Why is it hard to make friends over 30? (2012)
Get a hobby. Start going to a place where people practice it. I&#x27;m over 30 and board games work well for me. Most people I play with are younger. The oldest of us, resembling the one from French Connection, is a former programmer(?) and regularly mops the floor with other players, often at games he&#x27;s playing for the first time. I heard he attends dancing lessons too.<p>I think it&#x27;s a matter of getting your priorities right and not neglecting work&#x2F;life balance. My brother is a devops rather obsessed with career, progress, income, has wife and kids. If he sends you a message it&#x27;s usually because he&#x27;s about to follow up with something he needs of you. If he calls it&#x27;s usually past 20:00 and he&#x27;s not interesting in listening to you... then when he finishes talking he says he no longer has time. He regularly takes his work home. If he has a single friend, I&#x27;m not aware of that. He doesn&#x27;t read, doesn&#x27;t watch movies, no longer plays games. Doesn&#x27;t appear to be interested in anything but work.<p>My simple principle is work to live, not live to work. Work should enable decent living and a lifestyle where I can occasionally travel at my own will, buy some fancy items and eat well. If the workplace regularly organizes parties or sends people on delegations, I&#x27;ll look for another one. My brother says I could stockpile money much faster abroad. Stockpile... for what? Time is the resource you can&#x27;t replace.