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⌈ Secret Post #3002 ⌋

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[Transformers: More than Meets the Eye/Transformers: Robots in Disguise]

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[Gary Barlow, Take That]

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[Sherlock Holmes]

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[Criminal Minds/Law and Order: SVU]

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[Gekkan shoujo Nozaki-kun]

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[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (episode: Prom Night)]

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[Breaking Bad]

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[Night Shift]

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[Neil Patrick Harris, Stephen Fry, Neil Gaiman, Stephen Colbert]

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[clockwise from bottom left: Dinosaur Comics, Romantically Apocalyptic, Homestuck, Nedroid, Sfeer Theory, Bite Me!]

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[Dragon Age]

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I'm having one of these days where I feel old, and a failure.

Tell me of all the awesome people who did awesome stuff after 30.

Uhhh... basically every person to win a Nobel prize since the 80's has been over the age of 40. In fact, the median age for Nobel prize winners is now edging past 50.

That's kind of not a useful statistic, because most people don't really win a prize until well after their most noteworthy work.

It may still be a good example, but what we should be looking it is when they did the work that won them the prize, not when they got the prize.

No no herpy's incorrect. The age of the prize winners is in their 60s-80s on average now, and most of them did their prize-winning work in their late 40s-early 50s.

For reference: http://www.nature.com/news/2011/111107/full/news.2011.632.html

I was trying to think of specific examples when I remembered this segment from CBS's "Sunday Morning" two weeks ago (the opening about the bulldog is relevant to the rest of the profile, I promise). It's about older people discovering their passions or interests later in life.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/its-never-too-late-to-be-a-late-bloomer/

"F. Scott Fitzgerald liked to say there were no second acts in American life. I think he was describing his own life, quite frankly. He achieved enormous success at age 25, and he died at age 44. So he didn't have a second act." - Forbes Magazine editor Rich Karlgaard

thank you!

Roald Amundsen began the first successful navigation of the Northwest Passage when he was 31. And then when he was 39, he led an expedition to the South Pole.

I'm actually surprised he wasn't older than that when he did it.

Wallace Stevens didn't publish his first poems (outside of undergraduate literary journals) until he was 35, and his first book came out when he was 44. And he's still one of the foremost American modernist poets.

I got a job that would eventually pay me 6 figures at 30, and was 37 or 38 before I stopped constantly worrying that everybody would realize I sucked and fire me.

My cousin didn't get a bachelor's degree until she was 40, and I think she might be the only one in our family to have one at all.

SA

Whoops, I'm a twonk and didn't notice you were looking for famous people.

Dittoing what everybody else said about scientists, writers and political figures.

Also Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, who safely landed the plane in the Hudson, was well over 30 at the time. I think the pilots of United 282 were, too.

*United 232

That's okay, regular people examples are also encouraging. I said famous people because I wanted to keep it in the fandom spirit, but I liked reading your reply :)

Yay, I'm glad it was helpful! In my industry (aviation) a lot of people get into it as a second career (because they need a first one to be able to afford flight training). Pilots often don't start making real money until they're in their 30s/40s or older and have quite a few years of experience. Even air traffic controllers can get hired at 30 and take 3-4 years to make it through training (more if they wash out at their first facility, which quite a few do).

Alan Rickman was a struggling, largely unknown actor until he was 41.

I actually didn't know!

He was a struggling actor who became a carpenter to support himself and family until he got a supporting role in American Graffiti when he was 31. He was 35 in Star Wars, 39 in Raiders of the Lost Ark, and 50 in Patriot Games.

I don't know if it helps, but me and a close friend in my field are 26 and 27 are only just now finishing our BAs due to life circumstances. My professor's former assistant is 32, is in the process of getting her MA. My prof herself is in her 40s and still has plans on getting her PHD. She keeps it as a goal for herself.

Famous people? off the top of my head right now, Hunter S. Thompson was a prolific writer but didn't get any real attention paid to him until he was in his 30s writing political stuff even though he wanted to be writing novels (he's only ever published one), and kept gaining popularity as he got older. How has it been ten years since his death? Anyway...

I only got my MA at 27 myself - which I think is part of the problem. Chronologically, I'm missing a few years, and I'm in the same life phase as people 4-5 years younger than me. Also the vast majority of my "missing" years were not spent doing anything that contributed to experience in any way. Right after I graduated I felt like i had all the time in the world, but now something got flipped in m brain, and I feel like it's too late for everything; Sorry for the rant.

Cormac McCarthy didn't write his most famous novels until he was in his 60s.

Anthony Bourdain was a chef for 28 years and at 40+ years of age when he wrote Kitchen Confidential, which led to a failed TV show, a travel show on the Food Network and then No Reservations on the Travel Channel. I'm sure there are days when he can barely wrap his head around how different his life is at 50+ than the year he turned 40.

Here's a post on tumblr with some more, also talking about why the "wunderkind" phenomenon is bullshit:

http://zoddamnit.tumblr.com/post/114678453499/nomadicwolfcub-iwanttobelikearollingstone

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