(Serious) parents of really smart kids who never really went anywhere in life, what advice would you pass on to similar young people now?

Finally

I'm 20, was able to glide through school with great grades and not a second of studying, everything came easy and I'm a pretty capable person in my own honest opinion. I do agree there are people smarter than I am, and each person is my better in their own way. However, because I had such an aptitude to pick anything up, I was extremely mechanically inclined as well, I was REALLY pushed to be some aspect of an engineer or something similar.

It was such a struggle for me, probably my largest in life, to decide to have a job I like rather that one I could eventually get.

Again, I don't consider myself incredibly smart or anything, I was just one of those people everyone assumed had their life drawn out because of what I could already do

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