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Entrepreneurs, The Clock Is Ticking On Your Career

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Re: Entrepreneurs, The Clock Is Ticking On Your Career

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chrisyeh wrote: post #38
reason wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Except that having a child is a readily achievable goal that anyone can reach at any time they choose to. The decision to have a child, whether at a younger or older age, is almost entirely up to the two consenting adults. Hoping to strike it rich before the age of 45 is pretty much the complete opposite.

Ah, the young. Find a couple in their 40s, and ask them if having a child is a readily achievable goal any time they choose.

Yes, and that time constraint is due to biological processes that can be planned for ahead of time.

Re: Entrepreneurs, The Clock Is Ticking On Your Career

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Post by AznHisoka »

reason wrote: post #4

I really don't like the message of this post. I think the arbitrary expectations people in the startup world place on themselves do a great deal of harm. I actually regret being exposed to the startup world at such a young age of 17/18. I became totally obsessed with everything startups, especially the stories of newly christened millionaires at ages not much older than mine. I eventually began setting some ridiculou…

OP may be right and all, but it's not actionable, so that's why I think his message is harmful. It's encouraging entrepreneurs to worry, rush, and stress about how they should've gotten things done yesterday. It doesn't help you towards your goals at all.

Re: Entrepreneurs, The Clock Is Ticking On Your Career

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Post by chrisyeh »

AznHisoka wrote: post #42
reason wrote: post #4

I really don't like the message of this post. I think the arbitrary expectations people in the startup world place on themselves do a great deal of harm. I actually regret being exposed to the startup world at such a young age of 17/18. I became totally obsessed with everything startups, especially the stories of newly christened millionaires at ages not much older than mine. I eventually began setting some ridiculou…

OP may be right and all, but it's not actionable, so that's why I think his message is harmful. It's encouraging entrepreneurs to worry, rush, and stress about how they should've gotten things done yesterday. It doesn't help you towards your goals at all.

Ah, but it is actionable. Knowing when the tide is or isn't in your favor doesn't necessarily encourage you to worry, rush, and stress. It does encourage you keep the big picture of your career in mind.

Also, note that worry, rush, and stress could also be expressed as plan, move quickly, and focus. It's a matter of perspective.

Re: Entrepreneurs, The Clock Is Ticking On Your Career

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Post by aortega »

chrisyeh wrote: post #38
reason wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Except that having a child is a readily achievable goal that anyone can reach at any time they choose to. The decision to have a child, whether at a younger or older age, is almost entirely up to the two consenting adults. Hoping to strike it rich before the age of 45 is pretty much the complete opposite.

Ah, the young. Find a couple in their 40s, and ask them if having a child is a readily achievable goal any time they choose.

Men can easily have childrens on their 40s (not recommended though, it's hard work) but women cannot. It's sad to see that most intelligent, talented woman fall in the trap of their careers and die childless. If you are an intelligent entrepeneur woman in their 20's, do yourself a favor, stop to have some childrens and then resume your career.

Re: Entrepreneurs, The Clock Is Ticking On Your Career

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Post by Mz »

This stuff is always funny to me. I am going to be 47 next month. I have two adult sons in their twenties. I am routinely asked if I am their sister. People guess I am in my thirties. Meanwhile, the average life expectancy for my genetic disorder is mid thirties. So I joke that, in human years, I am the equivalent of an octogenerian...and, daang I look good for an eighty year old.

My plan is to be an entrepreneur. I think that is my only hope of making things work. Working for Da Man was helping to keep me sick and my health issues are the single biggest obstacle I have to success. Will it be a "start up" as in some company I can sell for millions some day? I have no idea. But I don't expect to be an employee again.

Re: Entrepreneurs, The Clock Is Ticking On Your Career

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Post by pudakai »

nostrademons wrote: post #35
gavanwoolery wrote: post #15

A lot of people seem to think this article is full of BS. Maybe. But I'm only 30 and felt that I've pissed away a lot of my younger years trying to become successful with 80 hour weeks. Maybe, by some slim chance, I will be successful when I am 40, but at that point I've already lost my youth. Is it worth it? I suppose it depends on your priorities.

I think a lot of that is because of an overly narrow and idealistic picture of success. I remember thinking in college that I'd half-ass my coursework so I could go do a major open-source project so that I'd have a kick-ass resume when I entered the working world. The project was nowhere near as kick-ass as I hoped (I did the software for fictionalley.org), but it did serve 100k people or so, and I didn't have any tr…

great post. Really, age is meaningless, the more meaningful number is how much time does one have left. Of course, nobody knows this with any certainty, so just proceed every day as if it were your last or the beginning of the next 1000 days, take your pick. (Yes, I understand at the extremes of age, odds start weighing heavily, but we're talking about 50 vs. 30 here).

I teach guitar, sometimes I'll get an older student, a beginner, who will ask, "Is it too late for me, I'm going to be 30 (40/50/60..) in x year". I always tell them, well, you are going to be 30 (40/50/60..) anyhow, lets just get on w/doing something you want to do.

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