It is sobering to consider that when Mozart was my age he had already been dead for a year.
I've had two callers ask, 'Did you ever work for someone who is poorer than you are?' Their idea is it takes a rich person to give you a job because jobs are something that are given to you, an inferior, from on high.
I think most actors will tell you the same thing; when you're not working you put 100 percent into every audition.