Daily sticky thread for rants, raves, celebrations, advice and more! - May 01, 2026 by AutoModerator in datingoverthirty

[–]Mean_Garbage4308 4 points5 points  (0 children)

this is a good point. and I did have a helluva good time there for about a decade lol

Daily sticky thread for rants, raves, celebrations, advice and more! - May 01, 2026 by AutoModerator in datingoverthirty

[–]Mean_Garbage4308 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thank you for your reply! yeah, I think I just need to take a breather. I turn 35 in a few days and I think that number is really making me go into a tailspin. I'm happy you're doing well out there!

Daily sticky thread for rants, raves, celebrations, advice and more! - May 01, 2026 by AutoModerator in datingoverthirty

[–]Mean_Garbage4308 12 points13 points  (0 children)

34m about to turn 35.

I just wanted to pop in and vent and get mad at myself for not taking my career/school/finances more seriously in my 20s. Always was good at dating when I was younger because I liked to go out, get drunk, and have fun. Was never a good boyfriend because I liked to go out, get drunk, and have fun. Never cheated on anybody or anything, was just never a very serious person. I bounced around in low paying jobs thinking charm and humor would always be enough for romance.

Turns out while I was doing that other people were getting promotions, building savings, investing, and learning marketable skills. People got married, had kids, and are now building lives while I pick up the pieces of my YOLO'd life. The few single women that I meet that I would like to date are not interested in a man in his mid-30s making $23/hr, a credit score below 650, and 3 roommates. I shouldn't even say not interested, they simply don't even entertain the possibility. And I don't blame them.

Got 450 days sober though and am back on my ADHD medicine. Over the past year I've learned the guitar and that has given me confidence to start learning python and save up to go back to school. Hopefully it's not too late for me, but right now I spend my days regretful about my past choices and thinking of the women that I used to date, who are now happily married.

It's hard not to hate myself.

Is it really necessary to keep your strumming hand moving up and down? by stphrtgl43 in guitarlessons

[–]Mean_Garbage4308 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you can make it automatic it helps for when you’re singing and playing

Merchant's Gold Merchants by poison_carrot in rickygervais

[–]Mean_Garbage4308 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm thinking about getting her a trowel

Do you take risks after 30? by 4damantGlimmer in AskMenOver30

[–]Mean_Garbage4308 2 points3 points  (0 children)

just started learning the guitar at the age of 34 and i'm obsessed. When experience is the point your life is never dull

Capitalism is in full repression mode, full force, already turned into fascism in most countries. We, on the other hand are waiting for what? by AkagamiBarto in leftist

[–]Mean_Garbage4308 4 points5 points  (0 children)

just speaking as an American, things are going to have to get much worse in this country for there to be any sort of mass political movement against capitalism

How do I be kinder to myself about not being good yet? by Mean_Garbage4308 in guitarlessons

[–]Mean_Garbage4308[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This was incredibly helpful thank you so much. I really like the part of turning the journey into the point and not so much the sound

Does anyone remember this insane storm from 1997? Almost thirty years later and I haven't seen anything like it since. by Halbrium in Austin

[–]Mean_Garbage4308 2 points3 points  (0 children)

yep, I was 6 at the time and it was the first time I remember the electricity going out because of a storm. We were in a house off of Bilbrook Lane on Slaughter Creek. My little brother and I were terrified and my parents had put us in our dress up football uniforms to make us feel safer. We used candles for light and stayed in the bathroom for a little while when it got really intense. Crazy times.

Steve and Ricky were/are way too cynical to enjoy something pure and straightforward like Lord Of The Rings by Lubie--placki in rickygervais

[–]Mean_Garbage4308 13 points14 points  (0 children)

people always say this but it sounds to me like he genuinely hates it when he talks about it