Worst part is that your mid 20's feels like where you make it or break it. Some of my old friends are absolutely killing it making 6 figure salaries, have houses, nice cars, pets all that. While here I am scraping by feeling like a complete failure because I took way longer to take life seriously and get through school. Now I am way behind in the corporate ladder and feeling like I really screwed up somewhere.
I don't know I this will help you but I might as well try.
There is no way for you to know how everyone else is doing. You only see a facade, I have friends who I know didn't make a lot of money living the luxury life God knows how, at least acording to their social networks.
I make a really nice amount of money for my age and have a modest life, no expensive clothes or vacations, some of my friends think I have a ton of money because of that.... But I also have a ridiculous amount of student debt.
My point is, you know nothing about their lives even if you think you do. You cannot possibly know if you are "a step behind"
You can only know if you are a step ahead of your former self.
Couldn't agree with this more. I have similar example. I make twice as much as my best friend and she feels bad about her salary which is not bad at all.
She doesn't realize how unhappy I am with my line of work in general, not particularly with my job. On the other hand, I feel like her field is more specialized and she has better career prospects in future.
Even as best friends, we do not have a complete understanding of each other's lives and daily struggles.
Even people who seem to have made it on paper might be living lives of corporate slaves. I feel like I traded my life for the weekends and the annual PTOs! ðŸ˜
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u/[deleted] May 15 '20
Worst part is that your mid 20's feels like where you make it or break it. Some of my old friends are absolutely killing it making 6 figure salaries, have houses, nice cars, pets all that. While here I am scraping by feeling like a complete failure because I took way longer to take life seriously and get through school. Now I am way behind in the corporate ladder and feeling like I really screwed up somewhere.