AskMen's Top 10 Things Men Should Not Do After 30

I consider this is my first “real” post in sticking with my new topic and is a taste of what I hope to be focusing on.  The rest was just intro.

I have been a frequent reader of the online men’s magazine AskMen.com for nearly a decade.  It is loaded with useful, interesting and sometimes humorous articles for men of all ages (though typically geared to younger men).

They put together a piece called “Top 10: Things Men Shouldn’t Do After 30”.  Allow me to run down the list and provide my insights.

1. Eat fast food. My first job was at McDonalds so I am disgusted by the stuff.  I do get a hankering for a quarter-pounder with cheese about once a year and I believe they are selling the McRib again for a brief time (both rare indulgences for me).  I am willing to part with these at 30.
2. Drive recklessly. I’m a good driver… depending on who you ask.  This should be easy for me.
3. Play video games obsessively.  A guilty pleasure!  Honestly I’m a HUGE video game player.  My friends and I are into the Call of Duty first person shooter games (PS3 – acegdl007 gamer tag if you wish to join me!).  It is a fair (but potentially difficult) habit to drop at 30.  Here is my plan.  I will sell or donate ALL of my PS3 games and even the controllers by age 30.  I plan on keeping the PS3 and upgrading to remote control for it because it does make a great Blue-ray player and also plays Pandora and Netflix.  That does however give me just under 500 days to play guilt free!
4. Live in a dorm room.  I’m in the clear here.  I have real furniture, walls without posters and with nice décor and it is relatively clean.  Plus my wife makes sure I don’t slip up too much on the last one.
5. Get a tattoo.  I have one and have contemplated getting a second.  I have 492 days to decide.
6. Binge drink.  Have not done this much since college.  I’m O.K. with that.
7. Live paycheck-to-paycheck.  Again, I am doing well with this one even in today’s economy.
8. Work at a dead-end job.  I am great at my job and my managers seem to love the work I do, but it is not exactly my dream job.  This one may need some work. (No pun intended.)
9. Be socially/politically clueless.  On the contrary I’m probably too socially/politically informed.  Throughout my later 20’s a second guilty pleasure of mine has been talk radio.  Politics is like reality TV to me.  You just can’t make up some of the ridiculous things that happen in political news.
10. Dress like a slob.  I have a decent fashion sense but there is room for improvement.

Overall I am doing well on my way to thirty.  Number 3, number 8 and a little bit of number 10 need some improvement.