Based upon our experiences with our own family and friends–we’ve known young people who have taken many different paths in life.

It seems some discovered their desired path early and were able to maximize both their passion as well as their income potential right out of college–others chose a different route, but still ended up finding fulfillment and financial security–and yet others never seemed to discover a clear direction in their lives and either seemed to drift from one job to another, or eventually found themselves in careers not of their choosing, but, simply by default.

Regardless of how many theories there are out there about how one should approach living one’s life to achieve maximum long-term success, imo, it’s difficult to know how anyone’s life will play out until they actually go through the process of living it, and only in retrospect will they know if they made the right choices or not.