(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2663620&forum_id=2#26254372)

That doesn't mean you'll be homeless if you switch at 33, but you'll probably never rise to management or anything like that. You'll live and die in a cubicle or at a glorified picnic table shared by professional Millennial tweeters.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2663620&forum_id=2#26254384)

peace corpsers -- The old ones, yes.

semi-pro athletes -- They're fucked once they decide that playing arena football for $30,000 is a good career move.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2663620&forum_id=2#26254522)

Yes: rigid careers fuck you, but at the same time, there are second career folks who start biglaw at 36.

Also, if you start a new career at 33, it's unlikely you are hired in at the ground-level as some intern. You are still lower than similarly aged peers, but you can still become management. Just later than normal.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2663620&forum_id=2#26254507)

The key, of course, is to have skills that are transferable from one career to another and/or to develop a broad set of skills that can more easily allow you to transition.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2663620&forum_id=2#26254516)

That's hardly switching careers.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2663620&forum_id=2#26254529)

Most career changers have a connection or link between their old and new careers. That's where having multiple (or at minimum transferable) skills becomes important.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2663620&forum_id=2#26254564)

In reality, 99% of careers allow some flexibility. Law and finance are two of the WORST possible careers if you don't GUN for it from a young age. Law is a little more forgiving, as odd as it is to say.

Plenty of PhD students start at 30. Plenty of people switch at like 28 to something new.

It also depends if you're going to need education for it or not.

I would say, all things being equal, you should be on a "track" by 30. Education done, job with upward potential, in the geographic area you want. If you do all that, you're on a good path and better than literally 90% of Millennial on face before looking at any other factors.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2663620&forum_id=2#26254523)

27/28 if its anything that requires a grad or professional degree (and hence requires u to go back to school for 2 or 3yrs)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2663620&forum_id=2#26256545)

And you said working ridiculous hours is incompatible with most people's post-30 lives because you have to work ridiculous hours and have no life outside of work. Most people would rather have no life in their 30s than in their 20s.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2663620&forum_id=2#26257039)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_X0bikvukY

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2663620&forum_id=2#26258219)