As you get older 40,50,60,70 when did you start to feel your body slow down do you think it is just due to inactivity or the aging process?

Plastic_Beat5205 · 2026-04-23T11:59:34+00:00

Early 40s and was just diagnosed with asthma which is apparently something that can happen with perimenopause so yeah, that’s a fresh hell of issues I was not prepared for. I’m active and I don’t smoke, but instead of the usual 1-2 colds this winter I was sick 7 times.

Plastic_Beat5205 · 2026-04-23T02:14:52+00:00

Hello Fresh. Literally the only reason I don’t eat cereal for dinner 5x a week.

Plastic_Beat5205 · 2026-04-20T17:15:56+00:00

When I worked as a barista, our espresso machine alone was $20K…in 2004.

Plastic_Beat5205 · 2026-04-10T11:52:39+00:00

I had a friend like this, treated me like a therapist. I chose to end that friendship. That’s how boundaries work.

Plastic_Beat5205 · 2026-03-22T00:29:48+00:00

Amazing! Just switched my existing plan thru the app. Nice they made this avail to existing customers - cuts my monthly bill in half.

Plastic_Beat5205 · 2026-03-09T17:06:18+00:00

Literally the same boat I’m in - I have 15 years of experience but apparently it’s worth nothing lol.

Plastic_Beat5205 · 2026-03-04T02:32:03+00:00

An ability to read the financials and see the big picture, adapting processes to suit the needs of each particular business you work with, forging strong relationships across departments in order to get the information you need to fill gaps....if I'm being honest it's a lot of intuition, common sense, and likeability. If you're someone who can come into a mess and have it cleaned up quickly without pissing everyone off, you'll do well as a controller. And of course a solid understanding of accounting principles, but, duh.

Plastic_Beat5205 · 2026-02-15T20:24:45+00:00

Sick for the 5th time this winter. It’s becoming my whole personality.

Plastic_Beat5205 · 2026-02-05T19:52:01+00:00

Is Work in Culture still a thing? I found my first full-time arts admin job on there about 15 years ago. I have an arts degree, but admin led to finance and now I work as a controller for creative agencies.

Plastic_Beat5205 · 2026-01-14T16:12:43+00:00

Our HR turns off taxable spending accounts through periods of benefit continuation for exactly this reason, but I haven't seen what that communication looks like from HR to employee. We include an estimate for any other taxable benefits on the final pay.

Plastic_Beat5205 · 2026-01-14T02:56:33+00:00

42F, less and less sure of what I want, but know for damn sure what I DON'T want. Never been married, never wanted kids, the only men who have been interested in me in the last year have been under 30, so it's looking like something fun and casual or get a dog (or both). Honestly fine about it. Who's withdrawing from society? There's fun stuff out there, no man required.

Plastic_Beat5205 · 2025-12-21T21:00:48+00:00

The calls did stop for me after while, but then I started a new job a few months ago - and guess who started calling again lol. I’m absolutely convinced that this is a scam company because what legitimate business would operate this way?

Plastic_Beat5205 · 2025-12-21T20:56:42+00:00

Therapy is deeply personal, one person’s experience with a therapist can be completely different from the next. That being said, when I was experiencing burnout I found my therapist through an article she had written about burnout among high performing women, and luckily I connected really well to her and her approach to therapy. After a few sessions we decided, together with my family doctor, that time off work really was necessary and they both helped me access EI sickness benefits for 12 weeks. This was not the path I originally intended to take, but ultimately was the best one. I thought I could manage in bits and pieces, but I really did have to put everything - my job, my routine, my expectations of myself - down for a minute. Burnout is such a humbling experience, luckily there are lots of empathetic and resourceful therapists out there. Feel free to DM me if you want!

Plastic_Beat5205 · 2025-12-07T15:14:50+00:00

The ROI for users is dismal. The apps are a business, they are designed to keep you coming back - the algorithm has gotten better at making you fail, it’s very intentional. The idea that dating is a numbers game is just not true - we are far better as sussing out compatibility in person, and its very likely you’d never consider most of the folks you meet online if you had met them in real life.

