this post was submitted on 26 Mar 2024
787 points (98.5% liked)

Memes

8255 readers
984 users here now

Post memes here.

A meme is an idea, behavior, or style that spreads by means of imitation from person to person within a culture and often carries symbolic meaning representing a particular phenomenon or theme.

An Internet meme or meme, is a cultural item that is spread via the Internet, often through social media platforms. The name is by the concept of memes proposed by Richard Dawkins in 1972. Internet memes can take various forms, such as images, videos, GIFs, and various other viral sensations.


Laittakaa meemejä tänne.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Honestly my forties have been some of the best, most adventurous years of my life. I truly appreciate the important things in life, and I have the means to do things I couldn’t when I was younger.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'm in my forties and I think every milestone decade has been better than the last. I also wholeheartedly agree with the above statements. I hope you continue to do the things that make you happy and carry on your enjoyment of them :)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Same. I'm currently trying my best to lay the groundwork to greet my 50s in as good shape as possible.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I turned 40 last year. All I got was fired.

I'm not a fan so far.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It happens, funny thing is, you should have enough experience and be young enough for it to be pretty easy to get a new job and probably a better one. Sometimes these things end up being blessings in disguise…

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I did get a new job, but the time unemployed wrecked my financial situation.

It's been rough.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Aw, man that's hard. sorry to hear. You'll be back in a good place soon.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Hopefully. I'm in a position of needing to replace some equipment, it's not cheap. I'm currently too leveraged to buy it on credit, but I only have about a month before what I currently have becomes essentially useless.

I need to find about $3000 dollars to do it, and I'm kind of out of options.

Once that's taken care of, I can coast and pay bills until something else breaks.

I will say that the new job is fantastic. The people are good, my employer seems to be going in a good direction and they're clearly growing. I did have to take a small pay cut with this job, only about 3%, but I like the job a lot more, and I'm dropping about 3-4k/yr in expenses. The previous job didn't pay for parking near the office and didn't have a parking lot for employees to use. The new job is also WFH, so most of the savings are from gas and parking. In a way, I'm taking more money "home" at the end of the day. Definitely a positive move, but I'm still stuck with a lot of credit card and other debts from my time unemployed, so I'm having difficulty keeping everything paid.

Hopefully I find some money to replace that equipment, and I can settle into a routine to pay back all the losses from being unemployed.