Take your experience and look for jobs doing what makes you happy. School is over, you don’t have to do stuff to please other people anymore. Don’t take a job t

Take your experience and look for jobs doing what makes you happy. School is over, you don’t have to do stuff to please other people anymore. Don’t take a job to impress your friends, belong to a “club” or make your parents happy. Want to work on technology X? Look for jobs doing that. If you get a job at Google, do you know what you’ll be working on? I’ve heard they assign you to whatever google wants you to work on. Sure, you can move to another group someday but as I once told an interviewer: “Why should I pay my dues working on something uninteresting in hopes that I can someday move to another dept doing what I want to do, when I can just work for someplace else, working on something I want to do right now?