I made an account just to post this.

From one 24 year old to another…you seriously need to go do what ever it is you want to do.

I’m 24 years old and up until a year ago, was absolutely miserable. I hated my life, I hated my job, my parents were stressing me out an making me feel like a failure. I dropped out of college after a year and got a job as a manager at a local movie theater…I was stuck in a rut until I got laid off last spring…I was freaking out, I wasn’t even good enough to keep around a movie theater…I was depressed. I had lived in the same town my whole life, still had the same friends since middle school…still saw the same people every single day…had overbearing parents making me feel like a failure. “maybe you should go back to school”, “your brother didn’t do this”.

There was only one thing in life I knew I wanted 100%, and that was to live at the beach…So after about a month of being laid off, I said screw it and moved to the beach…I had no plan, found a place to live on craigslist, had just 6 months worth of rent to support myself, no job. I think I had about 7 jobs within the first 3 months of living here. I fell into a pretty cool job taking care of horses and was on the way to becoming an assistant horse trainer at a ranch, but had to quit for health reasons. I was unemployed for about a month after I left the horse job. I was getting desperate and was about to just take the first restaurant job I could fine.

Then I saw a random ad on craigslist, it was a bicycle shop needing help to build bikes…I like to build things and they said they would train the right person so I sent in a resume. They ended up hiring me and it’s been the greatest job I’ve ever had. Never in a million years would have thought I would end up at a bike shop, I hadn’t even ridden a bike since I was probably 12. 6 months later, I’m a manager, control a product line, and pretty much work my own hours and get to do a lot of networking and events.

You might think…ok a bike shop, you don’t make real money, etc, etc. Well I make more than most college graduates I know including my girlfriend who is an english teacher.

It’s all about just opening yourself up to any and all possibilities. If you want to go abroad, go do it. Just don’t limit yourself once you’re there. There may be some life altering opportunity that presents itself that you would have never even thought about doing. Take a chance. I was scared shitless about moving, but in the back of my mind, I knew I had to do it.

Best of luck to you!