10 unnecessary stupid facts about becoming 30 years old

It has been over four years for me, but I still feel the hangover in the distance when I close my eyes. I didn't mind turning 30 back then, but after these ten facts, I'm not so sure anymore. Is 30 years old (for a while) or is that dirty thirty approaching? Just read along.

1. It must feel very special to have a birthday, but in reality, this year 231,999 millennials are turning 30 together with you. By the way, you're not just a millennial, but because of your birth year, you're also part of Generation Einstein.

2. Around the age of thirty, 1 in 33 men and 1 in 25 women are still virgins. And I'm not talking about zodiac signs.

3. An average person has gone through more than seven jobs by their thirtieth birthday, and you're on your way to the eighth. Let me quickly count back from when I was thirteen: a paper route (1), bulb peeling (2), the flower shop (3), Bruna (4), Gall & Gall (shared 4), in a restaurant (5), temp work during my studies (6), a part-time job in PR (7), freelance journalist (8), content manager (9), and at thirty, I became the editor-in-chief of Amayzine (10). I thought it was a bit much, but I see that I'm actually raising the average quite a bit.

4. At this age, you've at least thought once about how old you actually found people who were 30 years old back then. Aiiii.

5. Good resolutions also immediately go out the door when you turn 30. The chance is actually 26 percent lower that you have them, but there is a good but to this story. It is also much more likely that you will stick to a good resolution after your thirtieth birthday. So maybe it's time to go to the gym.

6. The first people (youth, yes) have already addressed you in the polite form. After the initial shock, you wanted to push the word ‘You’ back to where it came from as hard as possible. But you did nothing but laugh it off and stammer a bit.

7. At thirty, you are older than 42 percent of Americans. Wow, what a young crowd that actually is.

8. In the year you were born, the world wide web went live with the very first web page. Wow, just imagine a life without typing that ‘www’. I think thirty-somethings would know a lot less for sure.

9. In your twenties, you would get really annoyed if someone asked for your ID in the supermarket; after your thirtieth, it's one gigantic compliment for which you don't quite throw a party.

10. It is very likely that at thirty, you sometimes stay home for fun on the weekends, have a birthday calendar, and open your mail immediately. Yes, there you go.

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