I graduated from undergrad recently and have been on a road trip across the country since. When I get home, I think I will continue to evaluate my goals, ambitions, and interests in alignment with the fundamental change in overarching objective, as noted by 3blue1brown here:

There are many aspects of one’s life that I could get lost in trying to explore, so we have to be careful about what we would like to allocate our attention to. A major concern that everyone will ask you at this stage of life is, what are you going to do now after graduation? Are you trying to find your entry-level job into the career that you think you want, or maybe trying to prepare to enter some kind of graduate school if you think that is more your calling than industry, starting your own entrepreneurial venture, etc.

These questions are all about career that relate to your financial income. That itself is obvious given that the monetary social construct gives us so much utility. The adult-coded responsible thing to do is to make sure you are on a path of that will provide you with some kind of financial income, ultimately with financial stability and/or fuck you money. But this of course only covers one part of what one should do…Man does not live on bread alone.

It is your heaven-mandated duty to explore and work towards discovering what value you can provide to other people in this world. The other does not have to be a non-inclusive set of people; you inhabit this world too, and you are part of the people who you can bring value to with your work. It doesn’t have to be complicated. I will sound somewhat hypocritical because I think most things that I like to do are not directly helping other people at all; it’s all for my own selfish gain and benefit. Purely for my own satisfactions. Working on it.

Will I become a well-functioning contributing member of society or a hermit?

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