anyone else having a bit of a career wobble with the realisation they are the same age as most front-bench politicans, senior journalists and various other movers and shakers...

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39 in August. I am OLDER than George Osborne. Not that I want to be George Osborne. or any other front bencher. or a senior journalist for that matter. But I'm just not entirely sure where my 30s went...

Funny - had similar feeling when I read samantha cameron is 38. I am 35. How did that happen? I don't want to be her, don't even like her but still.....

I was going to be a senior journalist exposing human rights abuses across the world. Sigh.

Yes! I thought it was just me. I remember reading an article recently about Baroness Warsi and thinking the same thing.

I did shudder when I saw that the new Chief Exec of Birminghams Chidrens hospital NHS trust was a similar age to myself.

I'm older than most of them

I was surprised though when saw Gordon Ramsay (I know he's not actually important but...) described as 42 in the Observer. He seems to have been 42 for years.

Yup. Glad its not just me. But I guess it will be even worse in about ten years when we realise all the new movers'n'shakers are now so much younger...?

what really gets me is that they all look like grown-ups.

Sorry to revive an old thread but I am really feeling the wobbles.

Had taken 3 years off, was freelancing during that time and recently took on a project for a contracted period - full-time in an office.

At 39, I am older than everyone in my team including my boss.

It doesn't help that most of the women in the office are in their 20s and early 30s and have NO kids. All regularly stay late to work, while I slink off at 6.15pm (yes 6.15pm!)

I thought this was an opportunity to kick start my career but I don't feel I have the confidence to compete with younger workers who seem to be able to commit to a lot more than I can.