My general career advice for people in their 20s

- Figure out what you want to be when you grow up

- If that's too hard, figure out where you want to be in 5 years

- Work backwards from there, what's the best next move that gets you closer to that goal

- Optimize for 1 thing at a time; optimizing for multiple things usually leads to worse near-term decisions

- Avoid side quests rationalizing the optionality or ability to return the main quest later

in your 20s I’d just say figure out what you want to learn and do now, see what resonates more with you and go try it, learn from the most knowledgeable people in those fields and keep curiosity mindset

imagining better future • building at /basedstudio • network states • bento.me/mxd

I’m in my 20s btw lol, settled on product design more than 5 years ago and now seeing more clearly where to move towards next, which I’d struggle to do if I couldn’t get to the bottom of what I was doing