eck out a meager existence being a professional vodka drinker. Eventually you will die and be frozen, only to be resurrected 800 years in the future where you find that the earth is in an almost Utopian state. The only problem preventing a total paradise on earth is the fact that they need a gene you carry in order to fend off a horrible disease. For the good of humanity you will have to breed with many women and spread the gene. (If they say they can do gene transplants ignore them, saying you will only pass the gene in the ancient ceremonial right of breeding) You could charge massive amounts of money for the breeding ritual and become super rich, but you'd be an asshole. 

Yeah, I pretty much expected that, at 17, school would still bring me daily suffering.

" @Fajita_Jim said:

" @Claude said:

" I'm eleven years older than you and when I'm on the internet, I can usually be found on Giant Bomb. How sad is that? Oh and I'm unemployed. I win!!! "

So have you picked a burial plot yet? Any good deals out there? "

Hell no, I want to be cremated and my ashes spread on the internet. Is that possible? "

I had hoped by the time i was 18 i'd be living in London supporting myself and doing  loads of cool things. 
as it stands i'm 18 now, stuck at home still, teaching music to kids so i can afford to go to uni by the start of next year. 
i feel very old right now. and like i'm missing out.

I'm a college student at the age of 21, that's about exactly where I expected to be.  However, I let myself down my first year when I lost my biggest scholarship, but luckily I haven't had to resort to loans just yet.  I'm hoping to finish on time so I can avoid any loans, but it looks like I may have to stay one extra semester, not sure how much some scholarships might soften that blow, but I won't have all of the one's I've been relying on for these past two and a half years.

I'm 24 and I work at a damned factory. I thought I would've been in college and geting laid by now.
 
 
GUESS WHOSE THE FAILURE IN THIS PICTURE?!

 Heh , you want laughs , im 28 , used to own a house , now I do not , dont have a job , never had a girlfriend , never have had sex , actually never have kissed a girl , still living with my mother  , no friends whatsoever , overweight (obese a bit) had have already a heart operation  at age 7  , when I was born I had an hernia from which I still bear the scars through my belly , my father , the coolest dude I have ever known killed himself 8 years ago , hopeless in life and misanthropic and all I have to look for too this year is the release of Mass Effect 3 .... pathetic enough??? 

If you have a specific set of skills you know you have, learn to use them. The more you learn, the richer you become through the process.
 
These "My life sucks" pissing contest threads always pop up in GB about every two months or so.  But it's something I've realized. You may think your life sucks and you have accomplished nothing in your life, when in reality you have accomplished more than you realize, there's always somebody is having worst than you. Most of these people don't want your pity. They need help. Whether it's financial or psychiatric is decided upon a case by case basis. Don't be so self engulfed in a damned pity party that you don't realize the people suffering the worst are around you in life. Someone here once said that life is an endurance run. The more years of my life I go through, the more I realize that those words are truer than anything else.   If you feel stuck in a rut or something, talk to a friend or a family member. Do something to break up the monotony of life. Variety is the spice of life.

" @Aetheldod: Mass Effect 3 is probably going to be awesome, though. So don't beat yourself up too much!^^ "

My Great Grandmother is still kickin' at 83 and still works a normal work week. It just depends on the person how long they last.

 I was 31 when I had my first child and 34 when my second arrived.    My wife is 5 years older then me so do the math.   Thinking it's too late for you to find love and enjoy the experience of fatherhood is simply false.   To many time's I see people down on themselves because they haven't reached there vision of a successful life.     Success to me is measured on if you can see your faults and try to do something meaningful about them.    Everyones life can improve it's just a matter of how much work you want to do to make it happen sucky fact of life but it's true.  

"  I was 31 when I had my first child and 34 when my second arrived.    My wife is 5 years older then me so do the math.   Thinking it's too late for you to find love and enjoy the experience of fatherhood is simply false.   To many time's I see people down on themselves because they haven't reached there vision of a successful life.     Success to me is measured on if you can see your faults and try to do something meaningful about them.    Everyones life can improve it's just a matter of how much work you want to do to make it happen sucky fact of life but it's true.   "

" @jNerd said:

" Middle-age is like 40's-50's.... "

35x2=65 and I don't want to get so old I can't wipe my own ass. "

" If you have a specific set of skills you know you have, learn to use them. The more you learn, the richer you become through the process.  These "My life sucks" pissing contest threads always pop up in GB about every two months or so.  But it's something I've realized. You may think your life sucks and you have accomplished nothing in your life, when in reality you have accomplished more than you realize, there's always somebody is having worst than you. Most of these people don't want your pity. They need help. Whether it's financial or psychiatric is decided upon a case by case basis. Don't be so self engulfed in a damned pity party that you don't realize the people suffering the worst are around you in life. Someone here once said that life is an endurance run. The more years of my life I go through, the more I realize that those words are truer than anything else.   If you feel stuck in a rut or something, talk to a friend or a family member. Do something to break up the monotony of life. Variety is the spice of life. "

