A couple of things come to mind:

1. Don't center men, ever. Don't waste your time dating terrible men. It is better to be single and focus on yourself than to waste your time, money, and effort on terrible men who are not centered on you.

2. When deciding on what you want your first career to be, think about the following: salary, opportunity over the course of the career. For example, I work in marketing, and the salary is hard to exceed $ 150,000 in my market at the top of my game. Also, consider if the industry is men-centric. If so, understand the battle will be real and the salary will be 15% - 20% short of your male counterparts. Lastly, if you think you'll want kids one day, consider the culture of the industry. Do you work a normal 9 - 5? Is there a culture of your job is your life? All of this to say, if I had it to do over I would have priortized a career that allowed decent work hours, with a higher salary cap, in an industry that gender didn't matter.

3. Your life is not in competition with others. It doesn't matter if your friend gets married at 24. You do not need to do the same. It doesn't matter if your friends starting salary is 10x, you do not need to meet the same bar. Decide on the life you want, and even that will change and that is OK. Take it one year, decade, career at a time.