The pressure to have your life figured out by your mid-20s is a broken expectation. The speaker changed directions multiple times in their early twenties, but older generations took jobs to pay bills and learn what they were good at, not to commit to a career path before they knew themselves.
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I actually think the idea that you need to have life all figured out by the time you're in your mid-20s is really toxic. Pressure put on college kids to, like, sign up for a career path. Basically, the moment you sign up for college when you're 18, I mean, man, the number of times, like, I've changed my direction since then, and I'm still In my early 20s, I still got plenty of time to change directions again. But the expectation that you're just going to have it all figured out with no real world experience or no taste of the real world, it's not what we used to put on young people. Like, it used to be, you know, you get out of school and, yeah, you're going to go work, and that's not necessarily what you're going to do for your whole life, that first job, but it's something to pay the bills and figure out what you're good at. That's what's really important at that stage in your life. But the model of college puts so much expectation on young people.