
Military, trade school or you join the work force. First just get a job any job. That way you’re making money. Then start looking into jobs that might actually want to do for couple years that don’t require degrees. There is a lot out there just need to research. Then when you find an area or job you like you apply to multiple places to you get to try it out. Then if you don’t like it you do again till you find something enjoyable.
Look at hospitals for example. A career path for a doctor and nurse was seen as good. However, the grocery stores were taken over by private equity. The workers’ pension were tied to the grocery stores and the private equity stripped the assets and stuff the grocery with debt that is designed for the grocery to fail. At the time people said those workers should get a degree and more education.
Yet the same private equity eyed the hospitals and made the nurses and doctors contractors bossing them around making them into maids like some hotel where they need to clear each room quickly regardless the condition of the patient. The hospitals assets are stripped and loaded into debt and can’t make enough to sustain its financials which is by design by the private equity because they would rather sell the parts than operate the hospital.
In the end any good career needs a functioning economy, low debt, and an oligarchy kept contained. It truly requires a renaissance like society that understands the scams. Once such a people pass and a new generation is born that doesn’t know this, the cycle repeats of the scams taking over that no career can stop unless one runs a business.
The economy fell into abstractions when the debt got too high. People in their 20s question college. People at mid life question retirement and their careers. Elderly question if they saved enough and what to do once they outlive their investments. Recall how financial planners would say to save a million to retire and those that did that were told later on it wasn’t enough. For whatever one decides, the expanding debt will eat away their finances in inflation. Many are in this paradox.
No professor or counselor will tell you corruption took over the economy. This is seen via boondoggles of government and oligarchy in business. Bureaucracies in both that are exclusive and won’t let anyone in if they are not part of the gang. Also the schools themselves overcharging the students to sustain their bureaucracy that doesn’t teach nor care about if the student gets a job.