I think what you've said is all pretty understandable. I just want to point out that getting old isn't something that happens to everyone. Some people never get that chance! Remember to be grateful, even if there's lots about it that isn't fun. And hopefully it isn't all bad? I'm guessing you've got a huge amount of stability in your life. Hopefully you've got some great people in your corner too.

i'm an older worker as well. I just roll with it because there's nothing you can do about it anyway. Don't feel inferior because of your age. You have life experience that they don't.

Thank you. Now I know why I'm in the process of slowly drinking myself to death.

This made my day. I feel yah.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6Jlrth2Vc4

about feeling that getting old(er) is terrible,
but I don't really agree with it.
It's really only terrible if you see being young as better
and you're fighting it
instead of growing old with acceptance and grace.

Being a female, growing old would seem even worse
because of superficial societal programming that
says we're only worthwhile if we're young
and men losing interest if we're past our 20s,
but I have found it peaceful to not have to deal
with unwanted attention or worry about whether
I'm attractive enough.
I know that most guys, around my own age
will lose interest if they find out my actual age
rather than what I appear as.
I'm not going to start desperately spending on
youth-ifying lotions or plastic surgery.
More time to focus on friends and hobbies.

The most shocking thing I see every day is my own face in the mirror because I can't figure out how I can possibly be so young but look so old! Like most of us geezers, we still feel like the same people on the inside even though we may look like a different species to the young ones. However, remembering only too well how I felt at that age; that I would certainly never actually look that way myself, I don't even bother to concern myself with what they think about me because they aren't worried about what I think of them. I don't really care in fact, and that is one of the best things I can say about aging - you get to a point where you really just don't give a rat's ass about what other people think about you. It's the most liberating feeling ever!!

Embrace it and enjoy it. I'm having the best times of my life.

Yup. Just turned 50. And I, too, and surrounded by 25 to 35 YOs at work. Big new batch of them this year. Everyone says I look 10 years younger than I am, but man am I feeling it.
I am amazed at by what these youths know and don't know. Especially the don't know. Did schools stop teaching the stuff I was taught back in the day? Or did I just pay attention to the wrong stuff?
At least I don't have 30/40/50 thousand dollars of student debt albatrossed around my neck. Wow. Dunno how they can afford to live at all.
Oh, time to take my pill(s).