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25 is young to feel like you are "losing at life". I was 35 when I started my first startup, completely bootstrapped. I ploughed all my savings (considerable amount) into the startup over a 5 year period, with lots of rollercoaster moments during that time.

From someone who previously earned a lot of money and now had a family to support, this was incredibly hard. I almost gave up a few times. Actually, I try give up once or twice by finding a job, but circumstances conspired to make me keep going.

7 years on, and things are much better now, and the business is actually doing quite well, and is a nice lifestyle business.

Seriously, 25 is young. You have loads of time to fail. Better to do it now, then when you have family obligations. That's when things are very different.

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Car rental firms won't even rent you a car until you turn 25, and that's because your brain has only just stopped developing.

Please get some perspective, and stop caring caring what others think. It's liberating to drop something that isn't working. It sounds like you might be in a culture where failure is shameful, but who cares. Hold your head high and say 'yeah, that didn't work out, learnt a lot, doing something new now'.

It's only a failure at that age if you didn't absorb any of the lessons. At least you didn't waste the time doing a useless college degree in a field nobody cares about.

> 25 is young

25 is more like the end of the childhood, really :)

You have no idea how young 25 is until you're, say, 30. I didn't even find the right career path at 25. I just started in tech around 28.

My 90 year old grandmother told me 2 weeks ago how young I am. I am 42. It is never too late to do something new.

Indeed. My mother founded an educational software start-up at 60. 4 years later it's doing rather well actually.

>It is never too late to do something new.

Absolutely. Our individual lives aren't even a blip on the radar of life as a whole on our planet, let alone our universe. We get a very short amount of time to live, even shorter to live well (health, mobility, etc.). The idea of going to do something you dislike every day for 30-40 years of that very short time is just about the anti-thesis of what we should be doing with our time here.

You have no idea how young 30 is until you're, say, 40. :)

Yeah, I just turned 40, tell me about it :)

You have no idea how young 40 is until you're say, 50 :)

around 32 in my opinion.

As someone contemplating starting my own lifestyle business I would be interested in hearing more details.

same here.

I'm currently in your stage. Would love to hear more about your experience. How do I contact you?

FWIW, I didn't achieve career or entrepreneurial success until my 30's.

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