It's TOO LATE to get your life together in your 30s

For some reason or another, I don't know if it's society, if it's the way we're brought up, if it's social media, our parents, we all think we need to have everything figured out by the time we're 25. And if we don't have our lives together by the time we're 30, we're just losers and there's no hope for us. I wanted to make this video just to let people know that even if you wasted your 20s and you partied, or you drank and did drugs, or played video games the whole time, or just didn't do much, it is a hundred percent possible to turn your life around and make changes in your 30s to improve your life, to improve your finances, to improve your health, to improve your mental health, and just be a better person, make more money, and live the life you want.

So a lot of people who watch my videos already kind of know my story, but for those of you who might be here for the first time, I want to just tell you a little bit about myself. I'm 37 years old now, I just had a birthday recently (yay! ).

At 32 years old, I landed my first programming job after teaching myself how to code for almost a year. Before learning how to code, I worked a lot of customer service jobs. I've been a waiter, I've been a valet attendant, I've been a bellman, I've worked retail, and I've done a lot of odd jobs.

When I was younger, I was a juvenile delinquent. I was arrested a bunch of times as a teenager, I was in trouble all the time, and I never really had any direction. I did make a few good decisions in my late 20s when I met my wife and we were dating, we decided to buy a house together and that ended up being a good financial decision for us.

But that was probably the only smart thing I ever did (was buy a house and fix my credit). Other than that, I didn't do anything. I've said it a bunch of times in a bunch of other videos, but my 20s was just a big blur of me drinking and playing video games and just wasting my time and my life.

Right around the time I was 31 years old, just about to turn 32, my wife and I were going to have our first kid. At this point, I was parking cars at a strip club in Las Vegas, I was making okay money but it wasn't anything I can do for a long time and I really had no future. I had no skills outside of waiting tables and parking cars that could bring me in any money.

I was going to have to figure out how I could make a living and actually have something that I can do for the next, you know, 10, 20 years or so. And parking cars for dancers and strip club customers wasn't gonna cut it. So after a lifetime of just being a degenerate, I decided that I was gonna improve my life, I decided to pick up a skill that would help me provide my family with a better life, and I taught myself how to code.

I spent almost a whole year doing that. There were a lot of ups and downs, there were a lot of times when I thought it wasn't possible, but eventually, I did land a job as a web developer and I've been working as a software developer now for almost five years. If you ask anyone who knows me, no one would have expected me to be able to accomplish this.

I know that when I was learning how to code, there was probably a lot of people who thought I was crazy. "You're crazy, you're crazy," because I would tell them how I saw people on the internet who said that they did it, and I was following YouTube videos and doing free tutorials online to teach me how to do it. And although nobody said it to my face, I'm sure there were a lot of people thinking that I was wasting my time.

I'm glad that I did it, and I'm glad that I decided to stick with it. And now that I'm almost 40, I realized something that I wish I would have learned before, at any point in time, you can change the direction of your life, you can do just about anything you put your mind to. I remember adults telling me that, I remember teachers telling me that, I remember my probation officer telling me that when I was 17 years old, just coming off of probation right before I moved to Las Vegas.

And I didn't listen to any of them, I just went about doing the same stuff I was always doing until I was scared straight. I was scared straight because I was having a kid and I didn't want to be a loser dad, I didn't want my kids to have the struggle, I didn't want to be 50 years old waiting tables, and I didn't want to be 50 years old parking cars. The formula for how I did it is out there, I talked about it on my channel, but I don't know how I followed through with it.

It was a lot of perseverance, it was a lot of grit, it was a lot of consistency, it was just me deciding to do something and sticking with it. And that's something that I never really did before in my life because, I was just always that kind of person who would pick things up and put it down and never followed through with anything, and I was definitely an underachiever. Now I realize that I can do anything I want.

And I'm doing a lot of other things now to try to help myself get ready for an early retirement, make passive income, build different streams of income, and make more money. I was able to do the learning how to code thing and I accomplished that. Now I want to move on to the next thing because for such a long time I was my own worst enemy and I didn't let myself see that all of these things were possible because of my own self-doubts and maybe the way that I was raised to think and the way that I just never thought in abundance and never realized that all of this stuff is out there for the taking.

You just gotta work really hard, you gotta get up every day and do what you need to do to go get it. And that's really the big secret. So if you're in your 30s now, if you're in your 40s, in your 50s, and you haven't lived the best life up to this point and you're looking to make a change and you stumbled across this video, I hope it helps you.

Believe me when I tell you that if I can do this stuff, you can too. Everyone's advantages and disadvantages are different. Some of us are worse off than others, some of us are better off than others.

But regardless of your circumstances, regardless of your situation, with the internet you have the ability to learn anything and do anything you want. I try not to do too many of these videos because I feel like a self-help guru. Here in my garage, just bought this new lamborghini here, and I don't like coming off as that.

But I do like sharing my story because I'm just trying to let you know that it's possible. So go get it, alright? With all that said, thanks for watching and I'll see you next time.