Advice I would give to a college freshman: These next four years, one of your main goals should be to figure out how not to have the rest of your life be a long series of soul-sapping jobs

If you want to be happy after college, learn how to do one or multiple of these: • Run your own business doing something you love (eg massage, coaching, art direction, filmmaking etc) • Become economically independent somehow (eg through 4hr Work Week-style automated businesses) • Get really good at cold-reading potential bosses, colleagues, and team culture so you only choose to work in life-giving teams • Go into business with friends • Only work at places doing stuff you regard as meaningful. If you go for a period not being able to find one of these, do not compromise. Just be poor and/or go on govt aid with free govt health insurance

But most of all, just start building a big network of people who are pursuing the routes above and are happy with their work. Begin the habit of relying on them to find jobs/gigs by writing up blurbs saying [what you are looking for] and passing it around on social media, telling them in person, etc.

You can start testing all these paths NOW, in college, through internships, or shadowing, or otherwise. Test them, especially during summer break! See what works for you!

A lot of your collegiate peers are heading for a hell-realm of flourescently lit offices where it's hard to connect with the meaning of work, most coworkers are numbed out, and free hours after work are spent too exhausted to do anything of consequence. Do not follow them into this hell-realm. Do not go gentle into that good night!!!