Get good at operating your own business, because the corporations need you less and less every day.
Get good at living on 10% of whatever your income is today.
Get good at welding, so you'll be better equipped to repair your shipping container.
Get good at some basic homesteading capabilities in case you have to exit the wider society and provide for yourself.
Get good at finding a way to go live somewhere that is 50-100 years behind wherever you are so you are hopefully able to ride out the remainder of your time here in relative comfort.
Build housing/work in the trades (most likely as an electrician/electrical journeyman). Enough work left for someone middle aged for the rest of their working life.
I think everyone should spend a few years digging ditches or perhaps long shifts at a restaurant if not so tough. If you don't slowly come to the realization that you're in one of the most fortunate cohorts in human history, I'll eat crow.
Step two, go skydiving. Will clear out the cobwebs.
* Move to a city that isn't so expensive
* cut the car in favor of a transit pass and save the difference
* get a roommate or partner to split costs with
* Night/online schooling
* self-driven training
* get into a trade/craft job
Or invest in a prime developable area near a large metropolis.
Or look at the bank account and smile occasionally.
Class privilege comes with baggage. Better to focus on making the world a better place, starting with your own world -- which often keeps one from putting their nose up too high.
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