Are you too old to do something ?

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I don't know why but I seem to feel for some reason that 31 is quite late now to start something like a career in music or sing even though I can't sing, I remember trying to learn the bass but after a while I felt like it was just too hard to do especially when learning from a song and get the notes right when listening to a song at the same time. In the end I stopped playing it. Drums are also probably more difficult than you think it is. It just frustrates me when I see people 10 years younger than me doing that now and appear to be at the peak of their career already. I do remember at school with my bass thinking I might be in a band soon, but that was just me fantasising. It does envy me that I can't sing sometimes or play the bass or drums sometimes. I know of course it is hard and it takes time to learn and someone may say ''well maybe you just give up easily or lose interest in it and then do something else because you are possibly desperate to achieve fame as a great singer or band.'' or ''May be you are too impatient to achieve something and can't take time to learn.'' I remember someone telling someone who was 46 that they had left it late to become a singer, even though there were people such as Susan Boyle who was 48 when she started her music career but a lot of people seem to look down on people who start something late in their lives and I seem to think it starts when they are in their 30s and 40s.

Last edited by chris1989 on 23 May 2021, 1:52 pm, edited 1 time in total.

31 isn't too old to start a career.

If 31 is too old 36 certainly is, so I guess I'll just give up and accept no longer trying.

Might as well put us 30-somethings in a retirement home and call it a day.

Seriously though, being in your 30s is not old, it's still fairly young and you've still got a lot of life ahead of you. Don't waste your young days thinking you're old, because when you really are old one day you'll look back and wish you had done more things while you still had the energy, your health and a lot of years ahead of you.

When I was unemployed in my late teens and early 20s, I felt I had very slim chance of finding a job because I was too young and inexperienced. But if I was unemployed now, I'd probably have a better chance of finding another job because I've had some experience in my 20s and I'm not too young but not too old either. Most employers of better paid jobs would rather take on a wise, energetic, reliable, mature 35-year-old than a young, clueless, immature 18-year-old with no experience.

I'll be 31 on June 1st and still have yet to tell my mom about the apartment
I will be moving into the Summer of next year.

As for you, 31 isn't too late to start something you've been wanting to accomplish.

I think that for when people turn 30 or over they perceive that all the freedom you had in your late teens and twenties is gone and now you must settle down and be more serious and start a family.

Only if you'd like to settle down, become boring and start a family. No one obliges you to do that though.

You're never too old to do anything.

More like the employers themselves question why someone 30+ is seeking an entry level job, why they haven't been more successful in their 20s. Sadly, it's a red flag and they're less inclined to hire.

In many lines of work, software development and nursing for example, beginning a career after age 30 isn't unusual, at least in the US. But a career in music usually begins in childhood. Also some trades e.g. plumbing or electrical work are probably hard to break into at that age.

I've heard a good starting job for someone 40+ is being a truck driver. It's difficult to learn how to drive the cab and manipulate the trailer, and it's a lot of long hours. However, it's not uncommon for men in their 30s, 40s, or even 50s to get into it; men who are too old to start a trade or entry-level career, but too young to retire.

Getting help from any unemployment firms that specialize in helping people with developmental conditions
(such as of course helping people on the spectrum) should be considered.

A supportive housing firm in Portland helped me find the apartment
I will be moving into the Summer of next year.

Sometimes people just want a change in career. I know a guy who has been in the same job at a car garage since he was 17 (he started out as a trainee). Now he's 32 and wants to switch to a guard job at a local museum, a different thing totally to what he was doing.
Also it's not always your fault if you didn't get a promotion in your 20s. It depends what job you do and what company you work for. Employers shouldn't look upon it as being useless.

Being a truck driver is physically demanding but if you're in good shape then you're not too old. There's probably also a financial commitment getting started.

I got my first entry level paid job at 26 and have been in that job ever since. My employers have never questioned me about the fact that I hadn't been in a paid job before even though I did do voluntary charity work.

Every age has certain widely-shared goals that you are not obliged to follow, but which usually become easier to follow in that particular age. The dating pool is larger in your 20s, opportunities for a career more numerous in your 30s, etc.

It's better to do whatever you want to do as soon as possible. There are far too many people who wanted to do something when they were young, never did it for whatever reason, then when they get past a certain age they might lose their physical abilities and suddenly the goal is forever out of reach.

Doing and failing leaves you with fewer regrets than not doing for fear of failure. Whatever you want to do, do it now.