While pursuing career success, employees can not only satisfy their own pursuits, but also bring benefits to the organization. With the advent of an aging society, it has also led to the phenomenon of aging in the workplace. The age composition of the workplace has become diversified. How to enable employees of different age levels in the workplace to experience workplace success has become an urgent problem to be solved. However, the relationship between age and career success has not been sufficiently studied. Therefore, in order to solve this problem, this study was based on socioemotional selectivity theory, exploring the relationship between occupational future time perspective and career success and its associated mechanism. Specifically, this article explored the research tested the mediating role of promotion-focused job crafting between open future time perspective and career success, the mediating role of prevention-focused job crafting between the limited future time perspective and career success.