When you are 20 and you are given an opportunity of growing fast through learning from experience, you are willing to do anything including brick laying and if you are actually super-capable by the time you are 30 or 35 you have no matches (and not in just brick laying).
But this is because you moved by hand thousands of bricks, and tons of mortar, and lots of double shifts and working weekends, and you did that because it was an opportunity to grow AND you were a blank sheet to begin with.
When you get 30 you have some 5 years of college, if in US a huge student debt, and 5 years of failures in getting an adequate job, possibly a family, you simply won't be able to put in the energy and the time that you already spent.
In a nutshell if you start from the bootom at 30 in this field you need to be super-super-capable, and it is rare enough, because if you were really super-super-capable you would have alredy found another job, another field, etc. and be successful at it.
>because if you were really super-super-capable you would have alredy found another job, another field, etc. and be successful at it.
Job markets aren't efficient at matching supply to demand. Trying different opportunities takes a large amount of time. I can't hit up construction, IT, healthcare, physics, retail, banking, and academic industries in a week to find out if I'm cut out for at least one of them.
> I can't hit up construction, IT, healthcare, physics, retail, banking, and academic industries in a week to find out if I'm cut out for at least one of them.
Sure, but the hypothetical 30ish super-super-capable would have had roughly 5 years (not just one week) to find something better before starting brick laying, and this is the typical CATCH 22, if you are super-super-capable it doesn't take you 5 years to fail to find something.
When you are 20 and you are given an opportunity of growing fast through learning from experience, you are willing to do anything including brick laying and if you are actually super-capable by the time you are 30 or 35 you have no matches (and not in just brick laying).
But this is because you moved by hand thousands of bricks, and tons of mortar, and lots of double shifts and working weekends, and you did that because it was an opportunity to grow AND you were a blank sheet to begin with.
When you get 30 you have some 5 years of college, if in US a huge student debt, and 5 years of failures in getting an adequate job, possibly a family, you simply won't be able to put in the energy and the time that you already spent.
In a nutshell if you start from the bootom at 30 in this field you need to be super-super-capable, and it is rare enough, because if you were really super-super-capable you would have alredy found another job, another field, etc. and be successful at it.