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> After that, you can go and chase material stuff. Many new careers start at 50. A lot involve family. An option is semi-retiring at 25 and then really get into
by karmanyaahm 4y ago
> After that, you can go and chase material stuff. Many new careers start at 50. A lot involve family. An option is semi-retiring at 25 and then really get into hustling and stuff at 50, once you have the resources, skills, and connections.
As someone who is 17, from my (perhaps naive) perspective, do you know if you will even be alive at 50? Or will you have the energy/health to make an impact? A family now is good and all, but putting off making - ideas, impact, change - sounds like a recipe for disaster.
- bckr 4y agoI don't have kids, and I'm not certain I want them, but I've gotten to where I can understand that people would rather create people instead of ideas / impact / change. This is because, in some ways, nothing ever changes. Ideas will inevitably be remixes. Impact will just be percentages, non-unique contributions to systems. Change is reversible (see e.g. US Supreme Court). But having an important part in someone's life is non-fungible.
- muzani 4y agoI think if you don't have the burning desire for change, the ability, or the opportunity, the odds of failure are very high. If you do have all these conditions, then go for it. But otherwise, it might be best to wait, as age doesn't really diminish them. Also if you are raising kids, then the hedge is that you've probably raised multiple people who can bring the same impact or more. In many cultures, family companies like Samsung are quite common. Samsung did trading and only entered electronics when the founder was 50. But it was with Lee's children that Samsung became a major power.