The biggest myth in your career path

All right, we have a question here. Should I try and find a job straight after university and earn money, or should I choose to take some time for travel and try new things before finding out what I want to do? How do I know what's right for me? Okay, well, we got to start with a practical consideration, which is how much do you need the money? Are you one of those people, you know, where you you

actually need to start earning a salary from day one, otherwise you're going to be on the street? In which case, you have to optimize for, [music] okay, financial security. If you're not in that position, you could totally take some time to travel, take some time to figure out what you want to do, want to do, etc., etc. If it were me, what I would recommend is while I was doing the traveling and figuring out what I

want to do, I would be trying to learn skills, and I'd be trying to learn the skills of independent income generation on the internet. I'd be trying to think about, like, okay, what are the skills that I can learn that will help me if I had to start my own business. I'm not saying you have to. I'm not saying everyone should be an entrepreneur, but I'm saying everyone should know how to make money on their own

if they absolutely had to. And you can figure that out. Like, there's loads of tutorials on the internet about it these days. I've got some courses if you really want to take those. Like, you can figure out the skills. There's a bunch of books you can read, a bunch of podcasts you can read. You can try your hand at a few different business ideas. You can try selling stuff on the internet. And you can do all

of that from your laptop while you are traveling. Traveling and finding yourself and stuff, like, does not need to be a full-time gig. You don't need to be traveling 24/7. You could go to different country, take your laptop with you, and you could decide, okay, cool, on Monday through Wednesday, I'm going to station myself in a co-working space or a coffee shop or whatever, and from 9:00 to 5:00, I'm going to do work, learn some skills,

work on myself, work on my business, whatever, whatever, whatever. And then, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, I'm just going to be traveling. Like, that's actually a very nice, very fun, very sustainable way of traveling. It's basically all about learning skills. And when you learn skills and you try just doing stuff, you can do that from anywhere in the world as long as you have a laptop and an internet connection. And so, this is not like an either/or

choice. But if you're in that position, if it were me, I wouldn't go straight for getting a job, obviously, unless I actually needed the money.