What you're looking for young man is a recipe for unhappiness. Of pure, unadulterated misery.
Because life works in strange ways. And while having personal goals and working towards achieving them is a virtue. Establishing rigidity or arbitrary social conformities that "you HAVE to be successful by age x" is what makes you truly unhappy as you find yourself passing that age gap.
I read something almost a decade ago that had one of the biggest impact on me. I rewrote it for you below from what I can remember - adding a couple more examples.
The UK is five hours ahead of the USA, but it does not mean that the USA is slow, and it does not mean that the UK is faster than the US. Both countries are working based on their own “Time Zone.”
Some one is still single..Someone got married and ‘waited’ ten years before having a child, there is another who had had a baby within one year after marriage.
Someone graduated at the age of 22, yet waited 5 years before securing a job; and there is another who graduated at the age of 27 and secured employment just after getting out of college.
Stan Lee created the Fantastic Four when he was 40 year old. And we have the MCU today. Toni Morrison, who has written some amazing Novels - didn't write her first one till she was 39. She won the Nobel and came into the public eye, when she was 62.
When Ray Kroc visited his first McDonalds and had his first fast food burger, and then proceeded to buy the rights to it all and laid the foundation stones of a conglomerate, he was a 52 year old man.
There are teenage CEOs. And there are people who assume leadership roles later in life.
Everyone worked based on their ‘Time Zone’..
Some people have everything that work fast for them. Work in your “time zone”.
Colleagues, friends, relatives and associates, and even younger folks around you might “seem” to go ahead of you. Don’t envy them, it’s their ‘Time Zone.’.
Don’t get into comparison mode as everyone comes with his individual time zone destiny to learn their unlearn lessons of life…
You seem to have a perspective and a goal in life. Work towards it, be realistic about it. Establish protocols around it.
See what happens in the next year, work harder the following year or tone down. Concentrate on health, on family, on friends.
Finally, see if the "travel" lifestyle suits you. It's not for everyone. Most people prefer being grounded.
Work towards your freedom. But don't establish obnoxious benchmarks on something as arbitrary as "success".
