What does a 29-year-old really know about long-term goals anyway? Why should my view even matter? Maybe it does. Maybe it doesn’t. I’m still early in the curve, still figuring things out, still making mistakes. But maybe that’s exactly why these thoughts feel worth jotting down, before life calcifies them into certainty. Recently, the first phase of placement season wrapped up at my college. And there was a constant undercurrent of anxiety I couldn’t fully relate to. People w