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If you look at this moment 10 years from now, you'd be surprised how early it is for you. Eric Yuan founded Zoom at the age of 41. David Baszucki was 41 years old when he created Roblox with cofounder Erik Cassel, who was 36 at the time. Stan Lee created his first hit comic, "The Fantastic Four," just shy of his 39th birthday, in 1961. Samuel L. Jackson has been a Hollywood staple for years now, but he'd had only bit…
You need to create some way to keep yourself accountable and to make an effort everyday, no matter how small, toward you're goal. It takes work and a lot of time, but you can do it!
I see these posts on hackernews quite often. I'm assuming some it is due to cultural differences in certain parts of the world because to me these questions silly especially for someone in their 30s. Maybe if you were on your 60s or 70s these questions would seem more reasonable to me. I restarted in my late 30s, now late 40s I've my own SE business and have team members and it's non-stop opportunities. And I'm just…
> IMO and IME, If you want to do something, and you have drive, desire and believe you can and you want to, go for it, don't let age, disabilities, gender, or other people stop you.
100% agree
Did a lot of low-rent freelance media work, video and audio ad production, and started doing websites. That's just gotten better over the last 12 years.
Stuff takes time. 5 years is a lot longer than you'd think if you're 35.
Also, while I don't think I could get a gig at a bigco, that's okay- there are a lot of boring, okay paying jobs out there in small companies. For me the entry was doing shit websites at an agecny for $12/hr to build a resume, and then 5 years of freelancing at ever increasing rates. That's a shitty hustle and I'd probably just go get my journeyman electrical if I had to do it over again.
But it can be done.
One of the best things to happen to me is to start playing music with 60 and 70 year olds in my mid 30s. The reality it showed me is that 35 is quite young and 5 years is a long time.
I had spent the past few years of my IT life learning PHP and at 39 I landed a job as a developer at another state agency. Not only was it a career reset, but an entire life reset. I turned 40 with absolutely nothing. I'm about to turn 44, and am flirting with 6 figures between my state salary and my side gigs. I have a savings for the first time in my adult life and a stable home life.
it's absolutely possible and I didn't even try very hard.
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If you consider a nobody to be a Judge, Senator, and Vice President.
Sorry, I messed up the story in my original post. It was about the vice-president nomination.
Prior to this she was a pianist.