Re:Ask HN: how to spend your (early) 20s?
by brk on Wednesday June 22, 2011 @09:40PM
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Explore.
Explore jobs. Explore places. Explore hobbies.
I personally think that unless you've had this totally overwhelming idea about a company for several years you shouldn't try to start a company at this stage. If anything, work a couple of years at a larger or established company. Get a feel for how things are done, so that when you do go off on your own, you have some better idea of what the "finished product" is supposed (or not supposed) to operate like.
Travel. Buy a ticket someplace and just go be there for a while. Work, write, hang out, whatever, just do it.
Have relationships, probably none too serious, but enough to see how your personality fits with other types. Try your hand as a pick up artist (really, you can learn a lot from this).
Basically, spend your early 20's really looking at the world and figuring out what/who you want to be when you grow up.
Explore jobs. Explore places. Explore hobbies.
I personally think that unless you've had this totally overwhelming idea about a company for several years you shouldn't try to start a company at this stage. If anything, work a couple of years at a larger or established company. Get a feel for how things are done, so that when you do go off on your own, you have some better idea of what the "finished product" is supposed (or not supposed) to operate like.
Travel. Buy a ticket someplace and just go be there for a while. Work, write, hang out, whatever, just do it.
Have relationships, probably none too serious, but enough to see how your personality fits with other types. Try your hand as a pick up artist (really, you can learn a lot from this).
Basically, spend your early 20's really looking at the world and figuring out what/who you want to be when you grow up.