I'm 29 years old, and the biggest blocker in my recent life has been the regret of wasted time. I left my job in late 2013 to travel and work on my own projects, but the project-making has been very slow and sporadic at best. In aggregate, I feel like I've literally wasted about 4 years of my life — just dumped into the trash — and I don't know how to deal with that fact. (At least people with failed startups have "the journey" to learn from. Not the case when you literally can't get any work done.) Part of me feels that I should go get a real job at this point, but a) I'm pretty sure I'm now behind engineers in my age group by half a decade, and b) it will feel like giving up on my ambitions. These thoughts keeps me up at night.
I wish there was some magic phrase that would convince me it's not too late to catch up. If we have aspirations, how do we stop comparing ourselves to other people?
I wish there was some magic phrase that would convince me it's not too late to catch up. If we have aspirations, how do we stop comparing ourselves to other people?