Boy, I feel old. Not old, just grown up. I just read our local newspaper. On the front page is a guy I graduated with who has started his own clothing line and is having a fashion show at our high school. I turn a few more pages and another guy that went to our school has opened up his own restaurant in town. To top it off, a guy I graduated with is getting married to a girl five years younger than us. That means we have to be five years older than marrying age! And then, I actually read an article in the Health & Fitness section! OK, so I do feel a little old, not just grown up. The people in our newspaper and business owners around here are no longer strange middle aged people, it’s the people I grew up with. We’re becoming those strange middle-aged people!!!
Hi Amy! I’m the same way about my friends.
1) One is a lawyer and became a partner this month.
2) His wife, who graduated three years behind me, is an ob-gyn with her own practice in Charlotte.
3) Another friend has been in commercial real estate since graduating college and started his own company a few years ago.
4) A friend’s husband (the ones we had dinner with on Saturday) is the principal of the top high school in their town.
It’s maddening to know I’m “just” a secretary and didn’t do anything “amazing” with my career.