You hear alot of noise about young people who manage to achieve great success because that is the exception, not the rule. For most people, success happens as a

You hear alot of noise about young people who manage to achieve great success because that is the exception, not the rule. For most people, success happens as a result of what you do in the next 10-15 years and very little of what you did before matters. However, I am starting to realize that the options I had before are simply no longer available as I get older. I'm never going to be a doctor or pilot or in the military, for example, as I chose to go into software instead. While I could have simply decided 10 years ago to drop everything and do something different, there's no time to do that now and expect to have the same level of success that I would have had if I kept going with what I'm doing now.