The career you’ll have might not exist yet. Stay curious, not certain.

Jobs keep getting invented, so the list you are choosing from at sixteen is only the list that exists today. Certainty can feel like maturity, but locking onto a single title mostly narrows what you let yourself notice. Curiosity is the part that travels, because it survives the field changing underneath it.

Rather than picking a career this week, pick a question you actually want answered and follow it for an hour. Keep a running note of what you read about when nobody was making you.