Earlier this week I was dismayed when I was told by the third person in as many days that I looked like I was 26. I was dismayed by this for two reasons… the shock realisation that in 6 months I celebrate my 23rd birthday, so I am very quickly becoming twenty something; and that I was sure I didn’t look THAT old! (Disclaimer: not that 26 is old, but, well, I’m not 26).
As I walked home across the Green Bridge yesterday evening that dismay was replaced with a greater understanding of what that means and how it can actually be A Good Thing™.
In the eyes of customers and those I work with and for it can’t be a bad thing to be seen (from a distance) as a little older (and more responsible). I am quite possibly the youngest sales manager that Next Byte has on staff, so looking a little older must go some way to increasing my credibility, excluding my insanely broad knowledge of things Mac. That said, anyone who actually knows me knows that, well, I’m not 26 and I still have quite a few things to learn, but hey don’t we all.
So with that I will relish in being twenty something! I might even phase talking about my age out of conversation and let people construct me as they see fit. Which is very new thinking. For me.
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Typed on my BlackBerry® from Optus while driving on the M1
March 30th, 2008 at 1:22 pm
No, you don’t look 26. I just think that’s an “observation” the more advanced twentysomethings make so they don’t feel their age. Or else they, like me, aren’t used to thinking of themselves at their current age, and they imagine that their peers stills look younger than they actually do.
I get it all the time too.
October 21st, 2008 at 9:12 pm
hehehe i did a whole play about being 20 something… do u know what… it was actually called “20 SOmething!” funny bout that hey! but guuess what im 20 something too so ur not alone!