remember when you were the young gun at work?

**nickel** · 08-22-2005, 10:57 AM

the youngest person there, and all the other people seemed just... older.

we just had a very fresh hire at work. she's just out of college. to her i must seem.... just older.

**cheapie** · 08-22-2005, 11:14 AM

i was just thinking that! i have always been the youngest person in the dept...until the last year. we hired two people younger than me and now i'm...30-something. not the young guy. sigh.

**Merlin** · 08-22-2005, 11:32 AM

Originally Posted by nickel

...she's just out of college....

This thread is worthless without pics.

**Gothic Girl** · 08-22-2005, 12:04 PM

Yeah, I remember when I first started at my job. I was 25, and everyone else was 40s and 50s. That sucked.

**Maarchk** · 08-22-2005, 12:13 PM

Originally Posted by Merlin

This thread is worthless without pics.

Hehe... soo wrong... but soo true.

Yeah being the young person is intersting. I was for the first 3 years of work, and oh man it was kinda funky. I think more interesting was when i was running a freelance computer repair, and the people i would be working for would be like, wait, are you like an intern? and i'd be like, nope i'm the president.

**mcs328** · 08-22-2005, 12:56 PM

Hell my first year people mistook me for a high school intern and were surprised I was there in the fall. I'm almost 30 and I'm still the youngest person.

**Hiro** · 08-22-2005, 01:34 PM

I'm 23...and I am the youngest person here by about 20 years.

**kgsilvas** · 08-22-2005, 02:14 PM

Ah, those were the days. Actually, it kinda sucked being the youngest person because most folks deferred to the "old-timers".

I'm not the youngest anymore, but have been around long enough to have my ideas implemented.

**Butch** · 08-22-2005, 02:27 PM

I'm having a bit of deja-vu with being the youngest . . .

It's been about 5 years since I entered the workforce . . . when I entered right after college, of course I was the youngest, but there were a lot of people around my age there. I spent 4+ years there and worked my way up a bit and there were many many younger people there when I left.

Now, since I've come to Germany to work for my company's Frankfurt office, I'm back to being the youngest person in the office. Typically, people in Germany spend a lot more time in school than they do in the US, so people my age are JUST starting to come into the professional workforce. Everybody else my age is entry level, while I'm in a position of authority that feels somewhat awkward. Oh well, it's fun, but it definitely took time to get respect.

**Bires** · 08-22-2005, 02:32 PM

ACK! I see some of the 22-year-old, freshly-minted teachers, with their pressed slacks, well-trimmed hair, and 1/2-to-1 inch pole stuck up their a***es...makes me laugh inside.

**BigJon** · 08-22-2005, 02:42 PM

Remember?!?! Heck, I'm living it!

**booger73** · 08-22-2005, 06:27 PM

Many of the students I used to teach are now on staff...
yikes.. makes you feel old..

[I've been around where I am since 96 now..]

**faither** · 08-22-2005, 06:32 PM

I've been affiliated with my company since I was an 18 year-old summer kid (my only "real" job) and have been there for more than half my life. It is an odd circumstance to realize you're not the youngest any longer. That really hit home earleir this year when I hired more than 20 recent college grads for my operation. Recruiting/interviewing on campuses was boarderline surreal.

**zippyjuan** · 08-22-2005, 06:50 PM

Damn. I am "old guy" with 14 years in! I could be parent to some of the people they are hiring these days!

**gugnheim** · 08-22-2005, 07:23 PM

Sigh, ditto to what a lot of you are saying. In the beginning it was acting as part chauffer, deliveryboy, waiter and tolerated pup. Now I realize how much the older vets were instilling skills of patience and observation while getting us to learn the survival skills you need in law enforcement. Just this weekend I was training a new hire, taking her to the same places I was taken to, throwing her into situations where God knows I wanted to just handle it but leaving it to her..she has to learn for herself.

Gug

**Jane83** · 08-22-2005, 09:40 PM

i dunno about work, but i definately remember when i was the young gun at the clubs,...now theres a bunch of underage chicks everywhere...sigh.
im getting old

**LegendKiller** · 08-22-2005, 10:28 PM

I am the youngest person that works in the finance area at my job. People constantly think I am at least 5 years older. They are quite shocked to learn I am only 26.

**modena** · 08-23-2005, 06:56 AM

and as the young one at work, you get all the wierd questions about things of the younger generation....like i have all the answers for what the 15-21 year old age group are doing and why they are doing it and i am 24. Also the questions about catch phrases and hearing older people saying them and asking you what it means exactly.....its hard not to laugh.

**nickel** · 08-23-2005, 07:23 AM

Originally Posted by modena

and as the young one at work, you get all the wierd questions about things of the younger generation....like i have all the answers for what the 15-21 year old age group are doing and why they are doing it and i am 24. Also the questions about catch phrases and hearing older people saying them and asking you what it means exactly.....its hard not to laugh.

jeez, i'm not THAT old

**modena** · 08-23-2005, 08:40 AM

Oh, lol, I wasnt implying you were, just my kinda 'take' on a similar situation!

**AlpineJay** · 08-23-2005, 11:37 AM

I just got out of college and I never was the youngest guy here. Hooray for my co-worker who went directly into the workforce (I beat him by a year in age).