30 Days to Turning 30...26 to Go

It's Friday...Hooray...always a different buzz to the air in the workplace on this day. People are wearing jeans, have a lunch out of the office, and enjoy a drink at the end of the day...aaah Friday.

In the countdown to turning 30 adventure, I attended a "Mentors" seminar last night. All about having people in our life that we can learn from as well as making sure we are also teaching our skills to others. One person asked "what do you do when your mentors start dying?" which caused us to laugh but reminded me of the fact that we all have to go at some point....hopefully many many more years past 30 for me!

I talked with the panel leader at the end and we talked about Millennial / Gen Y attitudes with Mentors and she asked me "are you a Gen Yer or Gen Xer?" This is the dilemma I face as a nearly 30 year old...no longer so identifiable as the "new kid on the block" but not distinguished enough to be "experienced in life"...

So I leave today thinking that 30 is like the "Twix"...the period after Christmas when all the fun of opening presents is over ...and before the New Year with all the new possibilities that may yet become.

30 Days of Turning 30...28 to go

Today has been a good day at work, had a couple of great conversations with my boss and a peer about life and the journey's we take. Also, had an interesting lunch conversation that caused me to stop and think...and ties in with my Age 30 conversion.

I work in technology and it's a relatively fast paced environment which attracts like-minded people and I suppose looking at it, there is not as great a spread of age as there is in other industries. Probably looking at most people in their 30-40's.
Now the world is shifting with Baby Boomers retiring and Millenials coming in, I thought we are all on board with the change, I in fact work extensively with the Gen Yers (and also just manager to squeak in there myself!). But at lunch I had a colleague make a comment "well, he's really young to be in that job at 44" Wow! Kind-of blew me away that someone would think that was young....and here I am stressing about Age 30!
And the next comment was "I like to work with X because he's experienced and seen alot more in life" referring to another leader that is close to 60.
hmmm...was eye-opening and a reality check that there is alot of living to do after 30 and I'm still a spring chicken!