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I spent my teens and 20's working, too. Turned down a different path when I was 33. Now I'm 39, and just recently ended up going back to a productive career -- but those years in between were absolutely the best of my life and I couldn't be more glad that I took them for myself.

Would some things have gone better if I'd done that with my 20's instead of my 30's? Undoubtedly. At the same time, other things made it much easier in my 30's -- for an obvious example, having money already saved up freed me from having to work some menial job to support myself during those years.

It's definitely not too late.



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