Like the First Stanza of The Friends Theme Song...

 For the(somehow) uninitiated who are young or off taking the Jeopardy test:

So no one told you life was going to be this way.
Your job's a joke, you're broke, you're love life's DOA.
It's like you're always stuck in second gear,
When it hasn't been your day, your week, your month, or even your year.

(Except for the part where I'm not secretly adorable and making folks think I'd be nice to bang while I'm hanging out on the Oprah show.) I think Jacqueline and I might have both chosen Matthew Perry as a favorite based on how he blushed about that.

 My year?  I think I've had a number of awkward and unsuitable *decades*

I guess some people are "There for me,", but if this really was a show, maybe the beginning song would be

Carole King's " So Far Away"

EDITED TO ADD:
I guess we've been a lot more *broke*, but I do know people who know a great deal more than we do. It can seem easy to feel pretty poor.

source: https://www.lyricsondemand.com/tvthemes/friendslyrics.html