On Turning 30, I have a terrible addiction to new ideas

FTA: I’m turning 30 and I’ve produced no amazing art. Shit.<p>There are •millions• of people who feel this way.<p>I was one of them at age 42.<p>I was in retail for 25 years until the Great Recession, and though I could achieve $35 an hour in malls at Xmas (and later, RadioSnack), it was unfulfilling.<p>——&gt; After the age of fifty, I leveraged my talent to create a public persona that created Comedy and Music, while showing people they actually have Superpowers (abilities they had no idea they possessed).<p>Doing this in front of theater lines, I managed to hit $50&#x2F;hr. fairly consistently, albeit not full time…however it is extremely fulfilling and my art is appreciated.<p>Keeping The Faith - Billy Joel<p>——————<p>For those who wish to see what I created, take the last E off my username, add the postal abbreviation for Alaska and go to my YouTube uploads…and depending on YouTube for income is a treadmill. Blaze your own trail in the real world.

I think that&#x27;s a Rite of Passage.<p>It&#x27;ll be interesting to for you to look back at 40 and 50. I think you&#x27;ll be saying almost the opposite, that most of those new ideas have been discarded, and that you&#x27;ve only kept a few.<p>Personal computing arrived when I was about 35, around 1980. For about the next 4-5 years I tried to keep to the &#x27;cutting edge&#x27;. I had to give up on that when I finally recognised that I just wasn&#x27;t capable of learning enough, fast enough, to be able to stay on that &#x27;cutting edge&#x27;. The field was growing too fast. There was just too much to take in.<p>I picked a couple of areas, and concentrated on those, instead of spreading myself too thin on all of them.