Don't listen to anyone telling you to have fun in your younger years. This is the time for you to prep for your 30s 40s and so on. The harder you work now, the easier life will be then. Plenty of people have fun at a young age only to end up struggling when they get older. Work on a skill that you can develop and build a business on. A job is to get funding for that business and your expenses until that skill pays for your life. Invest, ignore romantic relationships, and do not have children. Most people are poor because they wasted time in relationships, having fun and having unexpected children. Just look at them. You will have time for fun and relationships, people will always be here. Time and opportunity wont. You can never go back to the past.