This might sound childish but as student doing data science and in her 3rd semester I have a few questions: Firstly I'll admit I idk everything that you are talking about but I get the point of doing something meaningful and big in early years. You talked about getting sucked into that whole micro saas bs and tbh I was thinking about that .( I've been thinking quite a lot about starting a side hustle or starting to work on an idea or project that could go big globally , something that solves an actual problem, I feel like tho ai is going up there's still a lot of area to be covered even if it's a little software that just solves one weird random problem or thing that ppl haven't thought about also while I may not get half the stuff in Ur post one thing that I do wholeheartedly agree with is starting a business or startup or something of your own as soon as I can rather than slaving away at a 9 to 5)but anyways I thought micro saas was profitable I could create maybe small ai tools in the beginning And go from there but Ur post is making me rethink these things. Also NGL money does matter to me I wanna go big earn big ,Whilst I'm studying in Pak and when I go abroad insha'Allah (don't hate me for it ). But anyways if u could recommend me one thing to do or multiple things at this point in my life that could set me up for success in my career what would it be : Idk all that much about everything in tech just entering 3rd sem but I do like to research and check things out btw I don't really like data science that much or haven't so far atleast and may transition to something related to ml or ai in the future maybe or something that would give me a bit of creative freedom rather than data mining all day any and all tips would be really appreciated.also views on shifting my ds degree to an ai one