Im only 20 myself, but my parents have plenty of friends who were single and didn't get married until 50 and are now as happy as can be. Don't worry dude, you got time. 30s are the new 20s

'm in a similar spot, just turned 34, divorced I have two kids tho, a 13 and a almost 11 yr old..  And six years ago I was waay closer to where I wanted to be than I am now..  The divorce kinda set me back a good five years, along with some other issues I had to deal with..  I have a pretty good career tho, I think I made $99,000 last year, and if this year shapes up I will make about fifteen more this year than last yr...  When I was married I spent 2 yrs building a 3,300 square foot house for my wife and kids that I gave her in the divorce, then I moved into a 5th whell travel trailer, the house is worth around $450,000, but I didn't wanna fight over it, so I let her have it..

I figure I've got another 2-3 years to get back close to where I was before.. 
 
Jesus what a depressing subject. 
 
On the bright side I get to do whatever I want with my money these days, and I don't have someone nagging me all the time about honey-do lists and other crap 
 
So i s'pose  it could be way worse

I'm twenty with a three year old, temporarily unemployed and am trying to write a book or three. That's where life has me right now.

" @Fajita_Jim said:

" @jNerd said:

" Middle-age is like 40's-50's.... "

35x2=65 and I don't want to get so old I can't wipe my own ass. "

Guess you didn't become a math teacher then huh?    "

I'm proud of myself with what I have accomplished and successfully avoided on purpose so far, but I'm not happy with myself in general due to certain social issues I have. In a way, I'm in between of letting and not letting myself down.

Ok, my shit story to make you feel better. 
 
I'm 18. I'm on academic probation, and if I don't do well this semester I'll fail out of school. My parents have been saving every cent to pay for my college, so that'll be $10,000 wasted if I fail. This isn't the first time I've nearly failed out of school. I almost didn't graduate high school last year. I spent most of last semester sleeping, because it's not like I even had anyone to waste all my time with. I have 3 good friends, but no car, so I see them once every 2 months. Besides that, I spent the entire last semester meeting basically nobody and being a hermit in my dorm. 
 
I've never even asked a girl on a date. I spent both my junior and senior prom by myself. I never went to a dance besides those. I spent most of high school with the same friends as I have now (I had no one to hang out with at school), and I saw them maybe a little more often. 
 
I haven't achieved anything academically since 4th grade. And even though I used to be good at sports, I wasted all my talent. I also have a ton of musical talent, but I don't even do that anymore (sold my instrument, and I'm not borrowing now that I'm in college). 
 
I have no major, and no direction. I've taken classes in pretty much every subject imaginable, but I haven't found anything that really interests me. I had a piss-poor GPA in high school. 
 
I'm the worst underachiever I know. Despite getting a 2100 on the SATs (1400 out of 1600), I didn't even do well enough in math to take upper-level math in high school, so I've never even taken a pre-calc class. And just to prove what I can achieve, I'll tell you about my cousins. One got a full scholarship to MIT. He didn't go, because he got a full scholarship, $1500 a month (I think) stipend, laptop, and free trip to Europe from Georgia Tech. He applied to a program at Oxford (like, that Oxford) that he'd be taking for free, and came in 16th out of 15. So he's probably there, by now. My other cousin has a free ride at either Florida and Florida State for running, and he was offered a scholarship to run at UCLA. Both of my cousins are Eagle Scouts and straight-A students. 
 
My parents have 6 degrees between them (3 each). My IQ is borderline genius. I'm good at pretty much anything I've ever tried my hand at. And my GPA at college is a 2.11, with an F and a D already after only my first real semester. 
 
And the worst part? All of these problems are my own fault. All of my fuck-ups have been of my own free will. So the only person stopping me from doing anything is me. 
 
Feel better yet?

well that does suck your getting older. 
 
i knew life was going to be like this. so far i am living with my parents which i knew was going to happen.

" Why does reality have to walk all over my dreams every chance it gets?  But seriously, are you were you expected to be in life at this point? Have you let yourself down?  Financially I'm okay but I'm not where I thought I would be as far as marriage (I'm divorced) and children (have none). I officially hit middle-age in a few weeks and self-doubt and regret is driving me mad.  Tell me your woes so I have someone to laugh at. "

This thread's actually gone pretty well, from what it could've been. Theese types of conversations usually don't turn out well, either becoming a contest for who has a shittier life (some bitches at the hospital waiting room while I was getting x-rayed for a possibly-broken toe just kept trying to outdo each other, and I felt like flipping shit on them), or just a "yo, that sucks", and conversation ends, because there's generally not a lot to say. 
 
Knowing this, my life is totally shittier, right? ;)