Any advice for a regular smart 27 year old youngster, who has chronically underachieved and is motivated to turn their life around. They have a couple years of JC completed, and has no idea what path to take, or really what paths exist.
EDIT: OK, I see I gave slim pickins here. It’s not me, it’s my neighbor’s kid. I’ve known his parents since before he was born. He’s a super smart kid, but like a lot of smart kids, he got kind of jaded about…well, everything. I was visiting the other day and he asked me for advice, and my retired ass has nothing. Any relevant personal experience I may have, became dated years ago.
He’s good at just about all subjects. His longest lifelong hobby has been video games. He took a few programming classes and liked it, but the thought of doing it full time as a career would quickly become torture.
He’s kind of half-assed things and just realized he needs to get his shit straight. He was thinking something like finance, just numbers. Something solid that’s just a career direction. He is going back to school, well most likely he is, but he needs an idea of what path to take. Most of his friends are unemployed/underemployed with computer degrees.
For economic success I recommend finding a niche, find somethings others want done but don’t want to do themselves and hopefully you enjoy.
School may or may not be needed from there. Its useful if credentials are a preq for the industry but there are other ways to learn some things like on the job and volunteer work.
I know things like greencore, peacecore, americore, joining the national guard are fulfilling for a lot of people looking for that “greater than themselves” expirence.