What age range are you at your best? 20's? 30's? 40's? 50's?.....

[James Wise]

I figured this would be an interesting discussion to have. I am really excited to hear from the folks who are much older than I am on this one. As they say "you don't know what you don't know"

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What age range do you think you ARE, WILL, or HAVE BEEN at your best in your career?

When we are young we are often inexperienced. With age often comes wisdom and success but it also comes with a slow down. We loose our never ending energy and begin to slow down. We focus more on family and enjoyment when we've crossed off a lot of our life goals.

Me personally, I am 32 right now. I didn't come from any money and when I was in my 20's I worked a ton of crappy jobs including managing a Radio Shack, stocking pop for 7up, delivering pizza and installing / selling Invisible Fences but I had a plan to make it big. I got started on this plan at 21 but it wasn't until I was 27ish and burning both ends of the candle for several years that I was able to completely quit my regular job(s) and devote myself full time to my real estate business. 

Today I run a portfolio of companies with 60+ employees and have sold over $150M of investment real estate so my plan worked but if you talked to me 10+ years ago I was just some schmo schlepping pop onto shelves at grocery stores working for bosses I knew I was smarter then but wasn't ready to put it all together just yet so I was the only one who knew or believed this. 

I still work everyday as I write this. Probably put in 65+ hours a week but truth be told I am not working as much as I was when I was 25-30 and it was do or die. At that time it was a 6am-Midnight grind every day. I've got a son now (more on the way) and am putting much more emphasis on a work / life balance than I was a few years ago. So with that said, I'd say my late 20's I worked the most and the hardest but it's likely that my 30's will probably be the decade that I was at my best as I won't be ready to slow down from what I am currently doing but will be working the smartest now that I've got some experience to goal along with the resources that I've built for myself. As I hit my 40's and beyond I see myself going down to a "normal" 40 hour work week.

So with all of that said what age range do you think you ARE, WILL, or HAVE BEEN at your best in your career?

• 20's?
• 30's?
• 40's?
• 50's?
• 60's+?