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I am turning 27, and feel I have wasted a lot of time. Is it too late?

• orionblastar 14y ago
  It is never too late. I am assuming this is about doing a startup. I am in my early 40's and I am trying to do two startups on my own with nobody helping me, with a crippling mental illness, while on disability. I seek to better myself, beat my mental illness, and find a way off disability. You never give up, you keep on trying. If I only were 27 again, I'd have more energy, startups would want me more than a 40something person. In my lifetime I learned over 37 different programming languages, most are obsolete. I can learn and adapt to almost any modern programming language because I know theories and concepts from the other languages to learn how the modern ones work. Something I can offer that the 27 year-olds cannot is knowledge, experience, wisdom, and learning from not only my own mistakes but the mistakes of others.
• georgemcbay 14y ago
  Of course YMMV completely depending upon what you mean by "wasted time" but I am turning 40 this year and I feel as if I haven't wasted enough time. Virtually all of my fond memories from my 20s and 30s were formed during "wasted" time (at least as your stereotypical entrepreneur/workaholic would define it).
• lutusp 14y ago
  My answer has two parts: 1. Yes, by posting to the private forum Quora, you are certainly wasting your time and cheating yourself out of a larger audience. Choose a public forum, not one that requires visitors to sign up. 2. You're asking this at 27? I'm 67 and I don't need to ask this kind of question. I still have many goals and I'm likely to achieve them, but only if I don't waste precious time asking whether it's "too late". In short, if your heart is beating, then it's not too late. At risk of quoting a tired old saying, today is the first day of the rest of your life.
  • rman666 14y ago
    Awesome answer, 'lutusp'!