thanks, natrive. Actually, my years are many, so my wisdom still needs to catch up.
Yeah, that's my one profound refrigerator magnet. The others have to do with cooking with wine, or they are pictures of national parks.
Possibly your quest to find yourself will come from something other than a career, like becoming a long-haul world-traveler, or hiking the Appalachian trail solo.
But what if your "self" were a moving target? Who you are today won't be the "you" of 10 years from now.
I still don't know if you have a college degree, but if you do, or think you should, you might consider that skilled trades are in high demand just now, and a lot of them pay well.
I recall a cousin of mine, university graduate, who became a highly placed corporate executive. I think there was just a bit too much pressure on his sons to follow a similar life path. But one who rebelled, did so spectacularly. He became a skilled auto mechanic. He now works for a major foreign automobile dealership service department, which pays him a really good salary with really good benefits.
So it might be good to think outside the box.
I think that if you enlist in the military, you can choose what kind of path you want. Hey, you might be happy on a submarine, or as a medic who saves lives, not destroys them.
Your sun-Mars-Pluto is in the 11th house of friendship, as well as your hopes and wishes for the future. You might actually prefer to work for a large organization where your co-workers are also your friends.
I thought you would turn up your nose at plumbing. But actually, Scorpio and Pluto like to "plumb" the depths of human existence. They are not afraid of situations that make other signs really squeamish. Mars rules metal objects.
The thing of a career, also, is that you don't have to do it for life. Hopefully this takes some of the pressure off of finding the one true vocation in life. Just do a committed career for some of your life. Just more persistently than you've done so far.