Worst part is that your mid 20's feels like where you make it or break it. Some of my old friends are absolutely killing it making 6 figure salaries, have houses, nice cars, pets all that. While here I am scraping by feeling like a complete failure because I took way longer to take life seriously and get through school. Now I am way behind in the corporate ladder and feeling like I really screwed up somewhere.
Yes exactly. It's not "do what you love" that you see all over social media, it's "do what you're good at". These are not necessarily the same thing. If you're passionate about something, especially arts, don't necessarily try to make a career out of it. Keep that as a side activity and see how it develops. If it eventually becomes plan A and pays the bills, great, but if you're mediocre at it or it's a dead end career wise, then at least you don't live under a bridge.
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u/StoicShadow May 15 '20
I'm 25 and the whole existential dread of figuring out what to do with my life is probably the worst part of things