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25 isn't so young, almost a decade after a person can join the workplace It's strange to see how these days people in their twenties are expected to behave lik
by danw 17y ago
25 isn't so young, almost a decade after a person can join the workplace
It's strange to see how these days people in their twenties are expected to behave like adolescents. There was a recent NYT article gushing about how incredible it was that Obama's speech writer was only 27 whilst his peers played video games all day. By that age Darwin was already back from a five year voyage collecting samples and Einstein had written a paper on special relativity.
Luckily the HN community expects us to do something worthwhile regardless of age.
- barredo 17y agoofftopic: I'm with you, I'm tired of people at their 30-ish and saying 'I'm still young, bla bla bla' :-)
- sriramk 17y agoI'm sad to say that this comment depressed me more (call me self-centered) than the original article (since I'm 25 right now).
- code_devil 17y ago[I am 25, moved to US for BS so worked since 18] I think work age is slightly different in Asia. Most people do not work till they have at least a BS Degree (21/22) or possibly even a Masters degree. And also, while they are in school/college they pretty much stay at home in the comforts of their family unless they go for an engineering college to a different city. So, indirectly they are pretty much protected from the real world issues for a major part of their youth. So, age/maturity also seems to have some cultural flavor to it as well.
- c0nsilience 17y ago@danw That is a damn good point. Of course, Gen Y is largely to blame because of its false sense of entitlement.