I feel the same way and can't speak to the success of my strategy, but do have one. I've been alternating between working for someone else and then spending my

I feel the same way and can't speak to the success of my strategy, but do have one. I've been alternating between working for someone else and then spending my savings investing in myself. In both cases my goal is to aquire new skills. When you work for someone else, make sure you are learning something on their dime and saving money. Then spend that money on learning something no one will pay you to learn at work. My interests have been all over the place - game design, programming, writing, philosophy. Just to name a few I've gained expertise in with my strategy. I don't view any of these things individually as destinations. I don't consider myself a programmer, or a designer, or a philosopher. But each one does give me new skills and perspectives which benefit the others. In the future I will likely invest my time into a science like biology and maybe even push that further to neuroscience. A story that has always resonated with me is the one about some dna sequencing database (nucleotide blast perhaps?) told by a TA in college. I was taking a biology requirement but majoring in CS. The TA said the database came about when some former programmers learned of a search problem biologists had no solution to. Their programming background meant they already knew how to solve this other domain's problem. I think a lot of breakthroughs come from this formula of porting one domain's expertise to another domain's problems. Hopefully this illustrates how skill acquisition is a good "passing play" while figuring out what you want to do in life. I still don't know what it is exactly I want to do, but I will keep learning skills that seem relevant and clarify the picture as I go.