02 May 2017

It’s easy to feel like you’re being left behind when you watch your friends finish their degrees just as you’re starting your own. Or when you watch them pay off a house when you’re on your last dollar travelling overseas…

In your twenties, it’s easy to think you’re becoming nothing short of a failure. You’ll never travel again. You’ll never buy a house. You’ll never find your passion. You haven’t even started climbing the ranks in a company so good luck earning anything substantial….

But this list of successful celebs shows you that goals can be achieved at literally any stage in your life. These guys are impressive af and we reckon you can be too. You’ve still got plenty of time.

At age 23, Tina Fey was working at a YMCA.

At age 23, Oprah was fired from her first reporting job.

At age 24, Stephen King was working as a janitor and living in a trailer.

At age 27, Vincent Van Gogh failed as a missionary and decided to go to art school.

At age 28, J.K. Rowling was a suicidal single parent living on welfare.

At age 30, Harrison Ford was a carpenter.

At age 37, Ang Lee was a stay-at-home-dad working odd jobs.

Julia Child released her first cookbook at age 39, and got her own cooking show at age 51.

Vera Wang failed to make the Olympic figure skating team, didn’t get the Editor-in-Chief position at Vogue, and designed her first dress at age 40.

Stan Lee didn’t release his first big comic book until he was 40.

Alan Rickman gave up his graphic design career and landed his first movie role at age 42.

Samuel L. Jackson didn’t get his first major movie role until he was 46.

Morgan Freeman landed his first major movie role at age 52.