fuck this job.com

For some reason, I have always ended up in jobs where everybody is way older than me. I was 22 when I started working with the mummies. By the time I was 29, several of my coworkers had heart attacks & bypass surgeries, cancer tumor removal, wife death from cancer, and one just died in his sleep (don't know why).

I moved, went to school again, and changed jobs when I was 29. I too was desperate to get away from that small town, a burned out job, and the lack of a social life. Fast forward to age 34 and guess what....I'm in a larger city but I still work with mummies. And I hate my job. I've spent so many years working with old people that I don't even know how to socialize when I get the chance; I just end up being quiet and alone. I feel like a freakin outcast and I hate it.

I know there is nothing in this to help you -- but I just felt the need to tell you I work with the ancient also and I've done it so long that it already ruined my ability to socialize. Maybe there is hope left for you!

Hey Agent Orange, I know how it feels to be in a marginalized position. I'm insanely busy at work, but the paradox is that my department is very much out in the cold and things there are just going to get worse and worse. In order to cope, you have to try and find some kind of fulfillment in life outside of work, especially if you are creative, because you have to keep your self-esteem going.

I'm the youngest by far in my department, too. They have decades on me! It really is an isolating position. Oh man would it be nice to work with people my age and maybe actually be able to go out for a beer with them once in a while...

Good luck hanging in there.

I have been there many times and it stinks. All I did was just act my age so they realised I wasn't old and decrepid just yet. I don;t know if it's different with me being a girl, but it seemed to work. I just never stopped talking about anything, singing, being daft (generally being myself) and it probably pissed them off no end, but for some it actually brought them out of their shells and they began to talk to me and each other. not that i'm a bloody miracle worker, but I'm just cheeky by nature and sometimes people can warm to those people because they feel like they can join in.

If that doesnt work then they are all brain dead!

Last October I wtote

"The people in my department are:

1 age 65
1 age 60
1 age 58
1 age 52
1 age 44

Me I`m 30.

As a result of this I spend all day doing boring work in virtual silence and its killing me. I`m doing virtually nothing and I`m afraid I`ll be found out as I have to fill in time sheets and I have very little to show. I feel completely trapped/isolated. My department boss things he`s a big man in the company yet is quite clearly marginalised and ignored. The ghost at the feast. What we do is important yet unsexy so no-one else in the company gives a toss. Im scared if I`m confronted I`ll break down and leave but I need the pay packet. I would like to move to another department yet I`ve been tarred with the boring brush and wouldn`t get taken seriously. Just to be with people me own age would be something. I`m starting to hate my boss which is unfair as he`s okay just...naive but also aggressive. I`ve tried too find something else but its not easy (I don`t want to swap this shit for more). The main problem is I`m creative (imho) and I`m in a methodical ,logical number crunching job which is choking me. My only ambition is too make it through to xmas."

I could. I've been in that spot too. It makes you feel bloody old before your time too...