 And stepping up and stepping out instead settles back in that easy chair at the menial desk job. And I'm just stuck. What are you, freaking Eeyore? Get up, man. Get up. Throw your shoulders back. Suck it up. Step out. I don't care how old you are. Some really great careers start in people's 50s, 60s, and 70s. Colonel Sanders never fried chicken publicly until he was 72. Wow.