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10 Years of Aimlessness Led Me to Exactly Where I Want to Be
A case study for ‘find it in your 20s and build it in your 30s’
Aimless.
That’s how I spent a lot of my 20s. I stumbled around and often got lost. I was working minimum wage jobs, slowly becoming too comfortable in mediocrity, in danger of floundering forever. While no one ever called me out, I felt their judgment. I understood it; I was a typical graduate, naively believing my degree was the key to unlocking all the doors ahead of me. Reality bit hard. My paper degree was no match for steel locks, and the doors remained closed. Finally, in an attempt to give myself some direction and purpose, I founded a business. It was mildly successful, though I could never really live off it, and in hindsight, I was never committed enough to really make it happen. I liked the idea of having a company and telling people I had my own business, but it was hard going, and I spent a lot of those years in a deep hole, financially, physically and mentally. There were great moments and proud achievements, but there were just as many spells where I found myself back at the same spot — aimless, though this time masked by the ‘founder’ title. For a few years, I found myself trapped between my head and my heart, one saying to move on, the other unwilling to let go of something that had become part…
