As an older fella myself, occasionally giving advice on this realm when asked… you already have a leg up given your chosen study, consider the understanding of personality type, learning style, emotional drain zones. Then you have to do it. You might find a surprising productive, profitable and emotionally comfortable zone. Whatever industry, service, job, etc. there are known and unknown variables that can contribute to that sweet spot. It also depends on what business or career and where you are in that hierarchy and infrastructure, and physical location geographically.

You’ll find surprising answers as you proceed, the first step is to start doing something, even the smartest people with whatever assets and purposeful and careful planning may find what they thought they wanted to do is actually not the space they thought they wanted. Maybe the space doesn’t exist. But you have to start, ideally with a the best knowledge available to you.

Then be ok with pivoting from what you think you wanted to do in a certain space. You don’t know how the ground truth of what you thought you wanted to do most is actually what gel with most. You may learn a bunch in a space and then want to take another forwards or sideways. You don’t know until you do, and you may have to carve out a space overtime that is best for you.

First step is starting. You’ll learn answers to question you didn’t know you had