25’s Turning Point
People love to say there is no more discrimination in our lives today. These people are fucking crazy.
Everyone experiences the feeling of being the youngest in a room until suddenly you’re not. It’s somewhere in your twenties when things change. Your bosses start talking to you differently, your peers are suddenly all older and like minded, and your opportunities seem to have doubled. But when is the exact turning point? I think I figured it out, and I’m smack dab in the middle of it right now. Growing up I always thought everyone seemed much older than they are/were. Now that I’m their age I feel like I should have those freedoms I saw them have. However I’m kept as the “kid”. Let me vent real quick.
When I freshly graduated college at 21, I thought, “wow, 21 used to be so old in my mind yet I feel like a baby still”, and everyone thought that so I wasn’t thrown to the wolves which helped. However after the first year in the real world, they don’t care about you being a year out of college. Real life hits even harder than it did in college. This time you’re all alone. So you pick yourself up and carry through and now you’re suddenly 25. Lessons have hit you harder than your mother, life has beat you the fuck down, and yet at the end of the day someone at work who’s in over 30 says you’re the same age as the intern that just graduated. As if the 4 years of hell I went through alone meant nothing. I started calling myself 26, and guess what the fuck happened. Opportunities opened up, I was no longer compared to the fresh graduates. I was finally being considered an adult and all because of my age??!! The amount of effort I put in doesn't matter.
They get you with this is so many ways. Saying “oh you need x amount of years experience in blah blah blah” for a FIRST LEVEL POSITION. How do you expect us to get this experience and learn if you don’t want to hire us. At that point just say you’re looking for over 29 year olds because that’s all companies are doing is telling us we’re too young for the role. Why do they get to dictate that. Do you know the amount of young adults who have been through immense trauma to where they have been mentally older than 25 for a LONG time. Give them a chance. Hollywood loves to give chances to us younger folks. It’s almost opposite there where everyone below 25 gets the opportunities but guess what’s at the expense of that? Their fucking safety.
