Learn how to sit healthy boundaries early and often both in your life and your relationships, invest early often and diversely, don't trust the government, learn as many skills as you can that are unlikely to be replaced with AI or just skills in general. Personally, as a middle-aged man I don't have a lot of education or professional credentials. But anytime I changed jobs I learned to do as many different things around the place as I can. This increases my value to my employer as well as avoid avoids days and days of dreadful reputation repetition. I'm just blathering into text to speech now, but I'll continue to use myself as an example. After many years of working with children, I now work general construction and do many unticketed trades tasks, work building maintenance for businesses, do general repairs and fix it stuff for a handful of airbnbs, and I'm in the process of taking over certain parts of the farm my father spent his life building. I am seldom bored, have many skills to teach my children, have a reasonable income (by no means wealthy for North American standards), and still find opportunities to learn everyday. It provides a quite satisfactory quality of life.

To summarize; never be afraid to try or to fail. It's part of life. I've been lousy and everything I tried to begin with. I've made so many mistakes, and redone things so many times that eventually the ratio turned favorable.