Thank you for this insightful and engaging piece! You offer great advice delivered with a wickedly funny dose of humor :) Careers are a total crap shoot a lot of the time. I work in the government proposal and grants field, which is a niche market with no formal education taught in any four-year schools and almost zero entry-level positions. In 2008, I graduated with an English degree at the height of the Great Recession and started bartending at a dive Irish pub, where one of my regulars hired me. I realize how incredibly fortunate I've been to even enter my line of work at all.