"Don't waste your 20's "building a career". You've got your 30's and 40's and 50's to do that."

It's hard to try to pivot in your 30s if you don't have a resume with at least some points to match your future career.

If you haven't used anything from your post-secondary degree 8 years after getting it... employers are going to notice that and assume that your degree is worthless.

I say this having seen far too many friends get stuck in the waitress/bartending life only to find out that you plateau in your 30s unless you go into the high end fine dining, sommelier, running your own place, etc.

Same thing has happened to friends in retail after they reached manager or assistant manager at a store that was supposed to be their part time job.