Here’s a fact: Most of your working life will probably happen after your twenties. You’ll most likely still have more than half left to go after your thirties.

And yet there’s this overwhelming sense that you have to predict exactly what career you’ll love right out of the gate, know the precise path you need to follow to get there, and be doing it already—successfully—in the first decade of what will hopefully be a very long road.

But what if you don’t? Or what if you do, and then decide later that you want to do something else?

Why are we so resistant to the idea of going after something new in our 40s? Or 50s? Or 60s? Or 70s? Or later? The idea feels foreign, maybe a little uncomfortable, in a culture that’s fascinated by child prodigies and constantly manufacturing 30-under-30 lists. But should it be?

Charlotte Clymer says absolutely not. And her answer resonated with thousands. Clymer, a press secretary at the Human Rights Campaign, recently posted a thread to Twitter that went viral—garnering more than 200,000 likes in total and thousands of retweets.

“So much of American culture is based on youth being vigorous and cool and full of potential,” Clymer tells The Muse. “There’s a whole genre of media stories of child prodigies in math or science or chess or sports. We don’t have enough awareness of folks who do start late in life after they’ve been doing something else and go after their dreams because they have the skills to do it.”

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