The career advice you didn’t ask for but I’m going to give anyway is this, go to an industry that’s growing or showing potential signs of growing and being part of the next revolution.
People who got into the internet revolution early, around the 90’s are most of the industry leaders we have today, they got in early, learned quickly but also had room to fail and start over.
Once everyone rushes in say clean energy, the people who started in the industry early on will be sort after and regarded as the industry leaders.
So my advice is this for high school kids and those who finished or dropped out of university, identify an industry that’s growing and going to be one of the main industries of the future and get yourself entangled into that,