Welcome my friends to Grumpy Old Geeks, a weekly conversation where two internet

decks talk about technology, the internet, where it's headed, where we wish it was

headed. I'm Jason. And I'm Brian. You can find us on the web at Grumpy Old Geeks dot com.

Grumpy Old Geeks episode nine. Start the timer. Here we are. Happy birthday Brian. Thank you. Thank you.

I am officially now a Grumpy Old Geek. I felt like it fraud before being only 39. Now I'm 40. I'm old. Yes, you are. Yes, I am.

The club this shit's going to start falling off you now think that start breaking. Oh, well, that started last year for me

anyways, but it is funny. I've got a lot of welcome to the clubs. Yeah, and 40 is the new 30. I remember 30 and it

didn't feel as bad as this. So I'm not digging the new the new 30. Yeah, it didn't hurt when I got out of bed when I was 30. Yeah,

the original 30 was a lot better. So I want to talk a little bit about last week's epic episode. Yes, you're, you're a big

epiphany episode. Well, yeah, we, uh, we don't get a whole lot of feedback. In the last episode, we got a ton of

feedback from my, uh, my little whiny, pissy, pussy party about how I couldn't get a job. So when did you get a lot of

things or tough all over, suck it up, bastard? No, I got a lot of actual encouragement. People are like, well, you're

only 41. So most people don't figure it out till they're a lot older, which is so that was some encouragement. Right. But when I was

listening to it, when we were doing the our dry run edits and, you know, checking the levels and all that stuff, I

was like, who the fuck is this guy? I have never been that pissy and moaning and whiny as far as I can remember. Well, I'll, I'll

give you not the whiny and the moaning, but you've definitely been that pissy. Okay, but I didn't even think I was that

pissy actually. I was more like, what was me the pity party? It was a pity party. Right. Well, you know, um, it, it's, it's been rough

economy has been rough. Uh, the job market has definitely been rough. Uh, and there's, um, I, I was talking to a really good

friend of mine that, that is a super high, like PhD level psychologist about a lot of this stuff, especially as I was

coming up to my 40th birthday. And she did mention to me that, that, that age 40 is when people tend to kind of

rethink their careers. Uh, they look at what they've been doing, because chances are they've been doing it for about 20 years,

which is a long time to do anything. And you start to question, well, what the fuck am I doing? Yeah. And, and do I want to keep doing this or, or

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