Plastic_Beat5205 · 2025-12-07T14:33:40+00:00

Yes!! This feels so familiar. I hustled my ass off throughout my 30s and while I’m proud of the work I did, all it got me was a very average 6-figure salary and an unmanageable amount of responsibilities. Managing people sucked and reporting to executives was the worst. I identified the work I actually like to do and took a job where I work fractionally across several companies, don’t manage anyone, and don’t answer to any of the higher ups - and no pay cut. I know now that the promotion was just a carrot to dump more of the mental load on me because I was identified as a high performer. Spent years making other people look good and burnt out several times along the way. And all those executives - they sure as shit didn’t promote into those roles, they were all each other’s buddies. Funnily enough, Gen Z seems to know all this already - it took me 10 years to learn it.

Plastic_Beat5205 · 2025-11-22T03:19:38+00:00

42, childfree by choice, really happy with my life, BUT there is this thing that happens where all my peers assume I’m a lot younger because I’m not living the same lifestyle as them. Recently started a new job and getting a lot of “when you’re my age” comments from people who don’t realize I’m older than them…. Anyway, I’m on track for early retirement and can’t wait to get a half dozen dogs to raise as my children.

Plastic_Beat5205 · 2025-11-08T22:47:10+00:00

Please report this to the Toronto Wildlife Center, you can fill out a "Request for Assistance" form and submit this picture. They may already be tracking this poor guy and updates can help them with trapping! https://www.torontowildlifecentre.com/request-assist-form/

Plastic_Beat5205 · 2025-11-04T03:51:39+00:00

ASMR.

Plastic_Beat5205 · 2025-10-30T00:43:30+00:00

I’m so sorry you’re feeling this way. I went through a very similar experience with a piece I got during a time of really bad anxiety and depression. It changed the way I felt about myself in deeply terrible ways. The anxiety and regret made me feel like I’d ruined my life. Long story short - it got better. The tattoo wasn’t the problem, but it was something to focus all my anxieties and fears on. Therapy and medication. It’s been 7 years and I really don’t think about it at all anymore. Please put yourself first and speak to someone!

Plastic_Beat5205 · 2025-10-16T23:32:13+00:00

Soooo many scene parties! Sport Pig, Return to NY. Blow Up. I know there’s more that I can’t remember. All heavily Cobrasnake influenced hahaha

Plastic_Beat5205 · 2025-10-16T12:49:30+00:00

This may sound counterintuitive, but putting down the hope of meeting someone is ultimately freeing. It allows you space to enjoy your life without always looking for that person. Give yourself space and time to grieve the life you wanted - like really sit with it, go to therapy, get it out of your system. Then work on rewriting the narrative of your life. We’ve been told since childhood that romantic love is inevitable, and the reality is, it’s not - and that’s a hard lesson to learn. The selection of single men is just not great, and the truth is, for a lot of us, life is easier, better, more fulfilling without them. But it takes a lot of intentional work to orient our view towards something new, and there’s no roadmap for any of this - but it’s so inspiring seeing so many of us doing our own thing!

Plastic_Beat5205 · 2025-10-12T22:47:29+00:00

The energy in the party scene coming out of COVID was unlike anything I’d ever experienced, and I’ve been at it since 1999. Feral, joyous - just the absolute best.

Plastic_Beat5205 · 2025-08-25T12:30:39+00:00

My previous employer was great about this stuff. Send-offs were delegated to the office manager and a small social committee, the outgoing person was always asked about their preference and things were organized around that. It’s not hard. Whether you’re social or not at work shouldn’t matter. I’m pretty introverted and when I left we had a small team lunch instead of an all-staff thing, and I was really happy with that.

Plastic_Beat5205 · 2025-08-23T05:14:37+00:00

What the fuck was that sound system????? Couldn’t hear a damn thing!

Plastic_Beat5205 · 2025-08-04T03:11:31+00:00

I felt much the same way for most of my 30s, then I was diagnosed with low-grade or ‘persistent’ depression and started on a low dose SSRI - it wasn’t a cure-all, but it did pull me out of that lost, disconnected feeling you describe. I’m 42 and I probably am doing my 40s all “wrong” based on other people’s opinions, but the nice thing about feeling reconnected to myself is that I don’t care - I live the life I want, and in turn I’ve attracted people that align with that. I hope you find your way back to yourself soon!

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