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Here's your money briefing for Thursday, July 13th. I'm JR Whalen for the Wall Street Journal.

For some people, age is more than just a number. It represents a series of milestones for accomplishing key goals in life.

There's a lot of pressure, this idea that I should make a certain amount of money by the time I turn 30.

That I should have a certain job title. But what I heard from a lot of people, what am I kind of running toward anyway?

How much does this milestone even matter?

We'll talk to Wall Street Journal work in life columnist Rachel Feinsick after the break.

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Many of us have an internal timeline that dictates by what age we should get promoted at work or buy a home or get married.

WSJ work in life columnist Rachel Feinsick is here to discuss why it might make sense to toss those preconceived notions aside.

So Rachel, you mean we can escape the shackles of the adage time has passed me by?

Many of us are still kind of plagued by the weight of these milestones and the feeling that we're not doing things at the right pace.

Our life expectancy is changing in the way that we think about a lot of these things, whether it's work or love or where we live or what we own should be evolving too.

Why do we have these timelines in our heads that chart milestones as to when things are supposed to happen in our lives?

Well, it's really funny. They seem to be a part of us. There was one study out of Stanford that showed that the age that we think people should do things, whether it's like get your first job or get married,

hasn't really changed that much. So even as we are doing things later and later, people still have this expectation that like I should be getting married at the same age that my parents did or having a kid at the same age that my parents did.

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