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I'm 37 and can relate to this. I lived and worked in another country for a pretty long time and was forced to move back home due to layoffs. I dont really know anybody apart from my family members any longer because I was away for so long. I don't feel bad about it all the time but there are days when I too feel hollow and long for some social life. I don't have a lot of answers, traveling has helped me to connect with other travelers a bit, that's one thing.

Based on all these sorts of articles, it feels like the only way to advance your career in the US is to get into management at some point. In the EU, and Finland where I'm from, there's nothing wrong and there's a path for being a more senior IC long term, working on more and more complex tasks. The culture is different though, there is not always the same kind of hierarchy as in the US either.

I guess in the US a similar path could be a Staff Engineer role where you could stay more technical I guess.

Im currently living in S Korea and most the people I see have Samsung Note 3's. I think they've sold 10 million of them here? I've also not seen more broken screens anywhere else than here. Teenagers and young peoples phones screens are broken. They use them so much they drop them a lot more probably and also might be partly because of the alcohol.