| One idea might be to identify what are the biggest challenges that your generation must address. Big, long-term zeitgeisty problems that you (not the media) believe are most important and can be addressed meaningfully in your lifetime. No more than the three biggest. For Boomers it might have been something like prevent WWIII, normalize race relations and the whole computing/communications revolution. Maybe for your generation it could be managing the East/West rebalancing to the benefit of all, reigniting the idea of universal human rights and their meaningful enforcement, reducing air pollution in Asia and saving millions of lives a year, universal basic income that actually works, eliminating global slavery, eliminating global malnutrition, redefining what aging means in the 21st C and beyond, figuring out how to develop AI for the benefit of all *Big* global ideas that are 50+ year projects. Then find your niche in chipping away, either actively or passively, at one or more of the three. Until any problem is solved, you’ll always have a mission and a meaning and a group of like-minded folks to hang with. That counts for a whole lot in life. If the problem isn’t some media fantasy and is actually worth your life’s dedication, the money (at least enough money) will come. |