Learn multiple practical skills, either through local community college courses or through a willingness to 'apprentice' yourself to someone skilled in those trades.

Avoid the debt trap. Save, and pay-as-you-go.

Understand that the military is a nothing more than a corporate strong-arm enforcement scam in this day and age.

Don't have kids unless you have the means and the determination to support them until they can also be self-sufficient too.

Don't give up on the ideals that your parents had when they planned a family.

The world isn't ending but is IS changing - rapidly.

There will be many emerging opportunities as these changes take hold.

Switch off the TV. Learn elsewhere and use discernment to filter the truth from the propaganda.

Think positive!