A lot of executives act like their time is worth more than anyone else's. But I always respect an employee who guards his or her time, even from me.
If everybody else your age is doing something very different than what you're doing, there's always going to be someone saying to you you might not succeed with it, you might not make any money with that. . . there's always going to be some type of obstacle in the way. All of those things will go away if you really focus on what makes you happy.