Well, as of last Tuesday, I have officially been in my thirties for two years. So far, I have to tell you, it kind of sucks!
Basically, there seems to be two lifestyle choices -
Get married, kids, house and lock yourself into a life of repetition, aggrivation and misery
Live alone and become the weird single older guy as all your friends get married or move away
If movies have taught me anything, any minute now my girlfriend is going to break up with me and I’m going to inheret a kid.
Then again, there’s my plan:
What happened to get married, have kids and enjoy being with people who love you and whom you love? (I don’t have a house, so I can’t speculate about that.)
I’m not urging you to get married or have kids, if that’s not what you want. I was just a bit startled by the marriage = misery equation.
Odd, I’m always startled when a man doesn’t act like marriage = the end of life.
Have to agree.
I’m a little bored, having not gone the marriage route. I spend my time on myself, which certainly has it’s advantages. But I find I keep having to up the ante to get a buzz.
Part of the problem is that most of my friends at this age ARE married and settled, so it’s not like when we were younger and hung out all the time.
Wait a sec, I’m supposed to be aggrivated and miserable? Sonofa- Why does nobody tell me these things?
Yeah, see THATs’ what I miss! All of a sudden I’ve become “Frank the Tank” going shopping at Home Depot on Saturdays and taking the girlfriend to Olive Garden!
Just a minute… You have a girlfriend?!
So what the heck are YOU complaining about? Some of us are 30 something and SINGLE!
Don’t worry, in a couple more years you’ll be able to fully occupy yourself shoring up all the bits that time and gravity are trying to drag down.
35–that’s when it hits.
Eh?
When I was your age, I had already bought a house, had my tubes tied, had started a career in IT, bought a new car and was actually enjoying the fruits of my decisions.
It’s really all in your outlook. 
Yeah, you got nothin’.
How about this:
30 something
single (not dating anyone)
just moved to a new town where we don’t know anyone
unable to find decent (or even indecent) social events in said town.
Another Friday night with Chinese food and a bad movie. At least this is one I haven’t seen before.
I like option Athena: Be married (more or less), dogs instead of kids, buy a great house, and kick back and enjoy yourself.
I love being 30 something:
d) Have shit together, have boyfriend (or girlfriend as appropriate), do whatever the hell I want, whenever the hell I want, with whomever the hell I want.
It’s lovely. 30’s are way better than 20’s.
Hey man, I’m with Alice and Athena.
You think being 30-something sucks?
Dude, it sure as hell beats the alternative.
I got married at 39. Since then, I haven’t spent a nanosecond being miserable about anything! It was the cure for my misery. I find it odd that you could equate one with the other. Don’t have the kind of crappy marriage you’ve witnessed at other peoples’ houses, have the best kind you and your spouse can create. And enjoy your 30s. Might as well, you ain’t gettin’ them back!
I’m doing 3 & loving it. I like being in my 30’s - I am more at peace with life, career and self than I ever have been - and I am still cool to the kids & teenagers in the family, unlike all the other grownups.
Yes, being thirty-something DOES kind of suck, especially when you get to that point and realize: you haven’t done anything worthwhile with your life and may very well never, because that’s just the way it goes sometimes.
I’m liking my 30’s a lot, so far. I feel like I wasted my 20’s, and now I’ve got the chance to do it right. Which means that by the time I’m 70, I’ll only be 60. This is great!