I am also in my 30s, and for a long time I didn't want kids or a family because I wanted to focus on my career. Eventually it became a sort of surrogate for family, where I thought to myself "Instead of a family, what I create as part of my career will be my legacy in the world". A delusion of grandeur that seems to be quite common among scientists and engineers, and I wasn't immune to it.

Enter Woke Capital and my departure from it, and the realization upon that departure that ultimately "building a career" is building something for someone else that you have no control over. And if they choose to exert that control in ways you don't like, you have no recourse.

And I'm still young enough to not think about it too often, but every now and then the thought of "who will take care of me when I'm too old to take care of myself?" creeps into my head, and I don't have a good answer. What I do know is that I don't expect Clown World to take good care of me when that time comes. I hear stories about how the nursing home treats my elderly grandmother and think I would rather die than experience that.

I have no answers and am not suggesting any particular course of action; simply describing my own personal journey.