40, now what?
Evelyn Kl?tzer
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Evelyn Kl?tzer
Talent Acquisition Manager @ TMC - a Unilabs Company | Certified LWS Specialist, HR Recruitment
No worries, I am not coming up with some over the top philosophical truth about age and how it is not intimidating (because it simply is in so many ways).
However, instead of concentrating on the downsides (yes, there are), it makes so much more sense to think of some of the great things, when turning 40 (or at whatever age you are realizing the importance of the following):
- Accepting: Not everybody likes me (I just care less now or have at least managed to stop my tendency to overthink the “why” etc.)
- Choosing: Quality over Quantity (people in your life etc.)
- Moderating: finally, I actually think before I talk
- Changes: It is true, nothing is constant but change
- Listening: somewhere in my 30ies (let′s say late 30ies) I eventually understood the importance of listening, being young means not to listen. It means knowing everything until knowing you don′t
- Accepting failures in your life, even the big ones. DOT
- Realizing, that eventually you are not the center of the universe ?
In the last months my mind has been quite busy with my upcoming 40iest (probably a “being the center of the universe" syndrome), until one of my senior hiring managers said to me: 40 is the age you can sit back, cross your arms and just be ok. So relax!
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8 年Good philosophy! And be sure there are many great things at that age, as many as any other age!
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8 年very well written as always! it's always great to read your articles Eve! thanks for sharing your thoughts with us :)
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8 年I've found many of those qualities now, but I've been through a stark medicanl experience, so perhaps that put me up a decade :). I'm more outspoken now and extraverted than I once was at university. I speak my mind, and I've stopped caring if people don't like me - they are not the center of my universe :) - Not so sure about moderating, I still reeaaaaaallly like a piece of cake. And chocolate. And crisps. hmmmm hungry now... x Patrick